Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge
Release date: Jun 8, 2024
Developers: Humble Reeds
Publishers: Armor Games Studios
Genres: Casual, Simulation
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Mouse Only Option, Save Anytime, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean

Kamaeru is a cozy frog collecting game about farming and preserving nature. You play as a kind soul helping an old friend restore the wetlands of your childhood by transforming them into a safe haven for friendly little frogs. With the help of the game’s cast of welcoming NPCs, you will photograph and breed frogs to increase your reputation, decorate your frog refuge, and plant native crops to help your amphibian abode thrive! Collect frogs 🐸 Feed, breed, collect, and raise all of the game’s 500+ frogs! 🐸 It’s up to you to figure out the secret to attracting new and adorable frogs. You can complete your collection by unlocking all the rare colors through a special breeding mini-game. When new ones join your refuge, use the in-game camera to take photos of them and collect them for your frogedex! Restore the wetlands 🌾 In order to succeed in your quest for frog preservation, you will need to restore the nearby wetlands to their former glory. This will allow you to continually support and cultivate the area through a process known as paludiculture! Dig ponds to let water roam the land again and plant native wetlands species to harvest precious crops. From there, you can transform your pickings into manufactured goods that can be sold to improve your froggy habitat further! Customize your frog refuge 🎨 New furniture will bring new frogs with it! As you personalize your habitat, new poses of frogs will be shown into specific kinds of furniture. Plus, it’ll attract attention to the area–and with it, new visitors! You can even repaint furniture to better fit your own unique style sensibilities.

Press reviews: “Adorable gameplay invites long play sessions as you unwind and take cute photos of rainbow frogs.” The Gamer “If you want a cosy game that doesn't fit into the same mold as the bulk of farming sims, then I cannot recommend Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge enough.” PC Gamer “Pick up and play, or hyper-focus on it; it’s all entirely up to you! The frogs will love you to bits no matter what.” Ladies Gamer