r/HotlineMiami • • Mar 04 '18

No. There will never be a "Hotline Miami 3".

2.9k Upvotes

The Hotline Miami games are very peculiar for a reason that not a lot of people seem to realize. They are games about games. They shine almost entirely thanks to the medium they were created in, and they try to say something about it.

While the first Hotline Miami reflected upon the usage of violence and storytelling in videogames, the second game did so in regards to sequels and finales. When Hotline Miami 2 was released, a reviewer described the game as "a game about the difficulty of making a sequel to Hotline Miami" which the main artist of the game, Dennis Wedin, agreed with. But Hotline Miami 2 is also a game about ending things, and the description used by online stores where you can buy the game explains this:

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game. Follow the paths of several distinct factions – each with their own questionable methods and uncertain motivations – as unforeseen consequences intersect and reality once again slips back into a brilliant haze of neon and bloodshed. Blistering combat against punishing opposition will require intense focus as new variables, weapons, and methods of execution are introduced throughout the struggle. Let the striking colors of an unmistakable visual style wash over as you meticulously cut down those that would stand between you and the ultimate meaning behind the massacre. This is the finale, this is the unquestionable end.

The game advertises itself as a finale, and it's not just because of marketing reasons, it's because the game is about being the ending of a series.

Dennaton has stated, even before Hotline Miami 2's release, that they were done with the series, here are some examples of them doing that:

E3 2014: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Interview "But yeah, [The Level Editor] is a nice finish for us 'cause Hotline Miami 2 is the last Hotline Miami that we are gonna make, so it's like, 'okay, we're done, you can take it and do whatever you want with it'"

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Interview - TGS at E3 2013 "Because this is the final game and this is the grand finale so we wanna build more on sadness and 'the end' and what that means"

GC 13: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - Dennis Wedin Interview "Like, all the characters and the story we've had it in our minds since the first game so it always felt like 'we wanna tell the whole story, the complete story' that's why we're saying that this is the final one because now you will see the whole picture, almost, it's going to be vague, so we're not gonna answer all questions, but yeah, this is it"

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - EXCLUSIVE Interview - Eurogamer "The pressure on us, from us, is to make the end of Hotline Miami as good, as challenging as we can" "I guess we can say there will be snow falling when we are finishing"

E3 13: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - Interview "What we want to change is give the soundtrack a more 'sad' feeling to it because this is the end, this is the final game"

Dennis Wedin: The Sequel A MAZE. / Berlin 2015 -"Hotline Miami 3, when is it coming?" -"It's not, if you play the game you can see that we made Hotline Miami 3 but it sucked so we taped it over with Hotline Miami 2"

There will never be a Hotline Miami 3 or a continuation of the series, there is nothing for a continuation to be made, everything that Dennaton wanted to explore within Hotline Miami's formula has been explored, and the level editor was added so that people could explore what can be done with the formula themselves.

I've made this sticky to put a stop to any threads claiming that Dennaton is making an HLM3 and threads asking if there will be a continuation. Please, do not leave comments stating that you are sad because there won't be another sequel. If you're that big of a fan of this series to be sad that there won't be a new Hotline Miami game made by its developers, then you should be enough of a fan to understand what Hotline Miami 2 means to them. Hotline Miami 2 represents the end of Hotline Miami, but not the end of Dennaton Games, they are working on a new title which will be announced some time in the future, so look forward to it if you love their work.


r/HotlineMiami • • May 03 '26

MODDING After 10 years in development, Bloodlife, the biggest Hotline Miami total conversion mod yet is finally out!

Thumbnail
pi0h1.itch.io
97 Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 8h ago

do you like fishing?

Post image
121 Upvotes

i choose to believe this is cannon


r/HotlineMiami • • 13h ago

QUESTION Merhaba

Post image
183 Upvotes

Bu toplulukta niye hiç türk yok türk olanlar yazabilir mi?


r/HotlineMiami • • 4h ago

ART getting ready for work (@ayyyyysn)

Post image
29 Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 6h ago

HLM1 Jacket already hates hımself, mıght as as well be suıcıdal

Post image
29 Upvotes

🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️m not a larp ım jst projectınggg


r/HotlineMiami • • 11h ago

I laughed out loud at thıs meme and ıt remınded me of beard SO MUCH

Post image
67 Upvotes

I was gıgglınh the whole tıme ı were makıng thıs hed ABSOLUTELY say some bs lıke thıs


r/HotlineMiami • • 8h ago

COSPLAY Back in a bit.

Thumbnail
gallery
21 Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 2h ago

ART Hotline Miami graphic novel

Thumbnail
gallery
6 Upvotes

Hello for the past 10 months I’ve been working on a hotline Miami novel, i made the adaptation of Biker and Jacket and wanted to see if they’re were accurate or they work.


r/HotlineMiami • • 21h ago

HLM2 Fun fact: You can actually see the atomic bomb in the level select screen in HM2.

Thumbnail
gallery
208 Upvotes

I was talking to a friend about how bad the levels were on hard mode when I jokingly asked, "And why is the light coming from the left if the sun is in the background?!" He replied, also jokingly, "It's the atomic bomb." We were silent for a moment because, indeed, everything points to it being the atomic bomb before impact, and we were completely taken in by an incredible foreshadowing right from the start of the game. I completed this game about seven times on normal and hard, and even then, I never noticed that detail. Probably everyone has already noticed it, but I find it amusing to share my unusual way of noticing it.

