Brotato
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How do players who really played Brotato rate it? TrueGG Rating 84.8%

Release date: Jun 23, 2023 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it lower than Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours. Recent reviews are falling.

Good for

  • Players who want fun from the first hours
  • Players who want a good story and characters

Think twice if you are

  • Players buying on the promise of future updates (complaints about the developers)
  • Players buying right now (recent ratings are falling)

A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
84.8%
▼ −11.1 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 5,540 reviews

TrueGG, all time
95.6%
Steam overall
95.9%
Japanese, all time
92.3%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 5.6% of all reviews. Their positive share is 91.5%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (10h+)JapaneseRight: reviews
Positive share by playtimeRanges from 10 hours up are highlighted. Exact values are in the table below.0%25%50%75%100%0–1 h75%1371–2 h84%1232–5 h96%1,1025–10 h95%1,17010–20 h93%1,24420–50 h93%1,51850–100 h85%1,017100–200 h77%888200+ h66%873Positive share by playtime0–1 h13775%1–2 h12384%2–5 h1,10296%5–10 h1,17095%10–20 h1,24493%20–50 h1,51893%50–100 h1,01785%100–200 h88877%200+ h87366%

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

Show chart values as a table
PlaytimePositiveJapaneseReviews
0–1 h75.2%100.0%137
1–2 h83.7%50.0%123
2–5 h96.4%100.0%1,102
5–10 h95.0%100.0%1,170
10–20 h93.5%66.7%1,244
20–50 h92.6%100.0%1,518
50–100 h84.8%87.5%1,017
100–200 h77.1%62.5%888
200+ h66.3%50.0%873

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 46% had 20+ hours and 12% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Brotato has a TrueGG Rating of 84.8%: the positive share among 5,540 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours. That is 11.1 points below Steam's overall 95.9%, so players who really play the current version are harsher than the headline number suggests (all time: 95.6%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 6% of the total, with 91% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

In the last 180 days, approval peaks at 96% around 2–5h and falls to 66% at 200h+: in the current version, long-time players are harsher.

Negative reviews most often mention updates and the developers, boredom, and バランス. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, the story, and price.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 92.3%, 7.6 points above all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (95.3% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on live operations and online play (Updates & developers, Balance). These shift over time, so weigh recent reviews more than the all-time figure.

− Most mentioned complaints

  • Updates & developers24% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players
  • Boring / repetitive15% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among under 2h players
  • Balance10% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel38% of positive reviews (24% of negative)
  • Story21% of positive reviews (14% of negative)
  • Price8% of positive reviews (2% of negative)
+ 非常+ 豊富+ 気軽+ ステージ+ ダメージ+ ポテト+ 購入+ 操作− update− nothing− since− didn't− people− anything− instead− can't

Counted from 336 recent negative and 600 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

MetricPositiveScope
Official Steam rating95.9%All time, all languages · 119,937 reviews
Adjusted rating95.3%Weighted by trust (95% range 95.1%–95.4%), −0.6pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews91.0%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−4.8pt vs overall) · 402 reviews
Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

ConditionPositive reviewsNegative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review4%7%
Very short text49%20%
Key activated outside Steam12%11%
Received for free1%0%
Owns very few games15%9%
Over 100 reviews written2%1%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.730.85

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 42.6 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative
0 5,000 10k 15k 20k 2022-09: +575 / −24 2022-10: +5,793 / −267 2022-11: +10,464 / −214 2022-12: +3,331 / −114 2023-01: +3,227 / −113 2023-02: +2,856 / −106 2023-03: +2,930 / −113 2023-04: +2,234 / −93 2023-05: +1,552 / −62 2023-06: +4,362 / −206 2023-07: +4,930 / −222 2023-08: +2,694 / −110 2023-09: +1,599 / −69 2023-10: +1,435 / −72 2023-11: +15,478 / −112 2023-12: +1,794 / −98 2024-01: +1,794 / −71 2024-02: +1,357 / −64 2024-03: +1,350 / −57 2024-04: +1,300 / −50 2024-05: +1,036 / −58 2024-06: +943 / −33 2024-07: +1,185 / −45 2024-08: +1,027 / −51 2024-09: +1,095 / −59 2024-10: +1,979 / −316 2024-11: +4,482 / −262 2024-12: +2,936 / −147 2025-01: +1,806 / −95 2025-02: +1,209 / −74 2025-03: +1,463 / −90 2025-04: +1,178 / −76 2025-05: +980 / −58 2025-06: +1,193 / −70 2025-07: +1,312 / −77 2025-08: +1,052 / −69 2025-09: +943 / −63 2025-10: +1,372 / −76 2025-11: +2,560 / −77 2025-12: +1,278 / −69 2026-01: +1,117 / −51 2026-02: +1,404 / −66 2026-03: +1,105 / −61 2026-04: +1,076 / −77 2026-05: +1,123 / −300 2026-06: +1,252 / −201 2026-07: +1,202 / −124 2026-08: +992 / −130 2026-09: +942 / −120 2026-10: +558 / −57 2022/092023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 95.5% 2024-10: update 2022-09: 96.0%2022-10: 95.6%2022-11: 98.0%2022-12: 96.7%2023-01: 96.6%2023-02: 96.4%2023-03: 96.3%2023-04: 96.0%2023-05: 96.2%2023-06: 95.5%2023-07: 95.7%2023-08: 96.1%2023-09: 95.9%2023-10: 95.2%2023-11: 99.3%2023-12: 94.8%2024-01: 96.2%2024-02: 95.5%2024-03: 95.9%2024-04: 96.3%2024-05: 94.7%2024-06: 96.6%2024-07: 96.3%2024-08: 95.3%2024-09: 94.9%2024-10: 86.2%2024-11: 94.5%2024-12: 95.2%2025-01: 95.0%2025-02: 94.2%2025-03: 94.2%2025-04: 93.9%2025-05: 94.4%2025-06: 94.5%2025-07: 94.5%2025-08: 93.8%2025-09: 93.7%2025-10: 94.8%2025-11: 97.1%2025-12: 94.9%2026-01: 95.6%2026-02: 95.5%2026-03: 94.8%2026-04: 93.3%2026-05: 78.9%2026-06: 86.2%2026-07: 90.6%2026-08: 88.4%2026-09: 88.7%2026-10: 90.7% 2022/092023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

