# Brotato The All Pain No Gain update is available now! - Product: Brotato (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/brotato) - Vendor: Blobfish - Date: 2026-05-12 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1942280/view/672867776636912252 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/brotato/releases/2026-05-12-the-all-pain-no-gain-update-is-available-now What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add Nightmare difficulty level above Danger 5 - **added** — Add environmental projectiles event in Nightmare difficulty where bullets fly across the map during waves - **added** — Add Fog event in Nightmare difficulty that darkens parts of the map during waves - **added** — Add new Crash Zone enemies for Nightmare difficulty: Horned Spitter, Corrupted Buffer, Horned Fly, Bloated Spawner, Dire Junkie, Infected Slasher Egg, and Mad Slasher - **added** — Add new Abyss enemies for Nightmare difficulty: Bloated Pufferfish, Brainy Squid, Cool Walrus, Firemane Anemone, Infected Blobfish, Scaled Stargazer, Spiky Lung, Mad Dragonfish, Scaled Goblin Shark, and Scaled Diplocaulus - **added** — Add new character the Wounded with high Harvesting and Speed but dies in 1 hit and starts with a Tardigrade - **added** — Add new weapon the Rail Gun that grows stronger during a wave if you avoid damage - **added** — Add accessibility option to disable environmental projectiles or enable them on every wave in Nightmare difficulty - **added** — Add Random map selection option for Abyssal Terrors DLC owners to randomly choose between Crash Zone and Abyss - **added** — Add death recap feature to show what enemy killed you - **added** — Add two new achievements for winning with Wounded and winning on Nightmare difficulty - **changed** — Apply balancing buffs to old weapons Hello everyone! All Pain No Gain is here! And let me tell you, it's not for the faint of heart. Before going into what's new about the update, a quick reminder if you missed it, **we announced a new DLC for Brotato coming later this year! You can already add the DLC to your wishlist here:** Now back to the serious stuff! Here's a TLDR of the content, for full details keep reading: - A new difficulty level, Nightmare - New enemies exclusive to Nightmare - 1 new character, the Wounded - 1 new weapon, the Rail Gun - Balancing and small improvements - 2 New achievements And if you're more of a visual learner, we made a devlog for this update, with all the content narrated to you. ##### **Before getting into the content, an important warning about MODS:** - The game has been updated. Before playing, please make sure to unsubscribe from all out-dated mods. **Incompatible mods can cause your game to crash and your save data may become corrupted.** We recommend using only mods that clearly state their compatibility with this version of the game. If you have any questions about that, do not hesitate to ask. So, All Pain No Gain is live and its here to heat things up. We've seen that Danger 5, the highest difficulty of the game, was often regarded as the default way to play Brotato. So we thought the game was ready to receive a difficulty that offers a MUCH tougher challenge, and we humbly obliged... Let's get into it! ##### Nightmare difficulty If the name of the new mode wasn't enough of a clue, let me tell you that this is something far above Danger 5. Be prepared to lose over and over - All Pain, No Gain is the update name for a good reason. Nightmare turns the numbers up. Enemies do more damage, have more health and are even faster than Danger 5. You'll also see some new enemies and new timeline events. To know more about those, keep reading! To make sure you have what it takes to face this challenge, Nightmare difficulty is unlocked after 10 wins in Danger 5 on different characters (or on different maps if you own Abyssal Terrors DLC). If you already have the 10 wins, you don't have to do more, Nightmare will opens its harsh embrace to you! But what makes Nightmare so dangerous? Well, there's a couple of new things you'll need to watch out for. ##### Environmental projectiles In Nightmare Difficulty, you'll sometimes have a special event, like Hordes and Elites. This is the environmental projectiles, where bullets are flying over the map for the duration of the wave. The arrow shape of the bullets should give you an idea of the path they're taking but stay on your toes and study the patterns! And for more customization, if the environmental projectiles are too much for you or if you want more of them, we added an option to turn them off completely or have them on every wave. Your choice! Find it in the Accessibility options. ##### The Fog Another event that will spice things up is the Fog. This will put some part of the map in the dark during a wave. Light will persist around you but the rest is in the dark, although your structures and pets will also light up. Oh and fire will definitely be useful here… ##### New enemies Tougher difficulty also means tougher enemies! We are introducing a batch of buffed up enemies based on existing foes. They are meaner, badder and more dangerous. But they will also feel like novelty before slashing you into bits. New enemies in Nightmare - Crash Zone - Horned Spitter - Corrupted buffer - Horned fly - Bloated spawner - Dire junkie - Infected slasher egg - Mad slasher New enemies in Nightmare - Abyss - Bloated pufferfish - Brainy squid - Cool walrus - Firemane anemone - Infected blobfish - Scaled stargazer - Spiky lung - Mad dragonfish - Scaled goblin shark - Scaled diplocaulus ##### New character, the Wounded Beating Nightmare will prove you're one of the best (or most stubborn). And to show the world you're the best of the best, you'll unlock a _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1942280/view/672867776636912252]_