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CasualIndieStrategyRoguelikeSimulationSingleplayer2DRoguelite

How Many Dudes?

How many dudes does it take to beat up a gorilla? A thousand toddlers? A horse-sized duck? A GOD? Enter the Dude Ranch and find out in this roguelike dudebuilder where you recruit an army of dudes to fight ridiculous battles.

Developer
Butterscotch Shenanigans
Publisher
Butterscotch Shenanigans
Franchise
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Release date
Jul 30, 2026
Store page updated
Aug 26, 2026
Price
−20% $14.99 $11.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

77.2/ 100

Based on 447 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 87% of 462
All time 😄 Very Positive 89% of 3,041
“charming and funny for the first 10 hours”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.03
Strategy +1.72
“near endless combinations with unique dudes and items” (83)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+1.16

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

World +2.84

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
-0.41
Volume -0.24

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.14
Visuals +2.65
“polished and humorous game” (24)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+3.14

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +3.29

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-0.67
Balance -2.43
“every choice is trivial, no meaningful decisions” (50)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
+0.52
Developer support +1.09

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Jul 30, 2026Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 457 reviews, peak 31/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 447 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English66%
  • Chinese25%
  • Korean2%
  • German1%
  • Spanish1%
  • Japanese1%
  • Other4%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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