Brotato news & patch notes

Hello there! It's been a while brotatoes! If you wonder what we've been doing since the release of All Pain No Gain, well the answer is simple: we've been hard at work on the next DLC, Primal Dread!

While it's not quite ready to be shown yet, we're getting closer to what we could consider a playtest build. We will keep you updated on this so keep your eyes peeled in the coming month!

In the meantime, enjoy this little teaser we've put together, with a first peek at new dinosaurs and the new soundtrack made by Brotato composer, Adonai:

Primal Dread is set to release on Steam later this year. You can wishlist the DLC here:

Alright, back to the jungle for us! Cheers, Dalloks and the EE team.

• Added some info about progression when random zone is selected

• Added restricted level-up upgrades feature for some characters

• Fixed fog of war in coop, made the fog scale per player

• Fixed Axolotl showing wrong stats

• Fixed Gobbler knockback

• Fixed Spanish translation

• Fixed Dual sense controller showing wrong buttons

• Fixed 3 and 4 coop shop UI overlapping

• Fixed Wounded achievement being only unlocked after relaunching the game

Here is the list of restricted upgrades per character:

• Wounded: HP Regen, Life Steal, Max Health and Armor

• Mage: Melee Damage and Ranged Damage

• Chunky: Speed

• Hunter: Harvesting

• Cyborg: Melee Damage and Elemental Damage

• Technomage: Melee Damage and Ranged Damage

• Sailor: Harvesting

• Golem: Life Steal, HP Regen

As restricted items, these upgrades can still appear after wave 20 in endless runs. We have mainly focused on characters with an effect such as "X modifications are reduced by 100%". Characters with a "-100 X" effect do not seem like a good option, because it could be viable to counter this effect in-game. The goal of this feature is not to remove options, but simply to avoid useless upgrades.

Hello everyone!

All Pain No Gain is here! And let me tell you, it's not for the faint of heart.

Before going into what's new about the update, a quick reminder if you missed it, we announced a new DLC for Brotato coming later this year! You can already add the DLC to your wishlist here:

Now back to the serious stuff!

Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading:

• A new difficulty level, Nightmare

• New enemies exclusive to Nightmare

• 1 new character, the Wounded

• 1 new weapon, the Rail Gun

• Balancing and small improvements

• 2 New achievements

And if you're more of a visual learner, we made a devlog for this update, with all the content narrated to you.

Before getting into the content, an important warning about MODS:

• The game has been updated. Before playing, please make sure to unsubscribe from all out-dated mods.

  Incompatible mods can cause your game to crash and your save data may become corrupted.

  We recommend using only mods that clearly state their compatibility with this version of the game.

  If you have any questions about that, do not hesitate to ask.

So, All Pain No Gain is live and its here to heat things up. We've seen that Danger 5, the highest difficulty of the game, was often regarded as the default way to play Brotato. So we thought the game was ready to receive a difficulty that offers a MUCH tougher challenge, and we humbly obliged...

Let's get into it!

Nightmare difficulty

If the name of the new mode wasn't enough of a clue, let me tell you that this is something far above Danger 5. Be prepared to lose over and over - All Pain, No Gain is the update name for a good reason.

Nightmare turns the numbers up. Enemies do more damage, have more health and are even faster than Danger 5. You'll also see some new enemies and new timeline events. To know more about those, keep reading!

To make sure you have what it takes to face this challenge, Nightmare difficulty is unlocked after 10 wins in Danger 5 on different characters (or on different maps if you own Abyssal Terrors DLC). If you already have the 10 wins, you don't have to do more, Nightmare will opens its harsh embrace to you!

But what makes Nightmare so dangerous? Well, there's a couple of new things you'll need to watch out for.

Environmental projectiles

In Nightmare Difficulty, you'll sometimes have a special event, like Hordes and Elites. This is the environmental projectiles, where bullets are flying over the map for the duration of the wave. The arrow shape of the bullets should give you an idea of the path they're taking but stay on your toes and study the patterns!

And for more customization, if the environmental projectiles are too much for you or if you want more of them, we added an option to turn them off completely or have them on every wave. Your choice! Find it in the Accessibility options.

The Fog

Another event that will spice things up is the Fog. This will put some part of the map in the dark during a wave. Light will persist around you but the rest is in the dark, although your structures and pets will also light up. Oh and fire will definitely be useful here…

New enemies

Tougher difficulty also means tougher enemies! We are introducing a batch of buffed up enemies based on existing foes. They are meaner, badder and more dangerous. But they will also feel like novelty before slashing you into bits.

New enemies in Nightmare - Crash Zone

• Horned Spitter

• Corrupted buffer

• Horned fly

• Bloated spawner

• Dire junkie

• Infected slasher egg

• Mad slasher

New enemies in Nightmare - Abyss

• Bloated pufferfish

• Brainy squid

• Cool walrus

• Firemane anemone

• Infected blobfish

• Scaled stargazer

• Spiky lung

• Mad dragonfish

• Scaled goblin shark

• Scaled diplocaulus

New character, the Wounded

Beating Nightmare will prove you're one of the best (or most stubborn). And to show the world you're the best of the best, you'll unlock a new character after one win in Nightmare, the Wounded.

This potato is the ultimate glass canon. You get a head start with more Harvesting and more Speed but die in 1 hit! Since we're nice people, you also start with a Tardigrade so you get 1 chance to make it further. And to focus entirely on making damage, this potato removes the items focused on defense from the shop and the crates.

New weapon, the Rail Gun

You unlock the Rail Gun by winning a run with Wounded (in any difficulty). Just like you want to avoid getting hit with Wounded, you'll want to avoid getting hit when equipped with the Rail Gun. Because this weapons is getting stronger and stronger during a wave if you avoid damage.

Balancing and small improvements

Balancing

This update is centered around bringing more challenge to the game. But we wanted to take this occasion to make some balancing, mainly buffs, on old weapons that deserved some love. All changes can be found in the patchnote at the end of this post.

Small improvements

You can now see how you died! So that next time, you can get revenge on the alien that ended your perfect run!

For owners of the Abyssal Terrors DLC, you now have the option of selecting a "Random" starting map. This way, you don't have to make a choice between Crash Zone and Abyss, destiny will make the choice for you.

New Achievement

A new character has to come with a new achievement!

Win a run on any map with the Wounded and you'll get a new achievement.

Same for Nightmare difficulty, you'll need this achievement to prove you're a real tough Brotato!

Tell us what you think!

That's it for All Pain No Gain! We know the content is all about bringing new challenge to the more seasoned players. For those of you who are fine with the current difficulty, we hope our work on the future DLC will bring the variety you're looking for.

In the meantime, tell us your thoughts on the update! Because there's always some changes that can be made based on your feedback!

Cheers, Dalloks and the EE team.

PATCHNOTE 1.1.15 All Pain No Gain

New difficulty - Nightmare

• New events during this difficulty

  • Environmental projectiles events: bullets going through the level with increasing speed and quantity

  • Obscuring Fog: visibility is reduced during specific waves

  • waves concerned → (5, or 6 or 7) (10 or 11 or 12) (16 or 17 or 18)

• New bestiary during Nightmare

• Unlocked by beating the game on Danger 5 at least 10 times in different zone or with different character

• Beating the Nightmare difficulty with a character grants a frame in the character selection menu

New character - Wounded

• Dies in one hit, starts with a Tardigrade and the stats of the Well-Rounded

• As a bonus, Regen and Heatlh related items are banned from shop and crates

• Unlocked by beating Nightmare difficulty with any character on any zone

New weapon - Rail Gun

• The Rail Gun's damage increases every 5 seconds as long as the player hasn't been hit; it resets at each wave

• Unlocked by beating the game on any difficulty with Wounded

Quality of life

• Character selection now has a random zone option (if multiple zone are available), the zone is picked in the next screen

• Display who killed the character on death

• Added a panel in the Difficulty selection menu to inform players on how to unlock new difficulties

• Added an option in Accessibility Settings to disable, enable, or amplify Projectile Fire in Nightmare difficulty

• Added options when the game is losing focus

• Upgrade icons are now affected by the accessibility color setting (positive color)

Starting Weapon

• Added RailGun as a starting weapon for : Hunter, Ranger, Baby, Buccaneer, Apprentice, Jack, Renegade, Multitasker, Soldier, Builder, Vagabond, Lute and Ghost

