Do you love frogs? Have you ever wanted to raise an army of the little hoppy creatures? Developer Humble Reeds' Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge is a ribbit-ing farm sim that'll let you live out that fantasy.
Originally only coming to PC, we can exclusively reveal that Kamaeru will also be hopping onto Nintendo Switch in 2024 — at the same time as the PC release. With beautiful watercolour visuals and a cute little premise, the game looks pretty irresistible if you like your faming sims, or a just a big frog lover.
Your journey to becoming an amphibian adept starts as any good farming sim does — needing a break. Playing as Cleo who reconnects with her childhood friend Axel, the pair decide to work together on a restoration project which involves creating a home for frogs. This involves making beds, sofas (yes, really), baths and all sorts of cosy little pieces.
You can grow wetland crops and create ponds to invite up to 500 croakers to your little sanctuary, but it's not just about raising them, either. You have a little 'Frogdex' where you can document multiple different species of frog. And you'll need to make friends, solve quests, and visit three different biomes to help out the frogs of the world.
Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge comes to Nintendo Switch later this year. We'll let you know as soon as we have a concrete release date.
Are you looking forward to Kamaeru? Hop on down to the comments and let us know.
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this actual looks really cute
This looks remarkably similar to Usagi Shima, which is a cute bunny game for mobile devices where you decorate a little town with cute bunnies and the same isometric viewpoint.
It looks more substantial though, with added stuff to do atop the core decorating activity with more active play than passive play.
And ya know, frogs instead of bunnies. Both cute!
I do in fact love frogs. The game looks cute, I'll keep this on my radar!
Look nice now if we get it physical I am game.
I have my very own pond now that we bought a house. Can't wait to see frogs and toads coming in. I'll be playing the real life version of this, probably.
Just last weekend rehoused a family of frogs that had moved into our greenhouse. If this game is half as entertaining, I’m in.
Goes great with canna-cookies!
"Do you love frogs?"
Yes.
"Have you ever wanted to raise an army of the little hoppy creatures?"
PRE-ORDERED.
EDIT - I don't think I'm joking, actually. This sounds like a lot of fun!
Yeah, but can you lick the frog?
@Woderwick Now you got me thinkin' of that one ep. of The Simpsons when Homer goes to South America & he starts licking frogs.
Though it's usually toads...in real life.
With the animation and art style it looks more like a hidden object game featuring frogs than anything else. Still looks nice though.
This sounds adorable.
I didn't expect to be this intrigued.
This would look a 100 times better without those white lines around everything.
I think it wasn’t a bad idea to make everything look like cutouts with white edges, but it makes the entire screen hard to read if everything has them (on different scales at that).
So I wish they could ‘kill that darling’ so it can pop more. It will still look organic and the hand painted look will remain intact.
But the idea is great and I’m probably getting this.
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