Pocket Frogs is a time-based frog management game. It encompasses the breeding and collecting of frogs, in which there are 41,216 unique kinds.
Overview[]
Pocket Frogs is a simulation game where players have fun while amassing their frog collection through breeding, collecting, buying, and gifting frogs. During gameplay, coins, potions, and stamps serve as primary resources to use for different aspects of the game. As the player levels up, they unlock different breeds of frogs in which they can discover.
New players start the game with the nursery, a Green Folium Anura, a Cocos Bruna Anura, 1000 coins, and one extra habitat. After taming the frogs, the player can engage in activities such as breeding, playing games, and hopping around The Pond.
New frogs can also be found in presents or won in minigames. Each frog has six statistics that are found on the frog's info sheet: Rarity (Level), Maturity, Happiness, Speed, Stamina, and Value (Sell Price).
Breeding and Frog Maturity[]
Breeding can be done by mating two tamed adult frogs via the "breed menu" available on the frog's info sheet. Tamed frogs must be in the same habitat to be bred. If the player is gifted a frog that is rarer than their current level, they will be unable to breed it until they reach the level the breed is unlocked.
In the pond, the player can attempt to breed with a wild frog by jumping onto it. However, the frog will often jump away numerous times before allowing the player to breed with it. In order to breed thier frog, the player must have adequate room in their Nursery to accommodate the egg. As with all habitats, the Nursery can only house up to 8 eggs/frogs.
Certain pairs of frogs can produce mutations which can result in either a glass or chroma frog. However, it is unknown what determines if a certain pair of frogs can create a glass or chroma frog. Since the mutations are dependent on the species of frogs bred, it is recommended to try every possibility as you may never know what you will get. When breeding from the breed menu, the possibility of getting a glass/chroma frog will be shown if the chosen pair can produce one.
After breeding, the egg appears in the Nursery where it will mature and hatch. Frog eggs can only be housed in the Nursery unless the player purchases the VIP package. Though the species of frog is unknown until it hatches, the player can refer to the Froggydex before hatching to see which frog they bred.
Any frogs that are not in the Froggydex will have an asterisk (*) after their name. The asterisk is shown on all new frogs, whether they are in the pond, from gift messages, the Frogmart, or from racing minigames.
Frogs take a certain amount of time to be matured, with the amount of time scaling from 30 minutes to 1 day and 21 hours, depending on the rarity of the frog. If the frog is shipped to the mailbox, the time it takes to ship is equal to the maturation time of the frog, unless the player has the VIP package.
Details and images of the different breeds are available, as are additional details on Breeding and Breeding Strategies.
Taming Frogs[]
The player can tame a frog from inside the pond. Once in the pond, the player must have the frog consume the number of flies noted at the top of the screen. For players with the VIP package, the number of flies it takes to tame the frog is halved. Each level of frog increases the number of flies required by 3 per level. If the player is impatient, they can use potions to speed up taming at a rate of one potion per ten flies needed.
Once the frog is tamed, a pop-up box will appear to inform the player of the frog's taming and how much XP was awarded. If the frog is fully mature, new options unlock for that frog which include breeding, gifting, and mini-games. An untamed frog moved very quickly in its habitat, whilst a tamed one moves more slowly in it.
The Pond[]
The basis for all gameplay in the Pond involves the player tapping on lily pads adjacent to their frog, which causes the frog to hop from one lily pad to another.
A frog in the Pond can eat dragonflies, breed with wild frogs, and find presents. Eating dragonflies can tame a frog, cause it to mature faster, and increases happiness.
Mini-Games[]
There are 3 mini-games to play that can win the player new frogs, scenery, coins, potions or stamps. They include racing, the puzzle game, and the search game.
Racing Frogs[]
Players can choose to enter their tamed, fully mature frogs in races. The player's frog will compete against NPC (non-player character) frogs of the same level. Each frog's speed and stamina statistics help to determine whether the frog will win. The happiness of the player's frog will also contribute to the frog's performance in the race. The only interaction the player has with their frog during the race is if the player decides to use a potion to increase their frog's happiness during the race. Otherwise, Frog Racing is purely a spectator sport.
If the player's frog comes in first (1st) place, they have the option of choosing one of the competitor frogs as their prize or accepting a coin reward. The player must have an open mailbox slot in order to accept a frog as a prize. Coin prizes are available for first, second, and third place. Fourth and fifth place offer no prizes.
Puzzle Game[]
Players try to jump all frogs in a 6x6 grid to face consistent directions in the Puzzle game. Your frog gains happiness in proportion to the amount of the puzzle completed, with winning increasing the happiness of your frog to 100% and giving you a present such as another frog, a scenery item, coins, potions or stamps.
Search Game[]
Players try to uncover all squares which match a given pattern before they run out of turns in the Search game. The correct uncovered squares contain an image of the frog. Uncovering all squares for the same frog gives the player the option to take that frog as a prize or sell it for coins. Each puzzle contains 2 frogs and a yellow present. Additional turns can be purchased with potions.
Weekly Sets[]
Weekly Sets reward players with stamps and potions for collecting a defined set of frogs. A new set is released every week at 11:00am, U.S. Pacific time. Unlike when completing Awards, completing a Weekly Set does not require all frogs to be in the same habitat. The frogs remain in their habitats when the Weekly Set is completed. Unlike Awards which redeem automatically, the user must click the 'Redeem Set' button to collect the reward.
Awards[]
There are 73 different Awards that can be redeemed for experience points. Each award has a different requirement for collecting combinations of frog colors and patterns or number of frogs. Most awards require the frogs to be collected in the same habitat. Awards are automatically redeemed when the requirement is met, and the frogs remain in the habitat.
Frog Requests[]
Versions of the game before 3.0.3 supported a feature called requests. It was another way to earn stamps, potions, and additional coins. An in-game notification appeared when a new request was available and this request could be reviewed at any time via the menu. Requests could be declined or filled when the mature frog requested was available in a habitat. The requested frog was then removed from the habitat. If a request was declined by the player, a new request was usually sent within 15 minutes.
It is possible requests will be restored in future updates to the game but the developers have not indicated any specific plans to do so.
Connecting to other Players[]
Each Pocket Frogs user has a unique ID code (4-6 numbers and letters) called a "Friend Code" (FC). Gift givers can use other player's FCs to gift frogs to them. FCs are added to the "Neighbors" list to send them frogs and to visit their habitats to see their frogs and decorations.
There are Pocket Frogs groups on Discord, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter. Users there offer available frogs, sets, and decorations, and place requests asking for frogs to level up, finish awards and weekly sets, or complete a pattern.
The game does not require an internet connection to play or complete the game. (The Android version of the game does require a data connection to play the game.)
The game also features "In-App Purchases," accessed through the Pro Shop menu, where in-game items such as potions and stamps can be bought to speed up gameplay; however, no purchase is necessary to play, enjoy or finish the game.