
Production restarted around 2020, and Starbreeze teamed with the Embracer Group in early 2021 to publish the game when it's complete. After years of work, the team shifted production to the more familiar Unreal Engine, but faced more setbacks with failed game launches and legal trouble for the company's higher-ups. First announced in 2016, Payday 3 was initially set to run on the Valhalla engine, a full engine that Starbreeze bought for millions of dollars. The road to Payday 3 has been a bumpy one for Starbreeze and the internal Overkill Software studio. Featuring a cast that includes many original characters, Keanu Reeves reprising his role as John Wick, and even popular Internet creators Ethan and Hila Klein, the Payday games have presented a sprawling narrative via in-game events and live action trailers, and all signs indicate a continuation of that with the new game in development.


This will be a full decade after the release of Payday 2, a game that has received updates on and off since its launch in August 2013. Along with earning more money and becoming a legendary criminal comes a new character customization and crafting system that lets crews build and customize their own guns and gear.The heisting adventures of Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf, and Chains continue in Payday 3, a 2023 release by Starbreeze and Koch Media's newest publishing label, Prime Matter. Up to four friends co-operate on the hits, and as the crew progresses the jobs become bigger, better and more rewarding. While in DC, why not participate in the local community, and run a few political errands? The new CRIMENET network offers a huge range of dynamic contracts, and players are free to choose anything from small-time convenience store hits or kidnappings, to big league cyber-crime or emptying out major bank vaults for that epic PAYDAY. Game Description: PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
