PAYDAY 2
Last updated: 2026-02-06
- Highly praised gameplay mechanics and enjoyable co-op experience
- Extensive customization options and modding support
- Affordable and worth the price with positive soundtrack reception
- Poor AI behavior and unbalanced, difficult gameplay
- Poor optimization, outdated graphics, and frequent crashes
- Excessive reliance on DLCs and bugs affecting gameplay
Emotions
Frustration24%Enjoyment13%Excitement11%Joy11%Nostalgia7%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 670,977
- Positive
- 599,05589.3%
- Negative
- 71,92210.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 47,444,960
- Estimated revenue
- $473,975,150
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 4372.08%
- Estimated copies lost
- 30,900
- Estimated revenue lost
- $308,691
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 4412.1% Avg playtime 0.9h | 5702.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3,10214.8% Avg playtime 173.5h | 16,91780.4% Avg playtime 129.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 4.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 69.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 255.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,428.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
21,030 total
Organic purchasers15,74774.9%
Voted up: 85%
Key activations5,28325.1%
Voted up: 79%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
21,030 total
First impression0-2h1,5507.37%
Voted up: 69%
Mid game2-10h5,50226.2%
Voted up: 88%
Late game10-20h2,95414.0%
Voted up: 90%
Endgame20h+11,02452.4%
Voted up: 81%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
88.8%
Global baseline 83.2%
116 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 670,977 total.