Hopstead

Hopstead is a gentle building game about a frog and a pond that keeps growing. Forage reeds, clay, and berries with your tongue, build workshops and production chains, and buy new plots of land to push the marsh outward. There is no combat, no starvation, no withering crops, and no punishment for a missed day. Time away even brings a small reward.

What’s inside

• Expand the marsh. Buy new plots, clear brambles and silt, and uncover sunken caches, ruins, and shrines that teach your frog new ways to travel, like vaulting over water or sliding across mudflats.
• Craft and build. Nearly 60 structures, from reed workbenches and mud kilns to glass furnaces, paper mills, and an apothecary cauldron.
• Grow flowers. Tend planters, enrich the soil, and place different flowers side by side to breed rare hybrids.
• Befriend wildlife. Otters, ducks, bats, dragonflies, and snails move in and help around the marsh.
• Weather and visitors. Rain, sun, wind, and mist change the marsh and how it works. On misty mornings, Barnaby the traveling snail moors his raft with rare wares.
• Melody Pond. Hop across singing water to compose looping tunes, and play the Echo Game.
• Share your marsh. Turn your marsh, your frog, or a melody into a short code that friends can paste in to visit, in a read-only copy that cannot change their own save.
• Play how you like. Touch, keyboard and mouse, and controllers. English, Spanish, French, and German.

Private by design

Hopstead needs no account and shows no ads. Your marshes, frogs, melodies, and postcards stay on your device, and Android backup can restore them on a new phone. The game sends nothing to us.