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Game
Game2013
PAYDAY 2
Developer OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio., Sidetrack Games
Payday 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by Overkill Software and published by 505 Games. The game is a sequel to 2011's Payday: The Heist, and the second game in the Payday series. It was released in August 2013 for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. An enhanced version of the game, subtitled Crimewave Edition, was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2015 and for the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
339 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
83
LovedLoved
205 positive · 43 negative
95% range 77–87%
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| Steam reviews | 205 | 43 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
91 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
603,176 of 674,998 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 339 · most liked firstThe year is 2035. Payday 5 just launched to a 3/10 metacritic score. Payday 2 is still getting new DLC
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Subscription system & raising prices, really - for this old game and the DLCs?!?! So this is your attempt to make some money after ruining Payday 3. How pathetic to treat your players/fans like this... F*** these devs!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thumbs up, just for optimising the game size from 88 GB to 35 GB. Besides the free 64bit engine upgrade with directx 11. More devs need to learn customers reciprocate respect. Now keep patching bugs and you might survive as a company.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →shady business practices should be saved for inside the game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ah the crappy bargain bin Payday 2 team is working with the transphobic and racist vtuber again because they need the eyes on their game, what a shocker
unlabelledView post →There are a few things that are certain in life. I can think of three from the top of my head - everyone will eventually die, I'll never 100% PAYDAY 2, and I'll never be able to afford all of it's DLCs no matter how much I work in my life. It has more buttons to press on a regular game than an Airbus A380 needs to fly, but when you somehow hit all the right ones at the right time and sequence, it is a lot of fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Brilliant game, terrible management. Subscription for DLC is scam, you can acquire all of them via mods (including the deleted weapons you can no longer obtain) for FREE.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I doubt anybody is gonna see this so let it be known I'm gay as ♥♥♥♥ Play this game if you love horde shooters. This game is peak, it has guns, and it allows you to live out your fantasy of having the skill to pull off bank robbing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The downfall of the Payday franchise should be studied. I've sunk so much time and money into this game because I genuinely used to love it (yes even the broken drills) but between bad business practices, dlc (in 2026 AFTER PAYDAY 3), the infamous subscription and Payday 3. I can't support this anymore. It's not jumping on the hate train, it's watching something I love die.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hows my Ultimate edition going? The final one-time purchase of the game? I spent a lot of money on this game before 'Ultimate edition' released.. And Ultimate Edition had a full games price on top of what you already payed for the main game and DCL's etc. I GOT IT. I thought 'Hey that nice of you, cause both my friends and I spent our asses off on your game' We were a bunch of guys playing all the time, playing the hell out of it too. Then they started releasing more DLC's shortly after.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine making a fantastic game, managing to keep it alive for over a decade, have its quality still surpass its successor, and having a fantastic reputation, only to absolutely go scorched earth on both your game and rep because you wanted an extra bit of what is pocket change to a big money company like you, Starbreeze. Congratulations, you managed to kill your biggest cash cow because you wanted that extra bit on cha-ching. We thought we were the heisters, but it was really Starbreeze…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →never touching starbreeze again after the spit in the face of them rising the price of DLC from a game from 2013. then giving you a subscription service to "save you money" "bro we need the money" Should've made Payday 3 better then. how do you fumble such a loyal fanbase so quickly?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This track is called "Le Castle Vania: Infinite Ammo (Assault)"! Payday 2 was an awesome game! The heists were a blast to play through, and the Assault Waves were intense and thrilling! The game also had a crazy amount of content, and the OST absolutely slapped! It was a super fun game to play!
