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47%Mixed
of all 68,686 reviews on Steam, keys includedBought on Steam 50,593 · 47%Keys 18,093 · 48%
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56%▲ 9
recommend the game, last 7 days2,324▲ 2,296%
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Patches fixed it
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About as often as Patches fixed itNot worth the price
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The last 7 days against the 7 before. Point atTap a day for its counts. Steam’s daily chart counts only copies bought on Steam.
Recommended, last 7 days674Not recommended, last 7 days184Recommend the game, last 7 days79%
| Day | Recommended | Not recommended | Recommending the game |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 October, 7 days before | 5 | 3 | too few |
| 31 October, 7 days before | 8 | 3 | 73% |
| 1 November, 7 days before | 5 | 1 | too few |
| 2 November, 7 days before | 7 | 2 | too few |
| 3 November, 7 days before | 4 | 0 | too few |
| 4 November, 7 days before | 4 | 3 | too few |
| 5 November, 7 days before | 9 | 4 | 69% |
| 6 November, last 7 days | 49 | 40 | 55% |
| 7 November, last 7 days | 81 | 23 | 78% |
| 8 November, last 7 days | 124 | 36 | 78% |
| 9 November, last 7 days | 135 | 18 | 88% |
| 10 November, last 7 days | 112 | 24 | 82% |
| 11 November, last 7 days | 84 | 17 | 83% |
| 12 November, last 7 days | 89 | 26 | 77% |
Steam’s top-ranked review for and against the game in these 7 days, in English. Votes as they stood when this map was made.
Most helpful, recommending the game
One thing i don't understand is my muscle memory tell me to press g to drop a body bag turns out its a hand grenade
Most helpful, against the game
Decided to give the game a fair chance during a free weekend, by playing all the heists with a friend. Payday 2 is my most played game, and I have also enjoyed Crimeboss and Payday likes like Raid WW2. This game is disappointing. Positives: -Gun play doesn't suck ass. -Explosions and other such look pretty. -Visual design looks nice in some places. -Animations are fine, if bit silly sometimes. Negatives: -The game bugged, something to do with the nebula account based on googling, and for about half of the heists, we got no progression at all. The first heist, we got XP, but no money. The second we got money, but lost skill points. Then for several heists we got nothing, leaving us stuck at level 7 and with no money for anything. It's important to note, that the info about this bug that we found, was from 2025, so it has been happening for at least a year. -When the progression started finally working for no obvious reason, it quickly lost its purpose. 1. The skills are boring. You use a shotgun, you pick shotgun skills, if you use frags, you take the frag skills. There is no real reason to mix trees, nor is there any real reason to not take skills related to whatever you use the most. Only reason to take skills outside the trees relating to what you use, is to unlock the next skill in your tree because you can't get all of them by staying in one tree. 2. Money loses its meaning very quick, until you are the type of person to get everything for sake of getting them. You buy the weapons you use, your favorite suit and a mask you like, etc. and you no longer have any reason to change those. Changing weapons or equipment requires remaking your build entirely due to the weapon specific trees. The mask customization isn't deep enough to justify spending much time with it, and that is not helped by most masks not being designed customization in mind. In comparison, in PD2, I change weapons and masks every heist, without any need to change my build. -UI is just a mess, menus inside menus, and you can't buy things directly in the loadout, in fact, you can't even see their prices there. You need to click a button to got to another menu where you can finally see if you can even get what you are looking for. Crimebonds being a separate menu makes it only worse. The weapon stats also are useless, I have no idea what some of them mean, and the differences something makes, are very unclear still. -Most heists are basically the same, at least on loud, we didn't play stealth. Instead of drills, we have treasure hunts. Find a colored keycard to this place, find a QR code to this place, find this and find that. And the locations for those aren't ones, that make sense, they seem to just be anywhere. We celebrated when in the last heist we finally got objectives that weren't that, and were instead classic, drill like waiting. I've never been so happy to wait. -All in all, this game simply wasn't fun for me. Little tediums coming together in a unremarkable shooter, with payday paint on it. We spend 10 hours on it, and I could have used those hours to play any generic, mid fps shooter, and gotten the same experience. Payday 3 was in an unfair place from the start, to compete with 10+ years of updates with content, that was impossible. So it should have competed with gameplay, mechanics, things like that. It didn't, it still doesn't.
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How many of the game’s reviews are in its main languages, with the rest together, and how many in each recommend the game.
| Language | Reviews | Share | Players recommending the gameThe line marks all languages together, 47%. The chip shows how far each language is above or below it. |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 42,903 | 62% | 46%−1 |
| Simplified Chinese | 5,100 | 7% | 29%−18 |
| Russian | 3,973 | 6% | 64%+17 |
| German | 3,440 | 5% | 49%+2 |
| French | 2,501 | 4% | 50%+3 |
| Polish | 1,651 | 2% | 66%+19 |
| Spanish | 1,552 | 2% | 68%+21 |
| Turkish | 806 | 1% | 61%+14 |
| Other languages | 6,759 | 10% |
All reviews ever, as Steam counts them. Each language named has its own Steam score; Other languages holds every other language together.
