Brotato is one of my favorite games to play on the Steam Deck, but it has gotten a bit stale due to a lack of updates. Well, that’s changing because developer Evil Empire is taking over support for the title, and its first update is now live. If you haven’t heard of Evil Empire, it’s the team behind this year’s The Rogue Prince of Persia, and it handled Dead Cells’ post-launch support with more than 25 updates and DLC. It’s now taking over support for Blobfish Games’ Brotato, and today’s New Dawn update is the first content update for Brotato since late 2024. We’re really happy to hear that Evil Empire will continue to deliver updates for Brotato under the watchful eye of Blobfish.
The New Dawn update includes six new items, one new weapon, a ban system, save profiles, a Codex, and icons in character and item descriptions, as well as various tweaks to VFX, animation, and accessibility. Of the six new items, fresh meat is unlocked by default, while the remaining five must be unlocked with an in-game achievement. The new weapon is the Vorpal Sword, which is unlocked after reaching 100 percent crit chance. I’m most excited about the ban system, which allows players to choose up to eight items to ban from the shop during a run. Anyone who plays these types of games knows how important a ban system is in order to increase the odds of putting together the build you want. To access the ban system, players will have to win a run on Danger 3 or higher.
Evil Empire has also added the ability to have three different save profiles, along with options to copy and reset saves. The Codex is a new hub that’s basically an in-game wiki that includes personal statistics and information on items, weapons, and enemies. Players will also find a new toggle in the Accessibility menu for “Show effects icons.” The icons are designed to improve readability and make it faster to associate which items and characters work well with certain stats. Evil Empire also confirmed Mac and Linux support, which was already in the works under the Blobfish era.
For Brotato veterans, today’s a great day to return if you haven’t played in a while. I’m looking forward to taking a break from Megabonk to return to Brotato with today’s New Dawn update.
Brotato: Our First Update!!! New Dawn Update Devlog
Brotato 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