unlabelledView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good (textures and animations are okay, not modern) ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don’t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good (co-op heists are still fun) ☐ Good ☐ It’s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don’t ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Very good (guns, alarms, and voice lines are satisfying) ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I’m now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }---…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's unbalanced, poorly optimized, and if I open the game it's likely to crash automatically. But it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome, one of the best shooters I've ever played and I'm going to keep playing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its held together with ♥♥♥♥ piss and ♥♥♥. but it is a peak game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Leadership manages PD3 so bad, they have to create a new tax on PD2 players. You can get it dirt cheap in keystores (and the dlcs) , don't feed greedy trolls that mismanage their companies and is losing 5+ million euro a year because of bad management.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The latest update diesel 3.0 has borked the game. You can revert to legacy and it works. Using diesel 3.0 you'll play the game for about 20 minutes and then it will stutter like crazy, unplayable. They said in a statement. "simply not sensible to support legacy version that has no benefit" https://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/8/586182995821676631/#c586182995821677287 The benefit of legacy is that it's the only version of the game that works! You have taken away the fun from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Half of the game is actually DLC, and they have the nerve to price it at 70£...(an 11 year old game's DLC...and on "sale"... in this economy...) The gameplay is stretched out and most of the missions are the same/ they get boring quick, rewards are minimal, and the cops spawn like ants with guns I must have merked at least half the Earth's population in game by now...and they were all cops...who would've thought and what are the odds? Bad design by nature, you guys should collab with Rockstar…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A gun I loved using back in the day all of a sudden became unusable unless I join the official community group on steam, or make a Starbreeze Nebula account. Unfollowing the steam group disables the gun again. It is sad that many people are born into this world and think that these anti-consumer practices are normal. Taking away freedoms we used to have before, so that the developer can more easily collect our data or advertise to us. I have no trust in this game's developers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I just play for the music. Not even a joke. The music really turns a lot of decent gameplay in to awesome shootouts.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was great, but I don't have a second mortgage to buy everything. This game costs like 10 bucks for all dlcs is ~200, that is a 2000% increase. Jesus Christ Overkill, the full price of your game with dlcs should not exceed its original price, if you need a subscription to trade off the costs of your dlcs then you have an issue. Also the devs have like the most brain dead ideas for licensing like they lose scarface license fine, but take out half of the dlc like the character perk deck…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PAYDAY 2 dropped the Native Linux version so you'll need to use Proton #PAYDAY2 #FPS #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux #SteamOS
unlabelledView post →Awesome game, Dont give them your money with the subscription just wait for a sale. Greedy dev team that is a skeleton of what the team used to be. Almir is gone and with him the spirit of payday.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a fun game, but. However, their DLC scheme and price fixing is the perfect example of everything what is wrong with gaming today.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →64bit update did absolutely nothing for the game except ruin performance. was great before update: idk what they did but the performance is fixed 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is definitely one of the five games with the best player communities. I had unknowingly started a really difficult mission while playing online. Just as I was about to give up in failure, someone joined me and took out the enemies as if flying through the air. LOL He saved me, and then a few more players joined; suddenly, the level—which had seemed like hell—became easy and fun. I don't remember having this much fun in a long time. Even in 2026, there are still over 40,000 players. You…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Used to love this game before the update but now after this update I can't even play it anymore, absolutely horrible update I cannot even set it to anything other than fullscreen and 4K otherwise it changes my entire PC resolution to 1280x640 and just doesn't work, btw 4K tanks my FPS Horrible update fix it. (I tried every fix I could changing the rendering file, using steam properties even just doing nothing and restarting NOTHING works)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Comically Large Spoon of Gold. I love it. The Soundtrack. I love it. The guns. I love it. I love it all.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For every successor, there's a legacy. What if the legacy is better than the successor? That's how I see Payday 2, a better game than its counterpart, Payday 3. I can mention 100 reasons why I like Payday 2 more, but these are the main reasons so far: - More weapon choices. From the common Assault Rifle to the special weapon like MA-17 Flamethrower. - More difficulties. Overkill is a child's play for you? Death Sentence is the answer. - If you can wear Infamy like a crown, try reaching 100…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game, only thing I don't like is the developers are greedy af (they recently doubled the pricing of each dlc). K-Y-S!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game greedy company.Dont buy any game with this developer,distributor check its steam info.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ahhh, Payday 2. I’ve put off writing a review for this game for far too long. How does one sum up payday two to the uninitiated? PD2 is a fast action, objective oriented, arena shooter with strong cooperative elements and a plethora of weapons to choose from that caters to those with no skill and elitists alike. PD2 is also a stealth based heist game with strong mess up multiplying consequences that’s best played solo unless you’re a genuine masochist. Pros: A huge variety of things to do,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok heres another one (Pick the Game) Cuphead Postal 2 Undertale Payday 2 Half Life Stardew Valley Borderlands 2 Scott Pilgrim vs the world
unlabelledView post →Game is genuenly enjoyable with a great deal of depth added to it. You have a massive selection of weapons, many of which can be kitted out heavily. Perk Decks and Skills give the player the ability to hard focus on a certain playstile of their choosing. It is a legitimately good game. Issues that I have: - Snipers are DLC, like all of them. Some can be unlocked through achievements, but the achievements require you to own a sniper to begin with. - Shotguns are just bad, with the player…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best FPS built on a racing game engine. Ironically, it has horrible driving controls. It's pretty good though. Would recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of the best horde shooter games i've experienced if you like multiple tactics i recommend buyng the game. just remember Steal from the rich and give to yourself
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →lame ass update which doesnt let me play the game anymore cuz it just crashes on start up and if i remove mod_overrides then my game is reset to default settings as if i never played it before, gg for forcing this update on people instead of leaving it optional and making it not playable for 99% of people now
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You can basically see the strings of spaghetti code this game is made with. But damn if it´s not one of the most fun coop games out there.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just play it. it's 85p on sale, or 8 pound 50 if not on sale. you wont be losing much if you don't like it, and its an amazing game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My favourite was how silencers worked in PAYDAY 2, which just reduced the size of a "Noise" cylinder the game cast around the player. This meant a guard directly above or below the player could hear a silenced gunshot, even if they were multiple floors away.
