Critter Cove

Critter Cove is a life sim and town-building game set in a handcrafted open world. The town once drew visitors from around the world, but its streets are dirty and its beaches are covered in trash. You restore it by upgrading buildings, opening venues and attracting tourists, while exploring a tropical archipelago of ruins, shipwrecks and ancient technology.

Restore the town

Spend doubloons and salvaged items to repair rundown buildings and open stores and venues for tourists and townsfolk. Discover construction blueprints and gather resources as you explore; upgrades improve the town’s tourist rating. A higher rating brings more tourists, whose spending gives you more money to invest in the town. You can also rebuild abandoned attractions, craft decorations and interactive objects, and furnish your own home with handmade or looted furniture.

Run advertising campaigns to attract tourists, and offer them food grown on your farm. You can grow unique plants, unearth exotic ingredients and turn salvage into new items. Tourists can also visit the Museum of Mystery, where you donate artifacts found on quests for hidden treasures and ancient relics; the museum reveals secrets of the distant past, and you can charge visitors a small fee to explore it.

Explore the archipelago

Venture across the tropical islands, explore locations such as a sunken city and a wild botanical garden, and dive beneath the waves to salvage treasures from the old world. You can rescue shipwrecked critters, including new residents stranded by storms, and find resources to craft hundreds of items. Dismantling items in the open world reveals crafting recipes. You can also fish for post-apocalyptic species at spots throughout the world.

Cook powerful food that affects your stamina and exploration prowess. The archipelago’s ruins, wrecks and ancient technology hold discoveries to uncover as you explore.

Build a community

Critter Cove is home to a cast of characters, some friendly and easy-going and others who need convincing. Rescue critters, help them build homes and find jobs for them in your community. You can assign townsfolk careers that suit—or clash with—their personalities, and their happiness is key to your success. Critters use gifts and wear clothes you make for them.

Customize your character

Create an island persona with a customization system that lets you mix human and animal traits, including mammal or reptile features. You can combine attributes such as a parrot’s head and a monkey’s tail, and craft or discover hundreds of outfit combinations.