Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami
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Game2015
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Developer Dennaton Games
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a 2015 top-down shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place before, during, and after the events of Hotline Miami (2012), focusing on the background and aftermath of the massacres committed against the Russian mafia in Miami by Jacket, the protagonist of the previous game. The player takes on the role of several characters,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
457 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
328 positive · 42 negative
95% range 85–91%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 328 | 42 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 22 | 6 | 56 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
26,978 of 29,336 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
89% recommend · 233 yes, 30 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 263 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (75,919 of 80,660 positive).
Many players find the game bigger and more chaotic than the first, with mixed feelings on the level design. [1][2][3] The soundtrack and story are widely praised, with some calling the narrative ambitious and emotional. [4][5][6] Some reviewers complain about unfair deaths from off-screen enemies and frustrating difficulty. [1][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
This is an interesting game. I think anyone who enjoys Hotline Miami 1 should try it. *I* enjoy Hotline Miami 1. I hate this game, and it hates me, and never have I played a game where it feels like the designers hate me too, personally as a human, as much as this. Whereas Hotline Miami 1 is a tightly paced, no-fat, game that is greater than the sum of its parts. Hotline Miami 2 is a game that is, by volume of …
- [2]
I went into Hotline Miami 2 expecting to love it the same way I loved the first one. The first game completely took over my brain. Short levels. Clean layouts. Brutal but fair. When I died, I knew why. Wrong Number is different. Bigger, louder, way more chaotic. Sometimes that chaos feels great. The soundtrack is still insane and when the music kicks in and you clear a room perfectly, that rhythm is still there. But …
- [5]
Hotline Miami 2 is an extremely ambitious game that has also really earned my respect. The story itself is far more ambitious than the first game as there are multiple different characters with intersecting storylines told in a non-linear fashion, requiring attention to piece together what it all meant. This approach also gives a lot more varied gameplay and different level theming to experience. I think the ending …
- [12]
This one is interesting. So having played Hotline Miami to death I immediately played Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number upon release and while I didn't hate it, I certainly wasn't in awe of it. Now fast forward 10 years and having completed both games again in span of 2 days, I am leaning on saying I prefer the 2nd one. Let me elaborate a bit. So in terms of gameplay Wrong Number is so much superior and while it's easy …
- [1]
It scales up the original's freewheeling carnage considerably, but the larger stages also mean constantly getting shot by enemies I can't even see.
Summarised from 34 of the 337 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number sits at 89% positive across 370 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number received generally positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, it holds an aggregated score of 74 per cent based on 67 reviews for the PC version, 75 per cent based on 18 reviews for the PlayStation 4 version, and 66 per cent based on 4 reviews for the PlayStation Vita version. The gameplay received a mixed response from critics, who felt the narrative ambition generally led to larger and more challenging levels. Alex Carlson of Hardcore Gamer found this made the level design feel more realistic and diverse. Steven Burns of VideoGamer felt that the game's ambition fell to the "bigger is better" trope, criticising it for not granting the player as much freedom…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 457 · most liked firstthis game has given me a deep hatred for fat people, doors, and dogs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It scales up the original's freewheeling carnage considerably, but the larger stages also mean constantly getting shot by enemies I can't even see.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today Hotline Miami 2 is the greatest game that has ever been made. Tomorrow I’m going to draw worms again.
positive · AI labelView post →I went into Hotline Miami 2 expecting to love it the same way I loved the first one. The first game completely took over my brain. Short levels. Clean layouts. Brutal but fair. When I died, I knew why. Wrong Number is different. Bigger, louder, way more chaotic. Sometimes that chaos feels great. The soundtrack is still insane and when the music kicks in and you clear a room perfectly, that rhythm is still there. But it isn't as tight. Some levels feel too open and sometimes you get shot from…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9/10 More intense than the first one, better soundtrack, more gore, more violent all the good stuff from the first game but more. Definetly recommend getting it and to those who never played Hotline Miami get the first game first.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an interesting game. I think anyone who enjoys Hotline Miami 1 should try it. *I* enjoy Hotline Miami 1. I hate this game, and it hates me, and never have I played a game where it feels like the designers hate me too, personally as a human, as much as this. Whereas Hotline Miami 1 is a tightly paced, no-fat, game that is greater than the sum of its parts. Hotline Miami 2 is a game that is, by volume of content substantially MORE than Hotline Miami 1, but ends up being much lesser…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you've played 2019 action game Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes then you may already have some Outfoxies in your life SUDA51 was a fan of Namco's game & added in an Outfoxies t-shirt, along with lesser known games like Jet Set Radio, Zelda 2 & Hotline Miami 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami 2 turned 10 years old! The game still feels brand new!
