PAYDAY 2
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Action indie game PAYDAY 2 comes from overkill-a-starbreeze-studio and publisher starbreeze-entertainment. Released in 2013, it has 443,794 Steam reviews at 89% positive and launched at $9.99, clear budget-action signals for buyers.
Overview
PAYDAY 2 is a 2013 Action game developed by OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio. and published by Starbreeze Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 443,816 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio. with publisher Starbreeze Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 22.6 million to 52.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, PAYDAY 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
443,816
Positive
89%
Steam appid
218620
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.022.6M to 52.8M
units (median: 37.7M)
≈ $129.2M to $301.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for PAYDAY 2 at roughly 22.6 million to 52.8 million copies, with a median around 37.7 million, derived from its 443,816 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $215.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $6.18Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $6.18 to $9.99, averaging $9.24 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $6.18 on 2026-03-17.
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Where to buy
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- Humble Store$9.99 Buy
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- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has PAYDAY 2 sold?
- indielist estimates PAYDAY 2 has sold between 22,634,616 and 52,814,104 units (median 37,724,360), derived from its 443,816 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed PAYDAY 2?
- PAYDAY 2 was developed by OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio. and published by Starbreeze Entertainment.
- When was PAYDAY 2 released?
- PAYDAY 2 was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does PAYDAY 2 have on Steam?
- PAYDAY 2 has 443,816 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions PAYDAY 2 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.'s other releases and Starbreeze Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where PAYDAY 2 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same PAYDAY 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.