Brotato

Brotato

Blobfish, Erabit Studios · 2023

Builds snap together into glorious, overpowered nonsense

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SoloMultiplayerCo-opBird's-eyeSwitch

Crossplay

No. Local only.

There is no official online matchmaking and no play across stores. Up to 4 people can sit on one screen. Steam Remote Play Together can share that local session.

How you play it

Online co-op

Online co-op

Crossplay

Does Brotato have crossplay?

No. Local only.

There is no official online matchmaking and no play across stores. Up to 4 people can sit on one screen. Steam Remote Play Together can share that local session.

Couch play+
  1. 1One person owns Brotato.
  2. 2Plug in extra controllers.
  3. 3Start a run and add local players.
  4. 4Up to 4 people share the same screen.
Steam Remote Play Together+
  1. 1This streams the host’s local game. It is not real online matchmaking.
  2. 2The host starts Remote Play Together from the Steam friends list.
  3. 3Friends join and grab a virtual controller.

Play together anyway

These do have crossplay

Steam lists shared-screen co-op and Remote Play Together, not online multiplayer. Blobfish’s 1.1 update added local co-op for 4.

The WhatsNext verdict

For Fans of top-down arena shooters and roguelites who love fast-paced theorycrafting, compounding item synergies, and tight survival challenges.: Compact 20-wave runs offer an intensely satisfying cadence of frantic dodging followed by deliberate shop decisions. Wielding up to six weapons across dozens of distinct characters creates endless opportunities to craft wildly overpowered builds. Tradeoff: Confining all the action to a single enclosed arena means variety relies heavily on shop rolls and character stats rather than changing environments or spatial exploration.

What it does best

  • Builds snap together into glorious, overpowered nonsense

  • The perfect twenty-minute run

  • A tiny arena packed with relentless pressure

  • One more potato, one more run

What might put you off

  • Shop RNG can wreck a carefully planned build

  • Repetition and limited battlefield variety

The setup

What you are walking into

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.

Where it lives

Xbox Series X|SPlayStation 4AndroidPC (Microsoft Windows)iOSPlayStation 5MacXbox OneNintendo Switch

Genre

FightingShooterRole-playing (RPG)IndieArcade

Vibe

ActionScience fictionSurvival
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