positive · AI labelView post →yeah man it's pretty fun. if having fun is being subjected to infinite pain and torture. like the first one but the story is better and the gameplay is worse. they very clearly and shamelessly went for quantity over quality in this installment. there are more levels, more characters, more floors, more enemies to murder. everything is larger, but seldom is it better. and perhaps this part is less of a universal experience with this one, and maybe i am simply fueled by rage in this regard, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami 2 is an extremely ambitious game that has also really earned my respect. The story itself is far more ambitious than the first game as there are multiple different characters with intersecting storylines told in a non-linear fashion, requiring attention to piece together what it all meant. This approach also gives a lot more varied gameplay and different level theming to experience. I think the ending was perfect given what the franchise set out to do, and I found myself thinking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Allow me to preface this with some clarification: I like this game, I like it a lot, but I don't think it's nearly as satisfying to play as the first game, this game is great in most aspects, but it has 1 glaring issue: It's just too damn big. The maps are almost twice as large as Hotline Miami 1, and if they aren't, they have multiple floors or stages or some ♥♥♥♥, and it makes the game feel so much worse as a result, in Hotline Miami 1 I can run from room to room punching ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline MIami 2 is a good game but rage inducing, if you want to 100% this game then prepare to get a live castration with no anesthesia and performed by a homeless guy in the alleyway
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ALRIGHT, VOID GANG! TONIGHT, I'm FINALLY gonna finish the post credits for the first game (after a 3 year hiatus) and then we're starting HOTLINE MIAMI 2 ! See ya in a few hours -> twitch.tv/alphenavt 3PM PDT / 6PM EDT / 11PM BST / 12AM CEST
neutral · AI labelView post →This might just be the greatest game of all time. The fast-paced gameplay, the difficulty, the Gunplay, the characters, the story, and oh my god, the soundtrack. This game proves that sometimes, less is more. A game which makes you yearn for a continuation of a story of which you know there can be no more. Underappreciated.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it has a lot of things i like more than the first game, but it's insanely difficult and linear level design with one way solutions and open areas where you are always dying by an off screen enemy completely ruined the game for me unfortunately
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The amounts of glass and enemies with guns basicaly kills the entire melee combat and makes later chapters really annoying to deal with. The story is good tough.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Choose 20 games that greatly influence you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 13: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015) #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky
neutral · AI labelView post →---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Free Fire ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ All ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just got all my progress ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deleted, 10/10 game. i deserve this for hurting other people.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some of the gameplay changes from Hotline Miami 1 are quite welcome (like the tighter gameplay focus, increased enemy variety and unique level attributes), but there are a whole host of new quality of life issues: ~ Some levels are unnecessarily dark for purely aesthetic reasons, making enemies hard to see. ~ The wide-open map design encourages enemies killing you from offscreen. ~ Doors are even jankier when interacting with enemy AI, made worse by slower executions that ruin your combo (which…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds." and like "You are the blood." and like thick skinned Manny Pardo but like ♥♥♥♥ that fat tub of lard Jake tho and ♥♥♥♥ martin brown and ♥♥♥♥ first trial and ♥♥♥♥ the Russian mafia and ♥♥♥♥ jake and ♥♥♥♥ jake and and and and and and ♥♥♥♥ jake i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate jake
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →!!NON-FISHING POST!! This #randomgamesaturday I'm showing off Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, a game that I really wish had an easier to find physical copy! Most seem to prefer the first game, but I think the sequel is nearly perfect and is a beautiful response to the reception of the first game!
