{"id":1659459,"date":"2026-08-10T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/T8PH3V3zDCdCZSq26iGieC"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:26:09","slug":"payday-has-come-to-fortnite-because-todays-cool-gamers-are-discovering-legendary-ips-in-entirely-new-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/payday-has-come-to-fortnite-because-todays-cool-gamers-are-discovering-legendary-ips-in-entirely-new-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Payday has come to Fortnite, because today&#8217;s cool gamers are &#8216;discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The ongoing effort to come up with a new Payday game that people actually want to play continued today with the announcement of Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience, a UEFN game that&#8217;s available exclusively in (you guessed it) Fortnite.<\/p>\n<p>Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience &#8220;reimagines elements of Payday as a progressive roguelike shooter,&#8221; with three separate heists\u2014the Jewelry Store, the Bank, and the Harbor\u2014each of them made up of multiple unique rooms &#8220;ensuring endless replayability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0BVYbYA8wfQ\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We recognize that today&#8217;s audiences are discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways,&#8221; Starbreeze chief growth officer Matt Dixon said. &#8220;Integrating Payday into the Fortnite ecosystem through UEFN is a cornerstone of our strategy to engage new players and welcome them into the broader Payday platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the sort of utterance that you&#8217;re only going to hear from an entertainment industry executive, but it does nonetheless get to the heart of Starbreeze&#8217;s big problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/payday-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Payday 2<\/a>, which launched in 2013, is still chugging along on Steam, with concurrent player counts that keep it consistently within the platform&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/charts\/mostplayed\" target=\"_blank\">100 most-played games<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/payday-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Payday 3<\/a> continues to flounder, and while updates are still rolling out it&#8217;s hard to shake the feeling that Starbreeze is looking elsewhere for the future of the franchise. The studio announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/starbreeze-hasnt-declared-payday-3-dead-yet-but-its-launching-yet-another-spin-off-this-year-this-time-on-roblox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roblox spinoff<\/a> game in April\u2014actually the second, following Notoriety: A Payday Experience, which came out in 2024\u2014as prior to that, a VR game called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/vr\/theres-a-new-payday-game-coming-later-this-year-and-its-vr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Payday: Aces High<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1515px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:93.27%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5rXi7PCuQdBtHY4DAua6AL\" name=\"paycomp\" alt=\"SteamDB concurrent player chart comparing Payday 2 and Payday 3\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/payday-has-come-to-fortnite-because-todays-cool-gamers-are-discovering-legendary-ips-in-entirely-new-ways.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1515\" height=\"1413\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/payday-has-come-to-fortnite-because-todays-cool-gamers-are-discovering-legendary-ips-in-entirely-new-ways.png' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SteamDB)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience is live now in Fortnite. If you want to check it out for yourself, use Island Code 8105-9005-4478.<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-exV5JO\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/exV5JO.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"002766a0-94e0-11f1-bf0b-afc7b11ec52b\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/payday-has-come-to-fortnite-because-todays-cool-gamers-are-discovering-legendary-ips-in-entirely-new-ways.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"002766a0-94e0-11f1-bf0b-afc7b11ec52b\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/payday-has-come-to-fortnite-because-todays-cool-gamers-are-discovering-legendary-ips-in-entirely-new-ways\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing effort to come up with a new Payday game that people actually want to play continued today with the announcement of Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience, a UEFN game that&#8217;s available exclusively in (you guessed it) Fortnite. Heist Escape Roguelike: Payday Experience &#8220;reimagines elements of Payday as a progressive roguelike shooter,&#8221; with three separate heists\u2014the Jewelry Store, the Bank, and the Harbor\u2014each of them made up of multiple unique rooms &#8220;ensuring endless replayability.&#8221; &#8220;We recognize that today&#8217;s audiences are discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways,&#8221; Starbreeze chief growth officer Matt Dixon said. &#8220;Integrating Payday into the Fortnite ecosystem through UEFN is a cornerstone of our strategy to engage new players and welcome them into the broader Payday platform.&#8221; That&#8217;s the sort of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/payday-has-come-to-fortnite-because-todays-cool-gamers-are-discovering-legendary-ips-in-entirely-new-ways\/\">Read 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