Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Fast top-down combat where the player mows down human enemies with guns, blunt weapons and blades, spraying heavy pixel-art blood across every room.
Relentlessly bleak and nihilistic material centered on mass murder, trauma, obsession, and a nuclear-apocalypse ending.
Strong profanity recurs throughout the characters' dialogue.
Partial nudity appears in a bedroom scene and during the film-shoot assault sequence.
Characters drink alcohol and use drugs such as pills and powder at parties and in downtime scenes.
The player commits mass killings of mafia and gang members across the story as the core activity.
A scene on a film set depicts a sexual assault of a woman by a masked man; it is shown, not player-controlled.
The story depicts a character's suicide by gunshot.
Shotgun blasts and brutal finishing moves produce on-screen dismemberment and gore.
A film-set storyline includes a depicted sexual assault scene and a separate implied sex scene between characters.
Disturbing, hallucinatory imagery and unsettling masked-killer atmosphere without full horror mechanics.
Guard dogs appear as enemies that can be killed in combat.
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What it is
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a fast, top-down shooter set in a 1980s-90s crime saga, played across several masked characters who storm buildings and kill every enemy inside using guns, melee weapons, and gory finishing moves. The action is extremely bloody, with dismemberment and executions that the game scores and rewards. Beyond the violence it carries strong profanity, on-screen cocaine and alcohol use, partial nudity, an implied sex scene, a depicted suicide, and a controversial film-shoot sequence staging an attempted sexual assault (a scene that had the game refused classification in Australia). The tone is bleak and nihilistic throughout. It is a single-player game; the Steam version adds a level editor whose custom levels can be shared through Steam Workshop.
How it's framed
The game frames its carnage with deliberate ambiguity and self-critique, presenting its killers as psychotic or manipulated pawns and using dream logic and a film-within-the-game to question the player's appetite for violence rather than celebrate it; the material is delivered head-on with no in-game judgment or reward for restraint.
Details
- Developer
- Dennaton Games
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Released
- Mar 10, 2015
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