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Brut@l

Stormcloud Games Limited · Rising Star Games · 2017-02-09

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Feb 09, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 09, 2016 (PlayStation 4)

A modern re-imagining of the classic ASCII dungeon crawler. Choose your hero and descend into a procedurally generated world constructed entirely from ASCII letters. Can you survive?

0
playing now
76%
positive of 169 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 61% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.2k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 169 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$2.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.22-25%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Humble Store (2024-03-07) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 23 of 38 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

102026-08-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.742017-02-092026-08-212017-02-09 — best price $14.992017-11-16 — best price $7.492018-05-24 — best price $14.992019-01-10 — best price $7.492019-08-29 — best price $7.492020-01-09 — best price $3.742020-05-26 — best price $13.392020-06-18 — best price $14.992020-08-23 — best price $13.392020-09-26 — best price $13.392020-10-19 — best price $14.992020-11-28 — best price $2.992021-01-12 — best price $13.392021-02-04 — best price $14.992021-03-23 — best price $14.992021-05-28 — best price $14.992021-07-12 — best price $11.012021-10-02 — best price $14.992021-11-24 — best price $2.992022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-03-28 — best price $14.992022-06-14 — best price $11.012022-08-08 — best price $2.392022-10-27 — best price $11.012022-12-19 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $2.242023-07-29 — best price $1.492024-03-14 — best price $1.042024-07-25 — best price $14.992024-12-02 — best price $14.992025-04-16 — best price $14.992026-01-08 — best price $1.042026-06-25 — best price $2.242026-08-21 — best price $11.22
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam Cloud

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian

Player tags

GoreCo-opIndieActionAdventureRogue-likeRogue-liteLocal Co-OpDungeon CrawlerAction Roguelike

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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