Murder Inc

Rated M for mature top-down shooter that fails to deliver

Murder Inc is fun, frantic, and looks great, but the excitement is very short lived. The game becomes very stale rather quickly and both the controls and moving on the Switch version are very lackluster. I tried playing as much as I could, but it was a slog after less than an hour.

Not only a pretty blatant attempt to rip off Hotline Miami, a very shoddily-implemented one at that, critically failing to implement its aiming controls competently

Murder Inc wants to place itself up there with top-down action games like Hotline Miami, but it doesn’t quite have the right level of precision or polish to make that happen. While the time mechanics are interesting, they wear out quickly in a game that lacks variety and raises frustration much more than adrenaline.