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PAYDAY 3

Starbreeze Studios · Starbreeze Entertainment · 2023-09-21

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ActionAdventureRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 21, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 18, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Sep 21, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.

PAYDAY 3 is an Action, Adventure, RPG game released in 2023, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (46% of 65687 reviews).

528
playing now
46%
positive of 66k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
23
twitch viewers (latest)
2.3
viewers/channel (concentration)
64/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
59/100
IGDB user rating (43 ratings)
280
Nexus mods (333k downloads)
3.02★
PlayStation Store rating (25,107 ratings)
63/100
opencritic · weak · 26% recommend · from 91 critics
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

528 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Payday 3 is a 2023 cooperative first-person shooter game developed and published by Starbreeze Studios. The game was formerly published by Deep Silver. The game is a sequel to Payday 2, and is the third installment in the Payday series. It was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 21 September 2023.

Trailer

PAYDAY 3 trailer thumbnail

PAYDAY 3: Gameplay Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 528 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3,084 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~386/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (29,353 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 27,782 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3M–3.0M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 66,177 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.91 at GreenManGaming (2025-09-22) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $47.88 · on sale 87 of 206 observed days · $21.08 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19k19k20232026Week of 2023-09-01: 10,202 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 19,151 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2,246 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1,737 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1,758 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 957 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 478 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 770 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 539 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 379 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 569 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 268 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 347 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 281 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 352 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 423 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 281 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 340 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 337 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 734 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 327 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 386 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 501 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 250 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 403 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 281 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 316 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 227 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 314 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 180 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 191 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 157 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 747 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 408 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 122 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 201 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 205 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 129 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 185 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 132 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 165 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 431 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 174 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 436 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 138 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 26 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3.9k4632026-09-15 11:00 — 582 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 856 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 484 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 743 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 1,289 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 621 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 1,599 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 2,577 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 1,770 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 1,561 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 1,834 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 1,106 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 795 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1,359 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 1,547 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 650 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 866 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 1,000 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 605 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 976 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 1,473 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 725 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 528 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
29k243Sep 2023Aug 2026Sep 2023 — avg 28,622 · peak 69,112Oct 2023 — avg 5,996 · peak 28,721Nov 2023 — avg 1,115 · peak 5,115Dec 2023 — avg 1,556 · peak 4,475Jan 2024 — avg 602 · peak 1,680Feb 2024 — avg 286 · peak 648Mar 2024 — avg 295 · peak 891Apr 2024 — avg 243 · peak 518May 2024 — avg 333 · peak 1,641Jun 2024 — avg 598 · peak 3,286Jul 2024 — avg 820 · peak 1,978Aug 2024 — avg 844 · peak 4,648Sep 2024 — avg 1,271 · peak 3,831Oct 2024 — avg 797 · peak 2,517Nov 2024 — avg 1,007 · peak 2,519Dec 2024 — avg 896 · peak 2,012Jan 2025 — avg 764 · peak 1,630Feb 2025 — avg 1,071 · peak 2,821Mar 2025 — avg 826 · peak 1,832Apr 2025 — avg 497 · peak 1,158May 2025 — avg 621 · peak 2,849Jun 2025 — avg 683 · peak 1,986Jul 2025 — avg 1,241 · peak 2,535Aug 2025 — avg 549 · peak 1,258Sep 2025 — avg 591 · peak 2,717Oct 2025 — avg 635 · peak 2,100Nov 2025 — avg 310 · peak 649Dec 2025 — avg 616 · peak 1,865Jan 2026 — avg 539 · peak 998Feb 2026 — avg 321 · peak 677Mar 2026 — avg 467 · peak 966Apr 2026 — avg 410 · peak 967May 2026 — avg 691 · peak 1,721Jun 2026 — avg 671 · peak 1,682Jul 2026 — avg 914 · peak 1,809Aug 2026 — avg 593 · peak 1,457
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$47.86$9.892023-06-132026-10-142023-06-13 — best price $33.992023-11-08 — best price $31.992023-12-21 — best price $29.992024-01-29 — best price $31.192024-03-07 — best price $25.992024-05-03 — best price $25.992024-06-27 — best price $19.992024-07-31 — best price $39.992024-09-20 — best price $44.652024-10-30 — best price $15.892024-12-03 — best price $15.892025-01-09 — best price $29.992025-03-03 — best price $15.892025-04-11 — best price $45.372025-05-26 — best price $45.512025-07-27 — best price $29.992025-09-23 — best price $9.902025-11-04 — best price $29.992025-11-25 — best price $12.592025-12-08 — best price $46.612025-12-22 — best price $46.972026-01-08 — best price $29.992026-01-22 — best price $46.812026-02-02 — best price $47.352026-02-16 — best price $47.412026-02-27 — best price $15.002026-03-12 — best price $46.182026-03-25 — best price $46.362026-04-10 — best price $46.832026-04-24 — best price $46.842026-05-09 — best price $29.992026-05-22 — best price $29.992026-06-08 — best price $46.152026-06-22 — best price $45.812026-07-06 — best price $45.652026-07-17 — best price $22.792026-07-30 — best price $29.992026-10-07 — best price $29.992026-10-14 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

