Bscotch Help & Support

"How Many Dudes?" releases globally on Thursday, July 30th at 10AM PST / 5PM UTC! Until then, you can either wishlist or pre-order it on any of the stores it releases on:

• Get "How Many Dudes?" on Steam
• Get "How Many Dudes?" on Google Play
• Get "How Many Dudes?" on the App Store

If something is definitely broken, you can report it as a bug. But we're a very small team, and most things you run into can be resolved by doing some searching and talking to other How Many Dudes players. Please respect ours and your fellow players' time: search for answers before asking for help!

• Search the r/howmanydudes subreddit
• Join the Discord
• Search YouTube and the Internet!

If you think you found a bug, first do a little investigation to see if there's already a solution out there. If it looks like you have indeed found a new bug or otherwise need our help to fix something, head over to the Feedbag and follow the instructions to report the issue, request support, or leave feedback.

If you need to provide your save data with your feedback, zip up the save folder at C:\Users\[USERNAME HERE]\AppData\Local\HowManyDudes and upload it with your feedback. This helps us track down problems much faster.

At launch, "How Many Dudes?" will be $14.99 USD on Steam (with regional pricing recommended by Valve) and $9.99 USD on mobile. Why the difference? A bunch of reasons!

• Our games go on sale really frequently on Steam (so it'll often cost the same as mobile or even less)
• The mobile stores take a smaller cut so we can pass those savings on to you.
• Prices are suppressed on mobile, so we gotta go with the flow

Plus HMD will launch with a discount on Steam, so when the game comes out it'll be the same price everywhere.

At launch we'll have 42 Unique Dudes across 6 Dude Families: Undead Dudes, Employed Dudes, Warrior Dudes, Fantasy Dudes, Sci-Fi Dudes, and Action Dudes. You'll mix and match these to get some ridiculous synergies, with more than 850,000 possible Team compositions.

So I guess the short answer is... PLENTY OF DUDES.

At launch, "How Many Dudes?" supports:

• Windows and Steam Deck via Steam
• iPhone and iPad via the App Store
• Android phones and tablets via Google Play

How Many Dudes has full cross-platform ("cross-saves") save syncing via Rumpus, so you'll be able to swap between your devices and continue right where you left off!

Yep! How Many Dudes has full cross-platform ("cross-saves") save syncing via Rumpus, so you'll be able to swap between your devices and continue right where you left off! On platforms that let us do it, anyway...

No, "How Many Dudes?" is currently not planned for release on consoles. Maybe someday after the release, but we'd have to add controller support first (a big undertaking for a game designed for a mouse!) so we'll need to know it'll be worth all of that DEVELOPMENT PAIN.

No, we do not plan to support Linux or Mac. Players can potentially emulate the game in those environments, but we will not have official builds for them.

Nope!

Nope! While the demo may be available in browsers for a while, we will not be releasing a browser version of the full game.

Yep! We've been testing it throughout development and it works great. However, it does require use of the trackpads, since the game doesn't support gamepad controls natively.

All you need is a mouse on PC or touch controls on mobile platforms. Gamepads are not supported.

On PC, the game runs as fast as your monitor and specs can support. On mobile, the frame rate is capped at 60 FPS to help with battery life and heat. "How Many Dudes?" also adapts to your hardware, so it'll still play great at lower frame rates when it needs to.

Yep! It was built in 4K from the get-go, so you'll really be able to use all those pixels on your devices. And even if you're playing on a lower-resolution screen, all those 4K assets will keep things looking sharp when they get zoomed-in on or scaled up!

Nope! It was designed as a single player game and will not have any kind of multiplayer modes. If we ever do decide to make a multiplayer version, it'd be as a totally new game.

Yep! Though depending on various production factors it may not stay up forever. Progress from the Steam demo will carry over to the full game, though! There are exactly three places to play the official demo:

• Play the "How Many Dudes?" PC demo on Steam. This is the best way to try out How Many Dudes: it's at full 4K resolution and has the best performance!
• Play the "How Many Dudes?" web demo on itch.io
• Play the "How Many Dudes?" web demo on Gx.games. This is the same as the itch.io version.

Any other demo or "free" version you find is not official, and is probably a scammer trying to put malware on your devices. Stay safe out there!

We picked the launch languages based on the top locales from our pre-launch Steam wishlists:

• English
• Simplified Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Spanish (LATAM)
• French
• German
• Russian

We hope to add more languages after launch. If it's not yet in your language, make sure you wishlist it anyway so we know there's interest!

"How Many Dudes?" is accessible to a wide range of players due to its style of gameplay, which involves making choices and then watching the chaos unfold. It doesn't require fast-twitch reactions or lots of hotkeys — in fact, it can be played with just a mouse with a single button!

We also have many accessibility options to customize the experience, including:

• Removing screen shake and bright flashes
• Larger UI elements
• Dark mode
• The ability to pause or slow the game down at any time

Yep! Ranging from easy ones you'll get just by playing, to hard ones only the most elite Dude Ranchers will get, to extremely weird ones to encourage you to try new things.

• PC: C:\Users\[USERNAME HERE]\AppData\Local\HowManyDudes
• iOS: Access through File Sharing
• Android: Not accessible without rooting the device, which we do not recommend.

I mean, probably. But it depends on how the launch goes and when you read this!