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Brotato: The Ultimate Potato Survivor

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Brotato is being added to the list to the ever so growing list of Survivor Games. This new Top-down isometric view roguelike survivor game is the newest kid on the block in the mobile world and my first impressions here is based on the mobile variant.

Each Brotato has different stats and there’s well over 20 to unlock (and the game is in early access so expect more to come). You are dropped into a square arena and you’ll be asked to survive 20 waves of enemies that last from 15 to 90 seconds each. Brotato has a lot of stats and there are all important. Health, and replenishment from stealing enemy life or health regen are important but focusing on health obviously means less chance to improve damage. You have melee, ranged and elemental damage alongside your base damage and often improving one area reduces your power in another. Increase attack speed and that’ll often reduce down something else like your range of attack. Armor and dodge alongside actual Brotato movement speed means you can build out your character to be fast and slippery. Harvesting and Engineering can help you collect more cash for upgrades of trees for upgrade drops. All of these stats you can see move around every time you level up, unlock a perk or buy an item, passive ability or weapon.

My entire run was easy but the difficulty did creep up on me in the later waves as the enemies definitely got massively stronger. The XP that you get is these green rocks that does look like money to me but every kill grants you a certain amount of xp which we use to buy our arsenal and skills to help us survive.

Most Brotato’s can have six weapons and each weapon will have various stats, bonuses and draw backs. As your shop is randomized you’ll choose what to buy with what you’ve been given or reroll at a cost for four more options. Two level 1 shotguns can be bought and combined to produce a level 2 shotgun. Of course, this momentarily takes up 2 weapon slots so you are always balancing how to upgrade something verses being full loaded. As weapons are upgraded they aren’t only more powerful but their bonuses become more powerful too. Some might add extra fire damage, additional luck, more XP gain or additional turrets.

My time playing brotato was a blast and if you're attempting to add another survivor game to your arsenal. it has plenty of replayablity due to all the quirky wasy you can utilize the brotatos.

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