PAYDAY™ The Heist Steam news

• Latest observed players27 · 26 September 2026 - 06:47:14 UTC
• SteamPulse tracked peak49,734
• Units sold (VGI)No data available
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• Review score93% positive
• Total reviews40,789
• Release dateOct 20, 2011
• DeveloperOVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.
• PublisherStarbreeze Entertainment

Genres: Action

Company pages: Developer: OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.Publisher: Starbreeze Entertainment

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PAYDAY™ The Heist Steam news

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Latest Steam announcements

• PAYDAY Steam Summer Sale - 25 June 2026

  The sun is baking, the birds are singing, and Wolf is taking a well-deserved avkoppling in the garden. That can only mean one thing: It's time for the PAYDAY Steam Summer Sale!ːcashpd3ː Get PAYDAY: The Heist and the Wolfpack DLC for a steal!ːdallasː Other PAYDAY Games and DLCs are also discounted; this is your chance to score potentially hundreds of hours of criminal chaos across the franchise!Haven’t yet walked the mean streets of PAYDAY? Now’s your chance to suit up, break in, and get away clean… for a killer price.View the PAYDAY Summer Sale Page

• New Regional and Simplified Pricing of PAYDAY Games and DLCs - 9 April 2026

  Hey Heisters,We have an update on pricing across PAYDAY The Heist, PAYDAY 2, and PAYDAY 3.Starting on April 14th on Steam, with other PC and console platforms to follow, we are introducing a new global pricing structure designed to make PAYDAY more accessible, more consistent, and easier to understand for players around the world.A more accessible and globally fair PAYDAYAs part of this update, we have adjusted regional pricing to better reflect local currencies and how prices differ across regions. This means that many players in regions such as Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, India, South Korea, Latin America, and the CIS will see meaningful price reductions in their local currency.A simpler and more consistent pricing modelOver time, pricing across PAYDAY content has become overly complex, with different packs priced in different ways depending on when and how they were released. While th…

• PAYDAY Winter Sale Now On! - 18 December 2025

  It’s time to get together with your friends and play PAYDAY this holiday season!The holidays should be enjoyed with a classic heist game.Go back to where it all began with 67% off the base game and 50% off the Wolfpack DLC.Looking for more PAYDAY Games?The entire PAYDAY franchise is discounted during the Winter Sale!Browse all PAYDAY Games

• PAYDAY Franchise Sale - 25 September 2025

  The PAYDAY Trilogy is ON SALE now - don’t miss the heist of the century!Haven’t yet walked the mean streets of PAYDAY? Now’s your chance to suit up, break in, and get away clean… for a killer price. All three PAYDAY games and many DLCs are discounted; this is your chance to score potentially hundreds of hours of criminal chaos across the franchise!PAYDAY Franchise Sale on SteamGrab the trilogy and get yourself ready for a lifetime of crime!

• PAYDAY: The Heist Discounts for the Steam Summer Sale - 26 June 2025

  Heisters!The summer is heating up here in Sweden, and the Steam Summer Sale is now kicking off with sizzling discounts on a whole lot of games. PAYDAY: The Heist is of course one of them, with the following discounts:PAYDAY: The Heist - 90% offWolfpack DLC - 33% offPAYDAY: The Heist Soundtrack - 30% offAnd if you want even more PAYDAY, the sale applies to the whole franchise so check out PAYDAY 2 and PAYDAY 3 as well!Happy heisting 🌞

• Starbreeze "thirsting for revenge" as hunt for Payday 3 publisher continues - 16 February 2021

  Starbreeze has said it is "thirsting for revenge" as its hunt for a Payday 3 publisher continues. The Swedish company reported its 2020 financial results , which show a loss before tax of SEK 130.5m (£11.3m), compared to a loss of SEK 452.4m (£39.3m) in 2019. The losses continue, but 2020 was an improved year for Starbreeze. It paid off a large proportion of its debts, and there is improvement from co-op shooter Payday 2. Starbreeze said by late December, Payday 2 had become the biggest game community on Steam, with 7.1 million members. Read more

• Payday dev Starbreeze says it's paid the majority of its creditors - 4 December 2020

  Starbreeze has paid the majority of its creditors, it's said. The company behind Payday completed payments during the fourth quarter as part of a plan established by the Stockholm District Court on December 6, 2019. Starbreeze has been under threat ever since the disastrous launch of Overkill's The Walking Dead on Steam. The game flopped, causing severe financial issues and the acrimonious exit of boss Bo Andersson. Check out our feature, The fall of Starbreeze for more. Read more

• Starbreeze says it will release Payday 3 in 2022-2023 - 12 October 2019

  Embattled Swedish video game company Starbreeze has said it will release Payday 3 in 2022-2023. The claim comes as the company fights for survival amid a bruising reconstruction that has seen staff leave and subsidiaries sold off. Starbreeze has been under threat ever since the disastrous launch of Overkill's The Walking Dead on Steam. The game flopped, causing severe financial issues and the acrimonious exit of boss Bo Andersson. Check out our feature, The fall of Starbreeze for more. Read more

• Big layoffs at embattled Payday studio Starbreeze - 4 June 2019

  Embattled Swedish studio Starbreeze has announced plans to cut 60 jobs as part of its fight to stay afloat. The company behind the Payday franchise said it took the decision "to make the organisation more efficient and reduce costs", and "to be able to operate an efficient and profitable business long-term". The layoffs, due to happen in November, will result in a saving of 3m SEK ( 250,000) a month. Starbreeze currently has 240 employees. Read more

• Free for a Limited Time - PAYDAY 2! - 8 June 2017

  Add PAYDAY 2 to your account for FREE starting now to the first 5 Million customers! Once you add the game it will remain in your account permanently, so don't miss out on this opportunity to play a great game!

