Tactical Engine

Build advanced squad-based AI with ease

Whether you're building a real-time stealth game like Door Kickers, a tactical shooter like SWAT, or a strategy hybrid like XCOM, Tactical Engine provides the tools to make it happen faster and smarter.

Tactical Engine is a development system for top down tactical shooter games that provides advanced tools for the creation, configuration, and management of missions, characters, weapons, and interactions, with a high degree of customization. Its goal is to help developers build content-rich levels with varied objectives and precise control over in-game actions and events.

🔧 Core Features

• 🧠 Waypoint-based AI logic: Design and assign behavior patterns with a visual, event-driven system.
• 🗺️ Waypoint editor: Create patrols, breach points, cover systems, and interactions with full in-editor control.
• ⚔️ Modular actions: Add or customize actions like move, shoot, aim, wait, peek, breach, etc.
• 👁️ Sensor system: AI units can detect enemies using vision cones, sound, and line-of-sight checks.
• 🎮 Playable characters: Integrated system for player-controlled units with commands and responses.
• 🤖 Enemy AI controller: Create enemies that react dynamically to sound, vision, or strategic triggers.
• 🧱 Custom actions and conditions: Extend logic easily via scriptable architecture.

🚀 Ideal For

• Top-down shooters
• Tactical stealth games
• Turn-based or real-time squad combat
• AI sandbox simulations
• Rapid prototyping of AI-heavy gameplay

💡 Why Tactical Engine?

Developing robust tactical AI is hard and time-consuming. Tactical Engine removes the boilerplate and gives you a solid foundation to build complex scenarios without reinventing the wheel.

Designed to be designer-friendly, extensible, and production-ready.

🎁 Includes

• Complete source code (C#)
• Demo scene with full setup
• Step-by-step documentation
• UI panels and interaction system

This package use Third-Party content from:

Cursor Pack By Kenney

Sound Effects By Pixabay

RPGsounds By Kenney

Voiceover Pack By Kenney

free-houseplants By nobiax

Ultimate Gun Pack By Quaternius

lowpoly-fitness-characters By iPoly3D

[All Third-Party assets are under the CC0 license see "Third-Party Notices.txt" on package content]

You can try the demo at:

https://davidlambert.itch.io/tactical-engine-demo

Looking for advanced AI with visual logic, stealth support, and a full mission editor? Tactical Engine is the shortcut you’ve been waiting for.