Brotato
BANGER · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.49, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2022.
- Cost per hour
- $0.44/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 120,723
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 5.7h
- To 100%
- 67.3h 11.8x the story
- Finish
- 18% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 179
Price and sales
- Sales
- 37 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 November 2026
- Sale every
- 36d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 19,444 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 78% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to 4% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
37 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, Bounty of One ($6.99, scores 66) and FatalZone ($6.99, scores 17) both come in lower.
More about Brotato
This site sampled 798 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,176 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,015 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 6,069 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.
120,723 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Nice game to pick up and play, on the PC or Steamdeck. Games are for half an hour or so, so easy to grab a short session and feel like you've made a bit of progress. I've been playing the base game for 36 hours now, and still got loads to unlock, and after that DLC too. Great value, but great fun too!
2 more reviews
Brotato is an awesome game. It is one of the better roguelike bullet hell shooter games out there. It has a lot of unique different characters and some cool combinations to get. It gives me the same addictive rush as when I play Vampire Survivor. If you like roguelike bullet hell shooter games, Brotato is a must play! It plays perfectly on the Steam Deck.
I bought a potato game. Somehow, it became a full-time job with no salary, no benefits, and increasingly hostile working conditions. 717 hours later, I've learned that: RNG is not random. It has a personal vendetta against me. The shop knows exactly what I need and will never offer it. "One last run" is a legally binding lie. Nightmare difficulty is less of a game mode and more of a personality disorder. I've...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 128MB, OpenGL 3+, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Brotato scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1942280/brotatoReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.