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The Sexy Brutale

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4.3/5

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4.3

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The Sexy Brutale
Description
"Never-ending masked ball turned murderous” adventure puzzle game “The Sexy Brutale” will be the first co-production between RiME creator Tequila Works and new UK-based developer Cavalier Game Studios. Set during a single, endlessly-looping day within “The Sexy Brutale” – a stately English mansion...
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4.3/5

( 53 Reviews )

4.3

53 Reviews

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Product details
2017, Cavalier Game Studios & Tequila Works, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 (64bit) / 8.1 / 10, Intel i5-3450 @ 3.10 GHz (4 CPUs), 8 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce GTX 660, V...
Time to beat
5.5 hMain
7 h Main + Sides
8.5 h Completionist
7 h All Styles
Description
"Never-ending masked ball turned murderous” adventure puzzle game “The Sexy Brutale” will be the first co-production between RiME creator Tequila Works and new UK-based developer Cavalier Game Studios.

Set during a single, endlessly-looping day within “The Sexy Brutale” – a stately English mansion converted into a bizarre casino and named by the enigmatic Marquis – players take on the role of elderly priest Lafcadio Boone. To progress, Boone must hide, watch and learn the colorful stories of the other guests at the ball in order to save them from grisly deaths at the hands of the mansion’s staff.

By discovering the key moments and methods how each guest can be saved and gaining occult seeming powers linked to their masks, Lafcadio is able to explore deeper and deeper into the mysteries of the mansion’s past and inhabitants to uncover the truth hidden at the heart of The Sexy Brutale.
  • Unique "Groundhog Day" puzzle concept – hours of gameplay exploring a single day from different perspectives and locations
  • Watch, listen and learn until you are ready to act to save each guest from murder
  • Multiple distinct areas of the mansion to explore, each with its own scenario, characters and puzzles
  • Darkly-humorous murder-mystery story spanning the entire mansion
  • Exotic cast of characters, including 9 guests
  • Acquire special powers by saving victims to progress deeper into the mansion and uncover the secret at the heart of The Sexy Brutale

THE SEXY BRUTALE ® and © 2017. Game and software © 2017, Cavalier Game Studios Limited. All Rights Reserved. THE SEXY BRUTALE and related logos, characters, names, and distinctive likenesses thereof are the exclusive property of Cavalier Games Studios Limited. Published and distributed by Tequila Works S.L. Tequila Works ® is a trademark and/or registered trademark of Tequila Works S.L. All Rights Reserved. Unity ® is a trademark or registered trademark of Unity, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are property of their respective owners.

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Time to beat
5.5 hMain
7 h Main + Sides
8.5 h Completionist
7 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
1.2 GB

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Posted on: September 21, 2025

RiccardoZeta

Verified owner

Games: 168 Reviews: 5

Great concept and realization

The time-looping mechanism never gets old: each section of the game is pretty easy to solve, so you won't repeat the same stuff endlessly; plus, when you loop back, you get a chance to explore and discover new details, like a dialogue you hadn't heard before, a collectible or a piece of plot. Moreover, none of the instruments and abilities you collect is ever a one-trick pony, you use them repeatedly. Only pity is that from time to time you have to wait idly for the right moment to do things, and there is no speeding up. The only instance when the looping got on my nerves was towards the end: still missing a few of the collectibles, I got locked into a long cutscene. After that there was a chance to rewind so I took it, thinking that the cutscene was done for: instead, I had to go through the last part of the game again. So you all have to know this: YOU CAN GET THE COLLECTIBLES POSTGAME. Enjoy yout playthrough, and if you feel like it, go back to 100% the game later. (Shoutout to Ozzy II's video on time-looping videogames, that convinced me to try this game even though I usually don't like repetition in games)


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Posted on: September 24, 2025

Ahmn

Verified owner

Games: 278 Reviews: 111

Majora's Mask meets point and click

Overall, a very positive experience! Good music, great design, interesting little characters to eavesdrop on, varied and original environments, a story that unfolds kind of naturally. I liked how different parts of the casino were made into subsections you could choose to spawn into at reset. Negatives: very little secret content - like finding out that this guy is doing something unusual at a specific time. I think the setting gives plenty of chances for witnessing small interactions that you don't really need in order to solve puzzles etc. Most or almost all of the events will pop up during a normal first playthrough. Most puzzles are very compartmentalized into one isolated part of the casino. It would be nice if the different puzzles were not so isolated. But it would make it a lot more troublesome to solve, perhaps even frustrating. A lot more difficult to design as well. Overall, great game.


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Posted on: October 8, 2025

panurgy

Verified owner

Games: 294 Reviews: 4

Unfixed Problems

My first one star review, ever. The devs seem to have both made some terrible design choices and left some serious bugs in the game. The game doesn't allow configuration of controller/kbm and is very broken in it's implementation. There are threads about this on steam. There should be a warning that says that only controller is supported. (I'm fine with controller if forewarned, but very few games should require them.) There are save problems where saves randomly disappear. And I'm sure if I spent more time with the game I'd find more issues. As it is, I'm done.


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Posted on: December 13, 2022

slippyhippy

Games: 126 Reviews: 1

Warning regarding DualShock 4 support

(The following is all on a bluetooth adapter - not the official Sony adapter - and not via wired USB.) Despite the game having graphics for DualShock button prompts, the left stick vertical axis of my DS4 did not function. Horizontal and X button was fine, strangely. Ended up using a third party tool to emulate an XInput controller, and that worked fine. Running on Windows 10. Does not function with Steam's controller wrapper, had to close Steam for controller to work at all. Score is preliminary, I've played for just under an hour and I'll probably enjoy it. Just wanted to get a bug warning out there quickly since this'll see increased traffic on sale. I did not test wired (which I think works as DInput), I saw one review reporting that DInput's broken too. TL;DR: Strangely incomplete, broken (at least bluetooth) DualShock 4 support


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Posted on: November 7, 2022

david3907

Games: 256 Reviews: 71

Annoying

No real puzzles just repetitive spying and rushing. Game does not welcome you or provide any reason to keep playing.


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