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 25.8%, Violent 24.8%, Fast-Paced 24.1%, Top-Down Shooter 10.3%, Top-Down 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest modern counterpart to Hotline Miami, built around top-down die-retry massacres, evasive movement, and a similarly hallucinatory atmosphere.

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 30.1%, Fast-Paced 12.5%, Violent 12.3%, Gore 10.9%, 1980s 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the direct sequel and doubles down on the same one-hit-kill room-clearing, savage violence, and blistering synth-driven style.

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 34.5%, Violent 17.1%, Gore 12.2%, Top-Down Shooter 8.1%, Difficult 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It channels a similar mix of ultraviolence, electronic intensity, and top-down combat into a heavier cyberpunk setting.

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 36.6%, Fast-Paced 15.3%, Violent 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Gore 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its one-hit lethality, fractured storytelling, and synth-soaked ultraviolence capture much of the same perfect-run tension and mood.

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 27.7%, Gore 19.9%, Top-Down 12.6%, Difficult 11.4%, Top-Down Shooter 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers top-down gun ballet with instant-death shootouts, rapid retries, and stylish underworld violence that feels very close to Hotline Miami.

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 28.6%, Violent 19.4%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Gore 14%, Psychedelic 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It takes Hotline Miami's door-kicking, room-rushing rhythm and translates it into a delirious first-person format.

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

Why similar: Violent 20.7%, Fast-Paced 19.5%, Gore 14.9%, Top-Down 9.9%, Difficult 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Every room becomes a violent improvisation exercise driven by momentum, split-second aggression, and a reactive soundtrack.

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 27.5%, Top-Down Shooter 24.6%, Top-Down 23.9%, Shooter 11.3%, Action 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Nearly every encounter is a lethal top-down speed puzzle of chaining melee and gun kills with Hotline-like aggression.

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 32.8%, Violent 19.9%, Fast-Paced 15.8%, Gore 13.9%, Action 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same stylish slaughter fantasy in side-scrolling form with acrobatics, slow-motion, and nonstop momentum.

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 47.1%, Gore 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Violent 8.7%, Difficult 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It strips the formula into grim 2D assassination rooms where careful planning snaps into explosive execution.

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 21.2%, Difficult 17.5%, Fast-Paced 16.7%, Violent 12.5%, Shooter 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Each combat space is a lethal puzzle where survival depends on reading the room and executing cleanly under pressure.

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 23.6%, Violent 22.8%, Gore 17.2%, Top-Down 11.5%, Difficult 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is built around fast one-hit massacres through compact arenas using whatever weapon happens to be nearby.

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: Fast-Paced 39.9%, Great Soundtrack 36.4%, Difficult 8.6%, Retro 7.3%, Shooter 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Hotline Miami's commitment to speed, ultraviolence, loud music, and demanding stylish play, even from an FPS perspective.

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 25.6%, Psychedelic 20.3%, Violent 16.5%, Difficult 9.4%, Surreal 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It recreates Hotline Miami's fever-dream aggression and audiovisual overload as a blisteringly fast first-person sprint.

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 31.9%, Violent 23.3%, Gore 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It trades precision gunplay for brawling, but matches the nasty pixel-art violence, grime, and 1980s sleaze.

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 21.6%, Gore 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a neon-soaked one-hit survival frenzy of katana slashes, gunshots, and arcade-speed violence.

Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 32.7%, Great Soundtrack 27%, Violent 18.4%, Difficult 12.1%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same adrenaline through one-hit deaths, relentless retries, and hyper-aggressive movement in a neon dystopia.

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 27.8%, Fast-Paced 22.2%, Top-Down 16.3%, Action 14.5%, Difficult 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its instantly lethal room-clearing is all about precision movement, quick resets, and stylishly dismantling impossible odds.

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 27.6%, Violent 18.9%, Top-Down 13.9%, Top-Down Shooter 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is slower and more tactical, but its top-down lethal gunfights and tense breaches scratch a similar planning-to-execution itch.

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 31%, Fast-Paced 21.7%, Violent 17.8%, Top-Down 10%, Difficult 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps room-clearing for boss duels, but the synth soundtrack, brutal difficulty, and concentrated intensity hit a similar nerve.

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 22.8%, Fast-Paced 22.2%, Gore 19%, 1980s 14.4%, Retro 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same love of explosive, over-the-top kill choreography through first-person slow-motion chaos.

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 32%, Violent 28.5%, Gore 23%, Action 12.1%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact arenas, brutal hand-to-hand combat, and relentless forward momentum echo Hotline Miami's vicious flow.

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 42.7%, Gore 15.5%, Top-Down 13.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.7%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes twin-stick carnage, neon future grime, and high-pressure top-down combat into a similarly stylish package.

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 21.3%, Violent 18.3%, Action 11.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.1%, Gore 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a dusty western spin on top-down instant-death shootouts, stealth, and rapid restarts.

