Each week, the Epic Games Store gives away a title or two for free to all those with an Epic Games account. Available to add to your library right now, Epic is currently offering up the top-down Hotline Miami-esque rogue-lite shooter OTXO – free for the next week.

Available to add to your library from now until the 6th of August, OTXO is a “fast-paced, brutal, and dark roguelite filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion.”

Clearly inspired by the likes of Hotline Miami, OTXO features a similar top-down aesthetic, twin-stick mechanics and a 1-hit-kill approach to gameplay. Visually, the main difference between the two is the fact that OTXO has embraced a black, white and red colour scheme – making kills feel that much more brutal.

Being a rouge-lite, OTXO’s gameplay loop is different to Hotline Miami’s with the former having you make your way through 8 areas consisting of “a randomly laid out selection of rooms” based on “over 150 hand-crafted” options.

This does change how the game feels quite a bit, with players likely to approach each level with far more care, compared to Hotline Miami’s ‘One More Try’ mentality.

Either way, OTXO is worth checking out by both fans of Hotline Miami and roguelites in general, so make sure to add it to your library before the 6th of August – wherein it will be replaced by the narrative-focused adventure title ‘Beacon Pines‘ alongside the first-person co-op puzzler ‘We Were Here Together’.

KitGuru says: What do you think of this week’s offerings? Are you a fan of Hotline Miami? What other games are able to scratch that same itch? Let us know down below.