• Payday: The Heist goes free for one day in October - 27 July 2014

  If you fancy a free game about robbing and defending banks, then here's good news: Payday: The Heist is going free for 24 hours on October 18. This is happening thanks to the hard work of 1,050,000 fans, who undertook the laborious task of joining the Payday 2 Steam group. It's part of Overkill's Crimefest promotion, which rewards loot to those who join the group, providing the studio reaches a series of membership milestones. So far the community has burnt through roughly a third of all possible offerings: at 1,100,000 all members will be gifted a Bain mask, while 1,500,000 members will see the reveal of 'secret stuff', though appropriately we don't know what that means. Overkill has compiled a convenient list of all possible rewards and the figures they need to reach. It's all very business-like. If you haven't already joined the Steam group but want a free copy of Payday: The Heist,…

• Payday 2 helps developer Starbreeze post record profits - 28 February 2014

  It s only appropriate that Payday 2, which is all about stealing as much money as possible, is by far Starebreeze s best earning game. Today, a press release from the developer revealed that it made $6.1 million between October and December 2013, $5.3 million of which came from Payday 2. To put the past six months in perspective, I would like to highlight that Starbreeze historically, from 1998 to June 2013, accumulated a total loss of SEK 94 million ($14.4 million), CEO Bo Andersson Klint said. Thanks to our new business model, reorganization and a focus on our own brands, we have in only two quarters generated a profit before tax of SEK 104 million (almost $16 million). This is due mostly to Payday, which became a Starbreeze property when the company acquired its original creators, Overkill, in 2012. It s good but slightly shocking news when you consider some of the big games Starbree…

• Payday 2 update adds Infamy end-game content for dedicated players - 29 January 2014

  Veteran Payday 2 players will know that at a certain level it happened to me around level 70 or so you ve unlocked all the guns you want and maxed out the essential skills. From there on, the game is still fun, but there s not much left to do. There s even less to do after devoted heisters to grind to level 100. Well, no more the latest Payday 2 update adds an option to reset your skills and levels, start over, and become Infamous. Maybe it s time to call it quits, the official update page reads. Maybe start looking at that retirement plan. Maybe settle down somewhere quiet, raise cattle, play poker on Wednesdays. Get a dog. Sound like fun? We didn t think so. The setup is familiar to Call of Duty players who reset their levels to get prestige points: you lose your level 100 rating, all of your skill points, and access to your arsenal of modded guns. The guns won t go anywhere, but you…

• The PAYDAY franchise is 40%-75% off during the Steam Autumn sale - 27 November 2013

  Hey everyone! The Steam Autumn sale is here! Sweet baby jesus, I better hide my wallet. If you or your friends don't own any or are missing a piece of the PAYDAY franchise - now's your chance. Keep those helmets flying! Almir OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

• The PAYDAY franchise is 40%-75% off during the Steam Autumn sale - 27 November 2013

  Hey everyone! The Steam Autumn sale is here! Sweet baby jesus, I better hide my wallet. If you or your friends don't own any or are missing a piece of the PAYDAY franchise - now's your chance. Keep those helmets flying! Almir OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

• Weekend Deal - PAYDAY 2, 40% Off - 14 November 2013

  Save 40% on PAYDAY 2 as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Addiitonally, grab the original PAYDAY at 75% off. 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. The new CRIMENET network offers a huge range of dynamic contracts, and players are free to choose anything from small-time convenience store hits or kidnappings, to big league cyber-crime or emptying out major bank vaults for that epic PAYDAY. While in DC, why not participate in the local community, and run a few political errands? Additionally, check out the just released Armored Transport DLC! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

• Payday 2 director: open communication helps foster “a real connection” with players - 30 October 2013

  Developer Overkill Software has been uncommonly dedicated to communicating with fans of its recently released heist shooter Payday 2, absorbing feedback, and releasing sweeping overhauls of game systems. Payday 2 was solid but had a few problems when Craig reviewed it, but since release, Payday 2 has been updated 13 times, receiving a new heist, new masks, a rebuilt economy and unlocking system, new skill tree descriptions, and numerous balancing tweaks. Overkill also frequently answers fans on Twitter with screenshots of new characters and plans for future updates. In a lot of ways, this continued support and free updating of a game is the kind of attention we’d see from the team behind an MMO. A Halloween update has already hit, and more free content is on the way. David Goldfarb, game director at Overkill, says that they plan to continue to support the game for the foreseeable future…

• PAYDAY developer Q&A - thanks for participating! - 19 October 2013

  Dear criminals and esteemed heisters, As a part of celebrating the PAYDAY franchise, I'm going to participate in a Q&A hosted by T$E. Update: Q&A is now over, thanks for all the questions! Almir OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

• PAYDAY developer Q&A - thanks for participating! - 19 October 2013

  Dear criminals and esteemed heisters, As a part of celebrating the PAYDAY franchise, I'm going to participate in a Q&A hosted by T$E. Update: Q&A is now over, thanks for all the questions! Almir OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

• Now Available - PAYDAY 2 - 13 August 2013

  PAYDAY 2 is Now Available on Steam! 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. The new CRIMENET network offers a huge range of dynamic contracts, and players are free to choose anything from small-time convenience store hits or kidnappings, to big league cyber-crime or emptying out major bank vaults for that epic PAYDAY. While in DC, why not participate in the local community, and run a few political errands?

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