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Brotato (Blobfish)

Brotato is an arcade survivors-like: in short ~20-second waves you fight off hordes of monsters with six weapons at once, and between waves you spend the gold you earned in a…

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Geo Lyon, France → Zurich, Switzerland (studio) [fact]; players are global (Steam + mobile + consoles); the largest language groups among reviews are Simplified Chinese, English, German, Russian [estimate, not reconfirmed]

Founders Thomas Gervraud ("Blobfish") [fact]

Domains store.steampowered.com/app/1942280 · blobfishgames.com · blobfish.dev · blobfishdev.itch.io

Score solo-game-hit content case; a member of the survivors-like cluster around vampire-survivors, a manual pick, not through the catalog's automated scoring

Growth tactics (teaser)

A double Steam demo festival (Going Rogue + Next Fest, May–June 2022) → 40K wishlists before EA, with no ad budget [fact]
A design without passive power scaling (unlike VS) kept the difficulty up across the whole run → removed the "just a clone" risk [estimate]
A 40% Scream Fest discount (Oct. 2024) → +14 positions in the Steam Deck Most Played chart, overtaking Diablo IV/Elden Ring [fact]
Dual-SKU mobile (a free ad/IAP version + a paid premium version) instead of a single freemium model [fact]

🔒 Full dossier

Launch timeline, metrics, the growth mechanics taken apart and checkable sources — sent to your email after payment, as a .md attachment. The dossier itself is written in Russian; this page and the catalog are the English part.

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