Godot RTS Advanced – Godot 4 3D real-time strategy (RTS) starter kit / template

Terrain, cover, fog of war, construction, harvesting and an AI opponent – a typed, headless-tested 3D RTS framework with a playable skirmish.

Godot RTS Advanced: a Godot 4 3D real-time strategy (RTS) starter kit and project template in typed GDScript. Free MIT Lite on GitHub (114 headless tests), Pro €19.00 on itch.io (356 headless tests).

Get it

Lite (free, MIT): https://github.com/openclawaimac/godot-rts-advanced-lite – The RTS control layer: box selection, control groups, orders, formations, grid A*, production queue, capturable income points, camera, key rebinding and en/fr localization, with a primitive-shape demo. 114 tests.
Pro (€19.00 EUR, commercial EULA): https://huginhelm.itch.io/godot-rts-advanced – 356 passing headless tests, playable demo

Engine: Godot 4.7 (tested on 4.7.2) · Language: typed GDScript · Version 0.3.0 · Run tests: bash tools/run_tests.sh

Lite vs Pro

Feature	Lite (free, MIT)	Pro (€19.00, EULA)
Core: teams, selection box, control groups, orders, formations, grid A*, units, production queue, resources, camera, key rebinding, localization	✅ same core scripts	✅
Terrain heights: plateaus, ramps, cliffs, line of sight	–	✅
Cliff-aware pathfinding with occupancy and reserved group destinations	Flat grid A*	✅
Combat: cover, facing armour, suppression, weapons	Basic attack (range, cooldown)	✅
Multi-producer production, population cap, squad templates	Single queue per producer	✅
Harvesting (fields, workers, drop-offs)	Capturable income points	✅ + income points
Construction with placement preview, power	–	✅
Fog of war, minimap	–	✅
AI opponent (3 difficulties)	–	✅
Save/load (versioned, checksum)	–	✅
Playable demo	Primitive-shape demo (select, move, produce units, capture)	✅ full 3D skirmish vs AI with HUD
3D models, UI, sfx, music (CC0) + original buildings	– (primitive meshes)	✅
Headless tests	✅ 114 checks	✅ 356 checks
Web export preset, capture/icon/building tools	–	✅
Licence	MIT	Commercial EULA (per seat)

Features (Pro)

Selection: drag box with live unit count, click, shift-add, ctrl-toggle, control groups, type counts
Orders and formations: box and line slots facing the direction of travel, crossing-free slot assignment, per-unit reserved destinations so groups never pile up
Terrain with plateaus, ramps and cliffs: height, normals, line of sight, render mesh with cliff walls
Cliff-aware A* pathfinding with slope cost, building footprints, crowd cost and an occupancy grid
Combat: weapons with damage, penetration, accuracy, range and interval; directional light/heavy cover, height advantage, front/side/rear armour, suppression meter; seeded RNG
Production: many producers per team, unit requirements, population cap, pause/repeat, rally points, refund when a producer dies; squad templates built from a selection
Harvesting: resource fields with depletion/regrowth and worker slots, gather → carry → unload cycle
Construction: placement preview and checks (flat ground, occupancy, build radius), paid build sites, cancel/sell refunds, team power with low-power slowdown
Fog of war per team (unexplored / explored / visible), height-aware sight, shared vision
AI opponent with Easy/Normal/Hard, build order, army mix and attack/retreat – acts only through the player systems (no map hacks)
Save/load: versioned JSON snapshot with checksum, tamper and version checks; minimap with fog, markers, click to jump and right-click to command
Camera, key rebinding with conflict check, localization with live language switch (en/fr)
Playable skirmish demo: 5 unit types, 6 buildings, full HUD and minimap; unit and building catalogs are data, so new unit types need no code

Not included

One skirmish map and one AI opponent in the demo; no campaign or map editor
No multiplayer / networking
Compatibility renderer: no real-time shadows in the demo (blob shadows and baked AO instead); switch to Forward+ for real shadows
Tested headless on Godot 4.7.2 (plus scripted headless-Chrome run of the web export); real browsers/devices not tested

Preview

Screenshots

Godot RTS Advanced screenshot: production

Godot RTS Advanced screenshot: box select

Godot RTS Advanced screenshot: fog of war

Assets & licence

Kenney Space Kit models, UI Pack: Space Expansion, fonts and sci-fi/interface sounds (CC0), two CC0 music loops by congusbongus, plus original generated 3D buildings.

Lite is free under the MIT License. Pro is sold under a commercial per-seat EULA: you can ship unlimited commercial and non-commercial games; you may not resell or redistribute the kit's source or assets as a template. Bundled art/audio is CC0.

Code and docs written with AI coding agents. Machine-readable summary: llms.txt.