RAID: World War II

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Hours played at review time, across 61 reviews with recorded playtime.

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Purchase this game on sale. I bought this game long before the resurgence update. Like many others, I saw it as an underdeveloped PAYDAY 2 reskin and forgot to play it for probably for over 2 years. So, my only experience of RAID was after the resurgence update. My biggest critique is: Why isn't there more content? There is something upsetting about knowing that the maps and the characters I play are limited. However, the game provides an incentive to play through levelling up because it contributes to progression (and that sweet, sweet dopamine rush) in various forms: more weapons, upgrades to weapons, upgrading skills and unlocking skill slots and unlocking skills, all of which enable you to incrementally create a build that suits YOU. RAID provides replay-ability in it's maps because it is, to some extent, dynamic. Loot is not the primary objective; the story of the map is-and the story of the map can actually play out differently depending on whether you fail or succeed in an objective. In this way, loot, dog tags and a curiosity to replay the map correctly makes you want to come back again and again. And I think the equipment surrounding the map is an excellent way to raise the stakes on higher difficulties, whilst allowing for skill and planning to flourish because the health and ammo aren't so randomised so as to make each level luck based in case you get overwhelmed by enemies and are on low health. So, you can navigate the map and have a feel for where health and ammo is in case you need to fall back. Unfortunately, that's where a weakness lies. The dynamic nature of the levels, plus the incentives to replay, can make other aspects of RAID a bit repetitive. The enemies in particular are RAID's weakest point. I don't know if it's the colour palette of the game, but they all seem to be the same enemy, unless it's the flamethrower officer or the radio officer. And for the latter, I don't even know what his impact on the game is. I would hope to see a variety of enemies in the near future. For example, the tank in the Wiretap mission is a perfect example of how an enemy can influence the dynamic of a mission - I would hope to see that replicated in some form if RAID continues to get updates. The characters; I love the fact that they are talking in game about how to co-ordinate objectives. In some cases it actually did help me. It adds a lot of immersion to the game and feels like you're playing a mercenary who works for a tight group with the aim of gold and adventurism. That being said, I hope to see maps that take place across different countries; perhaps continents. After all, it is WW2. I see the Raiders travelling across the world to escape the people they've wronged. And as mercenaries, isn't that the whole point? On the graphical side, you can tell this is a game. Obviously, it is a limitation of the engine. But, I do believe that RAID can separate from PAYDAY 2 with a few movement changes like sliding, or even how the view model reacts to the environment, something like Battlefield 6. If there is someway to push Diesel to the brink, I hope to see it soon. This is a game I have been having a lot of fun on. But I do predict that it's novelty will wear off soon after I finish levelling up. Whilst I would like to start again on a different class to unlock different weapons, I just don't see myself doing that again, especially since I would have exhausted the content two or three times over. I'd rather just stay on my Recon class and keep playing. It is unfortunate that this game is seen as just a reskin of PAYDAY 2. It is not. It does stand on it's own, with the maps being so distinct from each other, and objectives being so dynamic that it certainly FEELS like you're playing a different game, with a different set of characters and the like. I hope that the new dev team turns this game over, because I see a lot of potential, as someone who hasn't even completed all of the missions yet. Purchase this game on sale.