Brotato - Systems
Brotato is a wave-based survivor roguelite: twenty short waves of escalating spawns, a shop between each one, and a stat sheet that the player shapes with level-up choices and passive items. The systems below are the loop in order, from the wave timer to the merging economy, the difficulty ladder an...
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| Name | Type | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty-Wave Run Structure | Core loop | A run is twenty timed waves, each lasting under a minute early on and filling with more spawns as the counter climbs. | Core game loop |
| Character Stat Sheet | Progression | Every potato is described by the same stat sheet: Max HP, HP Regen, Life Steal, Damage, Melee Damage, Ranged Damage, Elemental Damage, Attack Speed, Crit Chance, Engineering, Range, Armor, Dodge, Speed, Luck, Harvesting and Pickup Range. | Core game loop |
| Level Ups and Upgrade Choices | Progression | Killing enemies earns experience, and each level-up offers a choice of stat upgrades, with four options presented and one taken. | Core game loop |
| Shop, Materials and Rerolls | Economy | Materials are the currency, earned from kills, crates and destructible props, and spent in the between-wave shop on weapons and passive items. | Core game loop |
| Weapon Merging and Tiers | Itemization | Weapons come in four tiers, and holding two copies of the same weapon at the same tier combines them into the next tier, which is the only way to keep damage relevant in the later waves. | Core game loop |
| Weapon Slots | Loadout | Most characters hold six weapons, and the slot count is the main constraint on a build because every slot is also a merge target. | Core game loop |
| Passive Items and Tags | Itemization | Passive items carry tags such as ranged, melee, elemental, engineering, luck or harvesting, and many effects key off those tags, so a build is really a tag cluster rather than a list of good items. | Core game loop |
| Danger Levels | Difficulty | Danger levels run from zero upward, each adding modifiers that make enemies tougher and the economy tighter, and clearing the higher tiers is how the harder character and item unlocks are earned. | Core game loop |
| Character Unlock Challenges | Meta progression | Most of the roster is locked behind a specific challenge, usually clearing a run or reaching a milestone with another character, and several items unlock the same way. | Meta progression |
| Endless Mode | Post-game | After the twentieth wave a run can continue into scaling waves that keep raising enemy health and density, which is where absurd stat-stacked builds get tested. | Post-run mode |
| Evolution (Mecha and Mutation) | Primal Dread system | Primal Dread's signature system: drops collected during a Jungle run push the build down one of two Evolution paths. | Primal Dread expansion |
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