METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
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HELLDIVERS™ 2
Developer Arrowhead Game Studios
Helldivers 2 is a 2024 cooperative multiplayer third-person shooter video game developed by Arrowhead Game Studios and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The sequel to Helldivers (2015), the game is set in the 22nd century and follows the Helldiver Corps of Super Earth, a division of shock troops dispatched to combat various threats to humanity and to spread managed democracy. Helldivers 2 was released on… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
290 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
64
Fresh
159 positive · 88 negative
95% range 58–70%
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| Steam reviews | 159 | 88 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
43 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
881,987 of 1,165,780 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 290 · most liked firstI genuinely cannot understand how you keep getting this wrong. You had lightning in a bottle and decided to pry the lid off yourself. You consistently snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and at this point it doesn’t feel accidental anymore. The balancing is incoherent. Weapons swing between feeling incredible and being completely unusable, with no consistency or clear design direction. Enemies get buffed while player tools get nerfed, and every update feels like it undoes the last instead…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stop releasing new content, fix what you've already got. So many weapons are just useless, and all you keep doing is piling on loads of new ones. Fix your game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, but I can't take it anymore. I simply cannot recommend the game with how Arrowhead are handling it. This all stems from what I believe is their lack of coordination. Arrowhead have admitted themselves that there is no team/group of people that work on balancing OR bug fixes. I am going to quote the source so I don't spread misinformation: "There isn't a team whose sole responsibility is to do the balancing for the game. we have game designers and directors people who do these…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update 6/3/2026: Would you believe it? They still can’t get it together and test anything before release. Massive failure of a “performance” update and they even had help from Nyxxes again. Incompetence doesn’t even cover it anymore. On and they went on vacation AGAIN. God forbid they do any actual work. Joke company. Update 5/7/26: Nothing has changed. If anything, it has gotten worse. Since my original review below, we have discovered they outsource the majority of the game development…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is an amazing game here, buried somewhere beneath a huge pile of bad decisions. Let me preface this review by mentioning I like the game. I feel like my playtime would reflect that, along with the fact that rather than just dump it and go elsewhere, I decided to write this whole thing out. I really do think Helldivers 2 itself, at its core, is a great game. I also think the development team took that great game and let multiple flaws just build up on top of it. It's still fun at a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I have loved this game over the last two years, I can no longer in good conscience recommend this game to the average person. For context, I have been playing this game through the highs and the lows, being one of the few that still played during the pre 60 day plan period where the game was what players considered the worst it's ever been in terms of balance, and I played a substantial amount even during the Into the Unjust period where the bugs were at their worst and computer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs seems scared that the enemy npcs will leave the game if the players keep having fun and winning.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i rarely write reviews for anything but this game is at the point where a review is the only constructive outlet for all my gripes. i was obsessed with this game, indeed part of me still is (as evidenced by my hours ingame). and despite my thumbs down, let it be clear that i will always want the best for this game and the community. pardon the incoming rant: with that said, the love i once had for HD2 has been frankly blown out of the water by the sheer bad faith the devs seem to harbor…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, the setting, large enemy rosters, mission types, wide assortment of weapons, fresh new mechanics for seasoned FPS/TPS enjoyers. But ArrowHead and Sony need to tread lightly with their greed. Right now, they are trampling their playerbase. It's a $40 game with micro-transactions adding up to $300+, if you want to unlock everything. You can get everything without buying any micro-transactions, if you're willing to grind for hundreds of hours. ArrowHead trying to stop super…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing Helldivers 2 is like playing DnD with a toxic DM. Every fun thing nerfed, every complaint and feedback either dismissed or rewarded with being silenced, every new thing brought a new form of misery. Everything fell apart so dramatically graceless that you could still role-play about Truth Enforcers and Ministry of Truth clenching their fists that holds the players by their neck, forcing them to "have fun" and "be patient". But no worries, afterall they "hear us" and our complaints.