Mudborne: Frog Management Sim

Casual· Simulation· Education· Farming Sim

Released Mar 2025

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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Steam Updated 12 Oct 2026 $7.99

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Evaluation

Mudborne launched on March 20, 2025 and received a wave of post-launch patches addressing bugs and player feedback. On April 11, 2025, the developer shipped version 1.3.0 — the game's one and only named major update — and explicitly stated in that post that it represented the completion of all planned new features and quality-of-life improvements: "This is now all the features/QoL stuff I had on my list to add based on all the feedback I've gathered since release." The developer added that ongoing bug fixes would continue as reports come in, but drew a clear line between new content and maintenance work. That maintenance commitment continued through mid-2025, with patches like 1.3.6 in August 2025 adding a modding hook and fixing crashes. The most recent developer communication, dated June 9, 2026, confirms the developer has been occupied releasing another game (Snacktorio) and plans to return to Mudborne around July/August 2026 for a round of bug fixes. This is consistent with the stated policy of at least one maintenance patch per year per game — not new content development. The only DLC listed is a soundtrack, which released on April 27, 2025 and has no further unreleased entries. No roadmap, expansion, or future content has been announced for the game. The store description presents Mudborne as a complete 20–30 hour narrative experience with a defined endpoint. All available evidence points to a game that shipped as a complete product and has since received only maintenance support.

Evidence

Developer confirms they have been focused on releasing another game (Snacktorio) and will return to Mudborne around July/August 2026 only for bug fixes, consistent with a stated annual maintenance policy across their games.

news post · Jun 9, 2026 source development ending

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Developer explicitly states that version 1.3.0 completes all planned features and QoL additions based on post-launch feedback, drawing a line between new content and ongoing bug fix support.

news post · Apr 11, 2025 source development ending

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Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Released

Mudborne Soundtrack

Apr 2025

Media

Details

Developer

ellraiser

Publisher

Future Friends Games

Achievements

Platform

Windows, macOS, Linux

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Verified

Players

Single-player

Casual Simulation Education Farming Sim Collectathon 2D Immersive Sim Pixel Graphics Colorful Cute Top-Down Crafting Fantasy Management Nature

About this game

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.