Genre ActionReleased Oct 20, 2011
PAYDAY™ The Heist
Developed by OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio. · Published by Starbreeze Entertainment
-67%
View on Steam$3.29
$9.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$2.83M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$1.98M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
541.9K
≈ 13 sales per review
Reviews
41,038
Very Positive93% positive
Playing now
23
5-day peak 57 · low 23
New reviews, last 5 days
+15
≈ 3 a day since Oct 9
History
Oct 9 – Oct 14
41.0K41.0K41.0K41.0K
Oct 9Oct 11Oct 14
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
Action →Against the 120 most-reviewed Action games on Steam
Outearns 19% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.
Median
$59.57M
352,265 reviews
Top 10% start at
$204.05M
This game
$2.83M
Fewest reviews of the group
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
- Developer
- OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.
- Publisher
- Starbreeze Entertainment
- Genre
- Action
- Released
- Oct 20, 2011
- Steam app ID
- 24240
- Data updated
- Oct 14, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.