Payday 3 is an upcoming first-person shooter game developed by Overkill Software and published by Starbreeze AB and Koch Media. The game will take place after the ending of Payday 2 where the heisters went separate ways and left their lives of crime, but something is to re-motivate the Payday Gang to continue crime. Overkill have confirmed the original crew of characters originating from Payday: The Heist will be in Payday 3 and the game will take place mainly in New York. The first games are set in the 2010s, but Payday 3 will take place in the 2020s, which Overkill have said would add more depth to the Payday Gang's crimes with game-changing differences like more advanced surveillance or the rise of cryptocurrency. Majority of the news of Overkill's plans for Payday 3 came in 2021, where the 10th anniversary of the Payday franchise was celebrated. Overkill Software is a studio of Starbreeze after $30 million acquiration of Overkill and the Payday intellectual property, but both have struggled with financial troubles with the making of Payday 3, but the project was back in development after Starbreeze signed a €50 million deal in 2021 to co-publish the game with Koch Media.Payday 3 will be developed using Unreal Engine 5.
