Door Kickers

Door Kickers is a real-time tactics video game developed and published by Romanian indie studio KillHouse Games for Microsoft Windows on October 20, 2014, and later for iOS and Android on June 24 and September 4, 2015 respectively. A Nintendo Switch version was published by QubicGames on December 26, 2020. In Door Kickers, the player commands the SWAT team of the fictional Nowhere City Police Department in operations against criminals and terrorists. A spin-off action side-scroller, Door Kickers: Action Squad, was released in 2017. A direct sequel with more faithful gameplay, Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, was released in early access in 2020 and fully released in 2025. Door Kickers combines elements of strategy games and tactical shooters. The game is played from a 2D top-down perspective, providing a full view of each level. Gameplay is divided into three phases: deployment, planning, and engagement. In deployment, the player is given a basic overview of the level, selecting the SWAT troopers they wish to use and placing them in preset deployment positions. In planning, the game is paused, and the player is directed to plan the individual movements and actions of each trooper; the extent to which the player does this is entirely up to them, and players may freely plan basic entry, map the team's actions through the entire level, or even skip planning entirely.