List of new enemies from Crash Zone

• Horned Fly

• Corrupted Buffer

• Dire Junkie

• Mad Slasher

• Mad Slasher Egg

• Horned Spitter

List of new enemies from Abyss

• Firemane Anemone

• Infected Blobfish

• Scaled Diplocaulus

• Mad Dragonfish

• Scaled Goblin Shark

• Spiky Lung

• Bloated Pufferfish

• Scaled Stargazer

• Brainy Squid

• Cool Walrus

Additional changes

• Added new buffed mobs to endless Nightmare mode in both zones

• Added an indicator in the run title when Projectile Fire has been disabled or amplified via accessibility settings

• With the new Fog event, we added fog visibility when equipping the following items:

  • Campfire: 50%

  • Lantern: 75%

  • Candle: 25%

  • Greek Fire: 75%

  • Lighthouse: 100%

• Explosions now briefly illuminate the fog of war

• Banned item Doc Moth for Druid and Golem

• Fixed the sorting in codex and shop, re-ordering of the mobs in the codex if sorted by entity's type

• Fixed Fin being badly referenced in the banned item list for Chunky

• Added Knife to Hunter as a starting weapon

• Added Elemental Damage as a tag to the Book item

• Random zone now selects the minimum achievement on the character difficulties unlocked across all zones, to be able to see what's missing

• Added Spiky Shield, Chopper, Hatchet, Quarterstaff and Rail Gun as starting weapons for Well-Rounded

• Added full localization for this update All Pain No Gain

• Fixed highlight on button for Codex and Options

Weapon Balancing

Since no balancing was made on weapons for a while, some of them felt like they were left behind and not viable anymore, especially in early waves and particularly in nightmare difficulty. So, we made some changes (buffs) to a selection. Here is the list:

• Anchor (DLC) Reduce price : 51/95/190 to 48/90/175. Increase Curse scaling : 65%/90%/125% to 75%/100%/125%

• Brick (DLC) Materials dropped increased: 10/30/60/120 -> 10/30/75/200

• Cacti Club Increase Ranged Damage scaling: 50%/60%/70%/80% to 60%/70%/80%/100%.  Base Damage Increased: 10/20/30/50 to 15/20/35/60. Spines damage: 1/1/1/1 buffed into 1/2/3/4

• Excalibur Negative armor reduced: -3 -> -2

• Flaming Brass Knuckles Base damage increased: 16/32/64 -> 20/40/80 Burn damage increased: 8x5/12x6/15x7 -> 10x5/15x6/18x7

• Ghost Flint Damage increased: 6/9/12/18 to 6/9/12/20 (gives more back to tier 4, and makes it exactly half the damage of ghost axe, for symmetry) Range Increased: 150/160/170/180 to 170/180/190/200

• Hammer Now has 10%/15%/20% knockback piercing (See harpoon’s ability) Base damage increased: 35/70/110 -> 40/75/120 Cost decreased: 51/95/190 -> 46/86/151

• Hand Harvesting Increased: 3/6/9/18 -> 3/6/12/25

• Hatchet Reduce price: 15/31/61/122 to 10/22/45/91. Base Damage increased: 5/10/20/40 to 7/11/22/45 Attack Speed Scaling changed increased: 15%/15%/15%/15% to 20%/20%/20%/20% Base attack speed increased: 9/7/5/3 -> 9/8/7/6 (nerf)

• Mace (DLC) Tier 2 : crit chance 3 → 4 %  Tier 3 : crit chance 3 → 8 %  Tier 4 : crit chance 3 → 12 %

• Knife Base Damage increased: 6/9/12/20 ->  9/13/18/25 Price Decreased: 15/31/61/122 to 10/22/45/91

• Plank Triple Scaling increased: 50%/60%/70%/80% to 60%/70%/80%/90% Base damage increased: 10/15/20/25 to 10/15/20/30 Explosion chance increased: 25%/30%/35%/40% to 25%/30%/40%/50%

• Powerfist Base damage increased: 40/60 to 40/80 Explosion Size increased: 0.75/1 -> 1/1.25

• Quarterstaff Price reduced: 17/34/66/130 to 15/31/61/122

• Screwdriver Range increased: 125 -> 135 Crit Multiplier increased: x2 -> x2/x2.15/x2.3/x2.5 (matches scissors) Engineering Scaling Increased: 50%/50%/50%/50% -> 50%/60%/70%/80%

• Spiky Shield Armor scaling decreased: 100%/125%/150%/200% -> 80%/100%/130%/170% reversed in hotfix 1.1.15.1

• Sword Base Damage increased: 25/40/60 -> 30/45/65

• Trident (DLC) Price reduced: 52 to 49 at tier 2.

• Thunder Sword Base damage increased: 30/60 -> 40/75

• Warhammer (DLC) Base Damage increased 100/175 to 100/200. Engineering scaling increased 100%/150% to 150%/200%. Changed Blunt/tool tags

• Blunderbuss (DLC) Damage decreased: 25/50/80 -> 22/45/70 Range damage scaling increased: 100%/125%/150% -> 110%/135%/170%

• Flute (DLC) Attack speed : 60/55/50/45 -> 50/45/40/35 Changed damage tier1: 5 -> 6

• Medical Gun Tier 1 : attack speed 40 → 35  lifesteal 0,4 → 0,5 Tier 2 : attack speed 34 → 30  lifesteal 0,45 → 0,55 Tier 3 : attack speed 27 → 25  lifesteal 0,5 → 0,6 Tier 4 : attack speed 20 → 17  lifesteal 0,6 → 0,65

• Minigun Damage increased: 1/3 to 2/5 Pierce Damage falloff changed: 50%/50% to 25%/25% Attack speed Changed: 3/2 to 3/3

• Obliterator Damage increased: 250/350 to 250/400.

• Pistol Crit chance increased: 5%/10%/15%/20% to 10%/15%/20%/25%

• Potato Gun Ranged Damage Scaling increased: 25%/25%/25% -> 40%/40%/40% Attack speed nerfed: 15/10/3 -> 15/10/5. Base damage increased: 1/1/1 -> 3/5/10.

• Shuriken Base Damage increased: 6/8/10/15 to 7/9/11/15.

• Taser  Damage increased: 6/6/6/12 -> 7/7/7/14

• Wand Pierce Increased: 0/0/0/0 -> 1/1/1/1 Price decreased: 12/26/52/105 -> 10/22/45/91

Items 

• Kraken Eye (DLC) Increase Curse amount and Max HP to 15.

• Pile of Books Moved it to tier 2. Decreasing price to 60. 

Brotato: Primal Dread got 100k wishlists from you! You bunch of Brotato's are amazing!

We are super grateful for the confidence you place in us (and a little stressed out, let's be honest). But more than anything, we can't wait for you to get your paws on the new weapons, dinosaurs and potatoes of Primal Dread!

First things first, we still have to release the All Pain No Gain update. The beta has been a tremendous help (I mean, we added new forms of enemies thanks to your feedback!) and its now a matter of ironing out the last details. So without further ado, it's back to work for us!

If you haven't already, you can add your wishlist to the list!

Primal Dread is set to release later this year. Cheers, Dalloks and the EE team.

Hello there,

We're proud to share we revealed a new upcoming DLC "Brotato: Primal Dread" at the triple-i showcase.

This DLC will come to Steam in 2026. We will share more about this in the coming months but you can already see it's about dinosaurs. And who doesn't like dinosaurs ???

Wishlist the DLC so you don't miss the release!

The DLC will include:

- 20 new waves of enemies and bosses - New characters - New weapons - New items - A new stat - New gameplay elements - And more!

You can check out our animated teaser here:

If you want to stay updated, follow Evil Empire on our socials or join the official Brotato Discord

Cheers,

Dalloks and the EE team.

Hello everyone!

If you followed our latest news, you now that Brotato has something to announce on April 9th at the triple-i initiative! Make sure to tune in to not miss anything.

But before this big announcement, we wanted to kick things off with the open beta of the update we are currently working on, "All Pain No Gain"! You can try it on the beta branch right now!

Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading:

• A new difficulty above Danger 5: Nightmare Difficulty

• 1 new character, the Wounded

• 1 new weapon, the Railgun

• Balancing and small improvements

Before getting into the content, a word about progress saves:

• When playing on the beta branch, the game will create a parallel progression based on your progress on the default branch.

• If you play on the beta branch, the progress you made will only be recorded on the beta branch

• If you play on the default branch, you progress will only be recorded on the default branch

• At the end of the beta, the progress you made on the beta branch will be lost

If you have any questions about that, do not hesitate to ask.

When playing the beta branch, please deactivate and unsubscribe to all mods in the workshop. Outdated mods might cause crashes and corrupted save.

To access the beta branch, go to your Library, right click on Brotato and go to "Properties" of your game, then select "Game Version and Betas". In the “beta participation”, select “beta” in the drop down menu.

