Hotline Miami
BANGER · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.92/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 129,779
- Critics
- 85 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.2h
- To 100%
- 15.2h 2.9x the story
- Finish
- 38% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 102 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 172 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 38% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
102 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Turbo Overkill ($5.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number ($14.99, scores 79).
More about Hotline Miami
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,250 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 10,022 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.2 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 2.9 times as long.
The rating rests on 129,779 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
At 5.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Hotline Miami, one of Devolver Digital's most beloved titles that they have published over the years, is an indie that has earned its reputation as a violent and most intense top-down action game that is set in 80s Miami where you take control of a psychopath with a particular affinity for animal masks who is guided by various mysterious calls to clear out the shady and decrepit buildings that are home to many thugs...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Honestly, It's a great story so it goes like kill dudes get a phonecall and get a mask murder those commies come home blah bliggity blah and the final step is to Larp, say "do you know what time it is" and think a war broken man kills for fun when he clearly has schizophrenic rampages while believing he is doing it for his war buddy that died in 86'. He really does it because he is afraid as he does not want...
i kinda wanted to enjoy the game more because of its great style and amazing story but ehhhh the combat and level design make the game a 6/10 unfortunately (although the epilogue was fun i will admit)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Hotline Miami scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/219150/hotline-miamiReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.