Nobody wins alone.

Just No One — that's what they called us. Not heroes. Not legends. Just a ragtag mob of viking, baggers, sumos, and the occasional zombie who wandered into the wrong camp.

Trust No Empty Stomach

is a top-down auto-battler where you build your crew, manage your economy, and watch your team brawl through endless waves of enemies — without lifting a finger in combat. Strategy happens in the shop. Chaos happens in the arena.

You're not the hero. You're the coach.

Features

  • Auto-combat — drop your fighters and let them handle business
  • Shop phase — buy new characters, grab stat-boosting items, or activate powerful abilities between waves
  • Gacha recruitment — roll for new team members and build your ideal roster
  • Wave survival — waves get harder; your team needs to get smarter
  • Corn economy — every kill earns, every wave rewards, every bad round costs you

How to Play

The Loop: Each run alternates between two phases — Shop and Arena.

Shop Phase

  • Browse 4 random items for sale — buy characters, stat boosts, or active items
  • Hit Reroll (costs Corn🌽) to refresh the shop offers
  • Spin the wheel to recruit new fighters
  • When your team is ready, hit "Start Wave"

Arena Phase

  • Your characters fight automatically — sit back and watch
  • Characters seek the nearest enemy, attack in range, and find a new target when one dies
  • Win the wave → earn Corn🌽 as reward
  • Each enemy killed also drops Corn🌽

Items

  • Stat Boosts — permanent passive upgrades applied to your whole team
  • Active Items — activate with keys 1–4 during combat for a burst effect
  • Character items — spawn a new fighter directly onto the field

Hungry Fighters = Angry Fighters Your team needs Corn🌽 to eat at the start of each Arena phase. Run out of Corn → characters go unfed → they get angry → angry enough and they switch sides. Feed your team.

Tips

  • Drag characters around the arena to reposition them before the wave starts
  • Keep enough Corn buffer to feed everyone next round
  • A dead ally makes teammates angrier — protect your weakest fighters

Controls

Input Action
Drag
Click item slot
Right-click item
1 / 2 / 3 / 4
Reposition a character
Use item
Sell item
Activate hotbar items in Arena

Made for Brackeys Game Jam — Theme: "Just No One"

Updated 13 hours ago
Published 2 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
AuthorDannyplusplus
GenreStrategy
Tags2D, Deck Building, Indie, Roguelite, Singleplayer, Top-Down
ContentNo generative AI was used

Download

Download
Trust No Empty Stomach.zip 40 MB

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