DateAnnouncement2 months before → after
2024-10-25 Update 1.1 95% → 95% (−0.3pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 20 40 60 2026-09-19: +33 / −5 2026-09-20: +29 / −4 2026-09-21: +27 / −3 2026-09-22: +33 / −3 2026-09-23: +28 / −4 2026-09-24: +20 / −4 2026-09-25: +30 / −5 2026-09-26: +26 / −4 2026-09-27: +31 / −7 2026-09-28: +26 / −3 2026-09-29: +27 / −3 2026-09-30: +28 / −2 2026-10-01: +17 / −2 2026-10-02: +33 / −4 2026-10-03: +29 / −2 2026-10-04: +42 / −5 2026-10-05: +24 / −5 2026-10-06: +27 / −3 2026-10-07: +33 / −2 2026-10-08: +25 / −4 2026-10-09: +39 / −4 2026-10-10: +29 / −4 2026-10-11: +45 / −3 2026-10-12: +25 / −1 2026-10-13: +29 / −3 2026-10-14: +21 / −2 2026-10-15: +24 / −1 2026-10-16: +30 / −3 2026-10-17: +40 / −5 2026-10-18: +46 / −4 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2022-095752496.0%
2022-105,79326795.6%
2022-1110,46421498.0%
2022-123,33111496.7%
2023-013,22711396.6%
2023-022,85610696.4%
2023-032,93011396.3%
2023-042,2349396.0%
2023-051,5526296.2%
2023-064,36220695.5%
2023-074,93022295.7%
2023-082,69411096.1%
2023-091,5996995.9%
2023-101,4357295.2%
2023-1115,47811299.3%
2023-121,7949894.8%
2024-011,7947196.2%
2024-021,3576495.5%
2024-031,3505795.9%
2024-041,3005096.3%
2024-051,0365894.7%
2024-069433396.6%
2024-071,1854596.3%
2024-081,0275195.3%
2024-091,0955994.9%
2024-101,97931686.2%
2024-114,48226294.5%
2024-122,93614795.2%
2025-011,8069595.0%
2025-021,2097494.2%
2025-031,4639094.2%
2025-041,1787693.9%
2025-059805894.4%
2025-061,1937094.5%
2025-071,3127794.5%
2025-081,0526993.8%
2025-099436393.7%
2025-101,3727694.8%
2025-112,5607797.1%
2025-121,2786994.9%
2026-011,1175195.6%
2026-021,4046695.5%
2026-031,1056194.8%
2026-041,0767793.3%
2026-051,12330078.9%
2026-061,25220186.2%
2026-071,20212490.6%
2026-0899213088.4%
2026-0994212088.7%
2026-105585790.7%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-19335
2026-09-20294
2026-09-21273
2026-09-22333
2026-09-23284
2026-09-24204
2026-09-25305
2026-09-26264
2026-09-27317
2026-09-28263
2026-09-29273
2026-09-30282
2026-10-01172
2026-10-02334
2026-10-03292
2026-10-04425
2026-10-05245
2026-10-06273
2026-10-07332
2026-10-08254
2026-10-09394
2026-10-10294
2026-10-11453
2026-10-12251
2026-10-13293
2026-10-14212
2026-10-15241
2026-10-16303
2026-10-17405
2026-10-18464
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days90.1%1,128
Last 180 days87.6%8,051
All time95.9%119,937
Japanese, last 180 days71.4%49
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