PAYDAY™ The Heist
BANGER · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 67% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$3.2967% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $1.00/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 41,077
- Critics
- 76 players 17 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.29 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10h
- To 100%
- 49h 4.9x the story
- Achievements
- 56
Price and sales
- Sales
- 70 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 June 2014
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 38 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 70 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, PAYDAY 2 ($9.99, scores 78) and Crime Boss: Rockay City ($19.99, scores 23), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $48.45. It costs $9.99.
More about PAYDAY™ The Heist
Critics scored it 76. Players sit 17 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 659 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 3,819 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
10 hours to finish it, 49 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.9 times the campaign.
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
The OG of the Payday Series. I love this game and thoroughly enjoyed it. Met some really cool people on it, some of the achievements will be a challenge for some if you don't have a team of four for the noob achievement for example but it's achievable to this day. Put in quite a few hours into this game and still love it to this day. I am now playing Payday 2 after completion of this first game. Even though this...
2 more reviews
Game is amazing until you hear that high-pitched whining noise and get kicked in the jaw by a Cloaker. 10/10
While there are some things I prefer and others that I think are worse compared to payday 2, one thing that really stands out to me is how grounded the game feels. It's really immersive and makes you makes you feel like you're taking part in these robberies. While I do think payday 2 also had this feeling, it was lost over the course of its lifespan. Also, today marks this game's 15th anniversary! :)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX / ATI Radeon X1900, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
PAYDAY™ The Heist scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/24240/payday-the-heistReviews 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 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.