Time on Frog Island
Review

Time on Frog Island (2022) is a world building adventure set on an island of anthropomorphised frogs where you solve puzzles to survive and thrive on an island after a shipwreck. You explore at your own pace and solve sticky situations for the colourful locals as you trade your way to fixing your ship.

Play initially involves exploring the island to meet everyone and understand what they need from the sounds and symbols they use to communicate. You then slowly unravel this spaghetti network of trades, getting the right items the people that need them. To do this often involves solving puzzles, finding hidden treasures and talking to the right frogs.

As you progress you discover not only new people and places, but things to do. You can find new items by fishing and farming. You can concoct simple brews that give you new ways to get around and access the more distant and hard to reach parts of the island.

The result is an endearing game that could have been pulled from the pages of a story book. But also, it's an inviting tangle of wants and needs to straighten out. Whether you make this you book at bedtime game or just a way to relax after a busy day, it's a game that's had love and attention poured into it.

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Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Time on Frog Island 17 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 5 months ago.