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More about this game →We filtered the 50 games similar to Door Kickers down to the 21 that fit the “Melee” category. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Men of War and Stronghold 2 top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Door Kickers.
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Within the “Melee” category, the closest game to Door Kickers is Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 — scoring 63/100 on our similarity scale. Men of War and Stronghold 2 follow close behind.
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The best melee games like Door Kickers
Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Door Kickers. Each one has been evaluated across 13 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

✓ Fits the real-time strategy games cluster, with real-time strategy, deep simulation and combat tactical
≠ Stands apart with historical setting and visual third person, while skipping puzzle design
Men of War is a great real-time strategy game set in the midst of World War II. Intense battles taking place in Europe and North Africa, in which the player can fight as Soviet, Allied or German forces.
Where it drifts furthest from Door Kickers: visuals.

✓ Both are real-time strategy games — sharing real-time strategy, deep simulation and combat tactical
≠ Its own twist: sandbox freedom, sandbox world and open world exploration, while skipping puzzle design
It predates Door Kickers by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

✓ Fits the real-time strategy games cluster, with real-time strategy, deep simulation and melee combat
≠ Where it differs: brings historical setting, setting scifi and fantasy world, while skipping puzzle design
Update NotesPatch 3 not only brough more bug fixes but adds Workshop support to Impossible Creatures. Together with the great possibilities of the SDK (even with full C++ support) and the mod tools now the highest level of mod support comes with IC.
It predates Door Kickers by 11 years, with what that implies technically.

✓ Same family of real-time strategy games: real-time strategy, combat tactical and melee combat
≠ Stands apart with turn-based strategy, dark, oppressive atmosphere and fantasy world, while skipping deep simulation
Millennia ago, besieged by a Chaos invasion, a conclave of High Elf mages forged a vast, arcane vortex. Its purpose was to draw the Winds of Magic from the world as a sinkhole drains an ocean, and blast the Daemonic hordes back to the Realm of Chaos.
Released 3 years after Door Kickers.

✓ Fits the real-time strategy games cluster, with real-time strategy, melee combat and combat tactical
≠ Stands apart with strong narrative focus, setting anime and historical setting, while skipping deep simulation
An expansion to Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 that can be played without the original game. Uprising features additional campaigns for three factions: the Allies, the Soviets, and the Empire of the Rising Sun.

✓ Both are real-time strategy games — sharing real-time strategy, deep simulation and combat tactical
≠ Where it differs: brings turn-based strategy, ranged combat and setting medieval, while skipping puzzle design
It predates Door Kickers by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

✓ Both are real-time strategy games — sharing real-time strategy, deep simulation and combat tactical
≠ Its own twist: turn-based strategy, ranged combat and historical setting, while skipping puzzle design
It predates Door Kickers by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

✓ Fits the real-time strategy games cluster, with real-time strategy, combat tactical and melee combat
≠ Its own twist: turn-based strategy, dark, oppressive atmosphere and strong narrative focus, while skipping deep simulation
Far beyond the world and its petty wars there exists a dimension of pure, malevolent magic: The Realm of Chaos. It is a terrible place, incomprehensible to the mortal mind. It whispers promises of power, but to behold it is to be seduced by it. To relinquish your soul to it. To become it.
On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against very positive for Door Kickers.
Released 8 years after Door Kickers.

✓ Same family of real-time strategy games: real-time strategy, combat tactical and melee combat
≠ Its own twist: combat magic, ranged combat and fantasy world, while skipping deep simulation
It predates Door Kickers by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

✓ Same family of real-time strategy games: real-time strategy, combat tactical and melee combat
≠ Stands apart with turn-based strategy, combat magic and ranged combat, while skipping deep simulation
It predates Door Kickers by 8 years, with what that implies technically.

✓ Both are real-time strategy games — sharing real-time strategy, combat tactical and melee combat
≠ Stands apart with dark, oppressive atmosphere, setting scifi and historical setting, while skipping deep simulation
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade is a second expansion pack to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War developed by Relic Entertainment. The plot of the game revolves around the battle for the planet Kronus. Seven races fight for the colony. This Crusade can only result in the victory of one of the armies and total devastation of all others.
It predates Door Kickers by 8 years, with what that implies technically.
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