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I decided to land on negative review even though I would still recommend this game with caution. The main problem is the game being half hearted. It's the same feeling as sitting down at a restaurant and getting a menu that's a little too expansive. Or a game that advertises a huge map. And you're just like, "yeah but what's in the map to explore and do?" 1. A faction is missing most of its units and mission types a year after their introduction. 2. Weapon customization is neglected…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Players ask weapons like the coyote to not be nerfed. Developers promise not to nerf the coyote. Secretly nerfs the coyote and tries to hide it. Players ask for a useful and fun buff to the one true flag. Developers say it would be unrealistic. Has literal plot armor on certain armors, adds the agitators which do what players want but for enemies, chargers can turn on a dime, war striders have unlimited supplies of grenades, certain bugs whiff fart clouds and take off at absurd speeds.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a lot of reviews out there that are participating in the current review bomb campaign. This isn't one of them. I'm just tired of the problems. The bugs. The anti-player mindset. Every balance decision feels like the developers are trying to satisfy the AI factions as if they're players too. The developers are even aware when they're about to nerf something the players enjoy, so they will try to be sneaky about it and nerf it in a roundabout way. The AR-2 Coyote is a prime…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Initially a great game, especially with a full group of friends, but has since been on a steepening decline. There are several causes: limited testing of new enemies/features, artificially locking central wargame mechanics in stalemate, aggressive moves by publisher Sony, and a fairly dysfunctional relationship between the developers and community. To summarize each point: - Updates introducing new gear or enemy types have often released unpolished, causing sudden difficulty spikes in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to say it's worth it. I want to say it's fun. But lately, over the course of the last year alone, they keep adding problems, selling us the fixes in warbonds, and then creating more problems by simply not fixing the problems that are CODED IN THE GAME. We don't need more warbonds. We don't need more titles and levels. We don't need more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ colabs. Invisible bodies the enemy can shoot through but we cannot. Terrain and corpses that the enemies can just walk through but we get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Saw trailer - Got inspired to spread Managed Democracy - Got a job - Saved money to buy a gaming PC - Bought a Gaming PC - Saved more money to buy the game - Bought the game - Completed training - Started spreading Democracy with a Hellbomb
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Helldivers 2 is one of the most frustrating examples of a game surviving almost entirely on goodwill, aesthetics, and the memory of how fun it used to feel when people still believed it was building toward something. Underneath the explosive presentation, the propaganda gimmick, and the occasional flashes of chaos driven brilliance, it has become a deeply irritating live service treadmill defined by drip fed content, glacial updates, stale design decisions, and a laughable inability to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arrowhead are the world heavyweight champions of the slamming thier own wiener in a car door championship. Every update is some nonsense that nobody asked for. The optimization has gotten progressively worse over the years, and the game runs worse now then it a few months after launch. They seem to have some sort of addiction to nerfing weapons and items in a pve game, if the weapon is fun to use or the meta or broken who cares, there is nobody on the other team getting frustrated. Theres tons…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this game. I really do. The gameplay loop is addictive, the co-op is fantastic, and spreading democracy is a blast... when the game actually functions. But right now, I cannot in good conscience recommend this to anyone who values their hardware. Helldivers 2 is completely hardlocking my entire system each time I play. This isn't just a "crash to desktop" situation. The screen freezes, and the entire OS becomes unresponsive. I am forced to physically hold down the power button…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The devs do not play the game and do not listen to feedback all they care about is selling live service products.