PAYDAY The Heist
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic first-person gunfire against police, SWAT, and security forces with blood spray; enemies fall and bleed but there is no gore or dismemberment.
The player commits armed robbery, breaks into vaults, and takes civilians hostage to use as leverage against police.
Scripted and player crew banter includes profanity during firefights.
The player crew are career armed robbers whose bank and armored-car heists are the central, glorified activity.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
PAYDAY The Heist is a four-player cooperative first-person shooter in which you and a crew of masked robbers pull off bank jobs, armored-car takeovers, and other heists. Play centers on shooting through waves of police and SWAT officers while completing objectives like drilling vaults, bagging money, and escaping. Combat is realistic with gunfire and blood but is not built around gore or dismemberment; killing civilians is actually penalized, and players instead zip-tie a limited number of bystanders as hostages to trade for captured teammates. The crew banters during heists with occasional profanity. There are no in-app purchases, but the game is played online with voice and text chat, so parents should note interaction with strangers.
How it's framed
The game openly casts the player as the criminal and treats the heists as thrilling, rewarding work, paying out cash for successful robberies. Its structure quietly discourages harming innocents by punishing civilian kills and rewarding hostage-taking instead, while police and security are framed as the opposition to be gunned down.
Details
- Developer
- OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.
- Publisher
- Starbreeze Entertainment
- Released
- Oct 20, 2011
Similar games
We built this because we needed it
Balanced Play pools your kids' game time into one budget across Steam, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and more. We're taking 100 founding families — free for life.
Claim a founding spot →Free for life for the first 100. No card, no spam.