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Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”

Release DateOct 20, 2011
Price$ 14.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)93% (very positive) Top 15% / 93.3%  Top 15%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)90.8% Top 3% / 91.5%  Top 2%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)20.9K  Top 2% / 40.2K  Top 1%
Curators689 reviews  Top 1%
Median Play Time11.1 hours  Top 15%
Play Time per Dollar44 minutes
Followers146K  Top 1%
Owners± 5.3M  Top 1%
Copies Sold± 2.4M  Top 1%
Gross Revenue ($)± 11.3M  Top 2%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of PAYDAY™ The Heist steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows PAYDAY™ The Heist's Steam rating and reviews between October 2011 and December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 98.7% (November 2011) to 93.2% (October 2022).

With 40.2K reviews Top 1%, PAYDAY™ The Heist is definitely a major AAA level success. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for PAYDAY™ The Heist and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows PAYDAY™ The Heist's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (38%), followed by Russian (20%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 28 different languages represented. The game is translated in 5 languages. Considering that, unless the game is text-heavy, adding translations is not a lot of work compared to making a game, it is often a good idea to translate the game in many languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying PAYDAY™ The Heist percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in PAYDAY™ The Heist depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time in game is excellent, with 41 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 3.3 times less than the median for positive reviews.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Objective oriented gameplay
  • Unique and fun heists
  • Realistic and relatable characters
  • No health regeneration
  • Character depth
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Plenty of weapons to choose from
  • Survivability
  • Fun co-op mechanics
  • Great atmosphere
  • Repetitive heists
  • Ineffectiveness of characters' abilities
  • Hard to switch between skill trees

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's score of 93%  Top 15% should be considered while evaluating them.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of PAYDAY™ The Heist's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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