{"id":26748,"date":"2026-11-08T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igamemag.com\/?p=26748"},"modified":"2026-11-08T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:40:34","slug":"payday-3-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igamemag.com\/en-gb\/payday-3-review\/","title":{"rendered":"PAYDAY 3 Review: A Good Heist Shooter, So Why Is It Dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Our PAYDAY 3 review<\/strong> comes from playing Starbreeze’s free weekend<\/a> in November 2026, and the short version is simple: it’s a good game<\/strong>. The heists are fun, the shooting feels right, and three years of updates have filled it out. But it’s also easy to see why so many people talk about PAYDAY 3 as a dying game. We score it 7 out of 10<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

PAYDAY 3 review at a glance<\/h2>\n\n
Score<\/strong><\/td>7\/10<\/td><\/tr>\n
What we played<\/strong><\/td>The free weekend on Steam, November 2026<\/td><\/tr>\n
Developer<\/strong><\/td>Starbreeze<\/td><\/tr>\n
Platforms<\/strong><\/td>PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S<\/td><\/tr>\n
Steam reviews<\/strong><\/td>Mostly Positive in the last 30 days (73% of 472); Mixed overall<\/td><\/tr>\n
Normal price<\/strong><\/td>\u00a323.99 \/ $29.99 \/ \u20ac28.49 on Steam<\/td><\/tr>\n
Best for<\/strong><\/td>Co-op crews who want a heist shooter with friends<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n

Is PAYDAY 3 good?<\/h2>\n

Yes. Strip away the history and PAYDAY 3 is a solid co-op heist shooter: plan your way in, go quiet for as long as you can, and hold on when the alarm goes off and the police pour in. Playing it during the free weekend, it was easy to see why the people still playing it love it. The core loop of masking up, grabbing the loot and fighting your way to the getaway is still a great time with a crew.<\/p>\n

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Why is PAYDAY 3 dying?<\/h2>\n

It isn’t the heists. It’s the history. PAYDAY 3 launched in September 2023 with serious online problems, and the anger at that start never fully went away. You can see it on Steam today: the game’s overall<\/strong> user reviews are still Mixed<\/strong>, while reviews from the last 30 days<\/strong> are Mostly Positive (73%)<\/strong>. Plenty of players who left early never came back to see the fixes.<\/p>\n

Starbreeze has spent three years trying to win them back, and its own update list reads like a list of the original complaints:<\/p>\n