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How Many Dudes
Recruit Dudes at the Dude Ranch, build synergies across your roster, and watch your team auto-battle through escalating waves. Relics and Trinkets reshape each run as you prepare for tougher boss fights.
- 42 Unique Dudes
- 6 Dude Families
- 850,000+ Team Compositions
- 3 Challenge Tiers
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Beginner Guide
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What is How Many Dudes?
How Many Dudes? is a strategic roguelike autobattler—also described by its creators as a roguelike dudebuilder—about recruiting an expanding roster at the Dude Ranch. You choose which Dudes to add and how their roles and Families work together, then watch the team battle automatically.
Relics and Trinkets reshape abilities and stats as each run progresses through escalating waves and boss fights. Success comes from adjusting your roster and synergies as the challenges grow, rather than following one fixed team.
- Developer
- Butterscotch Shenanigans
- Publisher
- Butterscotch Shenanigans
- Platforms
- Steam / Windows; Steam Deck; iPhone / iPad; Android
- Genre
- Strategic roguelike autobattler (roguelike dudebuilder)
- Release Date
- July 30, 2026
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Start with the Beginner Guide, then use the Tier List, Characters directory, or Guides Hub for your next question.