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Games like Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

If Door Kickers 2: Task Force North is your kind of game, the closest matches are Door Kickers, Victory Banner and Diplomacy is Not an Option — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campaigns offer meaningful choices, mods unlock insane possibilities and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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Door Kickers 2: Task Force North is a top-down tactical military simulator developed and published by KillHouse Games. Released in 2025 at $24.99 USD, the game tasks players with commanding Special Ops teams in campaigns against a terrorist network, featuring squad management, realistic damage systems, tactical planning mechanics, and mod support. Players describe the experience as challenging, intense, and contemplative, with campaigns offering meaningful choices and missions feeling like high-stakes puzzles. Reviewers highlight that tactical planning matters more than reflexes, while players note mods unlock significant variety and contribute to near-infinite replayability. The game supports online co-op, runs verified on Steam Deck, and holds a 96% positive rating from over 7,600 Steam reviews alongside an 84 Metacritic score.

About Door Kickers 2: Task Force North: Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".

2025ActionStrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 84Windows · macOSby KillHouse Games
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North — Steam game cover
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Steam players who put hours into Door Kickers 2: Task Force North also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Door Kickers

    WHY THIS

    Shares squad management and an intense mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Top pick for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Victory Banner

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of World War II in this real-time historical strategy game. Command a frontline company, make critical strategic decisions, and take direct control of any soldier or vehicle. Every decision comes at a price. What will be yours?

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Diplomacy is Not an Option

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Third-strongest match for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Welcome Back, Commander

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Ranked #4 for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads . Good luck Commander!

    2025StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Steel Division: Normandy 44

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Ranked #5 for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.

    2017ActionStrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Broken Arrow

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.

    2025Strategy49.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Total War: THREE KINGDOMS

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Ranked #7 for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.

    2019ActionStrategy59.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wargame: Red Dragon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Ranked #8 for Door Kickers 2: Task Force North fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Ready or Not

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. XCOM® 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Reviewers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Shares mod support and a challenging mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Reviewers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. SWAT 3: Tactical Game of the Year Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Reviewers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Uncompromised duty, honor and valor.

    2017ActionSimulationViolent9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. SWAT

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Combines FPS & TPS. It puts players against some of them. And the winning team gets points and coins. There are 3 game modes. There are many weapons to pick up.

    2021ActionMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Reviewers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.

    2015ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Door Kickers 2: Task Force North at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Door Kickers 2: Task Force North on Steam right now. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers 2: Task Force North.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

Is Door Kickers 2: Task Force North verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Door Kickers 2: Task Force North is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Door Kickers 2: Task Force North cost?
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Door Kickers 2: Task Force North have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Door Kickers 2: Task Force North supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Door Kickers 2: Task Force North?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Door Kickers 2: Task Force North are Door Kickers, Victory Banner, Diplomacy is Not an Option.
Who developed Door Kickers 2: Task Force North?
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North was developed by KillHouse Games.

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