Step into the neon-soaked underground of 1980s Miami as bizarre messages on your answering machine seem to be urging you to commit terrible acts of violence -- but will you obey? Hotline Miami overflows with raw brutality and skull crushing close combat as you find yourself outgunned and using your wits to choreograph your way through impossible situations. An unmistakable visual style, a driving soundtrack, and a surreal plot that will have you question your own thirst for blood. Bash and blast through over 20 multiscreen levels with 35 unique weapons and collect 25 game-altering masks in one of the darkest and most unusual independent games on the scene.
So, Hotline Miami is pretty darn great. So great, in fact, that IGN has nominated it as one of its best games of 2012. To celebrate, the fine folks at Dennaton games have dropped the price on Steam to $5. That's 50% off, if you're counting. Read More »
There's a surprising amount of Hotline Miami to play. For real, that game is way longer than I anticipated. Now, we're going to be getting a heck of a lot more of it. Originally planned as a super-sized bit of DLC, developer Jonatan Soderstrom announced that the Hotline Miami content he's been working on has become a full-fledged sequel. Read More »
The ultra-violent, ultra-stylish Hotline Miami is getting its first, story-embiggening DLC, this much we know. But did you guess that it'd be as long as the original game itself? That's what developer Jonatan Soderstrom promises. Read More »
Did you guys know that some people prefer to play their games with gamepads, rather than the mouse and keyboard? It's true! And the folks behind Hotline Miami are catering to their whims by offering a patch that adds in controller support. Oh, and there's a new level, a boiling pot of water, and a whole bunch of fixed bugs. That's pretty cool, too. Read More »
It is a rare game that dares to question why it sends us on homicidal rampages. Hotline Miami does it cleverly and subversively by casting us as a schizophrenic hitman who compulsively kills a small army of thugs for reasons even he doesn't understand. Even though it makes very little literal sense, the surreal, hallucinogenic story gives a lot more to ponder than the typical Grand Theft Auto scenario of being a bad man who kills everyone in my path to building a criminal empire. If this were a less punishing, frustrating game, I might even have loved it. Read More »
Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Publisher: Devolver Digital
Also available on: Macintosh, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita