Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Game
Game2012
Hotline Miami
Developer Dennaton Games
Hotline Miami is a 2012 top-down shooter game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. Set in Miami in 1989, the game follows an unnamed silent protagonist—dubbed Jacket by fans—as he commits massacres against the local Russian mafia. In each level, the player must defeat every enemy through any means necessary, with wearable animal masks providing the player with unique abilities. The plot… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
585 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
92
LovedLoved
401 positive · 37 negative
95% range 89–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 401 | 37 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 28 | 3 | 77 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 18 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 16 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
49,920 of 51,817 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
90% recommend · 246 yes, 28 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 274 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (124,741 of 128,848 positive).
Players praise the game's soundtrack, visuals, and addictive gameplay loop. [1][2][3] Some find the difficulty punishing and the controls frustrating. [4][5][6] Many consider it a classic with a thought-provoking story. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
I can see why this game is considered a classic, but it just isn't for me Hotline Miami is extremely fast-paced and punishing. Enemies react so quickly that it feels unbalanced on many occasions (even though I know it's more of a skill issue on my part. Dying in a split second constantly exhausts me really fast and the rating at the end frustrates me aswell, feels like the game is judging you on top of already …
- [7]
I put off playing Hotline Miami for far too long. Despite knowing of its impact and legacy in the indie scene and being a fan of top-down action, I always passed up the game in my mind as being just a gore fest. While it's a very violent game, it also serves as a deconstruction of violence in video games as a whole, which ended up really earning my respect. Do you like hurting other people? Who are leaving messages …
- [3]
Hot damn this just has a retro arcade visual style mixed with easy to pick up hard to master mechanics, its addictive, fast paced, and delightfully frantic. Even though you die in one hit (unless you take someone hostage), the quick respawn system keeps the experience from ever feeling frustrating. The story is surprisingly strong as well, exploring our relationship with violence a thought provoking and even forward …
- [11]
Hotline Miami is the gaming equivalent of chugging an energy drink, tripping over your own feet and still somehow looking cool doing it. The soundtrack slaps, the violence is stylish and the “one more try” loop hits harder than a baseball bat to the face. A chaotic, neon‑drenched fever dream I happily failed my way through. [9/10]
- [1]
The sleazy neon haze, garish colors, and hypnotic soundtrack pull me into a trance. Wearing an animal mask and leaving humanity behind, I lose myself in a fever dream of neon, violence, and blood.
Summarised from 34 of the 407 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
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Hotline Miami sits at 92% positive across 438 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Hotline Miami received generally positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Metacritic, it holds an aggregate score of 85 per cent based on 51 reviews for the PC version, 87 per cent based on 19 reviews for the PlayStation 3 version, and 85 per cent based on 27 reviews for the PlayStation Vita version. Several reviewers praised the gameplay. Many found it enjoyable, considering it addictive despite frequent death. Polygon's Chris Plante considered it similar to playing a sport, stating that it compensated for being repetitive by allowing the player to restart quickly, and found it addictive. Graham Smith of PC Gamer wrote that the game was designed to "inspire a fever" and…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 585 · most liked firstThis game was gifted to me in 2016, by a guy that used to be my friend. After gifting me the game, he proceeded to write to my ex and bang her. Bros and hoes are momentary, Jacket is eternal. 10\10, made me relive the trauma after all these years
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →just saw someone refer to Hotline Miami as an old game and my back started hurting
neutral · AI labelView post →Man Finally Gets Around to Playing the Game the Hotline Miami Soundtrack is Based On
neutral · AI labelView post →Summer Game Fest predictions: Resident Evil 9 Arc Raiders shadow drop Final Fantasy IX Something Nintendo Hotline Miami 3 Hotline Miami VR Hotline Miami RPG Hotline Miami MMO Hotline Miami Battle Royale Hotline Miami Kart Hotline Miami VN Hotline Miami RTS Hotline Miami Farm Sim
neutral · AI labelView post →Rose is ready to lock in! I reached GoD in Tekken last week and I really wanna see if I can’t push farther so we’re going for GoD1 today! Then we’re playing Suit for Hire after, a Max Payne meets John Wick meets Hotline Miami game that looks fun Live on twitch!
neutral · AI labelView post →I can finally stop larping, now time to make edits of jacket with payday 2 voicelines
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If Hotline Miami 3 isn't announced we riot. Summer Game Fest Watchalong starts NOW! twitch.tv/linktothepabst
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's first bite: Sonokuni. A Hotline Miami-inspired game (they're very open about the inspiration) made by a Japanese indie hip-hop group turned indie game dev team. Deeply trippy fragmented biopunk setting, odd story, and beats that go hard. It's also kicking my ass all over the place on Normal
neutral · AI labelView post →The next game I'll be playing is Ape Out! ngl I don't know a lot about this game 😅 I've heard that it's similar to Hotline Miami, but I haven't played that game either, so I can't use it as a reference 🤣 the cover looks cool tho, and it's fun to jump into games blind, so I'm excited to play it!
