Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Door Kickers (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Door Kickers on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Mini Metro, which both strategy, puzzle and difficult.
- Door Kickers is tagged Tactical, Strategy, Top-Down, Simulation, Action, Indie, Singleplayer, Real-Time with Pause by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 1 are from the same studio: Door Kickers: Action Squad.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Mini Metro
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Puzzle and Simulation; released around the same time (2015).
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Mini Metro at a glance Released 2015 Studio Dinosaur Polo Club Player sentiment 96% positive of 16,729 Price $9.99 StrategyPuzzleSimulationIndie2DDifficultReplay ValueTop-Down
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Why it matched: both strategy and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Strategy, Indie and Difficult; released around the same time (2012).
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
FTL: Faster Than Light at a glance Released 2012 Studio Subset Games Player sentiment 95% positive of 78,616 Price $9.99 StrategyIndieDifficultReplay ValueReal-Time with PauseTacticalTop-Down2D
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The Escapists
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Strategy, 2D and Simulation; released around the same time (2015).
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
The Escapists at a glance Released 2015 Studio Mouldy Toof Studios Player sentiment 90% positive of 16,194 Price $3.59 Strategy2DSimulationIndieDifficultPuzzleTop-Down
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Papers, Please
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Indie, Simulation and Puzzle; released around the same time (2013).
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Papers, Please at a glance Released 2013 Studio Lucas Pope Player sentiment 97% positive of 80,337 Price $9.99 IndieSimulationPuzzle2DStrategyReplay ValueDifficult
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Strategy, Tactical and Real Time Tactics; released around the same time (2016).
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun at a glance Released 2016 Studio Mimimi Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 38,415 Price $3.99 StrategyTacticalReal Time TacticsIndieRTSDifficultPuzzle
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The Escapists 2
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, 2D and Simulation; released around the same time (2017).
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
The Escapists 2 at a glance Released 2017 Studio Team17 Player sentiment 91% positive of 33,775 Price $19.99 Strategy2DSimulationIndiePuzzleDifficult
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Police Stories
Why it matched: both strategy and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Strategy, Simulation and Tactical.
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!
Police Stories at a glance Released 2019 Studio HypeTrain Digital Player sentiment 85% positive of 9,697 Price $2.99 StrategySimulationTacticalTop-Down ShooterShooter2DIndieDifficult
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SpaceChem
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Puzzle, Difficult and Indie; released around the same time (2011).
Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!
SpaceChem at a glance Released 2011 Studio Zachtronics Player sentiment 92% positive of 5,085 Price $9.99 PuzzleDifficultIndie2DSimulationStrategy
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Poly Bridge
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Simulation, Puzzle and Difficult; released around the same time (2016).
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
Poly Bridge at a glance Released 2016 Studio Dry Cactus Player sentiment 91% positive of 18,905 Price $9.99 SimulationPuzzleDifficultIndieLevel EditorStrategy
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Baba Is You
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Puzzle, Indie and Difficult.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Baba Is You at a glance Released 2019 Studio Hempuli Oy Player sentiment 98% positive of 24,536 Price $14.99 PuzzleIndieDifficult2DLevel EditorTop-DownStrategy
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Zuma
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Puzzle, 2D and Strategy.
Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it's up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.
Zuma at a glance Released 2003 Studio Oberon Media Player sentiment 96% positive of 6,806 Price $4.99 Puzzle2DStrategyReplay ValueIndieDifficultShooter
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Puzzle, Indie and Difficult; released around the same time (2015).
Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes at a glance Released 2015 Studio Steel Crate Games Player sentiment 97% positive of 17,112 Price $14.99 PuzzleIndieDifficultModdableSimulationStrategy
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Door Kickers: Action Squad
Why it matched: made by the same studio, PixelShard; both strategy; shares 6 player tags including 2D, Shooter and Simulation; released around the same time (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.
Door Kickers: Action Squad at a glance Released 2018 Studio PixelShard Player sentiment 95% positive of 10,607 Price $13.99 2DShooterSimulationTacticalLevel EditorIndie
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Legend of Grimrock
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Indie, Puzzle and Moddable; released around the same time (2012).
