Brotato

Feb 2, 2024

It isn’t just veterans of the genre that’ll love this game either. Anyone interested and looking for their first foray into the genre should absolutely consider this as a first pick. The lack of meta progression means less grinding and more time spent on learning the mechanics that’ll translate into other games. The only people who shouldn’t play Brotato are those who hate the genre for whatever reason.

Feb 7, 2024

It aims to do a single thing, which is being a deep and addictive round-based bullet heaven shooter, with a ludicrous amount of items, weapons and upgrades that allow for quite literally infinite builds. It may lack the variety of Vampire Survivors, the production values of Soulstone Survivors and so on, but Brotato’s short-burst rushes of adrenaline make it one hell of a game anyway.

Aug 16, 2023

Combining dodge-em-up style with roguelike weapon and character variability makes it distinct, though in execution it’s merely middling Sometimes timing is everything, and in the case of Brotato skirting into the eShop right ahead of Vampire Survivors at least it has that on its side… though obviously by precious little.

Jun 23, 2023

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Jun 23, 2023

While it has all the hallmarks of the popular entries in the genre, Brotato fails to capture the same magic and overwhelming threat of previous action-roguelike titles. There are moments when the action is fun, unfortunately it largely becomes a bore when you spend too much time with it. Try Hard Guides was provided with a PC review copy of Brotato.

Jun 26, 2023

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