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PAYDAY™ The Heist
Critic scores
76
Metacritic
Generally favorable

Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.

Where to play
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PAYDAY™ THE HEIST

PAYDAY™ The Heist has 51 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 55 and its all-time peak is 55. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.PUB · Starbreeze Entertainment2011

Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”

  • Few people online right now. Single-player or off-peak only.
  • Currently at 93% of the all-time peak of 55 players.
Playing now
51
24h peak
55
24h change
▼ 7.3%
Quick verdict
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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE
Current
51
24h peak
55
All-time
55
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
Watching now
No live streams

Nobody is streaming this game on Twitch right now.

Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.

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