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.
Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.
Steam review activity
% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
Jun 2013Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,121 reviews, peak 61/day
Aug 19Sep 16
per month · 3,588 reviews, peak 1,446/month
Jun 2026Aug 2026
per month · 6,827 reviews, peak 1,446/month
Mar 2026Aug 2026
per month · 16,437 reviews, peak 2,277/month
Sep 2025Aug 2026
Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.
Review languages
Languages of the 348 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.
English50%
Russian17%
Chinese12%
Spanish8%
Portuguese5%
Turkish2%
Other6%
🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.