Hotline Miami
Putting this in quick succession after Superhot certainly now craving the crossover Superhotline Miami. In the meantime, we at least still have Hotline Miami and its sequel.
The 2012 top-down shooter requires that you burst into a location, and kill absolutely everyone inside in showers of pixelated blood and viscera. Which [checks notes] is the plot of all four John Wick movies!
And unlike some of the older games on this list, Hotline Miami’s deliberately retro pixel art means it hasn’t aged a day in the 11 years since its original release. That’s buoyed by plenty of releases on different systems over the years, the most recent being 2019’s Nintendo Switch version. (Sure, it came out on Stadia in 2020, but we don’t talk about Stadia any more.)
This is perhaps the most pure rendition of the outrageous violence at the core of John Wick, even if it lacks the motivational canicide.
