Games like Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
If Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hotline Miami, APE OUT and Bloodroots — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hypnotic, stressful and tense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a 2015 action indie developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. Players review the level editor as extending replayability indefinitely, while character-switching reveals distinct playstyles and personalities across its campaign. Reviewers describe the nonlinear narrative as only making sense after multiple playthroughs, with the synthwave soundtrack cited as dictating emotional highs and lows throughout. Players describe the experience as hypnotic, stressful, tense, and unsettling. The mechanics include character-switching, hardcore difficulty modes, level editor support, nonlinear narrative revelation, and one-hit-kill combo pressure. The game is verified on Steam Deck, currently priced at $14.99 USD, and holds a 92% positive rating from over 24,000 Steam reviews.
About Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.
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Hotline Miami
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Shares a hypnotic mood with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Top pick for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
APE OUT
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Second-strongest match for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
Bloodroots
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Shares a hypnotic mood with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Third-strongest match for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.
Murder Inc
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Ranked #4 for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Murder Inc is a top-down adrenaline-fueled shooter where time moves only when you do. Use this to dodge bullets, plan your attacks, and craft action scenes worthy of a blockbuster.
Bad Business
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Ranked #5 for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Bad Business is an extremely challenging top-down tactical shooter game where Mr. Bunny Rabbit, a hitman for the Mob, has been tasked to neutralize the rival Gang. A hard task for any organization, an impossible task for a hitman.
Bullet Noir
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Ranked #6 for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
In the vengeance business, you leave no loose ends. Four characters scour the city, searching for their mentor's murderer in a brutal ballet of bullets. Stylish neo-noir top-down shooter with one-hit-one-kill mechanics.
Deathopolis
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Ranked #7 for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Deathopolis is an arcade style fast paced shooter. Take on a series of rooms collecting prizes and clearing out waves of enemies using guns and power-up abilities.
The Hong Kong Massacre
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Ranked #8 for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
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Max Payne
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Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
PAYDAY 2
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Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
Hotline Miami
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Shares a hypnotic mood with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Katana ZERO
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Shares a hypnotic mood with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
APE OUT
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Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
UBERMOSH
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Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.
My Friend Pedro
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Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
Heat Signature
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Reviewers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
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Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
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Frequently asked about Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
- Is Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number cost?
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number are Hotline Miami, APE OUT, Bloodroots.
- Who developed Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number?
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number was developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital.
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