A regra de 2 minutos para Mudborne Game

The world is split up into 6 main regions, the area shown in the demo is the first region of the full-game and acts as the tutorial region of sorts! Once you leave this region the game opens up, allowing you to explore multiple areas at your own pace, in any order you see fit.

If you’re brave enough to go foraging in real life, then you’ll know how picky mushrooms can be about their growing conditions, and you’ll find that to be more than true in Mudborne.

You don't see too much of this in the demo but there’ll be a lot more aesthetic control too outside the frog ‘decor’ items like the spas and the arches - flooring, decoration, ability to plant and move natural resources etc

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.

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.

For a hint at which mushrooms you'll need to alter genetics required to open Reflection Ponds, check out the little signs just beside the pool itself - these offer a hint at which mushrooms to use in your magic mud to create the frog that opens that Pond.

Now that you’ve had a taste of the new demo’s bugs, here’s what you'll discover in the full game!

Be sure to place cultivators in water, mud, grass, and indoors, keeping them stocked with compost to catch the conditions when they're just right. If a mushroom needs specific weather conditions to grow, you'll need to ensure that the proper equipment is both placed nearby and has the correct frog in place.

By leaving these boxes in a few different locations and keeping them consistently stocked with the right kind of compost for the job, you can safely walk away for a while and come back to find mushrooms have grown while you were away if conditions were right while you were.

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.

With a careful blend of using the right kind of compost to encourage mushroom growth and a sharp attention to the weather forecast, you’ll find all sorts of mushrooms in Mudborne. Use them to make different magic mud recipes and change the next generation’s A.N.Este.U.R.E.S. stats.

In the grass on sunny days, with a Heater and a high Umbrage frog, as well as a Hydrator and a high Saturation frog.

You awaken from your hibernation to find your pond abandoned and Mudborne Game empty. Through a combination of crafting minigames, menu management and puzzle solving, experiment with genetics to breed new frogs and recover what was lost.

In the demo there were only a few traits to play with - the full game introduces you to all 7, not just min/maxxing but also their special effects that those frogs can bring. You’ve seen a glimpse of this with the amplitude frogs and the pressure pads, but there’ll be ribbet powered croakwork, as well as climate modifying properties thanks to umbrage and saturation.