Buy Silly Potato: Home-Run Edition PC key

Silly Potato: Home-Run Edition is a distance-scoring game about hitting a potato with a baseball bat and launching it as far as possible. Your cursor is replaced by a chunky wooden bat that follows your mouse or controller stick. A googly-eyed potato sits on a tee with a speech bubble saying, “I am a potato.”

Hit and launch

You have ten seconds to hit the potato. Each hit adds damage, with examples including 40%, 300% and 900%, and no damage cap. Chain hits to build a combo multiplier; striking with the bat’s very tip earns a SWEET TIP. Hold the button to charge a MEGA SWING, then release to launch. Charging past 95% makes the bat call out FULL POWER, and you can spend a SLOW-MO charge to slow time during the wind-up.

Launch angle affects your score: an angle between 25 and 55 degrees earns a NICE ANGLE bonus. Missing means the bat swings through empty air; hitting the potato backwards into the wall behind home plate earns a WRONG WAY and ends the game. Once launched, the potato soars, bounces, glides and collects coins while shouting one-liners. More than two dozen lines include “I HAVE BEEN CHOSEN,” “WITNESS ME!!,” “MOM GET THE CAMERA” and “THE SKY TASTES BUTTERY.”

Coins and upgrades

Randomly scattered coin clusters fill the sky. Guide the potato through them to collect coins, then spend the loot on upgrades that help you travel farther and collect more. The upgrade types are:

• PRECISION: extend the bat’s reach.
• POWER: swing harder for a bigger launch.
• GLIDE: give the potato more hang time.
• BOUNCE: make the ground springy when the potato lands.
• COMBO: increase the multiplier from rapid hits.
• OVERTIME: add one second to the clock per level.
• SLOW-MO: add consumable bullet-time charges for the wind-up.

Scores and challenges

Your score is the distance traveled in feet, shown on a leaderboard. A global Steam leaderboard tracks distances, and you can also see your personal top five runs along with the damage dealt in each. A sign on the ground marks every 100 feet with one of more than 60 potato puns, including SPUDNIK, taterhawk, get forked, holy mash! and no gods no mashers.

The game includes 32 Steam achievements, from Chip City to Moon Mash for reaching 30,000 feet, as well as Wrong Way, Champ and Nailed To The Plate, which is awarded for letting the entire clock run out without doing anything. Runs last about 30 seconds.

Controls and presentation

You move the bat with a mouse or controller stick and tap to swing; the mouse itself acts as the bat, with no aiming reticle or click-to-swing menu. Controllers also support full menu navigation with an Xbox-style pad. Entering a custom leaderboard name requires a keyboard; on Steam, your persona name is used automatically.

The game uses hand-drawn-look 2D graphics created entirely in code, with chunky ink outlines, sunset gradients and googly eyes with blink timing. Comfort options include toggles for screen shake and flashing effects; disabling flashing effects removes the launch flash and speed lines. Separate master, sound-effects and music volume controls are available, along with windowed, borderless and fullscreen modes, VSync and an FPS cap.