It’s pelo coincidence that two of the frog’s traits map to the temperature + moisture of your cultivators…

For example, if you place cultivators in the water outside the Carpenter's Shop for easy access in the waking world, only mushrooms capable of growing in water will spawn in the cultivators.

com We want to try and do some good with our platform even if it's teeny tiny! As such we will be donating a chunk of all game profits to various charities.

In the demo there’s only a few mushrooms just to ease people into the trait modifications, but there's a lot more strange mushrooms to find in the full-game with some challenging modifications to master!

). We're obsessed with automation games but hated that the theme was also just generic sci-fi, so instead decided to make the theme about mass-producing food so you could literally 'feed the beast'.

When using your mushrooms to create magic mud for breeding, be sure to double-check your recipes, since there are plenty of ways to accidentally make trait modifiers contradict one another.

It's good to consistently check the weather conditions both at the top left of your screen and when you go to use your bed at any given point, checking out the forecast for the next five times of day below where you select how long to sleep.

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.

It has since turned into a spiritual successor of sorts to APICO, with a similar menu system and 'collect them all' style gameplay - however Mudborne instead focuses on genetic manipulation and generational puzzles to create and discover all sorts of frog species, who's genetic keys unlock paths between the waking and dreaming worlds...

Use Composters To Encourage Spore Growth If you're not willing to wait for nature to take its course and spawn a few odd mushrooms around the world, you can always use cultivators around the map to grow mushrooms when conditions are right.

The game is still in development, with a release aimed for 2025. You can follow along with progress and devlogs in the Discord, be sure to give it a wishlist to be notified of release! You can play the demo below.

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 Mudborne Game being encouraged.

I introduce ancestry towards the end of the spawning pools - I didn’t want to have things too complex just for the demo/tutorial region, but in the full game there’ll be a lot more advanced frogs requiring some clever magic mud across several generations to form.

Not only will they offer plenty of cute frog furniture to stash the frogs you create with all these mushrooms in a fashionable abode, but they've got plenty of gear like Hydrators, Dehydrators, and Heaters to allow you to control the climate of a small area using frogs with the correct stats.

There’ll be lots to explore and uncover, and get to the bottom of what happened while you work to bring everyone back.