(Note how, in fact, on the hard mode selection screen, there's no flash on the left, and all the buildings show damage oriented to the right, meaning it's coming from the left. Interestingly, that's the direction the bomb itself comes from at the end.)


r/HotlineMiami • • 8h ago

Holy shit

Post image
14 Upvotes

Found these on Saturday, the monkey (Willem) was surprising to spot lol


r/HotlineMiami • • 3h ago

QUESTION Looking for a pixel artist

4 Upvotes

Need somebody to redraw ~15 placeholder character portrait sprites into an acceptable quality HLM style.

Willing to pay, interested dont reply here but send me a DM instead

EDIT: I'm preferably looking for people who have had previous experience working with Hotline Miami style character portraits (The dialogue faces).


r/HotlineMiami • • 2h ago

Comic pdf

3 Upvotes

I'm trying to print all the comics in physical and I need 1-5 in pdfs. Could you provide links?


r/HotlineMiami • • 1d ago

QUESTION Seriously why couldn't the fans defeat the son?

Post image
841 Upvotes

Taking into account their skill to bash every single scenario they were in, why couldn't they get rid of the son?


r/HotlineMiami • • 3m ago

MUSIC Getting Non hotline Miami fans to jam out with you can be hard

Post image
• Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 17h ago

QUESTION Where tf are his ears!!!

Post image
21 Upvotes

I swear he had ears i crying why he dont have ears 🥀🥀🥀


r/HotlineMiami • • 16h ago

So what's the second room in metro supposed to be?

Post image
17 Upvotes

I was trying to figure out what this room even was, since after completing hotline miami for the 3rd time already, I just now got this question. I think it is supposed to be abovve the 1st room, but what is it?

thanks in advance!


r/HotlineMiami • • 1d ago

COSPLAY Me and my friend cosplaying Jacket and Biker

Thumbnail
gallery
268 Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 11h ago

QUESTION How thicc is his foreskin?

Post image
5 Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 2h ago

Both sequels are currently on sale on the PS store but not sure if they are PS4 versions my current console can someone shed light on this

1 Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 19h ago

HLM1 Didn't know that shotguns could could hold THAT much ammo!

Post image
15 Upvotes

So I was playing on my switch again and I was wanting to play decade dance, and I grabbed a random shotgun, and it had a SHIT LOAD of ammo, and I wasn't using the camel mask!


r/HotlineMiami • • 21h ago

ART 🐴🐴🐴

Post image
25 Upvotes

r/HotlineMiami • • 1d ago

who else stopped playing when Dennaton FORCED you to kill Sergyi Tarasov??

Post image
127 Upvotes

Sergyi Tarasov was born on April 8th 1954 in Moscow.

His Father died to 'unknown causes' when he was 8 years old.

During the Hawaiian war, he served under Oksan Volk [*]

he was the second worst shooter on the squad, when the storm on Honolulu hit occured, he shot himself in the leg so he won't get drafted deeper into the woods.

His whole squad (Randrei Tarachyev [*], Semyon Kuznetsov [*], Oleg Yarikov [traitor], Oksan Volk [*]) got ambushed by the 5th most succesful American squad "the night owls".

That day everyone that Sergyi Tarasov knew were gone.

[this is not bullshit pls believe me]

After the Hawaii war he took a plane to Miami in wich he registered himself as an "asylium seeker".

on March 7th 1987 he joined the russian mafia led by Mr. Lebedev

Because of his poor aiming skills he mostly got an baseball bat or pipe to guard the place.

On his birthday (April 8th) 1989 he got killed by a masked maniac wearing a rooster mask.

Wich has ended his legacy.

"GLORY TO SOVIET UNION" - Oksan Volk [*]

"kill those American scumbags" - Randrei Tarachyev [*]

"Please don't kill me i've got family waiting for me at home" - Semyon Kuznetsov [*]

"is that a bird or a plane falling down?" - Oleg Yarikov [*] (he was in San Francisco)

"yo what you doin here what the fuc" - Sergyi Tarasov

Let me know what is your opinion about Sergyi Tarasov, and if this PURE FACT changed your mind about what were you doing in Hotline miami.


r/HotlineMiami • • 15h ago

Forgiveness (Hotline miami fan animation)

Thumbnail
youtube.com
4 Upvotes

Made animation, want to share


r/HotlineMiami • • 11h ago

DISCUSSION hotline miami 3 could be made. heres how

3 Upvotes

so, Dennaton Games outsource their game to a different company to make their game, a company with lots of money. they announce the game will be on pc AND console at the same time. then the following year, an economic crisis happens, and the new team has to cut people off and make a new team over and over again, till they are left with very bad coders. in the middle of everything, they cancel the console ports of the game, making it pc only, then they work on the game for 2-3 years, and then they publish it without playtesting. the game is pure trash, and Dennaton Games takes back their IP and retcons the game as a bad dream, and then they make a dlc for Hotline Miami 2 that officially retcons the 3rd game as a bad dream in a coma, and the dlc saves the franchise. what do you think?!