Door Kickers
BANGER · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 8h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 70 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Door Kickers 2: Task Force North ($24.99, scores 88) and FTL: Faster Than Light ($1.99, scores 89).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $41.05. It costs $19.99.
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 11 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 479 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 970 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
8 hours to finish it, 38 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
74% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Door Kickers scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/248610/door-kickersThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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