PAYDAY 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.2967% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.37/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 675,204
- Critics
- 79 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Shooter
Holding it back: Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.29 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 26.8h
- To 100%
- 533.5h 19.9x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 1342
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 65% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 December 2019
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 13,879 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 82% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
101 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 82 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 ($19.99, scores 23).
More about PAYDAY 2
79 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 26.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 26,202 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, 534 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 20 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 675,204 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
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
if the dlc were reasonably priced and the older packs were grandfathered into the base game, i'd recommend. they also raised the price of the dlc bundle when the subscription came out lmao
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Anyone with more then 1000 hours is in it for the long run for 100% of acheivments
I wanted to give this game a positive review but it fails in different ways including crashing on start-up and game mechanics. You would think you will be excited, happy and have fun with the perk/talent trees but the abilities fall short or are disappointing. For example Jack of all trades gives you an additional slot for utility items but only at half capacity making your other perk ability feel like a waste. Ammo...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA & AMD (1GB VRAM), 32 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
PAYDAY 2 scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/218620/payday-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.