Critter Cove News

[p]Today, we’ve added a character that’s a little different to our normal crew – a fox called Pearly.

Pearly is the OC of Ginny, a close friend of one of our community members, Rach.

Ginny's original art (left) and our finished NPC

Rach started playing Critter Cove shortly after we launched last year, and had been constantly sharing the experience through pictures and chats to Ginny, who had been too unwell to play the game herself.
[/p][p]As Rach was preparing to buy the game for her last year, Ginny passed away suddenly. After a long time, Rach was able to start playing the game again, and reached out to us about potentially adding a tribute to Ginny.

We felt that adding her OC, Pearly, was the best way to do that. Pearly can’t wait to chat with you about worms, and she’ll be happiest if you bring her decorations from her favorite animals, the crabs!♥️[/p][p][/p][p]
[/p][p]I know many of you have stories like Rach.
[/p][p]They are reminders that games can move us in such unexpected, beautiful ways. This is our small tribute to Ginny, to those we play with, and to those we wish we still could.[/p][p]
We feel very privileged that for some, Critter Cove has meant something greater than the sum of its parts and we want to say thank you to all of our fans for allowing us to continue growing and sharing the experience with you.[/p][p]
Rob & The Critter Cove Dev Team
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[h3]30% Off Critter Cove This Week
[/h3][p]Critter Cove is on sale at a 30% discount this week, starting RIGHT NOW! [/p][p]We’ve recently added new outfits, decorative items and more music to the game in our most recent update, and we’re working on some major quest updates to the game for December, so now is a great time to get started.
[/p][h3]Pokee Has Finally Gone Soft![/h3][p]Have you ever had the strong desire to pick up Pokee and squish her really hard? You can now place preorders for a 22cm tall Pokee Plushie on the Ownaj Store!

[/p][p]The plush is available for pre-order from now until Sunday 16th November.

Once we get enough pre-orders, they will be sent to their new homes this coming March. Additionally, you will find a free plushie in your inventory if you play Critter Cove in this timeframe.
[/p][p]This project has been in the works for a long time to make sure this real-life rendition of Pokee is high quality and accurate to our original concept:

[/p][p]We'll see you on the island!

- Critter Cove Dev Team[/p]

[p]New music has the default volume increased. It was to low.[/p][p]Fixed new building 21. Should let you get this building now was not correctly wired up.[/p]

[p]Ahoy![/p][p]It’s been a busy month for the team as we’ve updated the demo with a year of patches, gotten the game verified on the Steamdeck AND done a big behind the scenes pass on performance and stability...[/p][p]…but we’ve still got some cool new additions for you!
[/p][h3]New Music[/h3][p]We’ve added nearly twenty minutes of new music to the game, mostly in areas where players spend a lot of time (underwater, and in the tropical biome, both night and day).

We’d love to hear what you think on Discord or the forums, and we’re already working on more tracks.
[/p][h3]New Critters and a New Home[/h3][p]
Our twentieth house has been added, bringing the total critter population up to 20. We’ve also added spooky critters Hexis, Owlswald and Hopsferatu.

[/p][h3]New Outfits, Rugs and Other Items[/h3][p]
We’ve added more than 20 brand new rugs and some new outfits[/p][p][/p][p] [/p][h3]Happy Halloween![/h3][p]
And finally, in the spirit of the spooky season (as if Hopsferatu wasn’t enough!), scarecrows are now craftable by the player–the recipe will be automatically added when you log in.

[/p][p]We’ve also spent some time prioritizing our next big bug-squashing session. You’ll find a new thread pinned in the forum where we’d love to hear about longer-term things that have been grinding your gears for a while.[/p][p]
Next month we’ll be adding in new quests, and a big upgrade to player housing.

See you on the island![/p][p]
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[p]This update adds significant stability and performance upgrades for both PC and Steam Deck, alongside new music, outfits and items.[/p][p][/p][p]Blog post with details to come soon.[/p]