Door Kickers Action Squad

Door Kickers: Action Squad is KillHouse Games' arcade-action side-scroller spin-off of the studio's top-down tactical SWAT sim, trading the original game's deliberate top-down planning for fast, reactive side-on combat. You play a member of the Nowhere City USA SWAT, kicking through doors to rescue hostages, disarm bombs and clear out the bad guys, with the same studio sensibility about lethality and risk applied at a different tempo.

Most of the play happens in the few seconds after a breach. You pick gear before each mission, kick the door, and react to whatever the room contains — adapting on the fly, abusing distance and cover, timing reloads around recoil patterns. When the situation deteriorates you can either restart cleanly and rethink, or burn through your Strategic Abilities: deciding when to call in a healthpack, when to ammo-resupply, when to revive a downed teammate, or whether to save those resources for a stronger Ultimate later. The system rewards both careful pre-planning and decisive in-the-moment use.

Six playable characters each have unique mechanics and individual level-up paths, and a roster of more than sixty weapons and gear items supports specialised loadouts. Eighty-four non-linear levels, twenty-plus enemy types and four distinct mission objective categories provide the spread, plus a zombie invasion mode that completely changes the threat profile. Both local couch co-op and online co-op are supported throughout, and the retro pixel art is dense with detail that the wider boomer-shooter revival usually skips.