neutral · AI labelView post →Sonokuni is a surreal biopunk Hotline Miami developed (and soundtracked by) by Japanese hip-hop group turned game-dev team Don Yasa Crew. Offbeat game design, very weird setting, and no guns. Instead, you kick people to death, and punt bullets back at enemies. Some Ikaruga-ish boss fights too.
neutral · AI labelView post →webfishing last week was real fun, now it's time for a completely different animal people game! tonight we're playing HOTLINE MIAMI. let's figuratively and literally eat that horse. we're live 🐔☎️🔗👇🏻 www.twitch.tv/sulfurouspia...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami is a cool game but why so much violence? They should make hotline miami but with guinea pigs and they spread love and kisses or something
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 →The sleazy neon haze, garish colors, and hypnotic soundtrack pull me into a trance. Wearing an animal mask and leaving humanity behind, I lose myself in a fever dream of neon, violence, and blood.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →store.steampowered.com/app/3124230/... HOTLINE MIAMI LIKE WITH THE GOD OF DEATH AS YOUR PAL AND HE'S HOT AAA AAA this game looks great?
neutral · AI labelView post →Toby's song "Into the Mind", originally made for YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, also appears in the crossover fighting game "Cross Impact", meaning Toby's music has appeared with well known indie characters like V1 from Ultrakill, Jacket from Hotline Miami, and Jumbo Josh.
neutral · AI labelView post →are you sure your game needs a post death runback for lost currency???? is the fact that you lost to the boss not enough punishment? Are you fucking sure??? Are you sure you're better than Hotline Miami??? Just be real with me are you sure you're game has a hotter flow than Hotline Miami
neutral · AI labelView post →The other game for sickos that dropped today (and that seemingly nobody has touched - 0 reviews so far) is Sonokuni. Weird parry-heavy Hotline Miami-like by a Japanese indie hip-hop group turned indie game dev team.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very fun game i wish they added a naked mod for this game so i could see jacket running around killing people naked
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PSA: OTXO and Sol Cesto are this week's Epic Store giveaway games. Two stylish roguelike gems that could not be more different. One is Hotline Miami in a cursed hotel. The other is a unique game of skewed probability management. store.epicgames.com/p/otxo-396b8b store.epicgames.com/p/sol-cesto-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished @posmnaut.bsky.social 's Game, and Twice too! Overall a good balance of Silly, Kinky, and Horror Elements, Nice Hotline Miami Vibes, and Love the endings, for sure worth the cash and time investment! Images from the endings but I don't wanna spoil anything, Play Donuts for Deer Teeth!
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished Katana Zero, a "kill-everyone-in-the-room" style game that scratches a big Hotline Miami itch for me. It feels a little incomplete though, apparently there's a huge amount of free DLC coming for it, but there's no release date set.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game reminds me of the time i ordered cookies but i got a chicken mask and a note about getting a briefcase
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami is a rhythm game, and the rhythm you're keeping up with is the blood pumping in your ears.
positive · AI labelView post →i also played Pigface - very cool ps2-core game with great ragdoll Tamashika - It's a Hotline Miami-style game but with 900% more shaders Baby Steps - the new Bennett Foddy (and co.!) thing. really funny. can't wait to see the next 30 asset flips it inspires on NL streams next year
neutral · AI labelView 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 →[Spoiler] Day 409 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (The Last of Us Part II). Today's game is some more of The Last of Us Part II. I made it to day 3 in Seattle and apparently we're going down to the Sea. I'm excited because i'm a big ocean fan (even if i can't swim), so i'm eager to see ND's vision of the ocean.  This sewers…
neutral · AI labelView post →The other day my randomly assigned college freshman roommate reached out wanting to catch up and I filled him in on where I'm at and he said "Whoa! A Devolver Digital company?? Nice! Did you work on Hotline Miami???" Dude that game came out... when we were... in school.... living together..
neutral · AI labelView post →I put off playing Hotline Miami for far too long. Despite knowing of its impact and legacy in the indie scene and being a fan of top-down action, I always passed up the game in my mind as being just a gore fest. While it's a very violent game, it also serves as a deconstruction of violence in video games as a whole, which ended up really earning my respect. Do you like hurting other people? Who are leaving messages on your answering machine? Where are you right now? And the final question: Why…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really cool game, like a cross between Hotline Miami & Deus Ex, all taken to the extreme.
