PAYDAY 3
Skip · Multiplayer · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $8.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews▼
- 47% of 66,341
- Critics
- 66 players 19 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 90% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews, DRM
Why
Recent reviews trending up: 77% over the last 30 days against 47% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 7.4h
- To 100%
- 79.4h 10.7x the story
- Achievements
- 22
Price and sales
- Sales
- 26 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $8.99 June 2025
- Sale every
- 43d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10,871 now
- Recent reviews
- 77% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 2% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
26 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $8.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. PAYDAY 2 ($9.99, scores 78) outscores it, and so does Crime Boss: Rockay City ($19.99, scores 23). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about PAYDAY 3
Critics scored it 66, but players land 19 points lower at 47 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Players rate it 47 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 77 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 26 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 107 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 7 of the 26 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 7,662 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 79, 11 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Broken junk. Still has bugs that render it unplayable years after launch. Extremely limited DLC-locked pool of guns. The skill system is atrocious with no depth for builds. It looks and plays like a parody of Payday 2.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Ever since Payday 3 got update the game engine to UE5, I got more issue mostly when choose heists game freeze, cuz overlay audio from Shade voice line and main menu music, it force me to reinstall the game just to play a single heist. It really sad Payday 3 is not support a low-budget PC.
Oh yeah, they stepped it up. The updates have been great, finally worthy of the PAYDAY 3 title.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
PAYDAY 3 is a 1-to-4 player co-op FPS and the ultimate heist fantasy, set in the most iconic city in the world. Gone without a trace or through a hail of bullets. Either way, you're getting out with the prize.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1650 (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (4GB), 45 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
PAYDAY 3 scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1272080/payday-3Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.