Critter Cove News

[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]

[h3]New Critter Cove Demo
[/h3][p]We've updated the Critter Cove Demo today with a YEAR of updates from the main game.
[/p][p]That's a year of controller updates, quality of life improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes.

We're also using the demo to trial some performance improvements that'll be added to the main game very soon. If you already own the game though, now is a great time to bug your friends into checking out the demo as it represents a much more polished experience than it did at launch![/p][p][/p][h3]Critter Cove is Officially Steamdeck Verified
[/h3][p]Critter Cove is now officially Steamdeck verified instead of just “playable,” which means Steam has approved us as a game that is a great experience on the Deck.


[/p][p] Nearly 10% of all players play Critter Cove on the Steamdeck, including some of the team, so we’ve always had the Steamdeck during production. Now we officially have the Steam seal of approval!  
[/p][p]Of course we're not done improving the experience yet – we have many more updates planned that focus on the Deck and the overall controller experience.
[/p][h3]Join us on BlueSky + Win A Copy Of The Game
[/h3][p]We're getting back into a more social mood! We have an X and Facebook account, but most of all we'd love to grow our Bsky community, so if you're not already following us we'd love to see you on there.
[/p][p]Check out the competition running on Bluesky right now to win a copy of the game!

As always --- see you on the island! [/p]

Recommended security vulnerability fix from Unity.

Increase Haystack repeatable reward from 2 tickets to 5 tickets.
Fixed issue with Haystack not giving out his daily quest correctly.
Fix Options UI to properly reset selections when leaving it
Fix Options Menu Input Options order being wrong for controller inputs