Every Door Kickers game, ranked
All 2 Door Kickers games we hold, spanning 2014 to 2018: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 20,664 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Door Kickers: Action Squad (GamingPickz Score 7.9), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Door Kickers (2014) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The Door Kickers games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Door Kickers games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Door Kickers: Action Squad
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.9GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceDoor Kickers: Action Squad at a glance Released 2018 Studio PixelShard Player sentiment 95% positive of 10,607 Critics No aggregate Price $13.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 0.1 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 95% shrinks to 94.6 on 10,607 reviews, giving 7.9. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 0.1 GB.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Door Kickers at a glance Released 2014 Studio KillHouse Games Player sentiment 94% positive of 10,057 Critics 83/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 2 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 94% shrinks to 93.6 on 10,057 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
What the data supports- Cloud saves and cross-platform play, so progress follows you between machines.
- Small install at 2 GB.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Door Kickers game we can score is Door Kickers: Action Squad at 7.9. The lowest is Door Kickers at 7.9, a 0.0-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Door Kickers: Action Squad at $13.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Door Kickers: Action Squad, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Door Kickers entries on Steam:
- Verified: Door Kickers: Action Squad
- Playable: Door Kickers
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Door Kickers games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Door Kickers series, game by game
Every Door Kickers game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2014
Door Kickers
7.9Door 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. (Steam)
Reception
Reception Door Kickers was positively received by critics. Rock Paper Shotgun stated that " Door Kickers is a smashing top-down tactical masterclass, with enough missions to shake a nightstick at, randomised enemy placements to add further variety, and a bundled level editor allows devious designers to create their own maps and missions … Door Kickers is a complete package of planning, panicking and policing". Indie Statik proclaimed that "... (Wikipedia)
- 2018
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. (Steam)
Reception
Reception Door Kickers was positively received by critics. Rock Paper Shotgun stated that " Door Kickers is a smashing top-down tactical masterclass, with enough missions to shake a nightstick at, randomised enemy placements to add further variety, and a bundled level editor allows devious designers to create their own maps and missions … Door Kickers is a complete package of planning, panicking and policing". Indie Statik proclaimed that "... (Wikipedia)
Door Kickers, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Door Kickers vs other series
How Door Kickers stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Door Kickers games are there?
We hold 2 Door Kickers games in the catalogue, released between 2014 and 2018. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Door Kickers game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Door Kickers: Action Squad rates highest at 7.9. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Door Kickers games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2014 to 2018. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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