
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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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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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America
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Really wanted to like this game but it is just so convoluted and poorly explained at times. I have no space in my inventory at any given time, the tooltips tell me i need an item to do a thing but it tells me via an image of the item which! I don't have! So i have no clue what it is or how to try to get it. I'm wandering in circles inbetween two different realms where i have to rebuild my base in each one for some reason and then god go back and forth between them both to access my many chests due to the tiny inventory... I have to walk to a trader to get items instead of being able to simply craft them so even more stuff in my inventory for that I keep encountering roadblocks so i go okay i must not be supposed to go here yet but.. they just. keep coming? So i just don't know how to get to all these spaces and i understand it's supposed to be a puzzle but when there's so many different systems all moving together in so many different ways i just end up having no clue if it's a puzzle i *can* solve or if there's something else i need to do first. It's just a bunch of many many QOL issues that all combine together to make it... more frustrating than fun. I encountered a single bug with the nursery not using the magic mud the way it's supposed to and it was enough for me to just be over it all and drop the game On top of everything else the UI is tiny with no way to make it larger so I simply could not play it on a larger screen. I had to play it on my laptop to be able to play it at all which exacerbates my chronic pain in certain ways.
Not a game where i expected to find multiple corpses
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!
Полный бред. Что Apico про пчёл, что эта про лягушек - просто симулятор ходьбы и кликов в инвентаре. Думал, выращу лягушек, они хотя будут на меня работать, добывать ресурсы и складывать их в ящики, но этого здесь нет. А в таком случае, какой в этом всём смысл? Что в начале игры перекладываешь предметы из ящика в ящик, что, так понимаю, в конце игры. Все эти лягушки просто декор, которые никак не влияют на геймплей, не упрощают игру, чтобы было весело и хотелось открыть новые виды, чтобы посмотреть, что ещё интересного они умеют делать. Запоминающейся музыки нет, даже чтобы успокаивать во время очередного перекладывания предметов или необходимости подёргать курсором рычажок в механизме без которого ничего не работает. Здесь даже нельзя в отличие от Apico создать инструмент на верстаке на своей базе, нужно пойти к торговцу, не зная ресурсов, и обменять их на инструмент у него. В инвентаре куча предметов уже в начале игры, которые приходится разглядывать, чтобы понять, что нужно переложить в очередной механизм. И это по сути всё, чем ты занимаешься в игре. Просто перекладываешь предметы из ящика в ящик, а перед этим ходишь-бродишь по карте, чтобы собрать дерева, жуков и прочей шелухи. Не знаю, кому такое уныние может понравиться. Самая ужасная реализация симулятора генетики. Ходишь и кликаешь. Клик-клик-клик. 0 положительных эмоций и веселья.
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