Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$18.38Fair
- Length
- 4.9h 13.2h to 100%
- Value
- $4.08/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 337 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $18.38 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
Foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru, a cozy frog collecting game, where you take pictures of frogs, play mini-games and decorate your habitat. Hop right to it!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, HD Graphics 515 (1024 MB), 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 21 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cats and Seek: Osaka (free, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats Alchemy Garden ($6.99, scores 25).
More about Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge
Of the 227 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026.
4.9 hours to finish it, 13 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
46% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 01:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge is a wonderfully relaxing life simulation that combines wildlife conservation, creature collection, and light farming into an experience that feels both comforting and meaningful. Developed by Humble Reeds and published by Armor Games Studios, the game offers a refreshing departure from traditional farming sims by making environmental restoration its central focus. Instead of chasing profits...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Really cute game. You collect frogs, feed frogs, and breed frogs (not a fan of the breeding, very rarely do I get lucky enough to get a new frog). You can decorate your different refuges, and make items to sell in each area so you can buy furniture for your frogs. It's simple, adorable, and enjoyable. Edited to add: Once I got the hang of breeding, it became relatively easy. Just takes a bit of patience :)
Only got as far as the 15% bioscore before the game became unresponsive to keyboard inputs. Bugs appear to be a commonality across most people's experience, so I imagine this isn't an isolated event. Beyond that, the game feels like a half-baked point-and-click grind. There appears to be story attached to it, but the way the game just throughs you into it means you have very little time to get invested in these...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge scores 49/100 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/1978150/kamaeru-a-frog-refugeReviews 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.