positive · AI labelView post →I may not love this game as a game, but as a piece of art it's one of the ballsiest things ever made.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →boot up the game press new game friend tells me theirs a pilot i do pilot i grape a teen i kill for 27 levels
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Silent Hill f has been refused classification from the Australian Classification Board, meaning the game cannot be advertised or legally sold in the country. Silent Hill f joins a host of other banned games including Hotline Miami 2, Mother Russia Bleeds, and HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT to name a few.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up... A game that entire gameplay is just a bloody massacre, for some reason was able to make me ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cry with its ending! Maybe I'm just taking things too seriously... 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mfs really made the genocide achievement to drag out the play time. Fun game, love the style, and story. There's also a well made fan dub on youtube, check it out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This one is interesting. So having played Hotline Miami to death I immediately played Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number upon release and while I didn't hate it, I certainly wasn't in awe of it. Now fast forward 10 years and having completed both games again in span of 2 days, I am leaning on saying I prefer the 2nd one. Let me elaborate a bit. So in terms of gameplay Wrong Number is so much superior and while it's easy to go from HM1 to HM2, I feel going from HM2 is straight up downgrade. A lot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The video game meme is going around so I'm just going to talk about games I liked. Hotline Miami 2 is the sequel to Hotline Miami and it ends the world, because America is a rancid metastasis that can only end in an orgy of violence. You have killed over and over again for this. This is your reward.
positive · AI labelView post →This game has made me want to blow my brains out multiple times but somehow it is the best game ive ever touched.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A disappointment in nearly every way. The new levels aren't ever as good as the original, the new masks are annoying, you're forced to use certain characters in most levels, and getting killed by offscreen enemies happens way too often. About the only improvement is the soundtrack which maintains the original's beyond stellar track list.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The story is bigger compared to the first game with multiple playable characters and overlapping stories that try to build a larger plot. On the gameplay side, the levels often feel wider and more chaotic. I had to spend more time creeping, hiding, peeking and trying to bait enemies rather than rushing in. It felt less like playing an action game and more like tiptoeing through a trap. But when you manage to clear a room cleanly by chaining together a run without dying, that feeling of flow…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Story is quite confusing but I stayed for the gameplay and the music. You play the game for the music. Also ♥♥♥♥ the doors.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami 2 is an absolutely great game. In gameplay Its weaponplay is unique, its levels are well designed, and it allows for you to choose between characters before each level. Now, some of the characters are just reskins of eachother and don't really have truly unique mechanics which is something to note for sure but it doesn't allow for you to pick from every character so what can you really do? Its storytelling is also great, I haven't finished the game yet but I am pretty far into it.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I released a mod that let's you play through the entire Hotline Miami 2 main campaign as the protagonist from the first game
neutral · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami 2 is a fantastic game. The gameplay is exhilaratingly addictive, and the soundtrack is simply a masterpiece. Every moment, every situation with every different character is insane. The music is motivating. This is a difficult game where you die repeatedly, but you learn from your mistakes. It's not Souls, but it's comparable in terms of difficulty. The mechanics in this game are unique, the combat is very fluid, and I love the narrative and the game's pacing. It's...inspiring...…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A perfect sequel to a perfect game, and while it ended on a bittersweet note, the game lives on with its replayability and level editor.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game overshadows the previous narrative about the one-dimensional masked maniac from the first game with the extremely sophisticated, bone-chilling, spine-tingling, skin-thickening criminal case of the "Miami Mutilator"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami 2 OST is better than the original game.
positive · AI labelView post →[NOW LIVE] 🔴 IT'S TIME TO DOUBLE OUR PHONE BILL AND ALL THE LOCAL HOSPITAL BILLS! We're finally getting into Hotline Miami 2, or as I like to call it "Carpenter Brut tracks and the cool game packaged with them" COME BATHE IN THE BLOOD & NEON! www.twitch.tv/moviecowboy [🎨: @/n0lenka.bsky.social ]
neutral · AI labelView post →Even better than the original game and is also more hardcore. It's not as janky and killing enemies is still super addictive, there's many different player characters with their own gameplay style and there's workshop support with many great custom maps
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first. My biggest complaint is that it's too inconsistent with with it's own design. When it plays fluidly and what I mean by that when you get a good combo or momentum going it's fun. When you're getting caught on sharp corners, enemies staying stagnent, get locked into an execution animation it can get rather frustrating. That was acceptable for the first game but not for a sequel. When trying to get A+ on a level it would be nice if I could just restart…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heres mine too Overrated could honestly be switched out for Cyberpunk 2077, but I feel like Hotline Miami 2 is the biggest one I think of. Some of these could be swapped too though cuz fav music and fav artstyle is a hard pick.
