Brotato
BANGER · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $0.88/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 128MB, OpenGL 3+, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
October 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 35 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vampire Survivors ($4.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Greedland ($5.19, scores 60).
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 6,047 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 67, 12 times as much.
Still 6.4K concurrent players, 3 years in.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
96% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
6,389 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
So, a year ago I started a pretty serious fitness journey, and I hate cardio. I ended up getting a Nvidia Shield on my tv in the garage, to run my PC remote, and put my exercise bike out there with the TV. Now each day I have played a crap load of this while mindlessly biking for 1-2 hours each day. The game has become part of my fitness journey, made cardio suck less keeping myself distracted and turned gaming into...
I gave a potato six weapons. It died. So I gave another potato six weapons. It also died. I now understand game design.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Brotato scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1942280/brotatoThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 23.
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