The Cyclist: Tactics

The Cyclist: Tactics is a turn-based pro-cycling simulation focused on racing. You manage riders, guide them through races and career progression, and build your team’s prestige on the way to victory. Its races use an infinitely replayable board-game representation of professional cycling.

Race tactics

You lead your team through multi-day tours, gruelling classics and time trials across varied terrain. Use your riders’ strengths to offset their weaknesses, and manage their position in the field and use of slipstreaming to put them in place to press an advantage. Balance the resources they spend keeping up with the field against the effort of a decisive push for the win, while making sure they are not exhausted for the next day’s stage.

Build a career

Begin in the amateur circuit with a team of local riders and attract a sponsor. Good results build your team’s prestige, drawing prospective riders and more lucrative sponsors. You can hire and fire riders, scout new talent and develop them through an RPG-style progression system into professional stars.

Race across the world

The game world includes mountain passes in Hetvesia, cobblestone streets in northern Gasmea and hot time trials in the deserts of Dalluha. Intelligent procedural generation creates race stages with varied landscapes and terrain. You can conserve resources on flat, smooth roads or attack over rough cobbles while your opponents are forced to back off.