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 23.8%, Violent 19.8%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Difficult 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It distills the appeal down to pixel gore, oppressive atmosphere, and uncompromisingly brutal action.

REDEEMER is a intense Brawler where you will punch, hack and blast your way through enemies using fists, hammers, fire arms and even the environment.

Why similar: Violent 30.5%, Gore 24.6%, Top-Down 17.1%, Fast-Paced 13.4%, Action 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines top-down gunplay and bone-breaking melee with the same appetite for savage, efficient violence.

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 25.8%, Top-Down Shooter 25.4%, Difficult 16.2%, Action 10.3%, Top-Down 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers weighty top-down firefights and high lethality for players who want the gunfeel and pressure more than the neon psychosis.

Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 57.6%, Difficult 10.6%, Top-Down 9.3%, Action 8%, Top-Down Shooter 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is more arcade than noir, but its punishing top-down speed and neon sensory overload feel very Hotline-adjacent.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 40.2%, Fast-Paced 19%, Difficult 15.6%, Addictive 12.6% ★, Psychedelic 4.2%

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: Violent 23.4%, Gore 22.7%, Great Soundtrack 20%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Difficult 9.9%

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 29.6%, Violent 22.9%, Gore 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Difficult 4.6%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 16.9%, 1980s 12.8%, Violent 12.1%, Fast-Paced 12%, Psychedelic 11.5%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 51.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Difficult 13.1%, Top-Down 6.5%, Action 4.7%

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 26.9%, Violent 24%, Psychedelic 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Gore 7.1%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.4%, Fast-Paced 18.1%, Difficult 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Gore 6.2%

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 48.1%, Fast-Paced 27.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Difficult 5.5%, Retro 3.8%

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 19.2%, Fast-Paced 17%, 1980s 13%, Top-Down 9.6%, Psychedelic 8.5%

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

Why similar: Violent 43.6%, Gore 35.7%, Action 6.1%, Shooter 4.3%, Top-Down Shooter 3.7%

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 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Difficult 10.1%, Action 6.6%

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 41.4%, Fast-Paced 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Addictive 8.2% ★, Action 6%

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 27.7%, 1980s 16.8%, Fast-Paced 16.8%, Violent 10.6%, Top-Down 7.2%

Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.3%, Difficult 19.3%, Addictive 16.9% ★, Top-Down 11%, Indie 7.8%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 42.9%, Fast-Paced 22.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, Retro 5.6%, Action 5.1%

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 27.5%, Great Soundtrack 24.8%, Gore 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Action 7.2%

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 37.9%, Difficult 18.7%, Retro 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%, Gore 6.7%

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: Top-Down 21.5%, Difficult 21.5%, Top-Down Shooter 19.7%, Surreal 15.3%, Shooter 9.5%

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 37.8%, Gore 34.2%, Great Soundtrack 15.7%, Action 4.7%, Difficult 3.9%

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

Why similar: Fast-Paced 30.4%, Violent 28.8%, Top-Down Shooter 11.6%, Difficult 8.7%, Top-Down 8.6%

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 34.3%, Great Soundtrack 29.9%, Gore 19.7%, Action 5.5%, Difficult 4.7%

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 36.4%, Difficult 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Top-Down Shooter 9.8%, Top-Down 7.4%

Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!

Why similar: 1980s 28.6%, Great Soundtrack 22.5%, Retro 10.9%, Psychedelic 9.2%, Music 8.3%

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%, Gore 19.8%, Violent 15.1%, Action 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

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 32.1%, Fast-Paced 18.2%, Difficult 13.9%, Retro 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.3%, Fast-Paced 15.9%, Violent 13.7%, Gore 11.8%, Action 8.9%

Experience cinematic kung-fu battles in the fastest, most intense brawler the indie world has ever seen! With the unique 1:1 response system of One Finger Death Punch, players will feel the immediate feedback of every bone-crunching hit. Pay tribute to the masters using five classic kung-fu styles mixed with additional weapons.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 42.6%, Addictive 17.7% ★, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Action 8.5%, Gore 5.2%

Season's Beatings is a fast and frantic one hit kill FPS best described as first person Hotline Miami. You'll need to memorize enemy patterns and placements, and execute a meticulously thought out plan to succeed! Or...y'know. Just dive in and shoot some fools with a tommy gun.

Why similar: Violent 45.7%, Gore 38%, Action 10.1%, Indie 6.2%

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 41%, Fast-Paced 30.8%, Retro 14.5%, Shooter 6.1%, Action 4.3%

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 25.8%, Fast-Paced 18.9%, Gore 16.4%, Top-Down 12%, Top-Down Shooter 10.1%

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 22.9%, Fast-Paced 21.1%, Gore 19%, Top-Down 9.8%, Top-Down Shooter 6.8%