Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the direct follow-up to the first game, serving as both a sequel and a prequel. This time the gameplay is centered around a bigger cast of characters who each have their own point of view regarding the events. Dennis Wedin, the game's co-creator has stated that most of the gameplay mechanics are intact and that players will get to experiment with new weapons, new and more gory finishing moves and a complete story arc that will end the series.  The gameplay is mostly identical to that of the first game. Two of the original masks make a return, while new masks will offer new and exciting abilities and playstyles.  New tweaks to normal gameplay have been added, including executing with guns.

The difficulty has increased as well, along with two levels implemented  (Normal and Hard) for people who believed the first game was either too hard or easy.

Hotline Miami 2 has a Hard difficulty mode, which can only be unlocked when the player beats the game. In Extreme, enemies are more difficult to take down, and some abilities may be taken away from the player, such as enemy-locking.

Hotline Miami 2 has a lot more weapons than Hotline Miami: with returning weapons from Hotline Miami, cut weapons, and entirely new weapons. The developers are planning on releasing a level editor later in the Spring

Hotline Miami 2 takes place before and after the events of the original, focusing more on the latter, between October and December 1991. The game suggests that Jacket's interpretation is the canonical ending of the first game. In this version of events, Jacket is unwittingly manipulated into killing off the leadership of the Russian Mob by a neo-nationalist organization known as 50 Blessings.

After the previous game's ending, Jacket was captured by the authorities and put on trial, and his exploits have achieved national infamy. The persona of "Richard", a mysterious figure in a rooster mask that occasionally appeared to Jacket in the original game, has been appearing to certain individuals who are involved with 50 Blessings and Jacket's murder spree

The game received generally positive reviews from critics. It received an aggregated score of 86.25% on GameRankings based on 12 reviews and 81/100 on Metacritic based on 18 reviews.