414832026-06-02 — 118 pageviews2026-06-06 — 142 pageviews2026-06-10 — 114 pageviews2026-06-14 — 108 pageviews2026-06-18 — 138 pageviews2026-06-22 — 110 pageviews2026-06-26 — 413 pageviews2026-06-30 — 204 pageviews2026-07-04 — 179 pageviews2026-07-08 — 132 pageviews2026-07-12 — 130 pageviews2026-07-16 — 131 pageviews2026-07-20 — 115 pageviews2026-07-24 — 147 pageviews2026-07-28 — 149 pageviews2026-08-01 — 90 pageviews2026-08-05 — 104 pageviews2026-08-09 — 108 pageviews2026-08-13 — 143 pageviews2026-08-17 — 110 pageviews2026-08-21 — 143 pageviews2026-08-25 — 172 pageviews2026-08-29 — 148 pageviews2026-09-02 — 132 pageviews2026-09-06 — 124 pageviews2026-09-10 — 132 pageviews2026-09-14 — 106 pageviews2026-09-18 — 175 pageviews2026-09-22 — 144 pageviews2026-09-26 — 172 pageviews2026-09-30 — 142 pageviews2026-10-04 — 108 pageviews2026-10-08 — 114 pageviews2026-10-11 — 100 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2.4k12026-10-01 02:34 — 1,241 viewers2026-10-01 11:34 — 1,052 viewers2026-10-01 20:34 — 876 viewers2026-10-02 05:34 — 908 viewers2026-10-02 14:34 — 975 viewers2026-10-02 23:34 — 1,065 viewers2026-10-03 08:34 — 904 viewers2026-10-03 17:34 — 1,216 viewers2026-10-04 02:34 — 1,061 viewers2026-10-04 11:34 — 1,072 viewers2026-10-04 20:34 — 1,123 viewers2026-10-05 05:34 — 795 viewers2026-10-05 14:34 — 930 viewers2026-10-05 23:34 — 892 viewers2026-10-06 08:34 — 837 viewers2026-10-06 17:34 — 845 viewers2026-10-07 02:34 — 993 viewers2026-10-07 11:34 — 1,327 viewers2026-10-07 20:34 — 1,216 viewers2026-10-08 05:34 — 1,265 viewers2026-10-08 14:34 — 576 viewers2026-10-08 23:34 — 714 viewers2026-10-09 08:34 — 725 viewers2026-10-09 17:34 — 650 viewers2026-10-10 02:34 — 770 viewers2026-10-10 11:34 — 949 viewers2026-10-10 20:35 — 172 viewers2026-10-11 05:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-11 14:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-11 23:34 — 121 viewers2026-10-12 08:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-12 17:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-13 02:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-13 11:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-13 20:34 — 33 viewers2026-10-14 05:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-14 14:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-14 23:34 — 43 viewers2026-10-15 01:34 — 23 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
86.5%
earned "No One Cared Who I Was..."
9.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsIn-App PurchasesCamera ComfortCustom Volume Controls25 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America…

Post-launch support: 13 DLC released, first 2023-12-12, latest 2026-05-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox Series, Windows (Xbox)29,1501%22
PS5 (PlayStation)27,3674%23
Steam (Steam)20,1335%22

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSPvECo-opCrimeHeistActionAmericaShooterStealthTactical

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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