Now on to the main course. We've seen a lot of people asking for more difficulty after Danger 5, for new ways to challenge themselves. "All Pain No Gain" is here for you.

A new difficulty

Once you've completed Danger 5 once, you'll be able to try the Nightmare difficulty. A step-up from Danger 5, this is not meant to be a new default way to play Brotato. Nightmare is here to offer a challenge to those who are breezing through Danger 5.

This new difficulty includes new waves with some enemies appearing sooner than Danger 5. Enemies damage and speed is also higher. The biggest changes from what would be a Danger 5 with pumped up numbers is the introduction of 2 new elements: environmental projectiles and the Fog.

Environmental projectiles

In Nightmare Difficulty, bullets are flying over the maps constantly. Starting slowly, they’ll grow in numbers and damage as the waves progress (but stays the same over wave 20). This should keep you on your toes and ask a healthy amount of skills to dodge all of this.

The Fog

Like Elites and Hordes, a new event will now appear on your timeline in Nightmare: Fog. This will put some part of the map in the dark during a wave. Light will persist around you but the rest is in the dark. Although fire will be useful here…

New character, the Wounded

Completing Nightmare unlocks a character fitted for hardcore players: Wounded. This potato gets a head start with more Harvesting and more Speed but dies in 1 hit! But you also start with a Tardigrade so you get 1 chance to make it further.

New weapon, the Rail Gun

You unlock the Rail Gun by winning a run with Wounded (in any difficulty). Just like you want to avoid getting hit with Wounded, you'll want to avoid getting hit when equipped with the Rail Gun. Because this weapons is getting stronger and stronger during a wave if you avoid damage.

Balancing and small improvements

Balancing

This update is centered around bringing more challenge to the game. But we wanted to take this occasion to make some balancing, mainly buffs, on old weapons that deserved some love. All changes can be found in the patchnote at the end of this post.

Small improvements

You can now see how you died! So that next time, you can get revenge on the alien that ended your perfect run!

For owners of the Abyssal Terrors DLC, you now have the option of selecting a "Random" starting map. This way, you don't have to make a choice between Crash Zone and Abyss, destiny will make the choice for you.

We need your feeback!

The beta is in your hands, time to tell us what you think! We use those public betas to make adjustments to design and balancing based on what you will tell us of your game experience. Play it, tear it apart and let us know how it goes on the Beta Branch Steam Discussions or the official Discord!

Cheers, Dalloks and the EE team.

Patchnote:

New difficulty - Nightmare

• New events during this difficulty

  • Environmental projectiles: bullets going through the level with increasing speed and quantity

  • Obscuring Fog: visibility is reduced during specific waves waves concerned → (5 or 6 or 7) (10 or 11 or 12) (16 or 17 or 18)

• New bestiary appearances during Nightmare

• Unlocked by beating the game on Danger 5 Price inflation in nightmare going for a 0.1x per wave to 0.12x per wave

• Beating the Nightmare difficulty with a character grants a frame in the character selection menu

• New character - Wounded

  • Dies in one hit, starts with a Tardigrade and the stats of the Well-Rounded

  • Banned regen items are banned as they provide no benefit to this character

  • Unlocked by beating Nightmare difficulty with any character on any map

• New weapon - Rail Gun

  • The Rail Gun's damage increases every 5 seconds as long as the player hasn't been hit; resets at each wave

  • Unlocked by beating the game on any difficulty with Wounded

Changes Quality of life

• Character selection now has a random zone option (if multiple zone are available), the zone is picked in the next screen

• Display who killed the character on death

• Upgrade icons are now affected by the accessibility color setting (positive color)

Starting Weapon

• Added RailGun as a starting weapon for Hunter, Ranger, Baby, Buccaneer, Apprentice, Jack, Renegade, Multitasker, Soldier, Builder, Vagabond and Ghost

Weapon Balancing Since no balancing was made on weapons for a while, some of them felt like they were left behind and not viable anymore, especially in early waves and particularly in nightmare difficulty. So, we made some changes (buffs) to a selection. Here is the list:

• Anchor (DLC) Reduce price : 51/95/190 to 48/90/175. Increase Curse scaling : 65%/90%/125% to 75%/100%/125%

• Brick (DLC) Materials dropped increased: 10/30/60/120 -> 10/30/75/200

• Cacti Club Increase Ranged Damage scaling: 50%/60%/70%/80% to 60%/70%/80%/100%.  Base Damage Increased: 10/20/30/50 to 15/20/35/60. Spines damage: 1/1/1/1 buffed into 1/2/3/4

• Excalibur Negative armor reduced: -3 -> -2

• Flaming Brass Knuckles Base damage increased: 16/32/64 -> 20/40/80 Burn damage increased: 8x5/12x6/15x7 -> 10x5/15x6/18x7

• Ghost Flint Damage increased: 6/9/12/18 to 6/9/12/20 (gives more back to tier 4, and makes it exactly half the damage of ghost axe, for symmetry) Range Increased: 150/160/170/180 to 170/180/190/200

• Hammer Now has 10%/15%/20% knockback piercing (See harpoon’s ability) Base damage increased: 35/70/110 -> 40/75/120 Cost decreased: 51/95/190 -> 46/86/151

• Hand Harvesting Increased: 3/6/9/18 -> 3/6/12/25

• Hatchet Reduce price: 15/31/61/122 to 10/22/45/91. Base Damage increased: 5/10/20/40 to 7/11/22/45 Attack Speed Scaling changed increased: 15%/15%/15%/15% to 20%/20%/20%/20% Base cooldown increased: 9/7/5/3 -> 9/8/7/6 (nerf)

• Mace (DLC) Tier 2 : crit chance 3 → 4 %  Tier 3 : crit chance 3 → 8 %  Tier 4 : crit chance 3 → 12 %

• Knife Base Damage increased: 6/9/12/20 ->  9/13/18/25 Price Decreased: 15/31/61/122 to 10/22/45/91

• Plank Triple Scaling increased: 50%/60%/70%/80% to 60%/70%/80%/90% Base damage increased: 10/15/20/25 to 10/15/20/30 Explosion chance increased: 25%/30%/35%/40% to 25%/30%/40%/50%

• Powerfist Base damage increased: 40/60 to 40/80 Explosion Size increased: 0.75/1 -> 1/1.25

• Quarterstaff Price reduced: 17/34/66/130 to 15/31/61/122

• Screwdriver Range increased: 125 -> 135 Crit Multiplier increased: x2 -> x2/x2.15/x2.3/x2.5 (matches scissors) Engineering Scaling Increased: 50%/50%/50%/50% -> 50%/60%/70%/80%

• Spiky Shield Armor scaling decreased: 100%/125%/150%/200% -> 80%/100%/130%/170%

• Sword Base Damage increased: 25/40/60 -> 30/45/65

• Trident (DLC) Price reduced: 52 to 49 at tier 2.

• Thunder Sword Base damage increased: 30/60 -> 40/75

• Warhammer (DLC) Base Damage increased 100/175 to 100/200. Engineering scaling increased 100%/150% to 150%/200%. Changed Blunt/tool tags

• Blunderbuss (DLC) Damage decreased: 25/50/80 -> 22/45/70 Range damage scaling increased: 100%/125%/150% -> 110%/135%/170%

• Flute (DLC) Cooldown : 60/55/50/45 -> 50/45/40/35 Changed damage tier1: 5 -> 6

• Medical Gun Tier 1 : cooldown 40 → 35  lifesteal 0,4 → 0,5 Tier 2 : cooldown 34 → 30  lifesteal 0,45 → 0,55 Tier 3 : cooldown 27 → 25  lifesteal 0,5 → 0,6 Tier 4 : cooldown 20 → 17  lifesteal 0,6 → 0,65

• Minigun Damage increased: 1/3 to 2/5 Pierce Damage falloff changed: 50%/50% to 25%/25% Cooldown Changed: 3/2 to 3/3

• Obliterator Damage increased: 250/350 to 250/400.

• Pistol Crit chance increased: 5%/10%/15%/20% to 10%/15%/20%/25%

• Potato Gun Ranged Damage Scaling increased: 25%/25%/25% -> 40%/40%/40% Cooldown nerfed: 15/10/3 -> 15/10/5. Base damage increased: 1/1/1 -> 3/5/10.

• Shuriken Base Damage increased: 6/8/10/15 to 7/9/11/15.

• Taser  Damage increased: 6/6/6/12 -> 7/7/7/14

• Wand Pierce Increased: 0/0/0/0 -> 1/1/1/1 Price decreased: 12/26/52/105 -> 10/22/45/91

Items 

• Kraken Eye (DLC) Increase Curse amount and Max HP to 15.

