Brutal Orchestra

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 2,122 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 19.1h for positive, 3h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (93.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (145)

• The Veteran Unlock Boyle. 100%
• The Severed Unlock Hans. 99%
• Beyond the Dunes Complete The Far Shore. 86%
• It Happens to the Best of Us You did your best. 82%
• The Widower Murder Mobius. 68%
• Honest Effort Lose to a boss encounter. 67%
• The Juggernaut Murder Roids. 66%
• The Fire and the Flames Murder Hickory. 65%
• Above the Mountains Complete The Orpheum. 65%
• Thorough Explorer Fully explore any normal zone. 63%
• Drowning in Pigment Lose a party member to Pigment overflow. 63%
• The Sadist Unlock Burnout. 61%
• Tactical Miscalculation Lose a party member by using the wrong Pigment. 59%
• The Gambler Unlock Anton. 56%
• The Orphan Slay the SmoothSkin. 56%
• The End? This can't be the end. 56%
• I'll Make You Regret This! Let's do this the hard way. 55%
• Smooch! Lock lips with the Ouroboros. 55%
• The Leviathan Slay the Ouroboros. 52%
• Duke of the Dunes Complete The Far Shore with no casualties on Hardmode. 48%
• The Impaled Unlock Fennec. 43%
• Throw Hands Humiliate a boss by killing it with a slap. 41%
• The Coward Murder Trigger Fingers. 41%
• The Terminal Unlock Agon. 39%
• The Conjoined Unlock Splig. 37%
• The Glutton Unlock Pearl. 34%
• Master of the Mountains Complete The Orpheum with no casualties on Hardmode. 34%
• The Stoic Unlock Clive. 33%
• The Corpse Unlock Cranes. 32%
• The Incinerated Unlock Dimitri. 32%
• The Failure Unlock Arnold. 31%
• The Messiah Slay the Charcarrion. 30%
• Swallowed by the Sea Have a party member survive the Ouroboros’ Starvation. 30%
• The Parasite Unlock LongLiver. 29%
• Within Yourself Complete The Garden. 28%
• All That is Mortal. ... 28%
• Boom, Headshot Have a party member’s head reduced to a fine red mist. 28%
• The Zealot Unlock Kleiver. 27%
• The Trickster Unlock Thype. 26%
• The Naked Unlock Griffin. 22%
• What Are You Doing? Lose a party member to damage dealt by your own party... 21%
• The Mass Unlock Leviat. 21%
• The Divine Transcend Heaven. 21%
• Emotional and Physical Annihilation Watch the SmoothSkin’s trauma be his undoing. 20%
• The Witness Forget Osman Sinnoks. 20%
• Heavyweight Champion Cancel Roids' entire turn. 20%
• Brutality! Complete a difficult encounter before any enemies can act. 19%
• Somebody Call the Vatican Execute Pope Innocent X. 18%
• Bit Off More Than You Could Chew Dismantle Xiphactinus and Gillicus. 17%
• Every Stone Turned Fully explore all zones in Hardmode. 16%
• Crisis of Faith Defeat the Charcarrion by letting its corpse decompose. 16%
• The Immortal Unlock Bimini. 15%
• Human Resources Hire all three party members from the Fools Board. 13%
• The Magnum Opus Unlock Gospel. 13%
• The Black Lung Unlock SmokeStacks. 13%
• Kingslayer Defeat every boss in the main campaign. 12%
• God Is Dead and We Have Killed Him Slay an Ungod... Kinda. 12%
• Roentgen Rays Unlocked a new item. 12%
• Purple Heart Unlocked a new item. 11%
• Garden of Earthly Delights Complete The Garden with no casualties on Hardmode. 11%
• Another Dud Unlocked a new item. 11%
• The Psychic Unlock Rags. 11%
• Dumb Luck Beat Brutal Orchestra 2 times consecutively. This achievement unlocks many items! 9.3%
• Health Insurance Unlocked a new item. 9.3%
• A Gift? Unlocked a new item. 9.1%
• Deep Pockets Purchase everything in a shop. 8.7%
• Head of Scribe Unlocked a new item. 8.7%
• Seeds of the Consumed Unlocked a new item. 8.6%
• Rorschach Test Unlocked a new item. 8.6%
• The Work of an Artist Complete all areas with no casualties on Hardmode. 8.5%
• Fogs' Prescience Complete Fogs' Quest. 8.4%
• The Apple Unlocked a new item. 8.4%
• So Long Liver Send LongLiver off on a journey of his own. 8.3%
• Bloodline Drinker Unmake the Unfinished Heir. 8.3%
