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Riceguy · Published by Riceguy
Content notice: This game features fictional warfare.
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Improvised Tactics is a single-player RTS focused on individual soldiers in a battlefield environment. You can command units directly or take control of them to achieve your objectives. The game offers multiple modes to keep gameplay fresh.
Action, Indie, Strategy, Early Access · More free games
Explore diverse battlefield scenarios as you command units or lead them directly in Improvised Tactics, an early access indie RTS. Experience multiple modes that ensure each playthrough offers new challenges and strategies.
About this game
Improvised Tactics is a single player game where you lead a small army to victory!
There are several features that let you control your army. You can tell your units where to go or play as them for a boots on the ground experience.
Improvised Tactics will offer three game modes.
Conquest Mode:
In Conquest Mode you are fighting a resource war in a grid based world map. You can customize your soldiers and squads. You may also invade enemy territory to get stronger although beware you can be invaded as well.
In the overview map you must build infrastructure to support and raise your army! Using your resources, you can build an economy to buy weapons and equipment.
Sandbox Mode:
In Sandbox Mode you are able to use the unit customization features of Conquest Mode in a free setting. The sandbox maps are designed to put your custom units against enemies in arenas.
Scenario Mode:
In Scenario Mode you are given objectives that you must complete. You are given money that you can use to buy units to help complete your job. Some scenarios involve you defending against enemy waves, while in other scenarios you are on the offensive and you must destroy enemy objectives.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
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Improvised Tactics Demo - Build 14.0
ːsteammockingːThis is a huge update for the demo! Almost every part of the game has been touched in one way or another. There is so many changes so I am only going to focus on the biggest modifications for the most part. Expect changes that are not listed.Conquest battlesConquest procedural generated maps have been completely reworked. Instead of islands connected with bridges, there are now forest with lakes, villages and enemy outpost littered around.Conquest battles now use the objective system of Scenarios mode.Conquest battles are lost when all friendly units are deployed and dead.Gunplay tweaksRunning and gunning is much easier now. There is no more weapon sway from animations.The aiming reticle when controlling units is now much more accurate (keep in mind that there is bullet deviation). Cover changesCover is now directional (units can take cover on different sides of most cover objects).Cover should be more stable and less buggy.Friendly units will have a purple path showing their path to reach cover. This path is visible even when the unit is not selected.UI reworksNew 3D retro mini mapButtons and text are now modular.Buttons have animations.Button sounds have been modified.Almost all UI menus have been remade or heavily modified.New text font.Bunch of changes in the backend so new UI can be implemented faster.VisualsClouds are now in the game.Post process effects have been tweaked.Some materials such as bricks can now be shiny under certain circumstances.New tree models.Some maps have been adjusted slightly and in different ways.FixesConquest notifications have been fixed (hopefully).Sensitivity should feel better now.A bunch of other stuff that I have not kept note of. That's all, Have a good one!Read full article on Community Announcements (Riceguy)AnnouncementsOfficial
Improvised Tactics Demo - Build 13.0
ːsteammockingː Another demo update should be playable! This update is a major step in the right direction, many issues and shortcomings have been addressed. Visual Changes Fog has been adjusted in all levels.Changes in saturation and color gradients to most materials.Objects farther from the camera are now desaturated (except human currently).Slight Camera FOV changes.Grass now sways in the wind.When units are shot, the blood decal will grow over time. There is also a blood spurt effect (purely visual).Selected units will now show their movement path.New settings UI.The Main Menu and Conquest modes backgrounds are much brighter.The Main Menu now has neat effects and filters.General fixes and changesChanged how accuracy works, units can now shoot next to themselves without missing.When playing as a unit, the aiming reticle will change colors depending if you are aiming at a friend or foe.Units should be much more optimized, using less computing power just to exist.Units now rotate their bodies based on movement direction.New settings option: CelShade. Turning it off makes lighting more realistic. (I recommend turning CelShade on for now).Slight ragdoll changes.Unit navigation should be less flawed now, units shouldn't get stuck on each other as much now.Conquest mode in general should be more stable.Slow MotionWhen pressing L-Alt when playing as a commander or unit, slow motion will be enabled.Slow motion currently has no limit.Slow motion when playing as a unit will cause the unit to have less bullet deviation. Conquest Market/shopProduction has been removed from the game (likely to return in the future). Items that had to be produced such as accessories and improvised guns can now just be bought.Buying and selling equipment is now in the same menu.Reworked market UI.Conquest Mobilization changesThe construction and mobilization of your army is now much more flexible, the old system forced units to have a specific weapon or accessory depending on the template save, ...Read full article on Community Announcements (Riceguy)AnnouncementsOfficial
Improvised Tactics Demo - Build 12.0
ːsteammockingːA new update for Improvised Tactics should be playable now!Unit CustomizationUnit Customization changes:The new customization system is more flexible and scalable ːsteamhappyːInstead of cycling through customization options, a new menu will appear, the menu will show all available options with the objects name and imageYou can now color all clothing items to any color you would like using the color wheelYou are now able to delete soldier saves or squad saves in both the soldier creator menu and squad creator menu, the squad manager menu has been removed due to redundancy Unit save slot changes: The left side of unit customization UI is where you can manage save slots, there are two tabs, the soldier tab and the squads tab, the tabs will show your soldier and squad saves respectively The + button will add the soldier save to the squad creatorThe i button will show the squad save in the squad creator (any changes will not effect the original squad save)The / button will delete the saveConquest settingsWhen creating a new conquest game, you are able to tweak modifiers to enhance your experience Gun Prices - How much weapons costBuilding Space - How many slots territories have that you can build inLow Resource Grace - The impact towards your societal collapse meter when low on resourcesResource Demand - How much resources your greedy population wantsWorld size - How large the world map is (this does not effect the map size of battles) Animation Tweaks:Units that are under player control in third person mode should have different movement animations, the new animation should make running and gunning easierUnits that are under player control in first person mode will no longer play movement animations, this makes idle shooting and shooting while moving identicalGeneral changes and fixes:Removed the ugly blue tint from the game Sensitivity should feel more balanced when possessing a unitAll weapons in the game have had their stats tweaked, all guns do a littl...Read full article on Community Announcements (Riceguy)
