Skewer Squad

Clear waves of enemies, shop strategically, scale like crazy. I don't need to explain how Brotato works, right? Instead of slugs, you fight rats. Instead of weapons, you place food on the skewers, upgrade it, improve your stats with items. Like Brotato, the game relies on a variety of characters with absurdly unique abilities, as well as escalating difficulty that would kick your ass and force you to theory-craft thoroughly. But not too anxiously, it's a cosy game. Brotato lovers shall feel at home here. That said, Skewer Squad can appeal to anyone, even a hater, doing enough differently to stand on its own. In place of arenas, you defend the grill in a tower defence fashion. You'll get to learn a whole new microcosm of food synergies here, the stat system is completely unique. Besides, having to operate 3 skewers separately makes for very involving gameplay, arguably more so than Brotato's. On lower difficulties, you could normally fill your skewers with food, then leave them in optimal positions and enjoy the satisfying pops, but later ones add elites to focus and shooters to evade. It never really becomes too much of a hassle, though, at least if your build is good, and while it…

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Save me from the cursed Noo Noo food killer. It's coming for me. Great game, I'm not currently held hostage by the creature (it watches as I type, it is unhappy)

A different kind of tower defense with rougelike elements. There's a lot of variety in terms of characters, foods and items/seasonings, no run is going to be like the other. It's fun doing different builds trying to get the right items to match with the foods. Although there's a lot of RNG involved, but it doesn't ruin the experience in my opinion. I really recommend it!

Fun tower defense game that takes a hint from games like slay the spire in making combos.

I've tried giving this game a fair shot. The price, graphics, and sound are solid enough, but the gameplay needs some work, specifically the difficulty. Simply put, it's garbage. The highest tier of difficulty has enemies gain MORE health every wave, which negates any damage upgrades you take. I'm not talking stronger enemies either; I'm talking every single enemy type gets an increase in base health every single wave. So that basic rat that has 20 HP on wave 1, will have well over a 100 at higher levels. It's really awful when you're fighting 100+ so enemies, with increased health, including all sorts of special variants. Your upgrades struggle to inflict damage, requiring incredibly lucky pulls to make it to the final wave. And the final wave? You have maybe 20 seconds to take done the boss before you lose. The boss will kill 2 of your 9 attack/defense pieces within seconds, and once you start losing pieces, you're done. I don't mind games with hard enemies. I do mind games with cheap mechanics that create artificial difficulty. Right now, there is simply no point on playing higher difficulties and nothing really bringing the player back for more.