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game can literally crash and lock up your entire PC. I’m running a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and 5070TI, and Helldivers 2 is the only game that completely freezes my system — no keyboard, no mouse, GPU stops, and the only way out is to hard restart. I’ve spent hours troubleshooting: clean driver installs, disabling overlays, verifying files, adjusting BIOS settings — nothing helps. This is not a “performance issue,” it’s a critical system-level failure caused by the game or its GameGuard…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update: So instead of actually improving the overall player experience and un-screwing their reputation they've spent the last 2 years tarnishing, their priorities and biggest announcement of 2026 is "We made Super Credit farming miserable for everyone again" while the game remains, for the most part, broken. Arrowhead doesn't care about you. Never have. They only care about stoking their own egos and sucking as much money out of the playerbase as possible as if this $60 game is Free 2 Play…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Helldivers 2 is without a doubt one of the greatest video games ever made. It's exactly what I think every video game should strive to be: easy to get into but complex under the surface, a sandbox of creating your own story and "cinematic" moments but with enough guidance to never feel lost, and most importantly gives you the satisfaction of overcoming what appears to be impossible odds and come out on the other side of a challenge with your heart racing. Unfiltered dopamine, for real. When the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nerfing something i bought with actual money is not that fun in a PVE game just saying
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh good lord your community post was so tone deaf. “We noticed that you guys aren’t stupid enough to miss the fact that we stealth buffed enemies. We are sorry. It will happen again.” If you think I’ll not just negatively review this game because you gave me some corporate platitudes… Oh you sweet summer child. I can’t believe I supported this game. Fix your issues, don’t tell me you will. Do something.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Welcome to helldivers 2! You get to play as an elite shock trooper with dedicated support from an overhead weapons platform in a fun horde shooter ^ this describes the core of the game, it is good v this describes the balance and developer attitude, it is the worst i have seen Welcome to helldivers 2! All your weapons are weaker than expected, with a pistol having the same level of armor penetration as a full power rifle. Enemies get buffed repeatedly while you get nerfs. The only way of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never left a review before in my 25+ years of gaming, but Arrowhead has forced my hand. I love this game, but Helldivers functionality and Arrowhead's management is nothing short of abusive at this point. The Universe - Excellent. The Core Gameplay loop - Excellent. The Performance - Unacceptable. The Management - Deceitful. There have always been jank and weirdness with Helldivers, and I have laughed and enjoyed the jank, but every new update they break the game to frustrating…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The constant cursed monkey-paw patches has made this game a frustrating mess. They skipped over making a game for everyone, it's just a game for no one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fun as a casual game, kinda boring if this would be the only game you'd play, there's no meaningful endgame progression, majority of the weapons are locked behind premium currencies (which you can tediously grind for), lots of connection issue, lag, bugs that are rarely fixed. overall 7/10 fun game...could be better
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: Don't get me wrong, the game is fine, but the past months/years have shown me that Arrowhead has troubles Fixing, Maintaining, and Balancing the game. This review is exclusively aimed at the STATE of Helldivers 2, not the game of Helldivers 2. This review would be a positive review if the game stopped getting WORSE over time. Arrowhead are experts at repeatedly dropping the ball. Despite my PC not changing since release many things have gotten worse over time. Game Size: Much better…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish there was a "mixed" option on reviews. I'd put Helldivers II there. Why? [EDIT: I am deeply, deeply disappointed in the segment of the community that doxxed and harrased the Dev Donation Challenge creator. I am also deeply, deeply disappointed that the community has fallen to this degree, largely due to Arrowhead's inaction and resistance towards our feedback and the voice of the players. If nothing changes- quickly- this game's core spark that keeps new people coming in- our famously…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game can be completely described by a single phrase. "Rules for Thee, But Not for Me." This game had promise to be one of the best, but sadly plagued by a dev team with antagonistic dungeon master syndrome. It feels like the devs don't like their own fandom nor game and their balance patches, enemy designs, buffs, nerfs, and community interaction show that intent quite well. They are constantly contradicting themselves in balance patches and design through telling the community that the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's fun to be had, play with friends. The community used to be great but there is weird toxicity now, the devs don't want to hear about the many bugs in the game and they nerf gear the player base picks too much. This video explains all the issues with the devs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KGwalkcLXI get it on sale. Edit: To people thinking of getting the game, don't. First, you will have to either pay for Warbonds or waste time grinding for them. It can take a whole day of boring…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game, constantly made worse by terrible antagonistic developers. Only recommended with friends and at a discount.