negative · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami 2 feels like someone took the first game, dumped it into a blender, added three extra scoops of lore and said trust me bro. The levels are bigger, the enemies are meaner, and half the time I’m convinced the game is side eyeing me for missing a shot. When it clicks, it’s that perfect flow state where you’re basically speedrunning your own bad decisions. When it doesn’t, you’re respawning so often you start to feel like a Soulsborne streamer doing a no‑hit run. It’s messy, stylish,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →potentially my favourite game of all time with for sure the greatest videogame soundtrack of all time
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not far into the game yet, but it definitely feels like Silksong doesn't respect my time, if it's from long runbacks or needing to grind shards for my tools... someone told me they "Hotline Miami 2'd it", made a game that expected only those sharpened from HK, which makes the early game painful.
neutral · AI labelView post →Seems like while Australia doesn't export that much bad stuff, the stuff that does get exported somehow manages to be even worse than other places, for some reason. Collective Shout is a group of TERFs, and Murdoch... well we don't need to talk about him. And also another bad thing Australia exported was videogame censorship, like the time they banned Hotline Miami 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →Multicore series 25 - Hotline Miami 2 my absolute favourite game, ever. theres so much i adore about it i could go on for hours on end, and i dont know what it would take to dethrone it from my number 1 spot. #mubart #multicore #hotlinemiami2 #hlm #hlm2
positive · AI labelView post →I remember the first time I played this game. My friend and I were into payday and we got this game as part of a dlc bundle. Shortly after we stopped playing payday and I was looking through my libary for something to play. This game. Booted it up and spend like 1 hour and half on the first mission. I was not ready for the post level vibs and i quit the game Horrified at myself. It upset me so much that I didnt want to play again. A week later I played it to completion. and have kept playing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished Hotline Miami 2 earlier. That's a haunting ending alright But also that final level is an experience unlike anything else. What a wild fucking ride. Honestly, I think I'm gonna replay this game a few times, I think it's riddled with details that are easy to miss
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When you play Hotline Miami 2 it is the worst game ever made but once you finish Hotline Miami 2 it is one of the best games ever made, only beat by Hotline Miami 1 Hard mode is legally classified in the United States as a self-harm device. I have no idea why you would do this to yourself. I'm only three levels into hard mode and my eyeballs have ruptured from sheer rage
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami 2 comes out the same year. I love the first game. I love the second game. My name is in the credits. You might know me under my alias "Anyone who made fanart" in the special thanks section. The pleasure was all mine. But this song, "Untitled" plays on the title screen.
positive · AI labelView post →Way more difficult than the first one but adds more characters and more personality than it already had, Polishing some and completely adding new ones. It even adds a comic for even more context. It wraps off the whole story with a nice bang ! (Literally). OST is decent mostly hits and some misses (Like the Subway OST imo). For casual players it should be decent enough to scratch that fast paced action itch but be warned that 100%'ing is like passing a kidney stone. Still a decent addition for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the levels are not fun at all, spent too much time trying to tell myself that i was having fun
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once you've played Hollow Knight and Hotline Miami 2 you'll never stop wanting to atomize all indie game fanbases
neutral · AI labelView post →Imma keep it real, the base game campaign of Hotline Miami 2 is horrible. The story is great, but the actual game design is atrocious. The beauty of Hotline Miami 1 in it's gameplay was its fluid sense of freedom when it came to dealing out violence the way you want. A lot of player expression is allowed giving you a very powerful sense of freedom. Hotline Miami 2's campaign basically takes that away. And it sucks. Most of your time with this game will be spent inching forward ever so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Peak, 10/10. The game knows what it wants to be and nails it in every way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami 2 is nothing short of a masterpiece, but for far bigger reasons than it being a really fun top-down arcade shooter, no the reason this game is incredible and I can never stop thinking about it is that it is a shining example of developers having principles and sticking to them, to this end Hotline Miami 2 is so good expressly because it HATES its audience. lets start with the gameplay, the game ramps up the difficulty of the first ten fold over its playtime, not feeling fit to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Better than its predecessor in nearly every way, save for some structural and level design qualms. Bleaker, bolder, and more deliberately complicated/frustrating sequels aren't just good, they're necessary for the lifeblood of the artform. Get a grip!
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