Turncoats
TURNCOATS
Trust no one. Not even the mercenaries you pay.
TURNCOATS is a fantasy autobattler about gold, war, and fragile loyalty.
Lead a band of mercenaries through an endless series of battles. Between fights, buy equipment, arrange your formation, and decide who gets paid. Your gold is limited, and every unpaid wage damages Trust.
Mercenaries with low Trust fight worse. Push them too far, and they might permanently join the enemy instead.
Every victory offers a new contract with a tempting reward and a painful consequence. Do you take the gold and risk your team’s morale? Strengthen your soldiers at a cost? Or undermine the enemy before the next battle?
How long can you keep your team together?
Features
- Build a team from seven fantasy archetypes, each with unique abilities
- Pay wages to protect Trust or spend your gold on powerful items
- Set your battle order and prepare before automatic, simultaneous battles
- Gain enemy mercenaries through defection or lose your own to the opposition
- Choose from risky post-battle contracts
- Survive escalating enemy teams, dynamic arenas, and changing weather
- Play in English, German, or Turkish
Made for Brackeys Game Jam 16. Theme: Trust no one.
Credits
This game uses the following free assets:
- Tiny Swords (Free Pack) by Pixel Frog: character, terrain and UI art
- 400 Sounds Pack by ci: sound effects
- Free 25 Fantasy RPG Game Tracks Vol. 3 by alkakrab: background music
- Shikashi's Fantasy Icons Pack by Shikashi's Fantasy: item icons
- Weather Elements Freebie by Helton Yan: weather sound effects
Comments
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Really nice game, its looking very polished and clean. Well Done!👌🏻
That was so well done for being something I never usually play! Choosing the team and payments worked well and was surprisingly fun! Thanks for hanging in the livechat with us!
I'm not a huge fan of games like this, but if I were, I'd say the same thing: Great game, it's a job well done!
Great game and awesome leaderboard. However, making level 11 almost impossible to beat kinda sucks, but that's just a skill issue(my user is KMS). 9/10, well done!
Yeah i agree, balancing is quite hard :D We have some ideas to tackle that topic, last days we tried some of them to make it more predictable. First iterations were to easy, now to difficult but less RNG.
Nice work! This game had me hooked right away!
Couldnt figure out the recruitment. One round I got to lvl 4 never got a third guy. Another round I got 2 per level lol.
* OHHH its if you dont kill them on the battle field and they switch sides! Nice!
Honestly very fun game
While I don't fully understand how the trust system works, I love the general idea of this and how it fits into the theme of the Game Jam. Plays really nice and the art style and music are great as well.
Thanks for your feedback, that is really helpful! I will try to add some better explanations, although I have to say that it is quite hard to clearly convey what is happening with so much going on on the battlefield :D
Hi, we improved our ingame help, would be awesome if you can tell us if that solve your problem or at least if it helps somehow :)
Button is in the bottom left corner in the main menu, shop or pause screen.
That helps. But more importantly: the new health and trust bars are so much better, as are the cleaner tooltips. The game is a lot of fun. Good job!