Games like Door Kickers: Action Squad
If Door Kickers: Action Squad is your kind of game, the closest matches are Police Stories, Murder Miners and BunkerZ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic atmosphere, variety of playable characters 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.
Get personalized picks →Door Kickers: Action Squad is a 2D pixel-art tactical shooter developed by PixelShard and KillHouse Games, released in 2018 at $13.99 USD. Set with an 80s action movie tone, the game emphasizes character-specialization, tactical-positioning, and enemy-interaction across varied levels. Reviewers highlight tactical-depth-in-enemy-behavior and players describe it as immersive, with a nostalgic-atmosphere drawing from the variety-of-playable-characters on offer. The game supports local and online co-op, runs verified on Steam Deck, and is described as challenging with medium-length content suited for short-burst sessions. It holds a 94% positive rating from 1997 Steam reviews.
About Door Kickers: Action Squad: Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.
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Police Stories
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Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Top pick for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!
Murder Miners
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Second-strongest match for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
The #1 rated Xbox Live Indie Game. Halo-inspired. Destructible/constructible environments. Vehicles. Zombie survival. Hookshots. Infection mode: Be the zombie & eat the dead to level up your zombie abilities. Community playdates are still hosted every week, join us!
BunkerZ
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Third-strongest match for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Claymation-inspired WWI trenches meet explosive co-op mayhem. Hold the bunker as a Rifleman, Medic, Engineer, or Machine Gunner. Fight back with WWI-inspired weapons, shovels, and flamethrowers, then launch undead sky-high with explosives. Survive solo or squad up with friends.
Police Stories: The Academy
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Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Ranked #4 for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Welcome, trainee! Use tactics and special equipment to become a true cop in the free version of Police Stories: The Academy. Neutralize criminals, search for clues and find a "rat" in the police station alone or in co-op with a partner.
Ripper
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Ranked #5 for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Ripper is a top-down shooter with fully destructible environments, fog of war, and Steam multiplayer. Break through walls, survive enemy waves, and battle your friends.
TACTICAL BANDITS
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Ranked #6 for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Dive headfirst into the chaos of a ravaged world, where survival means mastering the art of combat and outsmarting your foes. In this hardcore arcade action game, TACTICAL BANDITS, the remnants of civilization teeter on the brink, and it's up to you to chart a path through the desolation.
Quantum Joe
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Ranked #7 for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Jump, bounce and warp through 100+ levels of fun, fast-paced retro-arcade style. Complete challenges and unlock stickers to decorate your play area, build custom levels with built-in level maker and share them through Steam Workshop. Includes single player and local co-op.
Door Kickers
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Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Ranked #8 for Door Kickers: Action Squad fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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.
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HUNTDOWN
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Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
In the mayhem-filled streets of the future where criminal gangs rule and cops fear to tread, only the bounty hunters can free the city from the corrupt fist of felony. Lay waste to the criminal underworld and make a killing in this hard boiled action comedy arcade shooter.
Foregone
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Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
Fury Unleashed
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Shares an immersive mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.
Mark of the Ninja
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Shares an immersive mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
Ready or Not
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Shares an immersive mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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.
Hot Brass
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Shares an immersive mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
As an elite SWAT operator, think fast and put your tactics to the test to master a series of missions and save lives. Summon your team of up to four players in online and local co-op, or hone your skills solo. Don’t just be the best—be the best of the best.
Police Stories
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Shares a challenging mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!
Breach & Clear
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Shares an immersive mood with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Reviewers of Door Kickers: Action Squad cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Door Kickers: Action Squad at current Steam store prices.
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Priced ~64% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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Priced ~64% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~50% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Priced ~43% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~68% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Action with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~46% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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Slay the Spire
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Priced ~55% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~43% under Door Kickers: Action Squad on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Door Kickers: Action Squad.
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Frequently asked about Door Kickers: Action Squad
- Is Door Kickers: Action Squad verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Door Kickers: Action Squad 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: Action Squad cost?
- Door Kickers: Action Squad is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Door Kickers: Action Squad have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Door Kickers: Action Squad supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Door Kickers: Action Squad?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Door Kickers: Action Squad are Police Stories, Murder Miners, BunkerZ.
- Who developed Door Kickers: Action Squad?
- Door Kickers: Action Squad was developed by PixelShard, KillHouse Games and published by KillHouse Games.
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