Mobile game · 2012

Hotline Miami

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.

Estimated daily players

~2,3000.0%

Range 120–6K

Estimated total players

~4,400,0000.0%

Range 2.5M–7.6M

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Oct 23, 2012AndroidUSK 16CLASS IND 16CERO DPEGI MGRAC 18ESRB RPACB MA15+

Arcade Indie Shooter Action

What the estimate rests on

Steam 84%
Twitch 16%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Hotline Miami, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Steam, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~2,300

0.0%

Range 120 – 6K

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~4,400,000

0.0%

Range 2.5M – 7.6M

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Hotline Miami per calendar month, newest first
Month	Estimated total players	Change
August 2026	~4,500,000	—

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Hotline Miami where it is sold.

Steam players in game

532

+9.0%

Reviews: 127,165

Community signals

How many people gather around Hotline Miami outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Twitch viewers

Live channels: 1

First reading taken Aug 8, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Not tracked for Hotline Miami: Google Play, App Store, Discord, Reddit, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine. Soon you'll find yourself struggling to get a grip of what is going on and why you are prone to these acts of violence.

Trailers

Launch Trailer

Gameplay Trailer

Screenshots

Frequently asked questions

How many people play Hotline Miami?

We estimate that about 4,400,000 people have played Hotline Miami — plausibly between 2.5M and 7.6M. Around 2,300 of them play on a given day, in a range of 120 and 6K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Hotline Miami still active?

Yes. Hotline Miami is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Hotline Miami player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.