Hotline Miami

Hotline Miami punishes caution as much as recklessness, one hit kills you regardless of how the fight started, which means clearing a floor is less about surviving a firefight and more about pre-planning a route that avoids becoming one in the first place.

Because levels reset instantly on death, treating each attempt as information, which door led to an ambush, which room had two enemies instead of one, tends to matter more than raw reflexes, most floors are cleared through memorized routes refined over several fast restarts rather than one lucky clean run. Melee weapons are usually safer than guns in close quarters, since gunfire draws every nearby enemy's attention at once. Bank Robbery 3 runs a similar high-stakes, room-by-room shootout with a first-person perspective instead of top-down.