- 🎉 Happy Birthday Kamaeru… and a New Adventure Begins! 🐸🐐 - 11 June 2025
Hi friends! 💚Can you believe it? Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge turned ONE YEAR OLD last Sunday! 🥳 We’re so grateful for the love you’ve shown our cozy little frog world — your frog pictures, sweet messages, and support have meant everything to us. Thank you for hopping along with us! 🐸💚But wait... there's more! We're thrilled to announce our new game: Heidi's Legacy! 🎉 Announced during Wholesome Direct, it’s a peaceful narrative sim set in the mountains, where you’ll care for goats, craft handmade goods, and help a village come back to life. Inspired by the spirit of the Heidi novels, it’s a heartfelt story about nature, healing, and community. We think you’ll love it.👉 Visit Heidi’s Legacy page! Thank you again for being part of our cozy little world. Here’s to frogs, goats, and all other cute animals! With love, Humble Reeds Team 💫
- Froggy Fun Bundle w/ Teacup! - 9 May 2025
Like Kamaeru? Like Frogs? We've partnered with our friends at Smarto Club and Whitethorn Games to bundle the two best Frog games on Steam. If you already own Kamaeru, you're in luck... Teacup is now an extra 10% off for you. Don't own Kamaeru yet? Now you can get 2 games at a discount! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/51936/Froggie_Fun_Bundle/
- Spooky Halloween update - and more! 🎃🐸 - 21 October 2024
Are you ready for… Froggo-ween? We sure are! This update includes 2 new spooky pieces of furniture to decorate your frog refuge - perfect for adding a seasonal twist. To unlock these, participate in a mini in-game pumpkin collecting event, where you’ll gather pumpkins all around your refuge and wetlands, then redeem them for the exclusive furniture! We’re also thrilled to announce that Kamaeru is now available in Korean! Players can now enjoy the game in another language, expanding our frog-loving community even more 🐸 And for even more customization, we’ve heard your feedback about frogs hopping away too soon - that’s why we are introducing the Frog Timer. This feature in the options panel will let you decide how long you want your frogs to stay in the furniture before jumping away. Perfect for ultimate coziness! Last but not least, to raise even more awareness about Cleo’s and Axel’s…
- New update: House Plants deco pack! - 9 September 2024
Hello dear froggy fans! :frogsmile: We’re thrilled to announce a new content update for the game! You can now decorate your frog refuge with 7 beautiful new plants, adding even more charm and variety to your space. Along with the new plants, we’ve also fixed a few bugs under the hood, to enhance your overall gameplay experience. To celebrate this update, we’re offering 20% off for a few days! Don’t miss this chance to hop in :waterlilybloom:
- Steam Deck text size optimization - 2 July 2024
Minimum text size increased to 12px & various text size improvements specifically for Steam Deck users (Linux version)
- Steam Trading Cards & More! - 24 June 2024
Good news, frog fans! :froghappy: We now have Steam trading cards, emoticons, profile backgrounds, and badges!! :reed: Unlock your favorite NPC trading cards and adorable little emoticons as you play and maybe you'll even get a shiny frog badge! :frogsmile: Hop to it! :waterlilybloom:
- Slow down a bit and go collecting in Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge - 24 June 2024
Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge is another wonderful game built with Godot Engine, for gamers who prefer things a whole lot more chilled. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/slow-down-a-bit-and-go-collecting-in-kamaeru-a-frog-refuge
- Patch n°2 - build version 6.9 - 17 June 2024
- Mac Steam achievements fixed - Steam cloud save enabled for Windows->Windows, Windows->Linux, Linux -> Linux, Linux -> Windows, Mac -> Mac - "Esc" Key pressed on titlescreen will open settings in fullscreen mode (useful to fix unappropriate windows settings)
- Get your very own Kamaeru frog plush!! - 13 June 2024
🐸🌟 Ribbit, ribbit! Do you hear that? It's the official Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge frog plushie!! We've teamed up with the lovely people at Makeship to create a ribbitingly adorable frog plush for you to cuddle up with as you build your froggy refuge! You have 2 weeks to preorder your adorable froggy friend! If you're unfamilar with Makeship, the frog plush only gets created if we meet the minimum order number of 200. Be sure to order soon so you don't miss out! 🐸 Order here 🐸 The plush is our "mascot" frog - the blue and pink leopard frog - and comes with a detachable lilypad! 🐸💕
- Patch n°1 - Build 6.8 - 12 June 2024
- Two-stars picture objective given after meeting Jen now appears in the album with a clearer hint - Requirement to buy blueprints when starting biome 2 appears as a hint in the objectives list - Steamdeck achievements are now pushed to Steam - "Tame three doblex frogs" adapts to players who tame all available frogs before getting the quest - Wetland club quests in the shops give players the announced reputation AND money reward - Fixed the bug not displaying flower baskets in the home refuge - Quests clarified in simplified Chinese (name of frogs appear in latin characters like in the Frogedex) - Safety checker at Titlescreen, to handle the Objectives tab being empty in the Journal - The two-stars picture quest given after meeting Jen is fixed in simplified Chinese - The Sell button in the Billabong and Mangrove shops is now properly localized
- Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge is Out Now!! - 8 June 2024
Hi frog friends 🐸, Today is the day! You can play Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge right now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1978150/Kamaeru_A_Frog_Refuge/ It's been an incredible 2+ years of development and we're so excited to release our frog collecting/farming/wetlands restoring game. We've put so much love and excitement into Kamaeru and we can't wait to hear your thoughts on the game, learn about your favorite characters, see your frog collections, and admire your decorating skills! If you have any questions or run into any issues, please let us know in the Steam forums or in our Discord. Thank you so much for being on this journey with us! - Humble Reeds ❤️
- Kamaeru is releasing on June 8, 2024! - 28 May 2024
We are so incredibly excited to announce that Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge will be hopping its way into your lives on June 8th, 2024! In just a few weeks, you'll be able to rebuild the local wetlands with Cleo and Axel and foster a home for over 500 frogs. We've been looking forward to this day for over a year now and we can't wait to share our froggy refuge with you! 🐸 Humble Reeds
- Kamaeru is releasing mid 2024! - 30 January 2024
Hey everyone, We're so so excited to announce that Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge will be releasing later this year, in mid 2024! While we can't give an exact release date yet, we can say that we're currently on track to release some time in June or July. We can't wait to share our game with you - it's been a dream come true seeing your enthusiasm for our frog collecting wetlands restoration game over the past year. We can't wait to share more with you! - Humble Reeds 🐸
- Catch bugs with the devs of Kamaeru! - 29 January 2024
Hello bug buddies! We'll be streaming Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge live on Saturday, February 10th at 9 am PT (6 pm CET) as a part of Steam Next Fest! Join us to learn more about the development behind Kamaeru and see us build our frog refuge. Hope to see you there! 🐸 - Humble Reeds
- Pet frogs with the devs of Kamaeru! - 29 January 2024
Hello frog friends! We'll be streaming Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge live on Monday, February 5th at 1 pm PT (10 pm CET) as a part of Steam Next Fest! Come join us as we talk about our favorite frogs and answer your questions in the stream chat. Hope to see you there! 🐸 - Humble Reeds
- Kamaeru in Steam Next Fest! - 25 January 2024
Hello everyone! We're so excited to announce that Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge will be taking part in the upcoming Steam Next Fest which runs from February 5 through February 12. As a part of the Fest, we'll have our very first publicly playable demo available on Steam for you all to try out! We'll also be streaming the game and chatting with you on Monday, February 5 at 1 pm PST (10 pm CET) and Saturday, February 10 at 9 am PST (6 pm CET) on our Steam page. We can't wait for you to check out the demo and meet Cleo and Axel and all their froggy friends! - Humble Reeds
- Join our closed beta - 8 November 2023
Hello everyone! We're excited to announce that we’ll be kicking off a closed beta in the next few weeks! We’re looking for beta playtesters to play through the current version of Kamaeru and provide feedback to help us shape the rest of the game. If you'd like to participate, please fill out this form. We’re looking for people who are fans of wholesome games, soft management sims, and/or frogs to sign up to play the game for a few hours. Those selected for the beta will be contacted in mid-November with the feedback form and information about how to access the beta. Thank you! - Humble Reeds 🐸
- Kamaeru at Paris Games Week! - 1 November 2023
Hello! We're taking a break from catching bugs and digging ponds to showcase Kamaeru at Paris Games Week from November 1-5! If you’re in the area for the show, come say hi at the Jeux Made In France booth. Thanks for all your support! 🐸 -Humble Reeds
- Development Update #1: A New Biome - 24 October 2023
Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge Development Update #1: A New Biome Hey froggy friends, We’ve been overwhelmed by the response to Kamaeru since we launched the Steam page during the Wholesome Direct in June! It’s so exciting for us to see people as excited about frog collecting and wetlands restoring as we are. 🐸 We’ve been steadily working on the game since the announcement and wanted to share some teasers of what’s to come! The game is broken up into 3 separate biomes - you’ve so far only seen images and video from the first “European” biome. The past few months, we’ve been designing and implementing biome 2 in the game and we’re happy to announce- Biome 2: Australia Once you’ve built up enough reputation in Biome 1, you’ll be able to open a new frog refuge in a billabong in Australia, where you’ll meet new friends and frogs and play new minigames! We don’t want to show off too much just yet,…
- Kamaeru is at FrogCon! - 17 October 2023
We're so froggin' excited to be a part of FrogCon 2023, happening October 13-23! 🐸🐸 You can check out our virtual booth here, and be sure to tune in to the FrogCon Twitch channel at 5 pm MT for the games panel and at 7 pm MT on October 17 to see a taste of Kamaeru gameplay streamed for the first time ever!
