How many copies has Hotline Miami sold?

indielist estimates Hotline Miami has sold between 5,508,102 and 12,852,238 units (median 9,180,170), derived from its 108,002 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Hotline Miami?

Hotline Miami was developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital.

Who published Hotline Miami?

Hotline Miami was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Dennaton Games. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Hotline Miami released?

Hotline Miami was released in 2012.

How many reviews does Hotline Miami have on Steam?

Hotline Miami has 108,002 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.

Is Hotline Miami worth playing?

Steam players rate Hotline Miami 97% positive across 108,002 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Hotline Miami

Oct 23, 2012 Action $9.99

Developer Dennaton Games Publisher Devolver Digital

Profile updated May 2026

Hotline Miami is a 2012 top-down action game known for its violent, synthwave-driven gameplay and high difficulty. With 32,000 Steam reviews at 96% positive, it launched at $9.99. Published by Devolver Digital, it was developed by Dennaton Games.

Hotline Miami is a 2012 Action game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 108,002 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Dennaton Games with publisher Devolver Digital is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.5 million to 12.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Hotline Miami can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

108,002

Positive

97%

Steam appid

219150

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

332

Historical snapshot · 2026-07-23 09:40 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

5.5M to 12.9M

units (median: 9.2M)

≈ $31.4M to $73.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

5.5M median 12.9M

+ How is this calculated?

108,002 reviews × NB(85) = 9,180,170 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2012	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_97%	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Hotline Miami at roughly 5.5 million to 12.9 million copies, with a median around 9.2 million, derived from its 108,002 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $52.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $0.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $0.99 to $1.99. The tracked-window low was $0.99 on 2026-06-12.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Hotline Miami sold?: indielist estimates Hotline Miami has sold between 5,508,102 and 12,852,238 units (median 9,180,170), derived from its 108,002 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Hotline Miami?: Hotline Miami was developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital.
Who published Hotline Miami?: Hotline Miami was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Dennaton Games. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Hotline Miami released?: Hotline Miami was released in 2012.
How many reviews does Hotline Miami have on Steam?: Hotline Miami has 108,002 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Is Hotline Miami worth playing?: Steam players rate Hotline Miami 97% positive across 108,002 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Hotline Miami can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Katana ZERO, Turbo Overkill, Nuclear Throne, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Dennaton Games's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hotline Miami sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Hotline Miami page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.