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.

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.

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 conterraneo resources etc

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!

In addition to the location around the map, you'll also need to pay close attention to the heat and moisture in the air at any given time, since this is where mushrooms can get tricky to pin down.

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.

Mushrooms are the key component to changing the traits of the frogs you're breeding as you pass through generations by way of the magic muds you include in the nursery with the frogspawn eggs, so if you need to change a specific trait, be sure you've got the right kind of magic mud in as the tadpoles form. If not, you'll need to try again with a new bunch of frogborne eggs and a new batch of mud.

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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 Mudborne Game 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.

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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.

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.

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