Time on Frog Island
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.9h 7.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 374 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Cast away on an island paradise complete with a cast of friendly frogs. Enjoy sandbox island life and explore at your own pace, solving sticky situations for your new friends and trading your way to fixing your ship!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / Equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 42 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 85 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 78 percent. On the same math Arise: A Simple Story ($19.99, scores 57) and Toki Tori 2+ ($1.04, scores 68) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Time on Frog Island
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 283 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 2.9 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
At 2.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
92% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
After completing the short and sweet prologue chapter, I was wondering if the mechanics shown in it would translate well into the full, longer game, namely the imprecise jumping, fixed camera, and day-night cycle that forces you to get busy building a fire each night. Still, the demo was enticing enough for me to try the whole game. Well, no. Those mechanics do NOT work well in a game of this scope. The...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I really dislike how the quest system works. The game looks very chill but you need to keep track of everybodies needs. The controls are finicky and make it unclear what happens sometimes.
Jueguín tipo cadena de favores muy bonito y entretenido. Los gráficos y voces son super graciosos y la exploración se hace muy gustosa. Recomendado si lo encientras con una buena oferta.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Time on Frog Island scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1717510/time-on-frog-islandReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.