From Evil Empire:
he “New Dawn” update is the first new content update for Brotato since late 2024 and focuses on extensive quality of life changes - including an all-new ban system. Though, in true Evil Empire fashion, players will also find new items and a new weapon in there, too.
To mark the occasion, the Evil Empire developers released a video overview today that showcases a lot of the new updates in action, as well as explaining how to get them:
New Items
Leading the update are six new items which include Fresh Meat, Fruit Basket, Candy Bag, Ghost Outfit, Will - o’ - Wisp and Hourglass - all of which provide various benefits to players skillsets and strengths while they take on wave after wave of gross little aliens.
New Weapon
Also joining the fray is a new weapon fans can wield if they so choose, the Vorpal Sword, which alternates between thrusting and sweeping attacks and grants players the ability to one-shot an enemy for the first time.
Ban System
Additional extras in today’s update includes the Ban system, a much-requested community feature that will allow players to ban up to eight items during a run. Win a run in Danger 3 or more to unlock the Ban system. Note: the Ban system does not include weapons.
New Saves
The New Dawn update also introduces three new save slots which gives players the option to copy progress onto another profile (or reset the save). Unlocking every item, character, weapon and Danger level on a save will deactivate the earning of achievements, so use with caution as you will still have to earn them the hard way.
Codex
The Codex introduces a new wiki-esque feature to the game, with information about Items, Weapons and Enemies (e.g. - How many times you killed a specific alien, etc). Evil Empire plans to continue to build this feature out based on player feedback.
A longer and fully detailed list of updates, including important VFX changes that allow players to adjust the colors for the game, can be found here.
Oh and one more thing: Brotato is now supported on Mac and Linux, yay!
