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Brotato

Brotato is a 2023 top-down survivor roguelite created by French developer Thomas Gervraud under the Blobfish label, and the game that helped define the wave-based bullet-heaven format on PC. A lone potato crash-lands on an alien world and has to survive twenty short waves of escalating spawns, shopping between waves for weapons and passive items and shaping a stat sheet through level-up choices. Its hook is the weapon economy: weapons come in four tiers and merge when duplicates are combined, so the roster of sixty-plus characters is really a set of different constraints on the same merge puzzle. The base game has been expanded twice, by Abyssal Terrors in 2024 and by Primal Dread in November 2026, and Evil Empire has co-developed the game with Blobfish since 2025.

• Twenty-Wave Runs — Each run is twenty timed waves under a minute long that escalate in spawn density, with elite and boss waves at fixed points and a boss closing out the run, which keeps a full attempt short enough to replay immediately.
• Weapon Merging and Four Tiers — Two copies of the same weapon at the same tier combine into the next tier, so the shop is a merge puzzle and a build's power is largely a question of how efficiently the player converts duplicate drops into higher tiers.
• Six Weapon Slots and Character Exceptions — Most characters hold six weapons, and exceptions such as One Armed (one slot) and Multitasker (twelve slots) rewrite the loadout rule entirely, which is how a shared weapon pool still produces distinct runs.
• Stat Sheet and Level-Up Upgrades — Max HP, HP Regen, Life Steal, Damage, Melee, Ranged and Elemental Damage, Attack Speed, Crit Chance, Engineering, Range, Armor, Dodge, Speed, Luck, Harvesting and Pickup Range are all stackable, and each level-up offers four upgrades to choose from.
• Shop, Materials, Rerolls and Locks — Materials earned from kills, crates and destroyed props buy weapons and items between waves, and rerolls and locks let a patient player fish for the copy needed to complete a merge.
• Sixty-Plus Character Roster — Each potato is a set of modifiers and one signature rule unlocked by a challenge, from the plain Well-Rounded and Ranger frames to gimmicks like the randomised Mutant, the single-slot One Armed and the contact-damage Bull.
• Danger Levels and Unlocks — The optional difficulty ladder adds enemy health and economy pressure, and clearing higher tiers is how the harder characters and items are unlocked, which is the game's real long-term progression.
• Abyssal Terrors (2024) — The first expansion replaced the Crash Zone with the deep-sea Abyss map, adding its own waves, elites, bosses, characters, weapons and items built as a harder alternative to the base run.
• Primal Dread (2026) — The second expansion added The Jungle map with twenty new waves of dinosaurs, ten new characters, seventeen new weapons and forty new items, plus the Evolution stat: Mecha upgrades weapons with mecha parts while Mutation mutates items so their effects copy and amplify.