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
Legend of Grimrock at a glance Released 2012 Studio Almost Human Games Player sentiment 93% positive of 6,729 Price $2.99 IndiePuzzleModdableDifficultTacticalLevel Editor
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Titan Souls
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Difficult, Indie and 2D; released around the same time (2015).
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
Titan Souls at a glance Released 2015 Studio Acid Nerve Player sentiment 79% positive of 13,818 Price $14.99 DifficultIndie2DTop-DownPuzzleStrategy
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Cortex Command
Why it matched: both strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Strategy, Indie and 2D; released around the same time (2012).
Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!
Cortex Command at a glance Released 2012 Studio Data Realms Player sentiment 72% positive of 6,034 Price $19.99 StrategyIndie2DModdableDifficultRTSReplay Value
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Into the Breach
Why it matched: both strategy and puzzle; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, Indie and Puzzle; released around the same time (2018).
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Into the Breach at a glance Released 2018 Studio Subset Games Player sentiment 94% positive of 22,246 Price $14.99 StrategyIndiePuzzleTacticalReplay ValueSimulation
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Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Puzzle, Strategy and Indie; released around the same time (2018).
Help legendary horror icon Jason Voorhees stalk and slay campers across 100+ puzzle levels in a hilariously off kilter puzzle game. Jason will terrorize victims from the campgrounds of Crystal Lake to the highrises of Manhattan, from supermax prisons to space stations... and beyond!
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle at a glance Released 2018 Studio Blue Wizard Digital Player sentiment 94% positive of 6,080 Price Not listed PuzzleStrategyIndieDifficultSimulation
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Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Why it matched: both strategy and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Simulation, Tactical and Strategy; released around the same time (2010).
Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead at a glance Released 2010 Studio Bohemia Interactive Player sentiment 92% positive of 22,247 Price $3.99 SimulationTacticalStrategyShooterModdableDifficult
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Why it matched: both strategy and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, RTS and Simulation; released around the same time (2014).
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 at a glance Released 2014 Studio Digitalmindsoft Player sentiment 91% positive of 46,631 Price $29.99 StrategyRTSSimulationTacticalReal Time TacticsDifficult
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Desperados III
Why it matched: both strategy and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Real Time Tactics, Strategy and Tactical.
Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.
Desperados III at a glance Released 2020 Studio Mimimi Games Player sentiment 97% positive of 16,591 Price $39.99 Real Time TacticsStrategyTacticalDifficultTop-DownIndieRTS
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Hitman: Blood Money
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Puzzle, Replay Value and Shooter.
Money Talks. Silence Pays. Prepare to Make a Killing. When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. Sensing he may be a target, 47 travels to America, and prepares to make a killing.
Hitman: Blood Money at a glance Released 2006 Studio Feral Interactive Player sentiment 94% positive of 16,066 Price $9.99 PuzzleReplay ValueShooterDifficultStrategySimulation
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Polarity
Why it matched: both strategy, puzzle and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Puzzle, Indie and Strategy; released around the same time (2016).
Polarity takes it to the next level, demanding all of your wits and reflexes. Full-featured local co-op campaign.
Polarity at a glance Released 2016 Studio Bluebutton Games Player sentiment 79% positive of 4,668 Price $12.99 PuzzleIndieStrategyShooterDifficult
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Reus
Why it matched: both strategy and puzzle; shares 6 player tags including Strategy, Indie and Simulation; released around the same time (2013).
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
Reus at a glance Released 2013 Studio Abbey Games Player sentiment 78% positive of 5,991 Price $9.99 StrategyIndieSimulationPuzzle2DReplay Value
Common questions
What game is most like Door Kickers?
Mini Metro, on the evidence we have. It both strategy, puzzle and difficult. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Door Kickers" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Door Kickers. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
What else did the makers of Door Kickers do?
Door Kickers: Action Squad is also from KillHouse Games, and appears in the list below for that reason as well as on tag overlap.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.