Hotline Miami is a top-down action game for PlayStation 3 that blends slasher and shooter elements. Players assume the role of a hitman who receives mysterious phone calls directing him to eliminate targets in various locations. The game features a distinctive neon aesthetic, unlockable masks with gameplay effects, and a narrative filled with surreal visions and existential questions.
A top-down slasher/shooter with unlockable gameplay-altering masks and weapons, featuring a neon-flavoured electronic aesthetic, in which a hitman receives anonymous calls ordering him to travel to certain residences and crime dens and massacre those within, as he stumbles through unreal visions and inconsistencies without any answers to how, why or who.