Brotato has no business being as fun and addictive as it is. Yes, I’m late to the party on this one. A friend recommended this title to me after I’d wasted enough of my tired evenings playing Vampire Survivors. Thinking nothing of this seemingly harmless title, I began my spuddy adventure. Is it even a potato I’m playing as? Is this called Brotato for the potato gun and such? I’ve got no idea.
In Brotato you have a laundry list of different character classes you can play as, each with their own quirky layouts. Some completely flip the game like having your character explode when they run into enemies, but they have amazing health regen. Others, you just have more weapons, or even just basic base stats. It’s all over the place.
The game itself is an arena roguelike where you’ll be buying new gear at the end of each round with materials. The sheer volume of ways to mess with your stats is staggering. From weapons to load up on, to different mods that bump your stats while nerfing others. There’s even neat things like a piggy bank that gives you an interest boost on your collected materials you don’t spend between rounds.
Your main goal is to decimate your enemies and reach round 20. Unless you’re insane like me and turn on endless mode that lets you just keep going. Which is something I love to do. Games like Level Up Forever, and Vampire Survivors always caught me because you can just keep going. I haven’t really topped out yet on Brotato though. I’ve only made it to a modest round 30 or 40.
The experience is fun enough that I’ve completed many of the characters, which in turn unlocks more goodies and characters to play as. The selection screen literally looks like a character select from a Lego game. Many rows with tons of characters across each. There’s even an “Old” character that just has a shrunken map to basically play on one screen like us old school retro gamers are used to.
There’s so much packed in here and for the incredibly tiny price tag, it’s ridiculously worthwhile. It’s just a good game to unwind to. If you’re looking for a game to lose hours to, this is the one to just dive into and mess around in.
