Games Like Hotline Miami

Enter an inexplicable, abstract mansion to rescue a loved one in this fast-paced, brutal, and dark roguelite filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion. Face your inner demons and unveil the secrets of the Mansion.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23%, Violent 21.5%, Fast-Paced 20.7%, Gore 13.3%, Top-Down Shooter 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down roguelite closely channels Hotline Miami through brutal close-quarters gunfights, bullet time, dark neon presentation, and relentless run-and-gun momentum.

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.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.7%, Violent 12.2%, Fast-Paced 12.1%, Gore 11.9%, 1980s 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It directly expands Hotline Miami’s one-hit-kill room clearing, surreal neon violence, mask-driven character variety, and exceptional electronic soundtrack.

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.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.2%, Fast-Paced 15.2%, Violent 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Gore 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although side-scrolling, it shares Hotline Miami’s rapid trial-and-error assassinations, one-hit encounters, neon noir mood, and superb soundtrack.

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.

Why similar: Violent 27.1%, Gore 22.3%, Top-Down 11.6%, Difficult 11.3%, Top-Down Shooter 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a stylish top-down shootout game built around split-second dives, bullet time, lethal enemies, and action-movie room assaults.

DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.8%, Gore 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Violent 8.5%, Difficult 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This compact side-view action game captures the same puzzle-like room clearing, instant deaths, stealth options, and moody electronic style.

Teeth-clenching stealth, followed by tactical hardcore gunplay for those not looking for a quiet way in. Intravenous redefines challenging stealth-action and will keep you on the edge of your seat!

Why similar: Difficult 27.9%, Violent 19.2%, Top-Down 13.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its tense top-down stealth-and-shooting missions reward careful planning but can erupt into the same fast, lethal gunfights as Hotline Miami.

RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.4%, Violent 16.7%, Gore 12.6%, Top-Down Shooter 8.1%, Difficult 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its cyberpunk top-down combat delivers frantic arena violence, dashing, brutal executions, and a pounding electronic atmosphere.

APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

Why similar: Violent 17.8%, Fast-Paced 16.6%, Gore 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Top-Down 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its improvised top-down escapes turn every encounter into frantic, jazz-fueled violence where momentum and split-second reactions matter.

Slay enemies with speed and precision in an over-the-top show of blood and explosions. Play solo or with others, make split-second decisions, dodge bullets, and use weapons and abilities to inflict violence in the most graphic way possible.

Why similar: Difficult 28.1%, Top-Down Shooter 24.7%, Top-Down 22.9%, Shooter 11.7%, Action 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op-friendly top-down levels revolve around clearing enemy-packed rooms with one-hit lethality, quick retries, and creative character powers.

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.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.9%, Violent 18.9%, Gore 16.7%, Fast-Paced 14.7%, Action 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It trades the overhead perspective for side-scrolling acrobatics but keeps the stylish slow-motion gunplay, gore, and absurd action-movie flair.

An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.8%, Violent 22.9%, Gore 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This savage pixel-art beat ’em up matches Hotline Miami’s depraved 1980s-inspired violence, gore, and raw arcade aggression.

12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The story puts you in the shoes of escaped slave fleeing to the United States in 1873.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.8%, Violent 17.3%, Gore 14.3%, Action 10.9%, Top-Down Shooter 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down Western shooter emphasizes unforgiving one-shot firefights, quick reflexes, and ruthless room-by-room gunplay.

A former member of the criminal underworld is lured back into “the life” by a mysterious drone claiming they have until sunrise to prevent a citywide criminal takeover together.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.8%, Violent 27.5%, Gore 22.8%, Action 11.8%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its tightly choreographed urban brawls provide brutal, fast-paced room-by-room combat with a similarly grimy neon-crime tone.

Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26%, Gore 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Violent 11%, Fast-Paced 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cover-based 2D gunfights retain the fast deaths, violent pixel-art chaos, and score-chasing mission structure Hotline Miami fans enjoy.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.5%, Violent 22.5%, Gore 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Difficult 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It approaches the murder-spree premise as a stealth puzzle, letting players infiltrate crowded parties and eliminate targets amid retro violence.

Teleport, shift through bullets, and master lightning-fast takedowns in an all new kind of action game from tinyBuild and Team Shifty!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.9%, Fast-Paced 22%, Top-Down 15.5%, Action 14.7%, Difficult 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Teleporting through densely guarded rooms creates a fast, restart-heavy top-down action loop centered on stylish improvisation.

ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.6%, Fast-Paced 30.2%, Gore 20.8%, Difficult 6.8%, Retro 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its extreme speed, gore, combo-driven violence, and high-skill arena shooting offer a first-person version of Hotline Miami’s adrenaline rush.

Anger Foot is a lightning fast action FPS where the only things harder than your ass kicking feet are the ass kicking beats.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 28%, Violent 19.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.1%, Gore 14.5%, Psychedelic 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This loud, neon-soaked FPS channels a comparable blend of electronic music, absurd violence, speed, and kick-the-door-down aggression.

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.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 23.4%, Violent 22.8%, Gore 17.8%, Difficult 11.3%, Top-Down 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Every level is a rapid improvisational massacre where grabbing weapons, chaining kills, and restarting instantly are central to success.

SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.

Why similar: Action 21.4%, Difficult 17.7%, Fast-Paced 16.6%, Violent 12.6%, Shooter 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Time moves only when you do, turning each lethal encounter into a stylish, replayable combat puzzle with rapid resets.

2121 A.D, with no escape options, Akane prepares for her final battle in the rain-soaked neon streets of Mega-Tokyo. Akane is an arena arcade slasher. Take out as many yakuza as possible, slashing and shooting in a one-hit-one-kill fight to the death.

Why similar: Violent 23.5%, Great Soundtrack 22.3%, Gore 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tiny neon arena and one-hit deaths create an intensely focused score-attack experience built on rapid dashes, slashes, and gunfire.

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.4%, Difficult 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Top-Down Shooter 9.7%, Top-Down 7%

Why You'll Like It: This exceptionally fast top-down shooter shares Hotline Miami’s lethal tempo and demands immediate reactions under overwhelming pressure.

Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 25.8%, Psychedelic 20.3%, Violent 16.7%, Difficult 9.6%, Surreal 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This psychedelic FPS is built around frantic movement, constant pressure, harsh visual style, and surviving chaotic bursts of violence.

A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 43.7%, Gore 15.4%, Top-Down 12.7%, Top-Down Shooter 12.5%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cyberpunk twin-stick combat supplies procedurally generated top-down firefights, destructible rooms, and a strong neon electronic atmosphere.

The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32%, Fast-Paced 21.5%, Violent 17.7%, Difficult 10%, Top-Down 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its neon synth aesthetic and demanding reflex-driven duels suit players who enjoy Hotline Miami’s music-fueled intensity and precision.

Kusan: City of Wolves is a high-octane hardcore top-down shooter where players fight through a brutal urban jungle ruled by gunfire and corruption to save Haru — a girl fitted with a city-grade atomic weapon.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 23.8%, Violent 16.7%, Gore 16.3%, Difficult 10.3%, Top-Down 7%

SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.5%, Top-Down Shooter 25.1%, Difficult 16.5%, Action 10.3%, Top-Down 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding top-down gunplay, recoil-conscious weapons, lethal enemies, and dark electronic sci-fi tone reward aggressive tactical play.

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Why similar: Gore 24.8%, Violent 19.3%, Great Soundtrack 16.5%, Difficult 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This merciless pixel-art shooter offers relentless gore, punishing combat, and a harsh industrial mood for fans of uncompromising violence.

Redeemer: Enhanced Edition is a brutal close-quarters brawler. Punch, crush, shoot, and use the environment to destroy enemies. Master deep melee combat, execute savage finishers, and fight for redemption as Vasily, a former elite operative hunted by a cybernetic corporation.

Why similar: Violent 30.5%, Gore 25.1%, Top-Down 16.5%, Fast-Paced 13.3%, Action 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down brawler replaces guns with bone-crunching melee combat while preserving the grim, bloody room-clearing intensity.

Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 40.9%, Fast-Paced 18.5%, Difficult 15.6%, Addictive 12.9% ★, Psychedelic 4.1%

Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.

Why similar: Violent 23.6%, Gore 20.2%, Great Soundtrack 18.1%, Fast-Paced 17.5%, Shooter 5.9%

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 52.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.2%, Difficult 13.1%, Top-Down 6.2%, Action 4.8%

Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Why similar: Gore 23.3%, Violent 22.9%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Difficult 10%

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34%, Difficult 18.4%, Fast-Paced 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Gore 6.6%

Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 49.4%, Fast-Paced 26.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, Difficult 5.5%, Retro 3.6%

It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.7%, Violent 24%, Psychedelic 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Gore 7.3%

MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.

Why similar: Violent 22.3%, Fast-Paced 21.6%, Gore 20.7%, 1980s 14.1%, Retro 8.3%

Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.6%, Gore 22.4%, Difficult 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Action 6.5%

Find yourself diving into a retro-futuristic city infested with bad guys!

