Brotato:Premium 12+

I don’t usually review games on my phone, but this one is an exception. I decided to give Brotato a 2nd chance after not clicking with the Steam version, and it’s been very fun! There’s a good amount of strategy and surprising difficulty in runs, while still being unique in this roguelike Vampire Survivors genre. My main issue with Vampire Survivors is that it’s too easy and repetitive and didn’t give me a reason to return to it after completing the 2nd DLC. Brotato’s shop based strategies differentiate it from the rest of the genre, and it’s topped with a cute style that’s easy on the eyes. It’s like this game was made for mobile, check it out if you love strategy games!

The game plays a little different from the PC with tweaked speed settings etc. I don’t mind 99.9% of this at all and find it to be appropriate. However, there is one difference which I have to imagine is simply a game breaking bug where elites on difficulty 5 are essentially impossible to get past. They attack more frequently and with less delay between the hit box showing up and actually dealing their damage, and the attacks will one or two shot you, where you usually have about 4-8 hits with a typical build on the PC (as well as the ability to kill the elites - on the mobile port it seems they have at least double the health pool so racing their damage is also not feasible). This renders almost every single run on difficulty 5 a guaranteed defeat on the first elite you encounter, regardless of character or item quality. You can Google this known issue by searching for something like “Brotato Elites Difficulty Mobile Bug”. If they fix this one issue the app would deserve five stars, but I would say in its current state it’s not even worth purchasing as you will end up progressing very quickly to a point where difficulty 4 is not challenging and 5 is impossible. I hope anyone reading this chooses to wait until they release a bug fix for this before buying - I already put the money in for the premium version and consider it a waste of money until they do fix this.