unlabelledView post →Despite the glaring issues of this game being held by duct tape, oil, diesel, hopes, and dreams? There isn't any other game that scratches that itch of robbing literally anything, stupid dumb builds, and silly guns. If Payday 2 was the only game I can play for eternity? I would happily do so. BUT if you are a new player? get a group of friends who are also new or someone who knows everything! So, my overall thoughts? Payday 2 is a fun game that everyone should try in their lifetime. (just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's actually very funny that Payday 2 has been officially supported longer than Windows 10, and continues to have support for the PC version. This isn't a knock on Payday 2, that game rules.
unlabelledView post →This game is a perfect example of suffering from success. I find myself creating armor so strong nobody can kill me, and then upping the difficulty and dying immediately because I suck. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will finally get to play this game after the engine upgrade comes out to reduce the game size.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game but very buggy, devs need to fix. still better than payday 3.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →do not buy games from this company, instead of trying to fix the game they hyped for so long, they increased the price of all dlc for a 10 year old game and added a subscription to get access to them, ♥♥♥♥ this company.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay: 1. Go death sentence one down 2. Get spotted by a civillian on the other side of the map 3. Get molested by 10 000 men wearing titanium armor and carrying miniguns while you have 2 pistols Very tuff game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Payday 3 being Not Good is such a shame after how much a blast me and friends had with Payday 2 a couple years ago but I've heard the Jacket update has been pretty solid so I really do hope it turns the game around for the better
unlabelledView post →I've been burned one too many times by friends all hopping on a game, getting tired of it in a few weeks and moving onto the next. Back when Payday 2 it was SUPER popular amongst friends but it was also really expensive. But by the time I could afford it? They were all playing other shit. Fuck that
unlabelledView post →Try to recreate Payday 2's Armor system in our FPS game. (everything is placeholder) #indiedev #indiedevs #gamedev #devlog #indiegame
unlabelledView post →My hard drive can finally breathe again. I was introduced to this game by an old friend, contemplated the game but slept on it for a while but when i finally got around to it, all i can say is i shoulda tried it earlier, I stopped playing the game after the sheer amount of DLC slop and the spaghetti code they used which bloated my storage. Now that they've gotten rid of all the bloat and finally switched to the Diesel 3.0 engine making the game go from 80+ gigs to only 34 as of the time…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still one of my personal favourites to play with mates. I like the different styles of approaches to every mission you do. Personally I'm always a tank that rushes head first. Regardless definitely give this a go if it goes on sale and if you get a four man going. Good solid fun team work.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mister Blue Sky! There have been some games I've been enjoying lately: Rainbow Six: Siege, the Division 2, Escape from Tarkov, Destiny 2. But there is one game I really enjoy a lot! Payday 2! It's premise is.. a little odd. You.. play as heisters robbing banks and valuables! Admittedly fun ^^"
unlabelledView post →PAYDAY 2 dropped the Native Linux version so you'll need to use Proton https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/payday-2-dropped-the-native-linux-version-so-youll-need-to-use-proton/ #PAYDAY2 #FPS #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux #SteamOS
unlabelledView post →Really fun game when getting carried ALSO THE BUILD CAPABILITIES ARE PEAK
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chaotic, janky, and somehow still insanely fun with friends. Pulling off heists never gets old, even when everything goes horribly wrong. The amount of content is huge, though it can feel overwhelming (and DLC-heavy). Best enjoyed with a crew and zero expectations of things going smoothly.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PAYDAY 2 is one of the most fun and addictive co-op games you can play with friends. Planning and executing heists together creates an experience that is both chaotic and incredibly satisfying. The game offers a huge variety of missions, from small store robberies to massive multi-day bank heists. Each mission can be completed in different ways—either stealthy and strategic or loud and explosive—which adds a lot of replay value. The progression system is deep, allowing you to customize your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello heisters, We're about to push Steamworks setting change to PAYDAY: The Heist and PAYDAY 2. The update includes Visual C++ 2012, for the installation of both games, without which they won't start. If you're already playing the game, this won't affect you at all.
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