Payday 2
2 documents in the library are about Payday 2, from writers such as Game World Observer, the newest from 2025. Each has a summary and key insights with the page they come from.
Payday 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original crew: Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains as they descend on Washington D.C. for an epic crime spree.
- Released
- Aug 13, 2013
- Developer
- Overkill Software
- Publishers
- Starbreeze Studios, 505 Games
- Genres
- Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Tactical
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Links
- Official site, Wikipedia
Game data from IGDB.com
Key figures
Revenue from the Payday franchise saw significant declines, with Payday 3 dropping 82.6% to SEK 82.9 million and Payday 2 falling 70% to SEK 41.8 million.
Game World Observer, 2025 · Starbreeze 2024 Financial Results
Revenue from Payday 2 declined by 71% year-over-year to $1.96 million, while overall game sales across the company fell 5.6% to $6.42 million.
Game World Observer, 2024 · Starbreeze H1 2024 Financial Results
Documents about Payday 2
Starbreeze 2024 Financial Results
Starbreeze’s 2024 financial results reveal a significant contraction in revenue, primarily driven by the absence of major new releases compared to the previous year.
- Starbreeze reported 2024 net revenue of SEK 185.9 million ($17.3 million), a 3.4x decline compared to 2023, primarily due to the absence of major new releases.
- The company shifted from a profit of SEK 207.6 million in 2023 to a net loss of SEK 199.3 million ($18.6 million) in 2024.
- Third-party publishing was the company's only growth segment, with revenue increasing 220% to SEK 47.7 million ($4.4 million) driven by titles like Roboquest.
Starbreeze H1 2024 Financial Results
Starbreeze’s financial results for the first half of 2024 reveal a period of significant revenue growth coupled with a substantial increase in net losses.
- Starbreeze reported a net loss of $8.95 million for H1 2024, a significant increase from the $18.9k net loss recorded in the same period of 2023.
- Total revenue for H1 2024 reached $9.46 million, representing a 38.5% year-over-year increase, while EBITDA grew by 211% to $5.5 million.
- Payday 3 generated $4.4 million in revenue during the first six months of 2024 and maintained approximately 300,000 monthly active users as of June 30.