• Pile of Books Moved it to tier 2. Decreasing price to 60. 

Fixes

• Fixed misspelled word "Haustierschaden" in German

• Item appearances are no longer displayed in the character selection menu when "no item appearance" is checked in options

• Fixed Curse stat — it can no longer be negative and is now clamped to 0

The Triple-i Initiative has announced its return on the 9th of April at 9am PT/6pm CET, and we’re excited to share that Brotato will be revealing something there!

Last time Brotato was featured in the Triple-i initiative, Abyssal Terrors DLC was announced. So you might want to put this one on your calendar...

The show is only back-to-back trailers of games from other studios like us - all in 45 minutes - with world premieres, gameplay reveals, launch dates, demo drops and more.

There's no hosts, ads or sponsors – just games!

It'll be streamed on Youtube , Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/iii_initiative) and right here on Steam.

You can watch the announcement trailer below, or check out https://iii-initiative.com/ for more information.

That’s all for now, hope to see you at the show, it’s gonna be fun and we’re excited to show you more of what we’ve been cooking for Brotato!

PATCH 1.1.14.2

- Fixed Jellyshield not being categorized as a Pet in the item description.

- Fixed Axolotl not updating after reappearing in the shop.

- Fixed Charmed Pufferfish firing hostile projectiles when dying.

- Fixed the Codex Entities progress bar not counting Pets.

- Fixed the Bot-O-Mine Landmine damage tooltip being incorrect.

- Fixed Stone Skin appearance being displayed even when no appearance option is enabled.

- Fixed typos in some English item descriptions.

Patch-note:

First hotfix since Paws & Claws release! Straightaway, we’ve seen reports of crashes with specific characters and items (Druid, Sick, Blood Donation, etc). We’ve been able to identify the issue thanks to your feedback, and we pushed a fix in this patch.

We also made a fix for the Steam Achievement of the Beast Master not correctly unlocking even after winning a run. It should work normally now.

Again, thank you for all the feedback. We still have some work to do but you’ve been a tremendous help. I want to add a reminder about making sure to unsubscribe to all mods, as they have not been updated yet. Outdated mods can cause crashes, which get mixed-up in the reports with other crashes that have to do with the default build.

Thank you again, keep those reactions coming.

- Fixed several crash causes related to:

              - Taking damage from sources other than hitboxes (Red Fruit, Sick effect, etc.) while Jellyshield is not unlocked.

              - Burning damage from turrets causing a crash when Will-o'-Wisp is not unlocked.

              - Resuming a run started on a previous version of the game with banned items.

- Fixed the Beast Master not unlocking despite all conditions being met.

- Fixed the Steam Beast Master achievement not being properly synchronized depending on the zone in which the run was won.

- Replaced "techniques" with "ingénierie" in the French localization.

- Fixed the ban button not being releasable when getting an item from a crate while the "hold to press" option is enabled.

Hello everyone!

The time has come, the Paws & Claws Update is live!

Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading:

• A new type of item: Pets

• 9 new Pets

• 1 new character, the Beast Master

• QoL & Codex improvements

• 1 New achievement and new Steam Point items

And if you're more of a visual learner, we made a trailer for this update containing this new content in action. And is that.........an animated Brotato???

Technical note: Steam's video embedding is not fully functionable for all. If you don't see a full vide below this text, there should be a small hyperlink instead.

Before getting into the content, an important warning about MODS:

• The game has been updated. Before playing, please make sure to unsubscribe from all out-dated mods.

  Incompatible mods can cause your game to crash and your save data may become corrupted.

  We recommend using only mods that clearly state their compatibility with this version of the game.

  If you have any questions about that, do not hesitate to ask.

So, “Paws & Claws” is out, and if you have no idea what it's about, I'll tell you everything you need to know!

The last update was about improving the game experience while introducing very few new elements. This time however, we’re not holding back and released a new type of item, the Pets.

As you might have guessed, Pets are autonomous, friendly creatures that will fight alongside you. Think of it as a turret with more personality. And more flavorful effects.

And to go with it, we added 1 new character to get the most out of the Pets - the Beast Master!

Now, here’s the extended details with a bunch of explanation and pictures:

9 new Pet items

They gave the name to the update, they are the star of the show! Pets are friendly creatures that will help you fight or survive longer against the hordes of aliens. There are Pets for all types of builds, so you should find your happiness among the 9 new Pets that we are bringing to the game. Pets are new, you might want to highlight them or see less of them when going into your Endless runs. You can change the highlighting and opacity of Pets in the accessibility options.

Like other items, Pets have to be unlocked. Here is the list of the items with their unlock challenges:

To unlock each item:

• Ratzilla: No unlock conditions.

• Bonk Dog: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Melee Damage.

• Catling Gun: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Ranged Damage.

• Bot-O-Mine: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Engineering.

• Blazemander: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Elemental Damage.

• Doc Moth: Reach at least 10 HP Regeneration and +10% Life Steal in the same run.

• Lootworm: Leave at least 20 materials on the ground at the end of a wave.

• Jellyshield: Get hit by 3 enemy projectiles in one wave.

• Scapegoat: Win a run with Beast Master.

New character - the Beast Master

Introducing Pets is all well and good, but we wanted to craft a potato with a special bond with them. That's why we are introducing the Beast Master - our first ever potato made by Evil Empire! This new free character is meant to play around the Pets and unlock their full potential. Try it out now!

To unlock the Beast Master, you must unlock the Bonk Dog, the Catling Gun, the Bot-O-Mine, the Blazemander and the Lootworm.

The idea behind the character is to fight solely with Pets. So, the Beast Master doesn't use weapons and instead uses his wild ways to make his pets super strong!

QoL and Codex additions

New timeline representation on pause menu.

Now, when you pause during a wave, you will see at the bottom of your screen where you stand in terms of waves and upcoming threats! Visually helpful and practical.

Swimming animation in Abyss

If you own the Abyssal Terror DLC, you’ll notice that Brotato does not walk but now swims. Because we figured that what was missing in a game potato with six floating hands was realism.

New info in the Codex

Introduced in the lastest update, New Dawn, the Codex now includes better representation of enemies HP and speed as well as visual of their attack pattern. Because sometimes, images are worth a thousand words. For every change and addition, see the patch note at the end of the post.

New Achievement and Steam Point items

New Achievement

Okay so this was a tricky one. With the arrival of the Beast Master, we made the choice of adding 1 new achievement. We were hesitant at first. But every potato got 1, why not him?

So there you have it, a new achievement unlockable by winning with Beast Master (on any map, base game or DLC)!

New Steam Point items

They are available! We've added new cool items in the Steam point shop!

Get Brotato stickers, animated avatars, animated profile background or customize your Steam Deck with a Brotato intro video!

WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

That's pretty much all for Paws & Claws! The update is out but that doesn't mean it's the end. We still need to know what you think so that we can tweak, tinker and adjust. It's only our second update after all! So don't hold back!

Cheers, Dalloks & the EE team.

PATCHNOTE: Patch 1.1.14.0

Additions:

- Added 9 new items, 1 character and 9 challenges

- Added a timeline showing run events in the pause menu

- Added a Pets and Turrets highlight options

- Added an option to adjust pet transparency

- Added cursed particles to Cursed Landmines

- Added item pop-ups in the solo character selection menu

- Added a feedback sound effect for the Whistle item when a Loot Alien spawns during a wave

- Added schematics for every Elite attack in the Codex

- Added a small description on the retry screen showing how many retries have been used

Balacing:

- Added the Lifesteal restriction group to Bull

- Added Tardigrade and Community Support items to Bull's restricted item list

- Reset LinkedStats for the current player when the "not moving" effect is updated. For example, this allows Dodge gain from Chameleon to properly apply with Retromation's Hoodie.

