vampire survivors or this?

[rav]

Which game is better in your opinion and why ?

[Godspeed]

Vampire survivors leans more into the hack and slash side of things
Very powerful weapons, with a focus on weapon upgrades specifically and dealing damage to a large amount of monsters all at once, consistently with no real shop or dynamic player upgrades

Brotato leans more into the Rogue-like side of things
Various upgrades, weapon, knock-back, currency, luck etc, all combine to give the player various outs and options to approach combat. You don't even have to specifically kill monsters to earn money or progress, and the game is much more dependant on RNG and less forgiving if you get bad RNG.

I personally prefer Brotato as i like the stylised art and Rogue-like approach more than the rustic old school 2d copy pasta art from Vampire survivors.

You don't need to convolute the game with mechanics like arcanas since the rogue-like RNG does a well enough job to keep the game simple and interesting.

Edit: spelling fixes

[rav]

thanks for your explanation :)

[Weekend Player]

Brotato has more decision making and roguelite elements. It is also somewhat of a bullet hell but wouldn't call it a true bullet hell cause not all attacks are dodge-able and some bullets don't need to dodge anything.

Vampire survivors is just choosing some weapons and killing swarms of enemies mindlessly. It lacks interactivity and decision making past choosing your weapons every run.

I much prefer Brotato unless you are looking for a mindless fun game you can keep running in the background while queuing in another game or whatever.

[Cadichon]

Both!

[Solitus]

Vampire Survivors is a perfectly tooled player reward system. You start out weak, you get strong, and opening a 5 chest (with the sound on) is one of the greatest gaming dopamine hits i've ever had. It is ridiculously over the top epic.

Brotato you actually have a chance to lose, (unlike VS) so when you win, it feels really good. some strategy, but still mostly luck of the RNG to give you the items you need.

Both games scratch different itches.

[burn1none]

Vampire Survivors is ok but gets boring once you solve it. Ideal gameplay for that is to be able to stand still and walk away for 30 minutes. Brotato has much more compelling gameplay imo

[vermis]

i don't believe Vampire Survivors has potatoes

what i mean is that if you like potatoes then Brotato is the superior choice

[schnippy]

vampire survivors if you want to feel like an overpowered god (at some point). brotato if you want a challenge. both are brilliant in my opinion

[midori]

VS gets boring real fast, way too simple/linear, brotato you get way more dopamine/minute

[Voltex]

VS has way more content that brotato,

[Godspeed]

Originally posted by Voltex:

VS has way more content that brotato,

Oh for sure VS is way more refined, but that's largely in part to the fact they are using bought asset packs, doing bare minimum of their own art other than recolouring, and has been out almost a complete year before Brotato and has way more time to be patched with additional content.

Infact i remember buying VS close to its initial 2021 release date and it had less characters than brototo has now, half the weapons and none of the additional mechanics.

Edit: Just to confirm, VS DOES have its own art, all the spells are largely unique to VS and some of the characters had to be edited and remade by their own artists because people pressumed the stole them from Castlevania. But ALSO the Dev has openly admitted that all the characters originally come from bought asset packs anyone can use in their games, like Gedonia or Getting Over It did.

[Blue]

VS might've had started it but I'd say Brotato it's more entertaining. I've similar amount of hours in both (~40) but I do not really have urge to hop into VS whenever content drops. Brotato on the other hand has more variety and game encourages you to beat it in different ways (characters favoring specific builds) while VS you can go more or less braindead once you know the item synergies (unless something changed in last months).

For some reason I really dig the art and sound design here.

[dholland]

VS is only "difficult" at the start before permanent upgrades make it trivial, and it's very difficult to make any interesting challenges. It's about being ridiculously overpowered and not strategy. Brotato is not only about potatoes, but also roguelike strategy and physical reactions and dodging skills, especially against the bosses. Enemy projectiles are mostly quite slow but pack a punch. There is also a lot of variety in the characters (sorry, potatoes) different innate powers. For most potatoes you have to dodge bosses and their bullets, but it's true that some potatoes have extra innate survivability or can only do damage by face-tanking (bull).