Hotline Miami

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Hotline Miami

Short description

Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

Developer
Dennaton Games
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Release
Tue, Oct 23, 2012
Price
$9.99
Reviews
110,491
Positive
97%
Followers
59,816
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
404
Genres
Action, Indie
Features
Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards
Tags
Great Soundtrack Violent Action Indie Pixel Graphics Top-Down Gore 1980s Fast-Paced Retro Psychedelic Difficult Singleplayer Surreal 2D Shooter Top-Down Shooter Atmospheric Addictive Music
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$41.9msomewhere between $18.6m and $42.1m · roughly 2.2M–5M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $8.42, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $9.99 launch price. That is 16% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

78 data points since Jul 30, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$41.2m → ~$41.9m
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Reviews 108,627 → 110,491
Followers 59,072 → 59,816
Concurrent players 404 → 404
Price $2.49 → $9.99
Positive reviews 96.9% → 96.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 371 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2012 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $0.99 on Jun 11, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Hotline Miami is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Great Soundtrack + Violent + Action

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Hotline Miami. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Dennaton Games 2 titles 4 − Indie − Top-Down + Gore + Fast-Paced $14.99 70,041 94% Tue, Mar 10, 2015 $39.8m
$25.2m – $63.1m
RUINER RUINER Reikon Games 3 titles 4 − Pixel Graphics − Top-Down + Cyberpunk + Top-Down Shooter $19.99 10,396 89% Tue, Sep 26, 2017 $8.9m
$8.9m – $14.7m
Party Hard Party Hard Kverta 3 titles +1 4 − Great Soundtrack − Top-Down + Stealth + Strategy $9.99 9,853 91% Tue, Aug 25, 2015 $4.4m
$4.4m – $6.9m
UBERMOSH UBERMOSH Walter Machado 22 titles 4 − Violent − Top-Down + Cyberpunk + Arcade $4.99
$0.49
90%
8,518 93% Thu, Aug 13, 2015 $387k
$202k – $505k
Axiom Verge Axiom Verge Thomas Happ Games LLC first game 4 − Violent − Top-Down + Metroidvania + Platformer $19.99 5,806 90% Thu, May 14, 2015 $4.7m
$3.6m – $8.3m

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