Once again, through circumstances of life, you’ll find yourself returning to a rural farming situation that demands your care, patience, and a fair amount of grinding time. In this case it at least isn’t for a grandfather that has passed or something along those lines, it happens to be for a childhood friend, and instead of cultivating crops in this case you’ll be looking to attract, breed, and generally care for frogs.

What’s nice is that your tasks here won’t feel quite like your ordinary farm sim, mainly because what you’re trying to do is simply quite different. Rather than trying to clear land and cultivate fields, you’ll be looking to contribute to an effort to restore the land to a more natural state in order to try to bring back biodiversity and environmental balance. In order to help tap into your more creative side, you’ll also be in charge of the purchase and placement of furniture that will also serve to attract new breeds, and to do this you’ll complete a variety of tasks that will help you collect resources that will help fund your purchases.

The problem is that, no matter how cute and cuddly the game may be, and the fact that you can actually pet your little froggy friends (for those who’d consider that a perk), there’s no getting past the fact that as these types of games go it doesn’t take too long for a sense of sameness to set in. Sure, sims of this type are repetitive by their nature in general terms, but too much of what you’re doing feels just a little too simplistic and lacking in any real gaming-level satisfaction. 

Sure, you can try to save the world one frog species at a time, and that has merit, but as a gamer you want that satisfying hook of some kind that keeps you coming back for more. Unfortunately, that’s an element that just doesn’t come through strongly enough for Kamaeru, despite its admirable efforts.