Payday 3 for PC is a first-person shooter heist game, the sequel to 2013’s Payday 2 (which itself was a sequel to the first game, Payday: The Heist, released in 2011. Action picks up some time after the events of the last game, following which the characters went about their lives as relatively honest citizens – until now, when something has spurred their return to a life of crime.

This time, the action is set mainly in New York, and the game is updated to the 2020s, with modern surveillance methods and cryptocurrency featuring to offer an authentic experience. Players must work together to complete several objectives, such as stealing bags of money or obtaining valuable materials, all the while trying to survive and escape from endless waves of law enforcement intent on stopping them.

You must use various weapons, tools, and strategies to avoid the law and get away with your ill-gotten, but hard-earned gains. The game – aware that it is the follow up to one of the most popular heist experiences on the market – offers you more in terms of interactions with other characters, weapons and equipment customisation, and not one or two but eight new missions to play through.