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The Sexy Brutale

Apr 11, 2017 Adventure $19.99
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Puzzle mystery adventure indie game built around time manipulation, The Sexy Brutale launched in 2017. Cavalier Game Studios is listed as both developer and publisher, with 4,120 Steam reviews at 92% positive and an initial price of $19.99.

Overview

The Sexy Brutale is a 2017 Adventure game developed by Cavalier Game Studios and published by Cavalier Game Studios. On Steam it has gathered 2,868 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Cavalier Game Studios with publisher Cavalier Game Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 172,000 to 402,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Sexy Brutale can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,868

Positive

92%

Steam appid

552590

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

172K to 402K

units (median: 287K)

≈ $2.0M to $4.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

172K median 402K
+ How is this calculated?
2,868 reviews × NB(100) = 286,800 median units
Factor Adjustment
base +50
year_2017 +30
price_$20 0
positive_92% +10
genre_Adventure +10
final NB 100

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Sexy Brutale at roughly 172,000 to 402,000 copies, with a median around 287,000, derived from its 2,868 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

16 observed days · window low $5.99

Across 16 observed UTC days from 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $5.99 on 2026-06-04.

$4 $13 $22 06-0406-0706-1007-1607-1907-22 2026-06-04: $5.99 2026-06-05: $19.99 2026-06-06: $19.99 2026-06-07: $19.99 2026-06-08: $19.99 2026-06-09: $19.99 2026-06-10: $19.99 2026-06-11: $19.99 2026-07-15: $19.99 2026-07-16: $19.99 2026-07-17: $19.99 2026-07-18: $5.99 2026-07-19: $5.99 2026-07-20: $5.99 2026-07-21: $5.99 2026-07-22: $5.99 2026-06-04: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-06-05: $19.99 2026-06-06: $19.99 2026-06-07: $19.99 2026-06-08: $19.99 2026-06-09: $19.99 2026-06-10: $19.99 2026-06-11: $19.99 2026-07-15: $19.99 2026-07-16: $19.99 2026-07-17: $19.99 2026-07-18: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-19: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-20: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-21: $5.99 (tracked-window low) 2026-07-22: $5.99 (tracked-window low) Tracked-window low: $5.99 on 2026-06-04

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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    $20.52 Buy
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Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 04:33 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.

Platforms

windows

Tags

PuzzleMysteryAdventureTime ManipulationIndieSexual ContentDetectiveTime TravelGreat SoundtrackStory RichSingleplayerAtmosphericStealthMaturePoint & ClickNudityDarkIsometricHorrorInvestigation

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Sexy Brutale sold?
indielist estimates The Sexy Brutale has sold between 172,080 and 401,520 units (median 286,800), derived from its 2,868 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Sexy Brutale?
The Sexy Brutale was developed by Cavalier Game Studios and published by Cavalier Game Studios.
Who published The Sexy Brutale?
The Sexy Brutale was published by Cavalier Game Studios, developed by Cavalier Game Studios. See Cavalier Game Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Sexy Brutale released?
The Sexy Brutale was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The Sexy Brutale have on Steam?
The Sexy Brutale has 2,868 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is The Sexy Brutale worth playing?
Steam players rate The Sexy Brutale 92% positive across 2,868 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Ecosystem

Players looking for games like The Sexy Brutale can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Twelve Minutes, Chants of Sennaar, The Room Two, Tangle Tower, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cavalier Game Studios's other releases and Cavalier Game Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Sexy Brutale sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Sexy Brutale page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

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