Blobfish is a small independent studio, and Brotato is their top-down arena shooter roguelite in which a potato—sole survivor of a crashed spaceship—fights off waves of aliens while wielding up to six weapons simultaneously. The game released on June 23, 2023, after a period in early access, and has remained free to play on Steam.
Each run is structured around discrete waves lasting between twenty and ninety seconds. Killing aliens drops materials that serve as experience, and between waves players visit a shop to purchase items and weapons that reshape their build. The weapon variety spans flamethrowers, SMGs, rocket launchers, and improvised tools like sticks and stones, and because six can be equipped at once, combinations grow complex quickly. Weapons fire automatically by default, though manual aiming is available, keeping moment-to-moment movement and positioning as the primary skill expression rather than aim.
Character selection is where runs diverge most sharply. Dozens of unlockable characters each impose different constraints or advantages—one-handed builds, luck-weighted item pools, mage archetypes, and others—which force players to construct builds around a fixed premise rather than optimizing freely. Hundreds of items interact with these character modifiers, and the interplay between a character’s passive traits and the shop’s random offerings is the central variable across runs. Runs are designed to complete in under thirty minutes, and local co-op supports up to four players. Difficulty can be adjusted by tuning enemy health, damage, and speed independently, giving players precise control over challenge.
Blobfish has maintained an active update cadence well past release. Major named updates have included Paws & Claws, which arrived in February 2026 after an open beta, and All Pain No Gain, which launched in May 2026 following its own beta period. A paid DLC called Primal Dread was revealed in April 2026, accumulated over one hundred thousand wishlists before its formal teaser in July 2026, and represents the studio’s first announced expansion to the base game. Patch maintenance has been continuous throughout, with multiple numbered patches following each named update.
What separates Brotato from most entries in the genre is the six-weapon slot: synergies between weapon types—area denial, projectile, melee—stack in the same build, and items that buff specific weapon categories create cascading interactions rather than a single scaling vector.
