It’s funny when you hear a studio, or gamer, complain that this or that company has copied, plagiarized, or inspired one of their latest releases from a recent success. That is part of the video game industry and, in general, of life itself, and that is what this week gives away Epic Games Store within its weekly promotion of games on the face that we can add to our PC library. Do you know what title we are talking about?
There was a time when mobile phones came to influence some genres of consoles and PC. Titles that had the limitation of touch control and that could only have been born on Android or iOS. That idea was (he was not the first, but he popularized it) Vampire Survivors that took a character, put him in the middle of the screen, added the ability to shoot at a rapid pace and automatically and let us only worry about moving him around the screen avoiding the hordes of adversaries.
And the clones were born in the Epic Games Store too
The point is that Vampire Survivors He hit it and as expected, other clones soon appeared and arrived at the right time. Because don’t think that because it looks like another game, fans automatically reject it. The other way around. How are they on fire with that game formula, they want to try any alternative that smells (as in this case) of Vampire Survivorsto continue calming his desire to overcome one more phase, an extra level of his protagonist’s power.
And we come up to Brotatowhich is practically a Vampire Survivors but with a potato as the protagonist and a practically identical development, although with its own changes. In this case, the entire universe potato that they have created and a much more friendly and worked graphic environment than in the case of the original. Here the confrontation has that point of jokes, laughter and bullying that gives a special touch to a very simple concept.
In this case, the gift of Epic Games Store It is especially interesting because we are facing a game that is barely a year and a half behind us. Although it arrived in March 2023 on mobile phones and devices such as tablets, it did not arrive on PC until June, so it is practically a title that many have not had time to try. Hence, the gift of the PC store comes in handy to give a chance to a genre that, it is true, does not offer a very rich and deep plot arc, but that focuses on what is essential, which is to have fun.
Shoot and don’t say “potato”
As we tell you, games like Brotato either Vampire Survivors They are, practically, a reunion with the simplest video game concepts, with those arcade titles that arrived at the end of the 70s and 80s and that had repetitive mechanics over and over again, and where the objective was to survive on the screen at any price, achieving the best possible score, yes.
So if you don’t have Brotato in your library, run to catch it, it will be active in Epic Games Store until Thursday, December 5 at 5:00 p.m. And you won’t need a very powerful PC.
