Rank 01Why this
Shares squad management with Door Kickers.
- $24.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- Deck Verified
- 2025
The closest matches to Door Kickers: Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, Police Stories, Door Kickers: Action Squad, Men of War: Assault Squad 2, and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
Rank 01Why this
Shares squad management with Door Kickers.
Rank 02Why this
Also Top-Down Shooter and Tactical, like Door Kickers.
Rank 03Why this
Same challenging mood as Door Kickers.

Why this: Also Real Time Tactics and RTS, like Door Kickers.


Why this: Also Real Time Tactics and Tactical, like Door Kickers.

Why this: Also Real-Time with Pause and RTS, like Door Kickers.

Also Real-Time with Pause and Real Time Tactics, like Door Kickers.

Players highlight
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.

Why this: Same intense mood as Door Kickers.



Why this: Same challenging mood as Door Kickers.
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Door Kickers at current Steam store prices.

Why this: Also Real Time Tactics and Tactical, like Door Kickers.

Why this: Also Top-Down Shooter and Tactical, like Door Kickers.

Why this: Also Real-Time with Pause and Real Time Tactics, like Door Kickers.

Why this: Same contemplative mood as Door Kickers.

Why this: Also Real Time Tactics and RTS, like Door Kickers.

Why this: Also RTS and Tactical, like Door Kickers.


Free games the recommender matches to Door Kickers, limited to titles with at least 500 Steam reviews and 80% positive.

Why this: Also Top-Down Shooter and Tactical, like Door Kickers.



Why this: Also Real Time Tactics and Tactical, like Door Kickers.
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

Why this: Shares squad management with Door Kickers.

Why this: Same challenging mood as Door Kickers.

Why this: Also Real Time Tactics and RTS, like Door Kickers.
The closest matches to Door Kickers: Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, Police Stories, Door Kickers: Action Squad, Men of War: Assault Squad 2, and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Door Kickers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, Police Stories and Door Kickers: Action Squad — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and intense, and single out its mission randomization and pause and execute. 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.
Door Kickers is a 2014 top-down tactical strategy game developed by KillHouse Games that tasks players with planning and executing SWAT room-clearing operations. The core gameplay loop centers on squad management, strategic planning, and real-time execution with pause functionality, where mission randomization and adaptive RNG keep scenarios fresh across replays. Players describe the experience as challenging, contemplative, and intense, with reviewers highlighting how the top-down perspective effectively teaches close-quarters combat theory. The absence of narrative focus allows pure tactical gameplay to drive engagement, as plans must adapt to dynamic chaos during missions. Available for $19.99 USD, the game runs at a playable level on Steam Deck and maintains a 93% positive rating from over 3,600 Steam reviews.
About Door Kickers: 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.
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“I don't have fun playing this. I suppose it's just not my genre, and the controls combined with the game design make for a bad experience.”
“The idea of this game is great and I loved it in the beginning. The problem here is the mechanics of planning, I'm not sure if it's bug, but very often when I needed to change a route a little bit, I had to remove it completely and make…”
People who play it also play: Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, Police Stories, Door Kickers: Action Squad
Door Kickers is also on Google Play and App Store. What the store pages declare:
On our lists: Pay once, no in-app purchases
Door Kickers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
Door Kickers is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Yes — Door Kickers supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Door Kickers are Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, Police Stories, Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Door Kickers was developed by KillHouse Games.