NimbleBit before this game only did casual games. With Pocket Frogs, they take on a very ambitious project, and we think they succeeded.
Pocket Frogs (FREE) 
If you thought farming and clicking on random squares was dumb, this game is for you. Pocket Frogs sees the goods in social gaming but introduces a gameplay concept like no other. This game is extremely game changing in the iPhone social gaming world or social gaming in general.
Presentation
The game supports both the iPad and retina display, so it looks extremely stunning and gorgeous. The design aesthetics were inherited from Dizzypad and with good reason. The frogs really do come alive with NimbleBit’s gorgeous radiant colors and textures. Once you see the pond, you’d want to jump in yourself.
Pocket Frogs is like FarmVille in a way that you have neighbors through Plus+. You can visit their habitats and send them frogs. The similarities end here. NimbleBit could have simply created FarmVille Frogs so to speak where you simply “build” frog habitats and come back a couple hours later to collect your earnings, but thankfully, they gave us more.
Controls
Pretty much everything is touch controlled. The pond gameplay part of Pocket Frogs works exactly like Dizzypad. Tap on an empty leap to “leap” into that direction.
Gameplay
The main gameplay involves breeding frogs. There are three traits inherited from parent frogs: primary color, secondary color and frog design/pattern. The game follows the rule of genetics where an offspring collects one or more trait from ONLY your parents. For example, a blue parent and a red parent will NOT produce a yellow offspring.
Breeding is done in the nursery. You can either breed with the frogs you have on your habitats or breed with frogs you come across in the pond. Breeding costs coins, but frogs can be sold for coins in return. ONLY frogs that are tamed AND are adult frogs are able to breed. Breeding and taming are performed on the pond.
The pond is full of flies which you must eat to tame and speed up your frog’s growth process. Taming frogs range from eating as little as 3 to as much as 20 or more flies. Every fly you eat makes your frog grow simultaneously. The beauty in Pocket Frogs is you can either wait for your frogs to grow normally or force them to grow through the pond. The pond is also home to yellow and red gift boxes which either gives you coins, new frogs, or habitat designs.
Green Joke: Mating on the pond is extremely hilarious especially if it takes four to five leaps before your frogs mate. I’m not sure if this holds true in the game or in real life, but I believe whichever parent is happier is the one the offspring will take most traits from.
Habitat is where you store your frogs. One habitat can handle 8 frogs at a time. If you want more “storage room”, you can purchase additional habitats. Frogs can be moved from one habitat to the another. You can change your habitat background and add elements (like flowers and leaves) for frog happiness bar.
Stamps are used to automatically finish deliverable/shipped goods (like gifts from your friends or gifts found in the pond). Potion is used to auto-grow frogs. You can choose to “catalog” your frogs which stores frog traits. If you want them back, you can purchase them back from your catalog of course.
Every frog bred earns you an XP. However, finishing achievements give you the most XP which you’ll need to level up. The fun in the game is trying to mix multiple frogs multiple times to achieve the wanted offspring.
Suggestion
There’s one pretty major Pocket Frogs flaw and that is iPad support. You can NOT sync a game on your iPhone 4 and play it on your iPad at the same time. To be able to play on your iPad, you need to create or use another Plus+ account. This then begs the question, why not create two binaries for the game instead of universal support?
I see no use to a universal binary when achievements aren’t reset for your iPad which then makes leveling up more difficult. Offering two separate binaries allow Plus+ to obviously reset achievements as it sees the iPad game as a whole separate game.
As for gameplay, how about the ability to mate with your neighbors’ frogs? Like say mine because my frogs are epic.
Conclusion
The game is ingenious if you disregard the iPad support issues. Most people do not have an iPad and another iDevice OR play asynchronously anyway, so it’s a non-issue. Other than that, Pocket Frogs is one of the best games I’ve played all these years. The gameplay is very refreshing and offers a better challenge for non social game fans.
The best part of all? Pocket Frogs is FREE! You can choose to buy stamps or potions if you really want to level up fast, but the game plays absolutely perfect without needing to purchase anything.
ADD ME ON PLUS+ Superbad. I’m level 7 and can pretty much offer you any frog pattern or color of choice.
– Superbad, Exprert Frog Breeder