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How Many Dudes?

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83%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
83% User Score Based on 286 reviews

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About How Many Dudes?

How Many Dudes? is a single player survival role playing game with a comedy theme. It was developed by Butterscotch Shenanigans and was released on July 30, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

Recruit a Dude army to fight ridiculous battles in this roguelike dudebuilder.

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83%Audience ScoreBased on 286 reviews
graphics10 positive mentions
grinding3 negative mentions
  • Highly addictive and fun roguelike autobattler with lots of different dudes, items, and combos to discover, offering deep build strategies and synergy experimentation.
  • Great art style, humor, sound design, and smooth performance on mobile devices, making it an enjoyable experience for short or long play sessions.
  • Well polished with meaningful progression, frequent updates, and cross-platform support, providing impressive replayability and community engagement.
  • The game becomes repetitive and slow with very long runs, and limited strategic variation especially at higher difficulty tiers, leading to boredom over time.
  • Balance issues with some dudes and relics being overwhelmingly powerful while others are useless, causing a reliance on certain combinations and frustrating gameplay.
  • Technical problems including crashes mainly after the first fight or when continuing runs, performance issues on lower-end devices, and occasional UI/usability annoyances.

  • graphics

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    77% positive mentions, 23% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's graphics receive consistent praise for their distinctive and appealing art style, which enhances the overall experience. While some find the visuals enjoyable and engaging, a few mention that the combat animations are less exciting to watch. Overall, the lovely and unique art style is a standout aspect of the game.

    • “Fun roguelike auto-battler with a silly premise and a lovely art style.”
    • “Very addicting game, the graphics are so good, it is fun and kudos to the developers.”
    • “The usual Butterscotch shenanigans humor and amazing art styles.”

  • gameplay

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 39% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions

    The gameplay offers a satisfying and addictive loop centered around team building and roguelike mechanics, though it lacks depth and discourages experimentation due to rigid team compositions. While generally praised for smoothness, charm, and challenge, some users note poor balancing at higher levels and limited active gameplay beyond deck-building decisions. Overall, it is engaging and well-received despite a few mechanical shortcomings.

    • “Once you learn the mechanics, the game doesn't have a ton of depth, but building the perfect team and destroying the bosses is incredibly satisfying!”
    • “I absolutely love the roguelike mechanics and how they're implemented, the stats, and how unhinged some builds can be.”
    • “Loving the gameplay loop and smoothness, my main complaint with the mobile version is achievements don't seem to work!”
    • “The gameplay loop heavily discourages experimentation and creativity in order to form rigid team comps that become abhorrently boring to set up repeatedly.”
    • “Looks pretty... but rubbish gameplay, literally an auto battler game.”
    • “Horrible balancing at high level with terrible mechanics to dodge.”

  • replayability

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    64% positive mentions, 9% neutral mentions, 27% negative mentions

    The game offers strong replayability due to its wide variety of characters, items, and viable combos, providing an engaging and addictive experience. While some players find it less replayable compared to top roguelikes like The Binding of Isaac or Hades, many appreciate its easy accessibility and meaningful progression. However, replay value may plateau over time, suggesting room for more content to maintain long-term interest.

    • “So many viable combos, dudes, and items, that there is basically infinite replayability.”
    • “Incredibly addictive with fantastic replayability, while still maintaining a meaningful progression system.”
    • “Still, it's an entertaining game with a lot of replay value given its wide range of dudes and items.”
    • “The game can be repetitive at times and doesn't have the same replayability as games like The Binding of Isaac or Hades.”
    • “Replayability could be better with more character types; the enjoyment tends to plateau around round 100.”
    • “Uncertain about the long-term replayability; it remains to be seen how much replay value there is.”

  • humor

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is widely praised for being clever, unique, and consistently funny, often eliciting genuine laughter. It combines well with the game's art, sound effects, and quirky style, enhancing the overall enjoyable and sometimes weird experience.

    • “The usual Butterscotch Shenanigans humor and amazing art styles.”
    • “Not only is it well thought out and keeps me laughing out loud, but the music and sound effects are unbelievable.”
    • “Between the strategy aspect to the humor I can't put it down to the point it's making me lose sleep!”

  • grinding

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game offers a relatively low-grind experience compared to similar titles, making it accessible and enjoyable without heavy meta progression. However, some players find it repetitive and lacking the replayability and rewarding progression that mitigate grinding in other games. Overall, grinding is present but not overly burdensome, though opinions on its impact vary.

    • “Extremely grindy without the perks of keeping the perks of the grind.”
    • “The game can be repetitive at times and doesn't have the same replayability as games like The Binding of Isaac or Hades, but it is fun in its own way.”
    • “It can be hard if you're new to the whole theme, and while there's not much or any meta progression, the game is not grinding.”

  • stability

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users report significant stability issues, with the game causing their phones to freeze and force close, especially after the initial round. This recurring problem often requires a device restart, negatively impacting the overall experience.

    • “I personally have re-downloaded this game 3 times after deleting it due to some sort of error where the game runs phenomenally until the first round (where you fight 10 babies) and then my whole entire phone and the system's UI freezes and only becomes responsive again after I force restart it.”
    • “It's good but it freezes my phone!”
    • “Just freezes and force closes.”

  • story

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game lacks a dedicated story mode, which some users wish for, but it remains engaging despite this. However, technical issues like crashes after the first mission or during runs affect the overall experience.

  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is highly praised for being well-crafted, enhancing the humor, and adding to the overall absurd and enjoyable atmosphere. Users find the sound effects and soundtrack to be outstanding and integral to the game's charm.

    • “Not only is it well thought out and keeps me laughing out loud, but the music and sound effects are unbelievable.”
    • “Bscotch makes another incredible game, from the music to the sheer absurdity of each dude and trinket.”

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game's optimization struggles when rendering large numbers of mobs, leading to potential performance issues in crowded scenes. Improvements in this area are needed for smoother gameplay.

    • “Optimizations could be better when rendering large number of mobs.”

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Players appreciate the developer's genuine approach to monetization, expressing willingness to support their authentic work in contrast to the prevalent AI-generated, cash-grab games.

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Play Times

500h Median play time
500h Average play time
500-500h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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How Many Dudes? is a survival role playing game with comedy theme. Common tags for How Many Dudes? include turn-based, indie, trading, roguelite, cartoon and others.

How Many Dudes? is available on PC, Phone, Steam Deck, Windows and others.

On average players spend around 500 hours playing How Many Dudes?.

How Many Dudes? was released on July 30, 2026.

How Many Dudes? was developed by Butterscotch Shenanigans.

How Many Dudes? has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked How Many Dudes? for its graphics but disliked it for its grinding.

How Many Dudes? is a single player game.

Similar games include 9 Kings, SNKRX, Slice & Dice, Dungeon Clawler, Astronarch and others.