Top-Down Shooter Starter Kit

Build your game. We've taken care of enemy AI

Create engaging top-down shooter gameplay without building enemy behavior, combat, navigation, and supporting systems from scratch.

Top-Down Shooter AI & Starter Kit provides a ready-to-customize foundation for tactical encounters with ranged and melee enemies. Use the included prototype as a starting point for a new game or integrate individual systems into an existing Unity project.

Try a Demo: Android APK

Intelligent Enemy AI

Enemies react to the situation instead of simply chasing the player. They can:

• Patrol and guard areas
• Detect and engage the player
• React to gunfire and suspicious activity
• Track the player's last known position
• Investigate and return to previous combat areas
• Use cover and attack from standing or seated positions
• Retreat and reposition
• Navigate using NavMesh
• Smoothly rotate and blend movement animations
• Validate aim before firing

Both ranged and melee enemy roles are included.

Adaptive Melee Enemies

Melee enemies can react tactically to ranged attacks instead of always rushing directly toward the player.

When under fire, they can leave the player's line of sight, search for alternative NavMesh routes, reposition, and attempt to flank before closing the distance for a melee attack.

Ranged Combat

Ranged enemies smoothly track their targets and wait until properly aimed before firing.

The weapon system supports:

• Automatic and single-shot weapons
• Shotguns
• Shell-by-shell reloading
• Reload and pump actions
• Fire-rate control
• Line-of-sight checks
• Target tracking during weapon actions
• Combat from cover

Behavior-Based Architecture

Enemy logic is organized into reusable behavior nodes with shared AI context data.

Behaviors such as Patrol, Shoot, Investigate, Retreat, Use Cover, Return to Fight Position, and Melee Flank are separated into clear conditions and actions, making the AI easier to understand, modify, and extend.

Complete Starter Systems

The package also includes the core systems needed for a playable top-down shooter prototype:

• Top-down character controls
• Keyboard, gamepad, and touchscreen support
• Shooting and melee combat
• Health, damage, and healing
• Weapon handling
• Character and level selection
• UI systems
• Transparent walls and obstacles
• Death and animation-state handling
• Patrol and cover placement tools

Easy to Set Up and Customize

Prepare the NavMesh, place patrol and cover points, configure your enemies and weapons, and start building encounters.

Detection, movement, combat, cover usage, health thresholds, and other AI parameters can be adjusted through editable components and serialized settings.

The included characters, animations, weapons, levels, effects, UI, audio, and game rules can all be replaced with your own content.

Main Features

• Tactical ranged and melee enemy AI
• Patrol, detection, pursuit, and investigation
• Last-known-position tracking
• Dynamic cover system
• Standing and seated cover
• Melee flanking
• Tactical retreat and repositioning
• Multiple ranged weapon behaviors
• Smooth rotation and directional animation blending
• Aim-before-fire validation
• NavMesh navigation
• Multi-platform controls
• Character and level selection
• Health, damage, and healing
• Transparent obstacle system
• Extendable C# architecture

Spend less time rebuilding common shooter systems and more time creating the game that makes your project unique.