Fixes:

- Made the Soldier bonus no longer related to movement (Damage and Attack Speed are now static)

- All bosses now drop 10 materials

- Fixed the Clam enemy firing 3 overlapping projectiles instead of 1, which made the Jellyshield unlock trivial

- Fixed Pufferfish projectiles dealing too much damage after being charmed; the damage value is now reset just before firing the projectiles

- Sorting inventory settings are now saved

- Fixed the upgrade screen in co-op

- Fixed the end-of-wave material count when "Optimize End of Waves" is unchecked

- Fixed an issue where controllers with heavy stick drift caused unintended movement when using a keyboard at the same time

- Added a fix for a black screen softlock in the shop when combining/recycling weapons with a controller

- Fixed unlocked item display at the end of a co-op run

- Fixed FocusEmulator errors spamming the logs

- Fixed a player animation issue when moving left at the start of a run in The Abyss

- Fixed the inventory in the pause menu showing padlocks

- Fixed items being shown as padlocks in co-op shop inventories

- Fixed the "Take" button being too large on the Crate screen when the Fairy icon is present

- Fixed new challenges not being unlockable on profiles that had previously used unlock all

- Fixed Steam achievements syncing with challenges, even for "unlock all" profiles

- Added a cooldown before removing a turret when reaching the maximum number of turrets. The turret scheduled for removal cannot fire projectiles during this cooldown, ensuring there are no remaining projectiles when it is removed, as this was causing crashes

- Fixed an issue where some cursed enemies did not have their stats properly boosted.

- Merged console version optimizations in pc version. Calculation previously done in _on_Hurtbox_area_entered(...) is now deferred until the end of the frame. This may affect mods that rely on this behavior.

- Fixed (for real this time) being able to unpause the game while in the Codex

- Added a pop-up message on the main menu title screen when launching a new update for the first time with subscribed mods. It warns players about the risks of using outdated mods.

- Upgraded the Godot Engine version to 3.7 dev-1

- Fixed materials being duplicated when added to the Gold Bag at the end of a wave.

- Fixed some crashes that could occur after launching the game with old saves.

- Made sure LinkedStats are properly updated after taking damage with Saltwater or after picking up a consumable with Druid.

- Made controller button icons responsive in the co-op upgrade screen.

- Fixed focus being lost when entering or quitting the profile menu too quickly.

- Fixed focus being lost when changing tabs in the Stats view while focusing a primary stat.

Hello everyone! We are back with a new beta for our upcoming update: Paws & Claws! Try it out now on the beta branch. Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading:

• A new type of item: Pets

• 8 new Pets

• 1 new character, the Beast Master

• QoL & Codex improvements

Before getting into the content, a word about progress saves:

• When playing on the beta branch, the game will create a parallel progression based on your progress on the default branch.

• If you play on the beta branch, the progress you made will only be recorded on the beta branch

• If you play on the default branch, you progress will only be recorded on the default branch

• At the end of the beta, the progress you made on the beta branch will be lost

If you have any questions about that, do not hesitate to ask. When playing the beta branch, please deactivate and unsubscribe to all mods in the workshop. Outdated mods might cause crashes and corrupted save. To access the beta branch, go to your Library, right click on Brotato and go to "Properties" of your game, then select "Betas". In the “beta participation”, select “beta” in the drop down menu.

So, “Paws & Claws” is available for testing, and the name alone should tell you everything you need to know!

The last update was about improving the game experience while introducing very few new elements. This time however, we’re not holding back and released a new type of item, the Pets.

As you might have guessed, Pets are autonomous, friendly creatures that will fight alongside you. Think of it as a turret with more personality. And more flavorful effects.

And to go with it, we added 1 new character to get the most out of the Pets - the Beast Master!

We should mention that the new content in the beta is only available in English for the moment.

Now, here’s the main dish:

8 new Pet items

Pets are friendly creatures that will help you fight or survive longer against the hordes of aliens. There are Pets for all types of builds, so you should find your happiness among the 8 new Pets that we are bringing to the game.

Like other items, Pets have to be unlocked. Here is the list of the items with their unlock challenges:

To unlock each item:

• Bonk Dog: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Melee Damage.

• Catling Gun: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Ranged Damage.

• Bot-O-Mine: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Engineering.

• Blazemander: Equip at least 6 weapons that scale with Elemental Damage.

• Doc Moth: Reach at least 10 HP Regeneration and +10% Life Steal in the same run.

• Lootworm: Leave at least 20 materials on the ground at the end of a wave.

• Jellyshield: Get hit by 3 enemy projectiles in one wave.

• Scapegoat: Win a run with Beast Master.

New character - the Beast Master

Pets are meant to work individually with different builds. But we thought: why not have 1 character that can get the most out of all of them? That’s the Beast Master for you.

To unlock the Beast Master, you must unlock the Bonk Dog, the Catling Gun, the Bot-O-Mine, the Blazemander and the Lootworm.

The idea behind the character is to fight solely with Pets. So, the Beast Master doesn't use weapons and instead uses his wild ways to make his pets super strong!

It’s our first time crafting a new potato so this might need some fine tuning - that is why we are doing a beta! Try it out and share your thoughts with us.

QoL and Codex additions

New timeline representation on pause menu.

Now, when you pause during a wave, you will see at the bottom of your screen where you stand in terms of waves and upcoming threats! Visually helpful and practical.

Swimming animation in Abyss

If you own the Abyssal Terror DLC, you’ll notice that Brotato does not walk but now swims. Because we figured that what was missing in a game potato with six floating hands was realism.

New info in the Codex

Introduced in the lastest update, New Dawn, the Codex now includes better representation of enemies HP and speed as well as visual of their attack pattern. Because sometimes, images are worth a thousand words. For every change and addition, see the patch note at the end of the post. WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK

Just like last Beta, now is the time to give us your feedback on those new additions! Balancing, bugs, esthetic and so now, give us the full treatment, we’re ready to hear it all. Write on the beta channel of the Discord, in the Steam discussions, wherever you feel is right, we will find you. Cheers, Dalloks & the EE team.

PATCH 1.1.14.0.beta-9 - Added 8 new items, 1 character and 9 challenges - Made the Soldier bonus no longer related to movement (Damage and Attack Speed are now static) - Added Tardigrade and Community Support items to Bull's restricted item list - Added the Lifesteal restriction group to Bull - Added cursed particles to Cursed Landmines - All bosses now drop 10 materials - Sorting inventory settings are now saved - Added item pop-ups in the solo character selection menu - Fixed the upgrade screen in co-op - Fixed the end-of-wave material count when "Optimize End of Waves" is unchecked - Added a timeline showing run events in the pause menu - Added a Pets and Turrets highlight options - Added an option to adjust pet transparency - Added schematics for every Elite attack in the Codex - Fixed an issue where controllers with heavy stick drift caused unintended movement when using a keyboard at the same time - Upgraded the Godot Engine version to 3.7 dev-1

Ho ho ho Brotatoes! We’ve been a bit silent recently but rest assured, we are hard at work!

Holidays are right around the corner and while we are taking a well-earned rest, we will see you back in January with some news about the next update. Might even be a beta, who knows?

And if you need a last minute Christmas gift under the tree, Brotato and its DLC are on sale right now. No pressure tho, it’s just my end of the year bonus at stake. In the meantime, we are wishing you all happy holidays! See you next year!

Dalloks and the EE team.

Hello everyone! It's that time of year again!

Nominations for the Steam Awards are here and you can nominate Brotato in the LABOR OF LOVE CATEGORY!

We hope you're enjoying the continuous support brought to the game by Blobfish Games and the recent addition made by Evil Empire. We know we still have a lot to prove as caretakers of Brotato but that only means there is a lot more coming your way! Thanks a lot for your support! Dalloks & the EE team.

Hello all. New Dawn is out and with it, its new items, new features…and technical problems. Over the last few days, we’ve seen that some of you have experienced crashes and even lost saves (often a consequence of these crashes) - we’re very sorry for anyone who experienced this.

Today we are pushing a hotfix that should prevent any more conflict with older versions of the game and thus prevent crashes and corrupted saves. It also addresses some issues with the UI – full patch notes are at the end of the post. For those already affected by a lost save, we have compiled here some solutions you can try to get your save back:

Before anything else:

• Check if you have any mods on. If you do, disable them as they might cause crashes. You might have to manually unsubscribe in the Workshop.

• If you were playing on the beta, the progress you made on the beta will not carry over to the default version of the game.

If you lost your progress or if the game crashes when you launch it, this is a possible fix:

For Windows:

Hello everyone!

After 2 weeks on the beta branch, the New Dawn Update is going live!

Thanks to everyone who played our first beta session of the game. And a big thank you to the ones who took the time to share feedback. We’ve read all of it (yes, even that one), and we’ve learned a lot.

You’ve somehow managed to lift us up and humble us at the same time — which is a strange combo, but we kind of love it. Now the update’s out, so if we did things right, there’ll be more lifting. And if not, we are ready to be humbled.

PSA: We are sorry about this, but if you had started a run in the previous version then you will need to abandon that run, as the game will crash if you resume it. You may be able to finish it by reverting to the legacy branch. To do this go to the Steam Library page for Brotato, click on the cog/settings image on the right-hand side then Properties > Betas > legacy branch. Then you can come back to the new version once you've finished your run.

Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading:

• 6 new items and 1 new weapon

• Ban system

• Save profiles

• Codex

• Icons in character and item descriptions

• VFX, animation and accessibility tweaks

Behind this title — which might be a bit too presumptuous for its own good — New Dawn actually packs quite a lot of new stuff. We aimed for a solid quality-of-life update, plus a few extra features we felt you wanted.

The beta helped us hunt down a ton of bugs and fine-tune a few new items that… let’s just say weren’t quite ready for prime time.

If you're more a visual learner, we've put everything in a VLOG for you:

Otherwise, read on for the list of new features:

6 New items and 1 new weapon

Even though our focus was QoL, we still wanted this update to have a little bit of meat on it, so we added 6 items and 1 weapon. One item (fresh meat) is already unlocked. The others must be unlocked with an in-game achievement. Here is the list of the items with their challenge:

To unlock each item:

• Fresh Meat: No unlock needed

• Fruit Basket: Collect 100 fruits while at maximum health.

• Candy Bag: Win a run without locking any items in the shop.

• Ghost Outfit: Reach +70% Dodge.

• Will-o'-the-wisp: Kill 30 enemies by burning them in a single wave.

• Hourglass: During the last 5 seconds of a wave after wave 2, press 'Return to Main Menu'. Then press 'Resume' to try the wave again.

Next up is the new weapon:

Vorpal Sword unlock: Reach +100% Crit Chance. Have fun with those and let us know what you think! Now let's move on to the new extras...

Ban system

This is something that we’ve seen wanted by many, so we are introducing a ban system to Brotato! You can now ban up to 8 items in the shop during your run.

To unlock the ban system, you have to win a run in Danger 3 or more.

Once unlocked, the ban system can be toggled on or off in the Run Options. We believe banning items is the way to go and that 8 bans per run is the sweet spot we’re looking for. The ban system was heavily discussed in the beta, but we are still looking forward to knowing what you think about that.

Brotato was always made with trials and errors, and we want to keep it like that, a game constructed in collaboration with its community!

Save profile system

You can now have 3 saves in Brotato. You can copy your progress onto another profile or reset the save. You can also unlock every item, characters, weapons and Danger level on a save (which will deactivate the earning of achievements, you’ll still have to get them the hard way).

This allows you to have a fresh save and keep your old one, copy your ongoing profile to go endless while starting a run 20 on another profile, lend Brotato to your annoying sibling with different track progression, etc. Possibilities are endless (and by endless we mean within the bound of 3 profile slots)!

Codex

The Codex gathers the Progress menu and information’s about Items, Weapons and Enemies.

Think of it as a wiki in the game with additional info like how many times you killed a specific alien and more!

New UI: Icons of stats on characters and items description

We wanted to improve readability and make it faster to associate what items/characters works well with what stats. That way, you can make quicker decisions.

If it’s not to your liking (we spent some time on it but fair enough) this can also be deactivated in the Accessibility menu by turning off "Show effects icons", the choice is yours.

Mac & Linux Support

Already in the works under the Blobfish era, the game now supports Mac and Linux on Steam. Have fun with it!

QoL, VFX, Animation and Accessibility

We’ve added a lot of visual elements that fall into different categories. Now, Chest and LvUp icons are merged when you gain more than 4 during a wave.

We made some tweaks to curse and flames VFX to better set them apart (and we felt it was pretty). Plus, now you can distinguish your cursed turrets from the regular one.

You’ll probably notice it quickly; we’ve added an animation for beginning and end of run. Look at that brotato, landing on hostile ground after his crash! Don’t worry, this animation does not make you lose any time (if speedrun is the kind of thing that gets you going).

Last but clearly not least, we’ve added a bunch of options for you to changes the colors displayed in the game. All of that is in the Accessibility menu. For every change and addition, see the patch note at the end of the post.

THERE YOU HAVE IT

Our first major contribution to Brotato is now in your hands. Play it, tear it apart, break the game and tell us what you think!

Like we mentioned in our Q&A, we did build a “Legacy” branch for those who would like to keep the Brotato version from before any Evil Empire update. Find it under “Properties” of your game in the beta tab.

Cheers, Dalloks and the EE team.

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Patchnote 1.1.13.0

Content - Added 6 items and 1 weapon - Each item has been added to its corresponding ban list: - Fresh Meat → Life steal list - Fruit Basket → Consumable heal list - Will-o'-the-Wisp → Elemental damage list - Ghost Outfit → Dodge list - Added 7 challenges Features - Added an Item Ban System in the shop with 8 ban tokens - Added a Save Profile System with 3 slots - Saves can be reset or copied - All content can be unlocked per slot - Added a Codex Menu - The Progression Menu has been moved into the Codex Menu - Added Item Description tab - Added Enemy Description tab - Added Weapon Description tab Misc - Added sorting options to all inventories (pause menu, shop interface, codex menu, etc.) - Added an option to disable item cosmetics - Added an option to customize bonus and malus colors in descriptions, as well as tier colors - Added an option to switch title screen key art - Added Mac and Linux build support Changes - Banned Piggy Bank and Crown from the item pool after wave 20 - Added Charcoal and Gnome to the Cyborg's banned item list - Made Gobbler unable to be buffed - Added stat icons to character and item descriptions - Added more in-game FX: flames, cursed, and critical damage effects - Added Chest/Upgrade counter (icons merge when you reach crate or level-up milestones in a wave) - Added start and end of run animations - Merged General and Gameplay option menus - Added different visuals for structure spawning - Added responsive controller icons in solo mode - Added button shortcuts to lock or ban an item in the shop, reroll in shop, reroll or ban a crate and reroll upgrades - Made small layout adjustments to the main menu - Added a "Verify Challenge Unlocks" button in gameplay options menu for players who have missing items from unlocked items, even though they completed the challenges linked to those items. And also for players who have unlocked items, even though they haven't completed the corresponding challenges. More Tech-Related More Tech-Related - Changed when burning is applied — it now triggers just before damage is dealt. This makes Will-o'-the-Wisp proc when one-shotting enemies with a burning attack. - Updated Godot version to 3.6.1 and GodotSteam to 3.30 Fixes Fixes - Fixed Japanese Kanji appearing in the Chinese localization - Made blood particles more subtle - Made Trees no longer emit blood particles when hit

Hello all! I know what you’re thinking. These new devs, they work on a beta, not even releasing any updates and they try to sell us some merch? Outrageous. But it turns out, this treat is not from us. Our dear Blobfish Games, benevolent overlords of your humble servant, revered and respected original creators from Brotato, worked with their partners at Fangamer to bring you new merch! That’s right, an official Brotato t-shirt, along with Sticker and Shaker Charm, are now available in the Fangamer EU and US store.

Get yours here if you're in the EU and here for a shipping Worlwide

Look at it. Its gorgeous.

Also gorgeous but in US dollars. And the cherry (potato?) on the cake is that the official plushie is now also available on the EU store for the first time. It protects me in my sleep. Thank you to Blobfish Games and Fangamer, we can't wait to get our greedy hands on all the new stuff. Okay, back to the basement to work on the beta. Cheers, Dalloks from EE

Hello everyone!

For the first time since Evil Empire started working on Brotato, I can proudly say: we have updated the beta branch!

Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading:

• 6 new items and 1 new weapon

• Ban system

• Save profiles

• Codex

• Icons in character and item descriptions

• VFX, animation and accessibility tweaks

To access the beta branch, go to your Library, right click on Brotato and go to "Properties" of your game, then select "Betas". In the “beta participation”, select “beta” in the drop down menu.

So, the “New Dawn” update is yours to test, and in it you’ll find lots of stuff.

The objective was to have a quality-of-life update to start, plus some additional features that we felt the community wanted. A way for us to start working on Brotato by tipping our toe in the water before plunging in headfirst.

We should mention that the new content in the beta is only available in English for the moment.

Before getting into the content, a word about the progress saves:

• When playing on the beta branch, the progress you make will be deleted at the official update release.

• During the beta period, if you switch back to the default branch to play some classic Brotato, the progress you are making will NOT be lost with official update release. Only what you did on the beta branch will be lost.

• The saves files are in the usual place. The beta files are labelled “v3” and are the ones that will be lost with the update release.

If you have any questions about that, do not hesitate to ask.

Right now that's out of the way, here are the main features...

6 new items and 1 new weapon

Even though our focus was QoL, we still wanted this update to have a little bit of meat on it, so we added 6 items and 1 weapon for you to play around with.

One item (fresh meat) is already unlocked. The others must be unlocked with an in-game achievement.

