How Many Dudes? The Roguelike Autobattler

How Many Dudes? The Roguelike Autobattler

Fair · Strategy · 2026

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.1h
Value
$7.14/hr
Reviews
89% positive
It needs 46% off ($8.05) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Last discount ended
8 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$7.14
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
3,140 reviews, as of Sep 27
Released
2026

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB Video Memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

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.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement6% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$7.14/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length2.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds13 of 627 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.74. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 64 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Levelhead ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Idle Research (free, scores 57).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 627 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 12 of 296 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 491 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

96% start to 6% finish
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Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 2.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Players

701 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 01:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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How Many Dudes? The Roguelike Autobattler scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3934270/how-many-dudes-the-roguelike-autobattler
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperButterscotch Shenanigans
PublisherButterscotch Shenanigans
GenreStrategy
Released2026
Achievements69