• The Ungod's Demand Complete the Emissary's Quest. 7.7%
• Spiked Collar Unlocked a new item. 7.6%
• Opulent Egg Unlocked a new item. 7.6%
• War Criminal Deal at least 100 damage to an enemy in a single hit and win the encounter. 7.3%
• Gilded Mirror Unlocked a new item. 7.2%
• Lycanthrope's Core Unlocked a new item. 7.2%
• Russki Vampire Unlocked a new item. 7.1%
• Cremation Unlocked a new item. 6.9%
• Czech Hedgehog Unlocked a new item. 6.7%
• Pontiff's Parade Unlocked a new item. 6.7%
• Ichor's Last Wish Complete Ichor's Quest. 6.6%
• Holy Chalice Unlocked a new item. 6.6%
• Iron Necklace Unlocked a new item. 6.4%
• Divine Mud Unlocked a new item. 6.4%
• Medical Leeches Unlocked a new item. 6.3%
• Modern Medicine Unlocked a new item. 6.3%
• The Emotional Disaster Unlock a Mung? 6.2%
• You Can Do It! Unlocked a new item. 6.2%
• Ol' Stumpy Unlocked a new item. 6.2%
• Effigy of the Mettle Mother Unlocked a new item. 6.2%
• The Jersey Unlocked a new item. 6.1%
• Pain Killers Unlocked a new item. 6.0%
• Gamified Cephalopod Unlocked a new item. 6.0%
• Plot Armour Defeat the final boss without Nowak in your active party. 5.9%
• The Director's Final Frame Complete the Director's Quest. 5.9%
• Notable Skill Beat Brutal Orchestra 3 times consecutively. This achievement unlocks many items! 5.8%
• Blind Faith Unlocked a new item. 5.7%
• DDT Unlocked a new item. 5.4%
• Deworming Pills Unlocked a new item. 5.3%
• Extra Stitching Unlocked a new item. 5.0%
• Fishing Rod Unlocked a new item. 5.0%
• Nary a Finger Lifted Complete a combat encounter without any party member using an ability. 4.9%
• Worthy Successor Have Nowak be the lone survivor of an encounter with the Witness. 4.9%
• Rotund Amphibian Unlocked a new item. 4.9%
• Capital Is King Have more than 100 coins at once. 4.8%
• Mystery Ration Unlocked a new item. 4.7%
• Wheel of Fortune Unlocked a new item. 4.6%
• Burgeoning Expertise Beat Brutal Orchestra 4 times consecutively. This achievement unlocks several items! 4.5%
• Prussian Blue Unlocked a new item. 4.5%
• Fist Full of Ash Unlocked a new item. 4.3%
• Trepanation Unlocked a new item. 4.2%
• Total and Absolute Mastery Beat Brutal Orchestra 5 times consecutively. This achievement unlocks several items! 4.0%
• Decisive and Concise Defeat the final boss in under 45 minutes. 3.9%
• Someone Else's Wedding Ring Unlocked a new item. 3.8%
• Gospel's Severed Head Unlocked a new item. 3.8%
• The Cougar Unlock Shelly K. for real this time... 3.5%
• Bronzo's 2 Cents Complete Bronzo's Quest. 3.4%
• The Mistake Unlock Mordrake. 3.3%
• Sculptor's Tools Unlocked a new item. 3.3%
• The Second Coming Have the same party member die to damage dealt by the Divine twice in one encounter. 3.2%
• What the !@#$, Nowak? Why did you do that?! 3.0%
• Okay, Nowak. Seriously, Stop! It's not funny anymore. 3.0%
• Left Shoe Unlocked a new item. 2.9%
• Norris! Unlocked a new item. 2.7%
• Meatre Worm Unlocked a new item. 2.7%
• That's It, Nowak! No more Mr. Nice Guy. 2.6%
• Wels Catfish Unlocked a new item. 2.6%
• God of Phalanges, Palms and Pain Humiliate every boss by killing them with a slap. 2.5%
• Time to Die! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! 2.4%
• The Exhumed Unlock Formosus. 2.3%
• The Shyster Bankrupt Bronzo the Bastard. 2.0%
• Brutal Orchestra This longest and strangest dream comes to an end. 1.7%
• Mass Grave Matters Complete a combat encounter with at least 30 enemy casualties. 1.7%
• Mordrake's Untold Tale Complete Mordrake's Quest. 1.7%
• Royal Pine Unlocked a new item. 1.7%
• Plenty of Fish in the Desert Watch Anton's desires go down in flames... </3 1.6%
• Month of Funerals Complete a combat encounter with at least 5 party member casualties. 1.6%
• Fear of Gods Above Cause the Foundlings to flee. 1.6%
• Burn-Bottle Batch Unlocked a new item. 1.6%
• Sacred Shrub Unlocked a new item. 1.2%
• Coelacanth Unlocked a new item. 1.1%