How Many Dudes?

Feels spiritually more like an idle game than an auto battler with how much waiting you do. Long runs. Incredibly easy for almost the entire run except last couple of fights which you get to after an hour or so. Even if you haven't lost a dude the entire and have easily taken every high-risk option, you can still get wiped without any idea of what to expect. Conceptually, I like it, but runs need to be half the time with more interesting difficulty variation throughout.

Legit a mindless idle game where it feels like you don't really know what is happening, because the abilities and units you get just cluster into a massive ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pile of minimally animated overlapping images. I can't recommend this, not even for people that like idle games. It is so boring and the humor is basically non-existent. The whole thing this all even is based on is joke of "how many dudes can take on *insert thing*"; it doesn't have a simulator aspect of it where that is even what you feel like you are actually facing up against. The things are legit just statblocks with a picture on them; it is basically watching an Excel Spreadsheet do a calculation over a long period of time where you can hit a button that says "add +10 back to my good numbers" or "remove 15 from the bad numbers".

Its too simple, too easy, and the gap between good dudes and bad dudes is too vast. You'll do a single run with clerics, Frankenstein's and paladins and it'll trivialize the entire game so badly that you're just left wondering why you bothered. On the other hand, most of the dudes are just unsalvageable junk cannon fodder that really are pointless. There aren't enough interesting interactions between dudes or roster order or the gear you equip. It just becomes a roulette wheel to see if you can generate enough healing and mitigation to plow the game completely.

Unfortunately, the game gets boring very quickly. The depth of the game feels somewhat artificial to me. It gives you the impression that you are playing different builds with different items, when in reality, the main thing that differentiates your runs is the Dudes themselves. What makes this worse is that, in the long run, you will eventually get all the character-specific items for each Dude anyway. For the price of the game, I would definitely expect the Dudes to have different subclasses or meaningful alternative build paths. The first ~30 rounds are fun because you are still experimenting and trying to figure out which combos work together. After that, however, I basically just pick the hardest fight available and buy the next relevant item for whichever character needs it. That completely takes away the incentive for me to play another 120 rounds. The decisions about which enemies to fight also don't feel deep enough. There aren't enough situations where I genuinely have to consider which opponent I should choose and how that decision will affect my build later on. Because of this, the game doesn't really feel like an auto-battler to me. It feels more like Cookie Clicker with auto-battler elements. The battles are automated, but the decisions you make beforehand simply aren't deep enough to support the genre. After the first 30 rounds, I no longer feel like I'm actually building something or making meaningful strategic decisions. I'm mostly just clicking the next optimal option. Overall: The core idea is fun and the first few hours are enjoyable, but for a game at this price point, I expected significantly more strategic depth. More meaningful subclasses, genuinely different build paths, and much more interesting decisions when choosing opponents would make a huge difference.

i saw this ♥♥♥♥ happen in a bojangles parking lot once

数值拉跨的不是我兄弟，是路人。什么叫路人？就是你既不是我的朋友，也不是我的兄弟，也不是我的敌人，我们不是一家人。

From demo to actual launch this game was awesome. From concept to design to the ability to replay, this game is the new standard. Highly suggest buying, but, not all games are for all people. At least give the demo a try even if this style is not in your preferred genre.

To preface this review, I love the game, great music and the gameplay is tight However after a few (20) hours of gameplay the game would, on boot, create driver timeouts on my AMD card that would eventually ripple onto every game and eventually black screen my whole OS. Three days of troubleshooting, DDU/ACU while offline and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around bios and settings and the same factor remains that this starts happening when the game boots and triggers a catastrophic driver corruption that usually need a clean reinstall of said drivers. I'm not sure if its something in my settings or my save but Its currently unplayable for me in its current state which is quite sad since I quite loved the game so my negative review is for the people with the same specs that I do/RX 5000 series card users.