neutral · AI labelView post →After playing this I learnt I don't like top down shooters, but the music is a 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a puzzle game in disguise. Once you get good enough you forget that you are killing people. This is one of my favourite games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami turns 13 today! It taught me that doors are deadlier than guns and chickens are terrifying. and I hate it for making me die 67 times in the same room like it’s a toxic relationship I refuse to leave
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hot damn this just has a retro arcade visual style mixed with easy to pick up hard to master mechanics, its addictive, fast paced, and delightfully frantic. Even though you die in one hit (unless you take someone hostage), the quick respawn system keeps the experience from ever feeling frustrating. The story is surprisingly strong as well, exploring our relationship with violence a thought provoking and even forward thinking concept for its time. The visuals have also aged incredibly well.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just finished this absolute gem of a game. I seriously recommend it ! If you enjoy Hotline Miami-like gameplay, you’re gonna love this. !🍩❤️🦌
neutral · AI labelView post →The Ingredients to my game -Hotline Miami -Diablo -70's pulp fantasy paperback covers -Conan the Barbarian #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Completed: Katana Zero Can't believe I slept on this game. Action packed gameplay with vibes reminiscent of Hotline Miami in a way, killer OST with several bops I actually really enjoyed the story as well, and the presentation of it all is awesome. I am now joining the DLC wait train.
neutral · AI labelView post →After the game, I stopped rejecting calls from other people's numbers
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My favorite cozy game? Probably Hotline Miami
positive · AI labelView post →"You need a crystal ball really to predict any of this stuff" - an indie game health check with Hotline Miami and Enter the Gungeon's Devolver Digital www.eurogamer.net/indie-game-h...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami was one of those games I picked without any information about it. Picked it up only because I'd heard the soundtrack and wanted to find out what the game was about. What I was not expecting was finding out it would be one of my favorite games ever. At first, picking up the game, it's pace and understanding the controls can be somewhat confusing, but in the long run, you start to get the feel of it, start rushing into rooms and planning strategies of attack and, in a sort of way,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →thread of game concepts that I've worked on that keep me up at night on how I should revisit them. 2/? Hotline Miami but you can only use the mouse for everything.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's good for relieving stress and for generating more stress
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I started replaying Hotline Miami yesterday and god I forgot how fun this game is!! I love my top down 80’s senseless murder simulator!!! Maybe after this I’ll try and actually finish HM2!
positive · AI labelView post →AHHHH HOTLINE MIAMI IS A TOP TIER GAME!!! downloaded it with zero expectations and it blew me away with how chaotic, addictive, and challenging it was!!! If you love pixels, top-down shooters, colors, chaos, and pure dopamine.. PLAY IT! 1000000/10 game!
positive · AI labelView post →Literally nothing in videogames can excite me as much as a new game by Hotline Miami creator Jonatan “cactusquid” Söderström. He posted some sneak peaks from a new game he’s working on with three of his friends. I cannot stop looking at these. Help.
neutral · AI labelView post →TLOU2 has a Hotline Miami easter egg and now it’s my favorite game ever 💁♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →Biker was a funny Hotline Miami character because he was just killing for the love of the game and was pissed off that he was getting dragged into an ultranationalist plot
neutral · AI labelView post →this game should be preserved in the library of congress it only ages better with time so ahead of its time
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so addicting the stroy is great but not easy the only bad thing about is i was left wanting more
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hotline Miami, the fabulous indie game that practically taught me the hard way not to be overconfident. The controls are very basic and easy to manipulate, but the game itself is difficult to master. Its gameplay can be either somewhat calm or very frantic depending on how you use it. Its story will truly blow your mind, but what makes it even more legendary is its frenetic pace alongside a soundtrack that's on another level, the soundtrack motivates you to learn from your mistakes and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Romero Games' canceled Xbox title "was nothing like Hotline Miami" says Brenda Romero.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami 2 turned 10 years old! The game still feels brand new!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami (90% off, $0.99) - speaking of must-play, pocket change is all you need to spend to experience one of the most mesmerizing, intense, and influential games in history. I always find myself coming back to this ultra-violent, melee-based, top-down twin-stick-me-do. Soundtrack is god-tier.
positive · AI labelView post →Hotline Miami is the gaming equivalent of chugging an energy drink, tripping over your own feet and still somehow looking cool doing it. The soundtrack slaps, the violence is stylish and the “one more try” loop hits harder than a baseball bat to the face. A chaotic, neon‑drenched fever dream I happily failed my way through. [9/10]
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You should all check out Donuts for Deer Teeth! A fun Breast expansion Hotline Miami kind of game! You might even see Leslie in it. ;3
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome. Buying this game is not a mistake. It's fun, interactive, and has one hell of a story. The characters in the story are much more complex that I had thought. Give the game a chance, its on sale as of writing this, and even when its not on sale, its a must buy, especially since the second game is a hidden masterpiece.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How do people describe our game: (from actual Steam reviews!) - Hotline Miami meets Japanese folklore - Gruesome and visceral with a banger OST - Highly recommended for sickos (yes really) #SONOKUNI #gamedev #indiegamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →actually peak, i love the story, and the sounds and visuals are on fire. top 5 games of all time
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game saved my life, i was in crippling debt until i discovered this miracle. Suddenly i was blessed with 50k dollars from no where, all of my mental issues were solved, my parents got a brand new mansion and 3 cars to the hotline miami devs, thank you for saving me
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