Door Kickers similar games & best alternatives

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Door Kickers

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2014

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Deep tactical gameplay with planning and execution
  • Extensive content with missions, campaigns, and workshop support
  • High replayability with mission generator and modding
  • Realistic swat tactics and squad management
  • Strong progression and customization systems

Things to keep in mind

  • Simple graphics and minimal narrative
  • Some ui and control frustrations
  • Occasional ai quirks and rng elements
  • Limited multiplayer and social features
  • Price considered high by some players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Door Kickers 2: Task Force North

  • Firefight

  • Dead Grid

  • Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

  • First Feudal

  • Lock 'n Load Tactical Digital: Core Game

Less social

Games that feels like Door Kickers but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Alien Shooter TD

  • Xenonauts 2

  • Breach & Clear

  • Xenonauts

  • Templar Battleforce

  • Rebel Cops

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Door Kickers but with less leadership over others

  • Intravenous 2

  • ZED ZONE

  • GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath

  • ZERO Sievert

  • Intravenous 2: Mercenarism

  • Iron Fisticle

More fantastical

Games that feels like Door Kickers but with more imaginative fiction

  • Mechs V Kaijus - Tower Defense

  • Heroes of Hammerwatch II

  • The Escapists 2

  • Chromosome Evil

  • Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

  • Subterrain: Mines of Titan

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Door Kickers: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Competition, Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026