Pixelated enemies come running at you from the side-rooms of an ornate, sprawling building. Techno music fills your headphones as each opponent falls beneath an onslaught of gunfire. You throw away one weapon and immediately grab another. And connecting everything is a bizarre, dreamlike narrative. This isn't Hotline Miami 3, but it's so close that it might as well be.
OTXO is a new and unmissable top-down shooter. Waking on a beach with little more than the rapidly-fading memory of a lost romance in your head, it's just a few minutes before you're blasting your way through 'The Mansion' in pursuit of your love. It could scarcely be a more fitting homage to Hotline Miami. Dizzyingly fast, entirely deadly, and with a soundtrack that absolutely slaps, this is genuinely the closest thing to a Hotline spin-off I've ever seen, and clean enough that if you told me it was a full-fledged threequel, I'd believe you.
