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Brutal Orchestra

Talia bob Mair · Hellbent Games · 2021-12-17

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 17, 2021 (Linux), Dec 17, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Brutal Orchestra is a Turn-Based Roguelike Strategy Game. You died, someone killed you. You are in Purgatory and you will never escape. Make a deal with the "demon" Bosch and set off into Purgatory finding ​all manner of demented friends and foes on your quest to get petty revenge.

Brutal Orchestra is an Action, Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2021, priced at $19.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (98% of 2080 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000.

7
playing now
98%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 167 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~21/week).
  • · Review velocity up 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–94k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,080 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2023-12-17) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 21 of 46 observed days · $10.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11211220212026Week of 2021-12-01: 84 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3372026-08-11 20:00 — 33 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 14 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 20 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 24 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 19 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 27 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 27 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 15 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 18 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 23 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 9 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 18 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 15 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 15 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 20 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 17 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 13 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-27 16:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 15 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 13 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$9.992021-12-172026-08-302021-12-17 — best price $13.492022-06-24 — best price $11.992022-10-30 — best price $19.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-05-08 — best price $19.992023-07-04 — best price $19.992023-09-26 — best price $19.992023-11-14 — best price $13.992023-12-22 — best price $15.992024-01-25 — best price $13.992024-02-27 — best price $15.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-05-20 — best price $19.992024-08-07 — best price $19.992024-09-30 — best price $15.992024-11-26 — best price $15.992024-12-19 — best price $15.992025-01-24 — best price $15.992025-03-13 — best price $15.992025-04-10 — best price $15.992025-05-29 — best price $19.992025-06-27 — best price $15.992025-08-09 — best price $9.992025-09-23 — best price $19.992025-10-08 — best price $19.992025-11-19 — best price $15.992026-01-18 — best price $19.992026-02-20 — best price $13.992026-04-25 — best price $19.992026-06-17 — best price $13.992026-08-09 — best price $9.992026-08-27 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
93.3%
earned "The Veteran"
29.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,4661%145

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPG2.5DIndieCartoonyColorfulStrategyDark HumorRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

Recent updates

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