How Many Dudes?
Butterscotch Shenanigans · 2026 · Strategy, Roguelike, Casual, Indie, Singleplayer
PC
Very Positive90% · 2,747
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About How Many Dudes?
How Many Dudes? is a roguelike dudebuilder that's all about game-breaking synergies and simulated chaos.Welcome to the Dude Ranch, where you recruit and manage your ever-expanding army of Dudes
- Choose from a wild cast of 42 Unique Dudes across 6 Dude Families: Undead Dudes, Employed Dudes, Warrior Dudes, Fantasy Dudes, Sci-Fi Dudes, and Action Dudes.
- Setup your Team to mix and match Dude Types and form ridiculous synergies - like Zombie Dudes who explode when struck by enemies, Ninja Dudes who throw a barrage of Shurikens, or Cowboy dudes who lasso other Dudes out of danger.
- More than 850,000 Team compositions means there's tons of strategies and overpowered combos to discover.
- Collect hundreds of Dude Relics that warp the rules of battle. Make your Wizard Dudes fling a volley of fireballs when they move, your Ninja Dudes enter stealth when in danger, or your Finance Dudes generate cash with a life insurance policy on your other Dudes.
- Defeat Act Bosses to earn Trinkets - powerful items assigned to a Dude Type that enable game breaking strategies. Should you give your Wizard Dudes ADHD, or give your Samurai Dudes a Taser? It's up to you!
- Choose your Dudes wisely. Each Dude has their place in battle, from dishing out damage to tanking it to commanding other Dudes. Find the right balance between offense and defense, and see if your team can make it all the way to the final act.
- Conquer boss fights that test your team’s synergy (and your sanity).
- Defeat bosses to earn Silver and Gold stars for each Dude, and see if you can master them all!
- Strategic roguelike autobattler full of game-breaking synergies
- 42 Unique Dude Types to recruit and build out your team
- Hundreds of Relics, Trinkets, and Wandering Dude events that completely reshape each run
- Three Tiers of Challenge, each with additional unique enemies and epic boss battles
- Game modes like The Daily Dude and Ensemble Mode, which allows for pre-selecting your dream team
- Infinite replayability and absurdity
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Literally never written a steam review before, This is my first one, This game is so special, Mainly because i never realized how much i loved dudes until i played this game. Dudes are the best.1 found this helpful
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fun game. reminds me of quadropus rampage for some strange reason
Really enjoy this game, and look forward to further updates. I feel like the game needs a balance patch or two, i find myself just going with the safe option rather than trying out something new because the new stuff ends up losing.
Just a fun and chill game I'm glad it didn't stay a demo forever
Very fun and satisfying incremental. A lot of depth to be had from the synergies and items and building your perfect group of dudes. The choice between the "easy" and "hard" fights is kinda irrelevant. You just go with the hard one until too many of your dudes die. There's basically no reason to ever pick the weak fight. The enemy variety is interesting but also it eventually stop mattering on long runs. Special enemy attributes only matter for the first few rounds and you only look at them if you have something that benefits from it, like an item that gives you bonuses when you get pushed back, in which case you like push back enemies, but again, its never worth it to go for the weak fight to take advantage of it if your team can do the hard one so you only care if you are on the edge of having a wipe and the hard fight has a beneficial effect. Once you complete the first few runs and go beyond tier 1 the grind becomes monotonous and its honestly more fun to stay at tier 1 and try wacky combinations rather than go to tier 2 and be pushed into stronger synergies. All in all, a great time waster and very fun incremental. You can put anywhere from 2 to 20 hours very easily …
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