Why similar: 1980s 19%, Violent 18.2%, Psychedelic 17.4%, Fast-Paced 13.7%, Retro 7.4%

Take control of The POSTAL Dude in his infamous first outing as he battles to survive in a world gone mad! POSTAL is a classic isometric shooter filled to the brim with fast-paced explosive action.

Why similar: Gore 23.8%, Difficult 16.7%, Top-Down 15.8%, Top-Down Shooter 15.2%, Surreal 11.5%

The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.2%, Fast-Paced 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Addictive 8.3% ★, Action 6%

POSTAL Redux is a high definition remake of the classic dark and surreal twin-stick isometric shooter. Take control of The POSTAL Dude as he fights to survive in a world gone mad with violence.

Why similar: Violent 22.4%, Gore 21.7%, Fast-Paced 20.5%, Top-Down 9.1%, Top-Down Shooter 6.7%

Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 38.1%, Difficult 19.4%, Addictive 17.2% ★, Top-Down 10.3%, Indie 7.4%

Suit for Hire is a challenging action shooter, tactically blend weapons and martial arts together to unleash beautifully crafted violence.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 24.3%, Violent 23.2%, Gore 20.3%, Top-Down Shooter 9.1%, Difficult 7%

UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 43.3%, Fast-Paced 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Retro 5.6%, Action 5.1%

Battle it out local and online in this neon-soaked arena brawler full of lethal weapons, stackable perks, furious combat and a killer synthwave soundtrack.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.6%, Fast-Paced 16.6%, 1980s 16.5%, Violent 10.6%, Top-Down 6.9%

You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. In Manhunt, you must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport.

Why similar: Violent 36.5%, Gore 36.3%, Great Soundtrack 15.4%, Action 4.4%, Difficult 4%

Tackle. Die. Repeat. Use American football skills to dash through a bloody 2D underworld. Fast, top-down carnage until the floor is cleared. You’re at the top of your game... but unfortunately, your C.T.E. is catching up.

Why similar: Violent 21.3%, Fast-Paced 18.6%, 1980s 14.1%, Top-Down 10.1%, Psychedelic 9.3%

Superfighters Deluxe is a unique action game that combines brawling, shooting and platforming in dynamic sandboxy 2D levels. Lots of weapons and fun gameplay systems interlock to create absurd action-movie chaos.

Why similar: Violent 27.4%, Great Soundtrack 25.5%, Gore 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Action 7.2%

Gorytale is a fast-paced, adrenaline-rushed FPS shooter set in a candy land, that is so damn sweet it could be called someone’s Hell

Why similar: Violent 33.8%, Great Soundtrack 30.4%, Gore 20.1%, Action 5.5%, Difficult 4.7%

Dynamic, hardcore and explosive action on the passage with a bunch of weapons, enemies and bosses.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23.1%, Fast-Paced 15.7%, Violent 13.7%, Gore 11.8%, Action 9%

Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.6%, Gore 20.1%, Violent 14.9%, Action 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%

Hatred is a violent twin-stick shooter, in which you take the role of The Antagonist fighting against all of humanity.

Why similar: Violent 43%, Gore 36.5%, Action 6%, Shooter 4.4%, Top-Down Shooter 3.7%

Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 37.7%, Difficult 19.1%, Retro 10%, Gore 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Kontrakt is a hyper-violent action-adventure game about schizophrenia with a dark and twisted story. You will assume the role of a hitman involved in mysterious contract killing, while uncovering the dirty truth and secrets behind the City of Light.

Why similar: Violent 28.4%, Gore 22%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Psychedelic 8.3%, Action 5.7%

Execute ultra-violent raids in 1970s casino hotels. Take down the Las Vegas mob as a drug super-powered hitman in physics-fueled top-down close combat

Why similar: Violent 24.1%, Fast-Paced 17.4%, Gore 11.6%, Difficult 11.3%, Top-Down 10.6%

64.0 is a minimal fast-paced arcade game, where you shoot the squares that have the same color as the background.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.1%, Fast-Paced 17.9%, Difficult 14%, Retro 6.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

OPEN-WORLD carjacking goes back to the '80s in this 8-BIT nostalgic throwback. Run missions! Outrun the law! Rampage the city with weapons, power-ups and vehicles!

Why similar: 1980s 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 17.1%, Retro 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Violent 10.7%

Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.2%, Fast-Paced 25.3%, Gore 16.1%, Retro 11.9%, Shooter 5.2%