Hotline Miami combines top-down shooting and slashing with unlockable, gameplay-altering masks and weapons. Its neon aesthetic and electronic styling accompany a story set in an alternative version of Miami in 1989.
You play a mysterious hitman whose answering machine receives anonymous instructions to kill the occupants of residences and criminal hideouts. As he carries out these orders, surreal visions and unexplained inconsistencies leave him struggling to understand who is directing the violence and why he keeps committing it.
