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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Dennaton Games · Devolver Digital

Quick read

Hotline Miami 2 is authored top-down assault: enter, clear, die, retry the room. A floor is a song of violence, and the mask is the only meta that matters.

What kind of game is it?

Levels are songs of violence. You enter, you clear, you die, you retry the same furniture. Nothing here is a seed.

Who is it for?

For players who keep entering a room and leaving it worse than they found it.

How it plays

Loop: Action combat
Sessions: Short sessions
Progression: Campaign
Players: Single-player
Structure: Linear
Tone: Dark · Brutal

Game DNA

What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.

Progression80
Estimate
Social18
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Key Steam facts

Steam store figures, checked 17 Aug 2026.

Release

released

2015-03-10

Review score

94.1%

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Steam positive percent.

Review count

79,804

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Store price

€14.79

Checked 17 Aug 2026.

Languages

Demo

Early Access

Players

Single-player

How many people play Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number?

Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.

Estimated copies

2M – 4.4M

Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.

All-time peak players

18,882

Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.

Average players, Aug 2026

396

Peak that month: 704.

Median playtime

16.1 h

Half of 300 recent reviewers played 8.8–35.5 h. 3% under 2 h.

Players over time

Sept 2023Aug 2026

Where the players are

Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.

Russian46%
English26%
Spanish (Spain)8%
Portuguese (Brazil)5%
Simplified Chinese5%
Turkish4%

Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026

What makes it different?

A floor is written. The mask is a chapter, and the blood is a rank.

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Genre / subgenre

Strategy

Steam genre: shooter.

Related rankings

Sources

Store price checked 17 Aug 2026.

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