PAYDAY 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 26.8h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA & AMD (1GB VRAM), 32 GB of storage. Windows only.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2019. 99 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, PAYDAY™ The Heist ($9.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Crime Boss: Rockay City ($1.99, scores 24).
79 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 5 percent of players ever finish it. On a 26.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 18 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 26,194 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
26.8 hours to finish it, 538 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 20 times the campaign.
It came out 13 years ago and 27.3K were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
85% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 26.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
27.3K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Can't y'all just leave this game forgotten in a corner? The new engine update basically just killed most of the mods made, for what? a couple more frames? I really love this game, but the modding community has played a major role in keeping the gameplay loop fresh and new for free, but now it's just gone.
This "new" Update is already causing people trouble from people not being able to open the game anymore to others the game is super laggy even when setting everything to the lowest graphics possible so right now im gonna have to say not to get the game at the moment or at least till this is fixed.
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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PAYDAY 2 scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/218620/payday-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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