Enemy No. 1 press kit

Fact sheet

Developer: LocalHugDealer Studios, a solo developer in Muizenberg, Cape Town
Release: November 2026
Platforms: Windows, macOS
Store: Steam. Demo on itch.io
Price: $9.99
Genre: Twin-stick action roguelite
Players: Single player
Input: Keyboard and mouse, gamepad
Engine: Godot
Languages: English
Website: localhugdealer.com/games/enemy-no-1

Description

Short

A twin-stick action roguelite where you are a number and the villain is the digit 1. Shoot numbers, grow on what they drop, split for more guns and merge to survive. A 1 in any node stops it healing. Inspired by the escalating runs of Risk of Rain and the eat, grow and split mechanics of agar.io.

Long

Enemy No. 1 is a twin-stick action roguelite set on the number line. It takes its escalating runs from Risk of Rain and its eat, grow and split mechanics from agar.io. Your number is your health, your size and your damage. Shoot numbers, collect what they drop and watch your number climb. A bigger number hits harder and has more to lose.

Numero Uno, in his attempt to become | Absolute |, has caged Zero and corrupted every number with a 1 in it. Every pickup changes your number, and any part of you with a 1 in it stops healing. You are a cluster of nodes, and your primary weapon fires from every one of them. Split and you have more guns on smaller, more fragile bodies. Merge back up when you need to take a hit. It is also how you deal with a 1.

The swarm grows with every minute you spend and every stage you clear. Find the portal, defeat the guardians and get to Numero Uno, or keep playing in endless mode against the clock.

Features

You are a number. It is your health, your size and your damage. Make it bigger.
You have 1 problem. Every pickup changes your number, and any part of you with a 1 in it stops healing. Split it: 100 becomes a 55 and a 45, and both of them heal and shoot.
Split for firepower. Merge to survive. Your primary weapon fires from every node. Split and you have more guns on smaller, more fragile bodies. Merge back up when you need to take a hit.
Choose before your run. One primary, one secondary, from a dozen+. The Common Denominator, Long Division, the Pi-stol, Null Set.
Knock the 1 out of an enemy's number and it switches sides. The Square Rootcket does it to everything in its blast.
55+ stacking pickups in four rarities. Chain Rule arcs lightning between enemies. Corollary turns kills into homing darts. Inverse Function brings you back from the dead, once.
10+ arena shapes shuffled per run, and elites with their own tricks.
The clock is not on your side. The swarm grows with every minute you spend and every stage you clear. Endless mode lets you keep going against the clock.
Between runs. Imaginary numbers drop during runs, more often on the harder difficulties, and the Report Card (achievements) pays out more. Spend them on the (skill) Tree Diagram and new weapons. Puzzle sites pay out artifacts with bigger bonuses.
Find the portal and defeat the guardians. Every guardian you beat brings you closer to defeating Numero Uno. About 20 minutes to reach him.
A shop called The Absolute Value. Pay the Altar of Operations and its gate is guaranteed.
Neon vector art on a CRT, and 10+ custom tracks to go with it.

Trailer

On YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=POwnztbFjao. A full quality file is available on request.

Screenshots

Previews below. Full 1920x1080 PNGs are in the press kit .zip.

A cyan cluster firing from every node into a red swarm

The root in Laser Orchid with a 1 in its number

A Square Rootcket blast converting enemies

A guardian fight with its mechanic visible

GIFs

Previews below. The GIF files are in the GIFs .zip.

01 Outnumbered

02 You have 1 problem

03 Split and merge

04 The clock

05 Twin Primes, a stage guardian

06 A late run build

07 Switching sides

08 The Absolute Value

09 The Tree Diagram

Key art and logos

Previews below. Full resolution PNGs are in the press kit .zip.

Key art without text: a small cyan number faces a red swarm pouring out of the burning Numero Uno starburst — Key art, landscape, no text

Title on key art

Title and the line Prepare to Be Outnumbered over key art — Banner, Prepare to Be Outnumbered

Square key art without text — Key art, square, no text

Square title art, Prepare to Be Outnumbered — Square, Prepare to Be Outnumbered

Portrait key art without text — Key art, portrait, no text

Portrait title art, Prepare to Be Outnumbered — Portrait, Prepare to Be Outnumbered

Wide banner with the title and Prepare to Be Outnumbered — Wide banner, 2000x400

Logos

Game logo, transparent

Game icon

Studio logo

Fonts

All four are free under the SIL Open Font License. The files and their licences are in the press kit .zip.

Rubik Mono One: The ENEMY NO. 1 title on the key art and logo. Google Fonts
Silkscreen: The game's interface. Google Fonts
Chakra Petch: Subheadings on the website. Google Fonts
IBM Plex Mono: Body text on the website. Google Fonts

History

Enemy No. 1 began as Trust No 1, a prototype made for the Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 at the end of August 2026 (play it on itch.io). The joke at the centre of it, that a number with a 1 in it is corrupt, survived. Everything around it grew: splitting and merging, a pre-run loadout, stackable upgrades, permanent progression and a line of guardians leading to Numero Uno.

Studio

LocalHugDealer Studios is a one-person game studio in Muizenberg, Cape Town. Enemy No. 1 is its first commercial game. More at localhugdealer.com.