Here is the list of the items with their challenges:

To unlock each item:

• Fresh Meat: No unlock needed

• Fruit Basket: Collect 100 fruits while at maximum health.

• Candy Bag: Win a run without locking any items in the shop.

• Ghost Outfit: Reach +70% Dodge.

• Will-o'-the-wisp: Kill 30 enemies by burning them in a single wave.

• Hourglass: During the last 5 seconds of a wave after wave 2, press 'Return to Main Menu'. Then press 'Resume' to try the wave again.

Next up is the new weapon:

Vorpal Sword unlock: Reach +100% Crit Chance.

Have fun with those and let us know what you think! Now let's move on to the new extras...

Ban system

This is something that we’ve seen wanted by many, so we are taking a shot at a ban system. In the beta, you can now ban up to 8 items in the shop during your run.

To unlock the ban system, you have to win a run in Danger 3 or more.

We’ve decided not to include weapons in the ban. During closed testing, banning weapons resulted in some… incredibly op outcomes, because it gives you more control over the pool of possible options in the shop (3 red weapons by wave 5, hello?).

So we believe banning items is the way to go and we want to test it with you - this is a beta after all! Try it out and tell us what you think :)

Save profile system

You can now have 3 saves in Brotato. You can copy your progress onto another profile or reset the save. You can also unlock every item, characters, weapons and Danger level on a save (which will deactivate the earning of achievements, you’ll still have to get them the hard way).

This allows you to have a fresh save and keep your old one, copy your ongoing profile to go endless while starting a run 20 on another profile, lend Brotato to your annoying sibling with different track progression, etc.

The possibilities are endless (and by endless we mean within the bound of 3 profile slots)!

Codex

The Codex gathers the Progress menu and information about Items, Weapons and Enemies.

Think of it as a wiki in the game with additional info, like how many times you killed a specific alien and more!

We see this as still a work-in-progress, so let us know what stats you'd like to see here.

New UI: Icons of stats on characters and items description

We wanted to improve readability and make it faster to associate what items/characters works well with what stats. That way, you can make quicker decisions.

If it’s not to your liking (we spend some time on it but fair enough) this can also be deactivated in the Accessibility menu by turning off "Show effects icons", the choice is yours.

QoL, VFX, Animation and Accessibility

We’ve added a lot of visual elements that fall into different categories.

Now, Chest and LvUp icons are merged when you gain more than 4 during a wave.

We made some tweaks to curse and flames VFX to better set them apart (and we felt it was pretty). Plus, you can now distinguish your cursed turrets from the regular ones.

You’ll probably notice it quickly; we’ve added an animation for the beginning and end of a run. Look at that brotato, landing on hostile ground after his crash! Don’t worry, this animation does not make you lose any time (if speedrun is the kind of thing that gets you going).

Last but clearly not least, we’ve added a bunch of options for you to change the colors displayed in the game. All of that is in the Accessibility menu.

For every change and addition, see the patch note at the end of the post.

WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK

As to where you should write this feedback: go nuts.

Write on the beta channel of the Discord, in the Steam discussions, wherever you feel is right, we will find you.

We’ll try to have a more structured way of gathering this in the future. But right now, we only want one thing: to know what you think about our first contribution to Brotato!

Cheers, Dalloks & the EE team.

Patchnote 1.1.13.0.beta-10

Content - Added 6 items and 1 weapon

- Each item has been added to its corresponding ban list:

Fresh Meat → Life steal list

Fruit Basket → Consumable heal list

Will-o'-the-Wisp → Elemental damage list

Ghost Outfit → Dodge list

Features

- Added an Item Ban System in the shop with 8 ban tokens

- Added a Save Profile System with 3 slots

- Saves can be reset or copied

- All content can be unlocked per slot

- Added a Codex Menu

- The Progression Menu has been moved into the Codex Menu

- Added Item Description tab

- Added Enemy Description tab

- Added Weapon Description tab

- Added sorting options to all inventories (pause menu, shop interface, codex menu, etc.)

- Added an option to disable item cosmetics

- Added an option to customize bonus and malus colors in descriptions, as well as tier colors

- Added an option to switch title screen key art

- Added Mac and Linux build support (not deployed yet).

- To play on Steam Deck for now, switch to Proton Experimental under Properties > Compatibility

Changes

- Banned Piggy Bank and Crown from the item pool after wave 20

- Added Charcoal and Gnome to the Cyborg's banned item list

- Made Gobbler unable to be buffed

- Added stat icons to character and item descriptions

- Added more in-game FX: flames, cursed, and critical damage effects

- Added Chest/Upgrade counter (icons merge when you reach crate or level-up milestones in a wave)

- Added start and end of run animations

- Merged General and Gameplay option menus

- Added different visuals for structure spawning

- Added responsive controller icons in solo mode

- Added button shortcuts to lock or ban an item in the shop

- Made small layout adjustments to the main menu More Tech-Related

- Changed when burning is applied — it now triggers just before damage is dealt. This makes Will-o'-the-Wisp proc when one-shotting enemies with a burning attack.

Hello everyone!

It’s been one week since we announced that Evil Empire is working with Blobfish Games on the development of Brotato. Since then, we've been busy reading your feedback and reactions everywhere!

Thank you for all the support and for welcoming us on this adventure, but we've also noticed some recurring questions, so we thought we'd answer the ones we've seen the most in the form of a Q&A.

Let's dive into it:

Q – With the plan to continue development, isn’t the game going to be bloated?

Bloating is a concern, and we are exploring solutions. But rest assured, our first solution is mainly to not add a gazillion items and weapons to Brotato. We have more ways of making our contribution to the game and we will show you what we are working on soon™.

Q – Are the new updates coming to consoles and mobiles?

We’ve seen a lot of you wondering about that! The short answer is, yes.

The new things we are coming up with will arrive on all platforms in their own time. But Evil Empire are not doing this "porting" work, we are working with the same external partners the game always had.

Seaven Studio is porting the console version of Brotato and Erabit are working on the mobile version. We are doing for Blobfish Games what they used to do: developing the game, pushing it on PC and then working with partners to push it on other platforms.

Q - So when can we expect to have the new content for other platforms?

We are aiming to have PC and consoles on par in Q1 2026, with new content on both. Mobile needs several months to port content and updates will be split into several small updates.

Keep in mind that the publishing process and constraints are not the same on all those platforms. The console port needs roughly 1 month after the PC release, sometimes more if the content is difficult to adapt like the Switch DLC. And while we are getting everything up to speed in this new collaboration, it might be a bit longer than a 1 month delay.

Q – Are you going to introduce micro transactions or make everything a paid DLC?

Nope! That’s not what we want and not what we are going to do. The plan is to do free updates and have a paid DLC every so often, much like what Blobfish Games did so far. Only we plan to have more free updates, more often.

Q- What if I liked the game the way it was before?

For the people who wish to keep the same experience with the game, we have added on Steam a “Legacy” branch.

You can find this branch by clicking on the cog icon in the top right of Brotato's Library page, then Properties > Betas and select it in the dropdown menu. This allows you to roll back to the previous version of the game, before the updates from Evil Empire.

Q – Won’t updating the game break the mods?

We plan to stay in touch with modders and anticipate updates as much as we can. But if mods are not updated by their creators, some might only work by playing on the Legacy branch.

However, we do want the game to be mod friendly and will do everything that we can to make the life of modders easier (we’re using some mods ourselves!).

Q - Have you bought Brotato?

No! We are working for Blobfish games and everything we do goes through their approval.

Q – So when can we expect some new things?

Very soon actually (and we mean SOON soon)! A public beta for the next update will be available for Steam players in the coming weeks and console players can expect updates before Christmas. Follow development on the Brotato official Discord and Evil Empire socials. Stay tuned!

If you have more question for us, ask them in the comments and on the Steam Discussions! Cheers, Dalloks and the EE team.

Hello everyone, 

Something is happening to Brotato in the next few months – so what’s going on?  

Well, what’s going on is that Evil Empire (that’s us) are taking over the development of Brotato – while remaining under the watchful, beady, fishy eyes of Blobfish Games of course. 

Its face haunts my dreams… 

Why is this happening? 

The Blobfish Games team would love to continue updating Brotato until the end of time so that you can keep slaughtering aliens in increasingly absurd ways. But, they are also humans with their own hopes and dreams, and they want to make some new games after spending years on Brotato. 

However, they didn’t want to leave the game in the dust, and we’re huge Brotato fans, so we proposed to keep it going!

This way you get more cool stuff to play with from us, while Blobfish Games gets to experiment in their game laboratory to bring you even more cool new stuff in the future. Everyone’s happy. 

