Former Fall Guys developers just announced the chaotic multiplayer game you didn’t know you needed. Frog Sqwad drops in 2026 on PC via Steam, bringing up to eight players together for a slapstick physics extraction adventure through dangerous sewers. Developed by Panic Stations and revealed during Day of the Devs on December 10, 2025, the game combines the friendslop energy of Fall Guys with Lethal Company’s extraction loop and proximity voice chat that animates your frog’s mouth as you scream at your friends. A playtest starts December 11 for anyone brave enough to sign up.
Feed the Swamp King or Become Dinner
The core premise is wonderfully absurd. You and up to seven froggy friends descend into procedurally generated sewers on a mission to gather food for the ravenous Swamp King. Every day demands a food quota, and failure means you become the next meal instead. This creates an extraction loop similar to Lethal Company, where you balance greed against survival, deciding when to cash out your haul versus pushing deeper for better loot.
The sewers themselves are packed with hazards, weird creatures, and creative challenges that change with every run. As you explore, you’ll chomp down on snacks scattered throughout the environment. Eating food makes your frog grow progressively larger, transforming your appearance and capabilities. Consume enough and you’ll evolve into a Megafrog, a massive round creature with a booming voice that rolls through tunnels like a wrecking ball. Your size becomes both advantage and obstacle, creating hilarious situations where oversized teammates get stuck in passages or flatten smaller frogs.
Your Tongue Is Your Best Friend
Movement and interaction revolve entirely around your sticky frog tongue. You can lick literally everything: swing from pipes like Spider-Man, grab physics objects and drag them around, latch onto your friends to pull or catapult them, and interact with environmental puzzles that require coordination and creative thinking. The tongue mechanics create emergent gameplay where eight players with sticky appendages produce constant chaos.
Imagine trying to solve a physics puzzle while your teammate accidentally licks you and sends you flying into a hazard. Or using your tongue to catapult a Megafrog at enemies because their size makes them the perfect projectile. The game encourages experimentation, letting you combine tongue mechanics with environmental objects to create solutions the developers probably never intended. That freedom transforms simple extraction runs into unpredictable comedy shows.
From Megafrog to Pathetic Frogspawn
The health system adds another layer of hilarious consequence. When you take damage, your frog vomits up all the food you’ve eaten, instantly shrinking you back down. Take damage on an empty stomach and something worse happens. You transform into frogspawn, a tiny pathetic version of yourself that can’t do anything independently. You’ll need a friend to feed you back to normal size, creating moments where the team must protect and nurture fallen members or leave them behind.
This transformation system creates natural role reversal throughout matches. The dominant Megafrog rolling through sewers can become the helpless frogspawn that everyone must protect in seconds. It’s a brilliant balancing mechanic that prevents any single player from dominating while forcing cooperation even when some players are significantly more powerful than others.
Proximity Chat and Animated Mouths
Frog Sqwad includes proximity voice chat where your frog’s mouth animates in sync with your actual speech. This seemingly small feature dramatically amplifies the social chaos. You can hear friends screaming as they get launched across the map or quietly plotting behind your back. The proximity aspect means communication requires staying close, forcing teams to stick together or accept that separated players can’t coordinate effectively.
Combined with the physics-based gameplay and tongue mechanics, proximity chat ensures every match becomes a memorable story. Whether it’s coordinating a complex puzzle solution, arguing about who accidentally catapulted the Megafrog into lava, or desperately calling for help as frogspawn, the voice chat makes Frog Sqwad fundamentally social in ways that text communication never could.
The Fall Guys DNA
Several Panic Stations team members previously worked on Fall Guys, and that pedigree shows throughout Frog Sqwad. The same commitment to slapstick humor, physics-based chaos, and accessible gameplay that made Fall Guys a phenomenon appears in every system. But instead of competitive elimination rounds, Frog Sqwad focuses on cooperative extraction with friendly fire opportunities that create comedy without eliminating anyone from the fun.
The game positions itself alongside the current friendslop explosion, titles like Content Warning, Lethal Company, and PEAK that prioritize creating funny moments with friends over competitive intensity. The Steam page explicitly calls out this comparison, suggesting Frog Sqwad will appeal to the same audience that made those games massive hits. The eight-player count sits perfectly between Lethal Company’s four and larger party games, allowing bigger friend groups to play together without splitting into multiple lobbies.
Progression and Replayability
Gold earned from successful extraction runs can be spent on new physics toys and gadgets that provide advantages in future missions. This progression system ensures that even failed runs where you become the Swamp King’s meal contribute to long-term advancement. The daily quota system creates escalating pressure, presumably increasing food requirements as days pass and forcing players to venture deeper into more dangerous sewer areas.
The procedurally generated sewers mean no two runs feel identical, while the physics-based puzzle solving ensures emergent solutions keep gameplay fresh even after dozens of hours. Combine those elements with eight-player chaos and proximity chat shenanigans, and Frog Sqwad has the foundation for the kind of replayability that keeps friend groups coming back for months.
FAQs
When does Frog Sqwad release?
Frog Sqwad launches on PC via Steam sometime in 2026. A specific release date has not been announced, but a playtest begins December 11, 2025.
How many players can play Frog Sqwad?
Frog Sqwad supports up to eight players in cooperative extraction runs. You team up with friends to gather food from procedurally generated sewers while feeding the Swamp King.
What is a Megafrog?
A Megafrog is the transformation that happens when you eat enough food during a run. Your frog swells into a massive round creature with a booming voice that can roll through sewers, offering unique movement and combat advantages.
How does the health system work?
Taking damage makes you vomit up eaten food and shrink. If you take damage on an empty stomach, you transform into helpless frogspawn and need a friend to feed you back to normal size.
Does Frog Sqwad have voice chat?
Yes. The game includes proximity voice chat where your frog’s mouth animates as you talk. You can only hear nearby players, encouraging teams to stay together for coordination.
Who developed Frog Sqwad?
Panic Stations developed Frog Sqwad. The team includes former Fall Guys developers, bringing that same slapstick physics-based humor to a cooperative extraction format.
What games is Frog Sqwad similar to?
The developers compare it to Lethal Company, Content Warning, Fall Guys, PEAK, and other friendslop titles. It combines extraction gameplay with physics-based chaos and proximity voice chat.
Can I play the Frog Sqwad playtest?
Yes. Sign up through the Steam page to participate in the playtest starting December 11, 2025. This gives early access to try the game before the 2026 launch.
Friendslop at Its Finest
Frog Sqwad arrives perfectly timed to capitalize on the friendslop phenomenon while offering enough unique mechanics to stand out from competitors. The tongue-based movement and interaction creates possibilities that games relying on standard controls can’t match. The Megafrog transformation introduces hilarious power dynamics, and the frogspawn failure state ensures even skilled players experience humbling moments that require teamwork. Most importantly, eight-player support hits the sweet spot for friend groups too large for most co-op games but not big enough to justify full party game lobbies. Whether Panic Stations can maintain momentum post-launch depends on content updates and community support, but the foundation looks solid. If you’ve been searching for the next game to dominate your friend group’s Discord calls, Frog Sqwad might just be the answer. Just be prepared to explain why you spent three hours screaming at your friends while controlling a giant rolling frog.