Brotato arrived on Game Pass today, so you too can enjoy creating problems in your life.
But what if glory?
Brotato is a wave-survival shoot ‘em up where aiming and attacking are handled for you.
Defeated enemies drop green blobs which are both XP and money.
As you’d expect from a shmup-ish game, a lot of skill is in dodging and prioritising targets.
Some have neat tricks like sparking chain lightning or giving you permanent stat boosts every so many kills.
Another little problem to solve every second.
Grab enough globs by performing this violence and you’ll level up, immediately gaining a hit point.
After any end-of-round business, you’re off to the shop.
Much of Brotato’s skill is in savvy shopping.
The shop is familiar from autobattlers.
you could freeze items so they stick around through rerolls too.
More damage but less attack range.
An autonomous sentry turret.
Make enemies launch a bullet when they die, at heavy cost to your range stat.
A chance to heal when you dodge an attack.
More crit chance but less armour.
A chance to make enemies explode upon death.
Oh, I do like explosions.
To me, Brotato is best at its higher difficulty levels.
Here, surviving a wave is not enough.
To have any chance in later waves, you must take risks to thrive.
Dive deeper into waves.
Delay building a defence as long as you dare.
Walk on the razor’s edge and earn every win.
Do you buy this okay item or spend cash rerolling to fish for something more impactful?
Pick this solid defensive stat at level-up or dare to take that damage stat?
Is it too late to refocus your build around this phenomenal item you just found?
Will this item boosting enemy spawn rates give you more fodder to farm or overwhelm you?
When you’re lagging behind and desperately need to accelerate your run, can you afford not to try?
All of your decisions can change entirely based on which of the 44 characters you’re playing.
The Soldier, which only attacks when standing still.
The Pacifist, earning cash and XP by not killing enemies.
The Weapons Dealer, losing its weapons every round and buying a whole new arsenal at discount.
The Lich, which hurts a random enemy every time it heals.
The Demon, spending health to buy items.
I feel very clever hitting upon run-specific combos and tricks like this.
You don’t think this, you just know it.
And all that was only two seconds of play.
This hectic game becomes blissful.
Alright, for my own good, I’m off to uninstall Brotato again.
hey play so I can live vicariously.
It’s now availablethrough PC Game Pass, and of course still soldon Steam.
