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Brutal Orchestra

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

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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 a $19.99 Action, Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2021, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 2100 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

4
playing now
98%
positive of 2.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 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 11% of 28,202 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 42k–95k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,100 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$13.99-30%

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 46 of 83 observed days · $4.00 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

1842026-09-16 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 7 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 11 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 7 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 13 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 18 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 6 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 14 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 8 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 9 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 15 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 8 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 13 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 11 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 8 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 6 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 11 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 11 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 7 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 11 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 16 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
553Dec 2021Aug 2026Dec 2021 — avg 38 · peak 90Feb 2022 — avg 9 · peak 34Apr 2022 — avg 5 · peak 17Jun 2022 — avg 7 · peak 22Aug 2022 — avg 8 · peak 25Oct 2022 — avg 17 · peak 112Dec 2022 — avg 11 · peak 33Feb 2023 — avg 11 · peak 27Apr 2023 — avg 43 · peak 104Jun 2023 — avg 30 · peak 99Aug 2023 — avg 12 · peak 30Oct 2023 — avg 16 · peak 59Dec 2023 — avg 37 · peak 117Feb 2024 — avg 32 · peak 85Apr 2024 — avg 17 · peak 39Jun 2024 — avg 17 · peak 39Aug 2024 — avg 14 · peak 32Oct 2024 — avg 27 · peak 81Dec 2024 — avg 29 · peak 92Feb 2025 — avg 14 · peak 37Apr 2025 — avg 17 · peak 49Jun 2025 — avg 13 · peak 31Aug 2025 — avg 20 · peak 73Oct 2025 — avg 13 · peak 37Dec 2025 — avg 20 · peak 62Feb 2026 — avg 27 · peak 79Apr 2026 — avg 9 · peak 27Jun 2026 — avg 15 · peak 38Aug 2026 — avg 16 · peak 39
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$9.992021-12-172026-10-152021-12-17 — best price $13.492022-07-07 — best price $14.992022-11-22 — best price $14.992023-03-16 — best price $13.992023-06-29 — best price $13.992023-09-26 — best price $19.992023-11-22 — best price $19.992024-01-05 — best price $19.992024-02-22 — best price $19.992024-03-20 — best price $15.992024-05-20 — best price $19.992024-08-15 — best price $15.992024-10-16 — best price $19.992024-12-12 — best price $15.992025-01-23 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $15.992025-04-18 — best price $19.992025-06-10 — best price $19.992025-07-23 — best price $19.992025-09-12 — best price $15.992025-10-08 — best price $19.992025-12-16 — best price $9.992026-01-28 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-21 — best price $19.992026-08-09 — best price $9.992026-08-28 — best price $19.992026-09-03 — best price $19.992026-09-09 — best price $19.992026-09-15 — best price $19.992026-09-21 — best price $13.992026-09-27 — best price $13.992026-10-03 — best price $13.992026-10-09 — best price $13.992026-10-15 — best price $13.99
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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-02-23 (Steam store data)

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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