
Mudborne is a casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs! Awoken from hibernation you find your pond abandoned. Through the genetic keys of new species you must unlock the paths between the waking & dreaming worlds, and embark on a journey to restore lost populations.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.71/day in the week to Jul 20 → 0.17/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About

MUD BORN, IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP
Mudborne is a casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs!
You awaken from your hibernation to find your pond abandoned and empty. Through a combination of crafting minigames, menu management and puzzle solving, experiment with genetics to breed new frogs and recover what was lost.
Using the genetic keys of the new species you create you can unlock the paths between the waking and dreaming worlds, explore the land of those still hibernating, and embark on a journey to help restore the lost populations and find out what happened.

BE THE FROG
- Finally reach your life goals of becoming an actual frog!
- Catch (and eat) delicious bugs. Have another, treat yourself.
- TINY LITTLE FROGS YOU CAN CATCH AND CHASE
GENETIC ENGINEERING
- Genetically modify frogs to create weird and wonderful new species
- Grow and cultivate mushrooms with all sorts of strange effects
- Some of the frogs have tiny hats!!! GOTY contender????
SMALL FROG, BIG POND
- Utilise your frogs to uncover secrets and power your machines
- Hop between the waking + dreaming worlds to solve puzzles
- Restore the pond and its inhabitants, and find out what happened
Playtime: Mudborne will take most players 20-30 hours to finish (more if you're a completionist!
Mudborne is being created by ellraiser, one half of the indie-dev studio, TNgineers. A spiritual successor of sorts to APICO, Mudborne instead focuses on genetic manipulation and generational puzzles to create and discover all sorts of frog species, with experimentation being encouraged.
It originally started as a gamejam entry for FletchFest 2023, with the theme of ‘pond’. Ell had always joked about ‘what if APICO but frog?’ before, and this seemed a perfect opportunity to play with the concept and how to take things in a new direction.

A portion of the money made will be donated towards national and international amphibian, wetlands, and environmental charities to help keep our little green friends and their homes happy and healthy <3
You can learn more about TNgineer's charitable efforts on the website.
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Themes across 62 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Really good game! I found it a little confusing at first (it's not the games fault, it's mine haha) but the little journal really helps with that, it keeps you on track and points you exactly where you need to go. Once I got past the first couple hours and got the hang of the map and all that I fell in love! I haven't played it very much yet and I usually don't leave reviews until I'm at least halfway through a game, but this one's really left an impression. I'm playing on a steam deck and it works super well on it!
沒有玩過前作 APICO 來說,我喜歡他培育子代以及控制溫濕度的機制,青蛙非常可愛 覺得可以改善的部分: - 任務在中期(Breaking The Seal)開始有點卡關,不知道下一步要去哪裡 - 地圖相對於實際有點差距,還加上清醒、夢境兩個世界要一起考慮的狀況下,找路有點難度。地圖標記如果可以加上 text block 來紀錄船舶的連接地點、或一些細節會更好 - 地圖很大,到中後期才有用道具飛行的功能(夢境甚至不能用!),希望前期就有方式可以飛行到已經探索過的地區 - 包包好小 omg ---- As someone who hasn't played the predecessor APICO, I really enjoyed the mechanics of breeding offspring and controlling temperature/humidity—the frogs are adorable. Areas for improvement: - The quests get a bit stuck in the mid-game (Breaking The Seal), and I wasn't sure where to go next - The map has some discrepancies compared to the actual layout, and combined with having to manage both the waking and dream worlds simultaneously, navigation is quite challenging. It would be better if map markers could include text blocks to record ship connection points or other details - The map is huge, but you don't get the item of flying function until mid-to-late game (you can't even use it in the dream world!). I wish there was a way to fly back to previously explored areas earlier in the game - The bag is so small omg
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America
Hours played at review time, across 62 reviews with recorded playtime.
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This game is hella confusing, i don't have time for ts
Incredibly sweet and very fun. I am extremely taken with this game even 4 months later, and would recommend it to anyone who likes whimsy, frogs, or management games.
Mudborne was a great experience. The game offers a great level of complexity and challenge without constantly holding your hand, making everything feel rewarding. It allows you to figure things out for yourself, and completing it felt genuinely satisfying. If you enjoy games that reward curiosity and problem-solving, this is an easy recommendation. Plus it's cheap.
The perfect cozy ribbit breeding simulator. Both music and graphical atmosphere create a great experience, where things don't feel rushed and you're allowed to explore and experiment.
チルいゲーム、パズル的な要素が面白い。そして何よりカエルたちがかわいい。
It's Alright
I loved Apico and I loved this game!
好玩……虽然太冷门了找不到攻略,但是一步步自己探索下来很有成就感!我爱我的小青蛙呜呜呜呜,偶尔会遇到BUG把任务主线的物品卡不见或者把自己卡瞬移,但是无伤大雅!推荐啊啊啊啊!
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