Who are we? 

Whassup 

Evil Empire was created to work on updates and DLC for another action roguelike you might have heard of, Dead Cells, and we did that happily for 4 glorious pixel blood-soaked years.

We then made our own action roguelike, The Rogue Prince of Persia, which just released into 1.0 after 15 months in Early Access.

So yeah, we live and breathe roguelikes, and we’ve got over 6 years of ‘live ops’ experience that can be put to good use on a game that we love – Brotato. 

What’s the plan, Stan? 

We have tons of our own ideas for the future of the game, plus we’ve already spoken with some community members, and the first small update will arrive in late October. 

But, what we’ve learned is that the best content comes when we work with as many players as possible to collect ideas and to fine-tune our own.

So we’ll start sharing some broad ideas with you soon to get your feedback – stay tuned on Discord, reddit etc to keep up to date on minor news, and of course we’ll send out one of these Steam posts for major things (social media links are at the end of the post).

However, we couldn’t resist already adding a little something in-game to mark this occasion. 

Look at this little cutie pie 

The Gobbler alien has emerged to gobble up all the materials you carelessly leave lying around so it can grow big and strong. Show it why this is a bad idea. 

Oh and if you’re lucky you might also stumble upon a new Evil Empire themed legendary item… 

Check out the end of the post to see the full patchnote.

So how will this work?   

You'll receive more content for the game, more often. Simple.  

This content will come through regular updates (and betas of updates), plus we’ll also be doing other things like quality-of-life additions, various improvements and bug fixes. Maybe even a DLC… 

Before you say it - we’re aware that too much content can bloat a roguelike, so don’t worry, we’ll be considering each addition carefully. 

In any case, everything we do will be under the supervision of Blobfish Games, so that Brotato doesn’t lose what makes it unique.

That’s about it, we’re excited to see where this goes and can’t wait to get stuck into it with you all! 

  Keep up the good fight Brotatos and we’ll be back soon. 

Cheers,  Evil Empire & Blobfish Games Follow Evil Empire here: X, Bluesky, Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, WhatsApp

Patch 1.1.12.0

Content

- Added the Gobbler enemy that steals materials

- Added the Gobbler's Hat item + its challenge to unlock it

Fixes

- Fixed challenges being duplicated when using retry-wave

- Fixed Burning Spread stat and Damage against bosses translation in Simplified Chinese

- Fixed Giant Belt description in Simplified Chinese

- Fixed German translation for the Padding item

- Increased precision of stat gains. Getting 5 Harvesting with 80% reduced Harvesting gain now correctly results in 1 Harvesting

- Updated to Godot version 3.6.1

• High knockback values no longer lead to enemies being able to be knocked outside the level
• Fixed a bug with Mirrors that caused wrong item prices if cursed and non cursed version are being used to duplicate an item
• The Retry Wave option now lets you retry on endless waves
• Crates now take into account previous items received from the same crate to avoid exceeding item limits when having Treasure Maps or Pearls
• Buffed landmines now have their explosions size reduced back to the initial value on buff expiry
• Fixed a bug that showed wrong Tooltips for certain kind of effects. For example, Streamer holding 40 Materials had a tooltip of -2 Speed but the stats showed the correct value of -1. Now the stats screen and the tooltip should always show the same value.
• Fixed a bug that the damage penalty for duplicate weapons was not removed when recycling the weapon as Curious
• Fixed a bug that lead to wrong turret numbers when continuing a run with a Wrench II
• The projectile effects from "Baby with a Beard" and "Alien Eyes" did not take cursed and non cursed items into account. The projectiles dealt the damage of the first item bought, reusing the damage calculation for all other items to save resources. Now the damage is merged together from multiple items. So if you have a normal "Baby with a Beard" dealing 100% Ranged Damage and a cursed one dealing 150% Ranged Damage, both projetiles deal 125% Ranged Damage now.
• Optimize the Steam integration to better handle communication issues between Steam and Brotato. This should bring more stability for people with outdated or faulty Steam installations.
• Unified behavior of gaining Max HP in a wave. Before, certain effects did give Max HP and healed for that amount (level ups, Extra Stomach) and others did only give additional Max HP (Hiker, Padding). Now, anytime Max HP is increased during a wave, the current health is increased by this amount as well. This is not considered healing, but an increase to the health pool and will not trigger healing effects like the one from Lich.
• Remove Plank as a starting weapon from Chef
• Change Turkish translation of Saver from "Kurtarıcı" to "Biriktirici"
• Change Korean translation for the dodge stat upgrade called "Back" from "뒤로" to "등"
• Optimized clean up and movement calculations for projectiles
• During specific events in a wave (e.g. Gain Attack Speed for living enemies on Community Support) all weapons and structures are recalculated to match the current player stats. Instead of doing these calculations in 1 frame, they are now spread out over multiple frames to reduce lag spikes.

HOTFIX 1.1.11.1

• Update Spanish translation for Small Magazine from "Carregador Pequeno" to "Cargador Pequeno"
• Update Japanese translation for the Pinguin item to include the "until end of wave" aspect of the effect
• Spoon IV: Max HP Scaling 25% => 30%. Usually weapons have an increased scaling with higher tiers but that was missing for the Spoon IV.
• The wave timer once again shows the remaining seconds of a wave instead of reseting to 0 when failing a wave.
• Fixed a bug that weapons targeted recently deceased enemies.
• Fixed a bug that Demon's health bar did not reflect the additional HP gained at the end of a wave.

HOTFIX 1.1.11.2

• Improve Barbecue challenge to more reliably detect when 25 enemies are burning
• Continuing a Run with a Particle Accelerator could show that it has Bounces. This is a bug since Particle Accelerator can not bounce at all and it will no longer show up now.

HOTFIX 1.1.11.3

• Fixed a bug that the increased burn spread from Snake did not affect the burn from Scared Sausage

• Major overhaul of the Japanese translations. Big thanks to the community member Azure for providing the improvements
• Coral no longer "saves up" health regen when moving around and healing for several HP when standing still
• Being buffed by a charmed Buffer during the end of a wave resulted in negative stats during the next wave. Now the stats are correctly reset as expected.
• Converted stats are now correctly reset when retrying a wave as Cyborg
• Fixed a wrong ranged damage scaling value for Laser Gun IV. Reverted back to 600% as it was in version 1.0
• Charmed enemies can no longer be damaged by "Deal damage to random enemy" effects from Lucky, Cyberball and other sources of similar effects
• Projectiles and enemies are now reused during waves to increase performance
• Optimize input handling and the HUD during waves for better performance
• Optimized the logic for taking damage of enemies and players

HOTFIX 1.1.10.1

• Fixed a bug that crashed the game when combining a weapon in Coop mode

HOTFIX 1.1.10.2

• There was a chance that an enemy appeared invisible when being respawned. This is now fixed.
• Ensure controller inputs are enabled when entering the shop

HOTFIX 1.1.10.3

• Fixed some changes to the code which broke a lot of mods. Some should be back to working as expected again.

HOTFIX 1.1.10.4

• Enemies which were respawned could not be cursed. Now it works as expected again.

HOTFIX 1.1.10.5

• Fixed a bug that Pufferfish and other shooting enemies sometimes did not fire all their projectiles
• The builder turret was not correctly set up during spawning. This resulted in low attack speed until the next time the turrets stats were recalculated.

HOTFIX 1.1.10.6

• Projectiles from enemies that deal damage after a delay (slash and pillar projectiles) could deal damage during the initial frame that they were spawned. This resulted in Bosses like Invoker dealing instant unavoidable damage to the player. This is now fixed.
• Opening the pause menu in coop resulted in analog sticks no longer being able to select crate rewards/level ups. The sticks should now be correctly enabled again on leaving the pause menu.
• Cursed Stargazers now receive the buffed outline again if their Iron Lung is being destroyed

HOTFIX 1.1.10.7

• Killing the Eel boss to fast resulted in the orbiting projectiles from the last mutation being invisible and persisting after its death. This lead to randomly taking damage without being able to see the source of it. Now the boss is properly cleaned up upon death.

HOTFIX 1.1.10.8

• If a charmed Stargazer enters a charmed Iron Lung and that Iron Lung is later resued, it was no longer attacked by auto aim
• Stargazers could get angry several times in certain conditions resulting in a overbuffed Stargazer chasing the player down. Now the getting angry is only able to happen once.

HOTFIX 1.1.10.9

• Fireball projectiles were not correctly hidden upon hitting an enemy or reaching its max range. Now their visuals are behaving correctly again.