The Sexy Brutale

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again.

The Sexy Brutale is a puzzle, adventure and mystery game developed by Cavalier Game Studios and Tequila Works and published by Tequila Works.
Released on April 11th 2017 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.

It has received 3,690 reviews of which 3,418 were positive and 272 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Sexy Brutale into these genres:

Puzzle Adventure Mystery Indie Time Manipulation Detective Time Travel Great Soundtrack Story Rich Singleplayer Stealth Atmospheric Point & Click Dark Isometric Horror

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Win7 64bit
Processor: Intel i5-3450 @ 3.10 GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 3 GB available space
Sound Card: Realtek High Definition On-board Audio

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

An intricately crafted time-loop murder mystery In The Sexy Brutale, you are a guest to a masked ball in a huge, ostentatious mansion - and like everyone else in that mansion, you are stuck in a time loop that resets ever 12 hours. Within these 12 hours, the staff off the mansion is killing the guests one by one. Your task is to prevent the murders, find out what is going on, and eventually break the loop. Your presence is somewhat ghost-like. You cannot talk to or otherwise interact with other people (actually you have to hide from them), but you can investigate and manipulate objects as long as no one else is in the room. To prevent a murder, you first have to observe the actions of the characters, by peeking through keyholes into neighboring rooms, listening in on conversations, or hiding in cupboards. Once you understand the sequence of events, you need to find a way to break it, e.g. by manipulating a murder weapon before the killer picks it up. This creates puzzles which aren't overly complex, but imaginative and varied. There are 6 of such murder cases to solve, with some of them having more than one murder to prevent. Saving a victim will give you access to another area of the mansion, where the next murder is taking place. You will also gain additional powers from each saved victim, which can be used to gain more information and reveal secrets throughout the mansion, giving you a reason to revisit areas you've already been to. I found the puzzles and the mechanics of this game very engaging. Observation-based games can easily become a bit boring due to the passivity of the main gameplay mechanic, and games with a time-loop mechanic can easily get repetitive - but The Sexy Brutale never felt that way. I always found new interesting details. I felt that I was unraveling an intricately designed mystery, step by step, and the repetition of events affirmed me that my understanding of that mystery kept growing. (Also, once you prevented a murder, you don't have to repeat that ever again.) I enjoyed the story and characters quite a lot. The characters are very distinct, you learn many little details about them, and the ending was appropriate and very touching. The game's presentation is gorgeous. The graphics look splendid, and there is a lot of variation between the areas and rooms. The same goes for the music, especially the jazzy tones for the bar and casino evoke the atmosphere of such an upper-class establishment at some time in the last century perfectly. The sound design also integrates exceptionally well with the gameplay: sometimes you get audio cues from neighboring rooms, and certain events can be heard in the entire mansion. There is no voice acting, but I did not miss it. For me, The Sexy Brutale was an amazing adventure, and I am really struggling to find something to criticize - apart from the godawful and completely misleading name. My biggest concern are probably the controls - keys cannot be rebound, and the control scheme assumes that the keys Z, X, 1, and 3 are close together since you have to press them frequently, often in time-critical moments. That's a problem for French, German, and Dvorak keyboards, and it's very disappointing that such an integral feature was overlooked in a game that is otherwise so finely polished. Some players also complained about the game's length, but I think 20€ list price for a well-designed, highly polished game that took me 8 hours to solve and 10 hours to fully complete, are appropriate. Given that I have much less time now than I had 20 years ago, I actually appreciate games that pack high-quality content into an experience that can be fully had in a day or two. The Sexy Brutale fits that bill perfectly. I recommend this game wholeheartedly to everyone who likes adventure games and murder mysteries, especially if you have an eye for details and like the setting.

Nov. 2024

This game so good I wish real life also had a banger soundtrack that played in time with the noise around me... Seriously though, don't let the title mislead you. This is a beautiful game with a very important message. It deeply resonated with me and I couldn't reccomend it more. It's packed with extremely fun mechanics and full of personality and charm, as well as secrets to uncover. You can really tell the people who made this cared about their game, it's in the details. I really love The Sexy Brutale :))

March 2024

Simple and short, but very entertaining. The ending... spectaculair. Pros: - Interesting mystery - Rewarding Ending - Some nice sounds - Simple but nice visuals Cons: - Short, even for 100% - Quite simple

March 2024

The Sexy Brutale is a fine game. It had a lot of potential with the approaching time loop mechanic, but it looks like devs didn't have enough time to polish and wrap up everything in a coherent manner. The puzzles are a little bit too easy. It's a pity that you can complete them without diving more into the plot and lore of the presented world. The game feels a little too short for me, but I really enjoyed the way in which gameplay mechanics allowed me to explore the story.

Dec. 2023

Worst tile in history, it makes it so much more difficult than it should for me to recommend this in casual conversation. This game is actually fantastic. Great visuals and soundtrack, engaging gameplay loop, interesting story, it has everything. If you enjoy puzzle games, you will most certainly like this.

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-75% 19.99€ 4.99€

8.9

3,418

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Developer

Cavalier Game Studios, Tequila Works

Publisher

Tequila Works

Release 11 Apr 2017

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