Basket Tactics

I used to play basketball manager games every day. I loved building the team, the trades, the drafts, all of it. But the actual games? You hit "sim" and see what happens. I always wanted to actually play the games.

So I built the game I wanted. Basket Tactics keeps everything you love about being a GM, and then lets you play the matches yourself, one possession at a time, in a turn-based manner.

On the court

Every possession is a decision. You pick who attacks, read the defender the CPU puts on you, chain combos, and live with the result. No auto-sim watching, you are in it. In a hurry? You can still simulate a single possession, the rest of a match, or a whole batch of games when you just want to manage.

Off the court

The full manager side is here. Sign and trade players on the market, scout and draft rookies, manage your cap and finances, build facilities, hire coaches and match their offensive and defensive styles to your roster for real chemistry bonuses, and train your players (you can even retrain their position or style).

A full season

Play a regular season, fight for the playoffs, and watch the All-Star weekend fill up based on who actually earned it that year. Win awards like MVP, Defensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, make the All-League and All-Defensive teams, and watch your players build a career, age, and eventually retire. You can set the season length and match length in the settings, and switch to Hard mode if you want the CPU to fight back harder.

In progress

90% is done, but this is a work in progress. I'm a programmer by day, so the animations are what they are for now. The gameplay and the whole management side, though, are fully done and playable.

About me

I'm a solo hobby dev with a day job, building this in the evenings. I use AI as a coding assistant so I can actually finish things in the little time I have. The ideas, the design and the direction are all mine.

I'd love for you to try it and tell me what you think. Bugs, clunky UI, balance that feels off, all of it helps. Thanks for giving it a look, and I hope you enjoy it.