How Many Dudes?

How Many Dudes? Review: Exploding-Dude Roguelike From the Crashlands Studio

Forty-Two Dudes, Six Families, 850,000 Teams and the Rules Bent Every Run

The loop is autobattler by way of a Dude Ranch: recruit Dudes by posting wanted flyers, assemble a team from six families — Undead, Employed, Warrior, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Action — and send them into rounds where they fight on their own while you watch the synergies fire: Zombie Dudes explode when struck, Ninja Dudes throw shuriken and stealth when hurt, Cowboy Dudes lasso allies out of danger. Hundreds of relics warp the rules; act bosses drop trinkets assigned to a Dude type — and the listing counts more than 850,000 team compositions. The pitch is game-breaking, and the fans agree: an August 3, 2026 App Store five-star has the time fly trying combos; a September 14 Play five-star calls it constantly replayable as long as you change strategy; a September 7 review says it is worth the money, up there with Balatro. It shipped on Steam the same day.

Long Runs, Unreadable Fights, and Balance the Critics Cannot Forgive

The two-star reviews are specific and come from people who liked the studio's last games. A September 4, 2026 App Store two-star titled Not up to Butterscotch's standards — finds outcomes hard to read, so success and failure have no visible cause, the unlock system awkward and tedious, and runs much longer than they should be. A September 3 Play two-star agrees it becomes repetitive fast, that balance is a major issue whatever the team, and that 105 rounds for a gold star is not engagement; a September 10 two-star calls many characters borderline useless while others are overpowered, so the same teams recur. A September 14 three-star says once you have seen one run you have seen them all, because it is hard to tell what is happening on screen. An August 6 three-star with 100-plus hours says the late game becomes balancing characters and buying every item.

$9.99 on iOS, $7.99 on Android, Nothing Else — and Offline

The price is the whole model: $9.99 on the App Store and $7.99 on Google Play, paid once, with no advertising and no in-app purchases; the Play listing's $0.99 to $99.99 item range is an artefact. Google's data-safety card declares nothing collected and nothing shared, and Apple lists no tracking. A September 2 App Store five-star calls it a great example of what mobile games should be — complete, not designed around ads or microtransactions — and an August 22 review says it is the first decent iOS game in years with no loot-box, subscription trash in sight. It is offline, per a September 7 reviewer who plays it at work. The iOS build is 278 MB and asks for iOS 18 or later, on iPhone and iPad; Android needs 8.0; nine languages; rated Teen and 13+. Two months in it shows 100,000-plus installs and 1,160 reviews at 4.3 on Play, 125 App Store ratings at 4.6. Prices are regional.