Brutal Orchestra
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 20%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 6.8h
- Value
- $2.06/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($15.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card, 850 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was December 2023. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 33 in the 5 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $13.99 at 30 percent off still sits 40 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok ($9.99, scores 69) and The Last Spell ($24.99, scores 78), are both worse buys on this math.
Of the 342 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 6.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 64, 9.5 times as much.
The drop-off
93% start to 52% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 17:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
My playtime may give it away, but this has probably been one of my favorite games of all time. Its narrative resonated with me in a way I can't properly describe. The gameplay is strategic, concise and readable with certain mechanics thrown in to keep an element of chaos in the mix and help prevent most combat encounters from having easy forgone conclusions. Every piece of the soundtrack is delightful to the ear...
An incredible expirience in gameplay and story . Thanks to the small grid the battles take place in you're always placed in front or the side of the enemy, so most of the time looking at their intent (as well as their passives) matters, and as healing and shield moves are made difficult to play with the pigment system (until you learn to use your health as a resourse) you are forced to learn how to move your fools...
Fun innovative presentation, story, and combat system. Wowed through and through by this small indie title. Do try it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Brutal Orchestra scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1734320/brutal-orchestraReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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