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I simply cannot recommend this game anymore, it's gone from my all time favourite shooter to grind to something I physically can't play anymore. Ever since "Into the Unjust" dropped in September of this year I've been plagued with crashes that hard crash my entire PC and no matter what I try be it updating drivers, reverting to older ones, changing graphic settings or fresh installs (even installing to a separate SSD) the game still crashes and is getting worse for it. I know this issue has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fun, really fun. Unfortunately, the developers do not understand WHY this game is fun, and do everything they can to spite their own community rather than communicate with them. Consistent balance passes to make the game "more realistic" end up taking the fun out of things the community loved. The developers have also failed on multiple occasions to improve communications with the player base, actively failing to fix issues that players care about in favor of fixing ones that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doxxers won. I love this game but nonexistant balance and corporate greed continues to win. Good luck arrowhead Id love to recommend this game. Disabling comments. People do not have critical thinking or even functioning brains and I'd rather not see lobotomites in my notifications every day. P.S. recent patch was good, need more fixes for game health and more balancing so some weapons don't just feel like straight downgrades compared to others. I don't want to feel punished for not taking a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →HELLDIVERS 2: THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN PASSION AND GREED ★★☆☆☆ THE GOOD: THE GAMEPLAY ACTUALLY WORKS The horde shooter mechanics are why millions of us are here. Fourplayer co-op, explosive weapons, frantic missions. It's genuinely fun. The Managed Democracy satire is sharp and entertaining. When you're in a squad mission, the game delivers moments that few shooters can match. Then Arrowhead decides to ruin what makes the game good. THE REAL PROBLEM: WARBONDS REPLACED PROGRESSION This launched…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh my sweet, summer child... For my very first steam review, I feel obligated to warn other prospective buyers from purchasing this game. There's a constant cycle of "We're so back... It's so over." what feels like every 3 months. Escalation of Freedom was a particularly notorious patch back in 2024 that made the game feel so bad that the community revolted, resulting in the 60 Day Plan. Over 60 days were spent to fix the game with the promise for better communication and rethinking their…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developers seem to permit doxxing and death threats in their community, even when the doxxing and death threats are being aimed at a charity. I won't overlook the game being a buggy mess that breaks every new patch if the developers are willing to overlook the toxicity of their community.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completely unreal that I have to make this review, but Arrowhead needs the pressure. Helldivers 2 has the bones of a good game. Unfortunately, Arrowhead has revealed that they are sophomoric in the extreme when it comes to running a live service game. For a live service game to succeed, it needs to do (at least) two things: Work and be fun. Unfortunately, Helldivers 2 working and being fun appears to rub Arrowhead the wrong way, and they frequently make unexplained and untested changes that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →40 bucks to have 80% of the content behind paywalls wtf is this?? In 10+ hours of normal gameplay (I say normal cause some people think it is acceptable that you change your entire gameplay loop to mindlessly grind premium currency in the most BORING way) I managed to get 50 super credits. If it is not part of the natural gameplay cycle and takes me THIS long to get 1k super credits why was this ever a paid game then? Why cant games just use cosmetics for retail. Other games do it, your greed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels like the devs are intentionally sabotaging the game 🙃
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This being my first steam review I figured I give it to the game I'd played most here. Pre launch my brother had been telling me about this game and how cool it looked and to be honest I never really bothered to look at it, because at the time, It was a pretty low time in my life going to a college I didn't like, working a job that I hated, and not really talking to anyone. About 4 days after launch I saw this game show up front page of the steam store and remembered my brother was saying and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is amazing, but the devs are not making it easy to enjoy the game and support them
