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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 · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

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?

Brut@l is an Action and Adventure game released in 2017, priced at $14.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 170 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
76%
positive of 170 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
4.26★
PlayStation Store rating (581 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 89% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 31% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.3k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 170 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$2.24-85%

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 34 of 48 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
292920172026Week of 2017-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.742017-02-092026-10-132017-02-09 — 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 $2.242026-09-12 — best price $2.242026-10-13 — best price $2.24
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
44.9%
earned "First Blood"
6.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

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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