So….Brotato. I’ve finished a few runs. This is another in that enemy hell style gaming inspired by Vampire Survivors and old arcade games. In this one, you choose one of a variety of potatoes: undead potatoes, adventurer potatoes, mutant potatoes, wizard potatoes, fisherman potatoes, and so on. Your goal is to survive twenty timed and increasingly difficult waves of enemies in an arena setting.

The arena itself, so much as I can tell, never really changes. You earn coins during and at the end of each wave. This functions as both xp for leveling up, and as cash for the weapons/upgrade shop. Which you visit between each wave.

You start each run with buffs and debuffs dependent on your potato of choice. You also begin with at least one weapon, which you can choose from a slate of starter (tier one) weapons. Your potato, with tmk one exception, can wield up to six ranged and melee weapons at any moment. It’s an auto battler, so you just try to equip your Brotato as good as you can.

Leveling up gives you increased hp as well as giving you the option to choose from one of four randomly generated stat boosts (there are many categories, from ranged and melee damage to sight range, hp regeneration, and so on).

Similarly, the gear shop offers four randomly generated and priced items. You can buy as many as you can afford, can pay for a reroll of items, and can lock items you want and can’t afford so they reapoear after the next wave(s) as well.

Weapons have an array of specialties/effects, from precision to explosive to elemental to medical (life stealing/healing), and so on. You can also (when lucky) buy items/weapons that drop turrets and landmines to help you out in battle. And, you can combine weapons if you have two of the same weapons in the same tier, which raises their tier (level) and stats.

You can also dismantle any weapon for extra coins.

On the battlefield, trees will appear. Destroying the trees will drop what amounts to healing packs, and occasionally chests, which offer free items in between runs.

Beyond that, you just run around the arena like a potato with it’s head cut off, trying to survive twenty waves to win the day. Wave 20 is the big boss fight with some bullet hell elements to it. There is also an endless mode and a mod workshop which you can easily access in the game’s menu, for people interested in such.

This is perfectly Steam Deck compatible running at default settings and the game more or less maximizes your battery life.

All in all, this is actually one if the more challenging AND fast paced entries in the genre, is as fun as can be, and is definitely well worth your time. It’s very easy to pick up and play anywhere anytime. Cost vs value is insanely good with this one. Give it a look.