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another wave of corporate PR and damage control is happening due to the reviews spiralling down, again. Deep down no one believes a word of it. You lied to us, paywalled content and vehicles, hid nerfs from us, pretended to buff things while doing the exact opposite through hidden mechanics because of that grunt fantasy you so gladly uphold. You brought this on yourself AH, again. Fix your internal communication issues, get the your teams and managers egos back in check. Time to listen to what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arrowhead has cultivated a community that shoots its own members for wrongthink. These members commit said wrongthink because the game is and has been in a very tenuous and frustrating state of balance for almost a year now, which AH are essentially unable to fix because they outsource most of their new content to other people. This is on top of how broken and buggy the game is. Every update is one step forward then three or four back, and what was once a beautiful, unique, strategic game is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The man who issued the original challenge did nothing wrong. He simply spoke truth to the power, and their Stasi came for him. He is a martyr for this community. This game might as well be dead now. I urge everyone to boycott until they correct the record, or if they don't fix it, to leave permanently and never look back. We cannot allow this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can no longer recommend this game in good faith to others. I've paid for every single warbond you've put out, AH, and I have the receipts to prove it. I won't be spending another dime, and it's not because you cracked down on SC farming, it's because you stood up and told us WE asked for it. "Top topic in player feedback since launch"? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I read the forums, I'm in the discord. Your recent reviews went Mostly Negative in May over bugs, performance, and progression with nothing but a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have you ever heard the story of how George Lucas' wife was instrumental in balancing out Lucas' crazy ideas for the first Star Wars trilogy, and how the reason for the prequel's weirdness and ostentatiousness was because an unrestrained Lucas went overboard in her absence? Well, after seeing some of the dev diaries and behind-the-scenes stuff from Arrowhead, I think a comparable case may be happening here between Arrowhead and Sony. Let me explain. The developers of Helldivers 2, Arrowhead…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They refuse to balance their game properly and upon someone in the community offering to donate a thousand dollars in exchange for some of the devs actually playing the game and beating a mission on the highest difficulty they were relentlessly doxxed and harassed, to the point of them being fired from a job they've had for years and being barred from working at a place where they've done years of volunteer work because of how bad these people were harassing their workplaces, and the company…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All this game needs is the ability to play with up to 6 people and it would be absolute perfection
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was great fun, a horde shooter with lots of enemies, explosions, constant action and nice visuals. But then.... then the dev team happened. They have succesfully run their own success to the ground not once - but twice. After the initial sucess at launch they kept nerfing everything, despite all the player feedback, for "balance reasons" (balanced by the spreadsheet, with popular guns clearly deserving the biggest nerfs), making the player count hit a low point. This got so bad…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The core gameplay loop is incredibly fun and genuinely unique in the video game industry. BUT... The company behind it, Arrowhead Game Studios, seems to hate people actually playing their game—which is ironic, considering this is a MULTIPLAYER LIVE-SERVICE GAME. Their relationship with the playerbase constantly reminds me of a quote from Far Cry 3's Vaas Montenegro: "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing... over and over…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devs need to stop treating the enemies as some sort of rival playerbase and give meaningfull buffs to divers and their arsenal
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Since the last update game crashes permanently. No fun playing any more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the cases where i love the game, but hate the developers
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is fun, but Arrowhead is genuinely just as messed up as Super Earth. As of the moment of writing this, Arrowhead has: - Brushed aside a member of the community getting doxxed and having their life ruined over a charity challenge he gave the developers with a "don't do that" style message while role-playing as High Command. - Hidden patch notes as well as flat out lied to the community MULTIPLE TIMES (e.g. Cayote nerfs) - Gaslighted the community that the suppressed weapons released in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arrowhead literally hates their own game and their own players. They put over 90% of their energy into finding new ways to screw players over. Let me explain: Any bug that actually helps the player — sometimes even better than the stuff they designed on purpose — gets patched out at lightspeed. But bugs that punish you when you've done absolutely nothing wrong, breaking the most basic rule of game design, are completely ignored. They don't even show up on the known issues list. And since…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have done my best keeping the toxicity of the playerbase from swaying me against Helldivers 2 and Arrowhead. All of posts on various platforms complaining about the shortcomings of the game, and yet I still advocated that the game is still enjoyable. I can't keep this mentality anymore, as the issues I have gotten used to and adapted to, have simply piled to high. What happened to the passion that once was the driving force behind creating this amazing game? Why are bugs allowed to linger…
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