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Tropes used in Hobo Wars include:

• Acceptable Break from Reality
• Anti Poop Socking: Most in-game actions require Awake, which replenishes over time. Players can use the premium currency to buy more Awake, but only up to a limited number of times per day.
• Artistic License: food can be made from and separated into unpalatable ingredients. For example, the Junior Mints are made with chocolate ice cream, Altoids and a bottle of lye.
• Bag of Holding: There appears to be no limit on how much stuff can be put in the player's backpack.
• Booze-Based Buff: Many of the mixed drinks give the player a temporary status effect that gives them special abilities. Being very drunk also allows the player to dodge some blows, as well as hit the opponent in a "very sensitive" area, doing additional damage. It also increases the chance at which skills are fired.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Players can use the hospital to fully heal themselves at a small cost. Losing to other players does decrease the win rate, but a high win rate has no benefits other than allowing the player to enter Bernard's Mansion for free.
• Hobo: Duh!
• Money Sink
• Parody: The three adventures are based on The Lord of the Rings, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Apocalypse Now.
• Rare Guns
• Rule of Funny
• Secret Test of Character: The end of the second adventure.
• Shout Out: Lots