HELLDIVERS™ 2

HELLDIVERS™ 2 is currently 25% off on Xbox — down to $29.99 from $39.99.

25% off is a solid mid-range price. If you can wait, HELLDIVERS™ 2 has historically gone lower during seasonal sales.

That works out to $10.00 off the Xbox list price of $39.99.

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HELLDIVERS 2 puts you and up to three squadmates on hostile planets with one job: spread managed democracy by any means necessary, usually explosive ones. It’s a third-person shooter built around chaos, teamwork, and the very real chance that the guy who kills you is on your own team. That mix of comedy and genuine tension is the hook, and it’s rare enough that the game stands out even in a crowded genre.

How it plays

You drop into a mission as part of a four-person squad, pick a loadout, and then try to survive long enough to finish the objective while a planet full of hostile life tries to end you. Stratagems are the heart of it: call in orbital strikes, resupply crates, turrets, or vehicles by punching in directional codes under fire, which turns even a routine firefight into a small logistics puzzle. Everything you do, from capturing territory to completing missions, feeds into a larger galactic war effort that’s shared across the playerbase, so a mission that feels small in the moment is technically part of a bigger campaign. Friendly fire is on, always, which means coordination actually matters and also means your friends will absolutely kill you by accident at some point.

Who it’s for

This is a game for people who like their shooters social. If you’ve got a regular group of three friends, or you’re happy to squad up with strangers and communicate on the fly, this is exactly the kind of game that turns into a weekly ritual. It rewards planning, calling out threats, and laughing off disasters rather than raging at them. If you’d rather play solo and quietly, or you get frustrated by systems that punish poor communication, it’s going to wear on you fast. It’s also not a narrative-driven game, so anyone hoping for a story-heavy campaign should look elsewhere.

Is it worth it?

For the audience it’s built for, cooperative shooter fans who don’t mind a bit of friendly chaos, this is the kind of game that earns its place in a regular rotation rather than getting finished once and shelved. The loop of gearing up, dropping in, and improvising your way through a mission holds up because no two squads handle a fight the same way. It’s the sort of live, ongoing multiplayer game that’s especially easy to recommend picking up when it’s discounted, since the value comes from time spent with friends rather than a fixed amount of content to burn through. If you already know you’ve got people to play it with, it’s a safe grab whenever the price drops.

Quick facts

Genre: Shooter. Developer: Arrowhead Game Studios, with Nixxes Software handling the PC side. Publisher: PlayStation Publishing LLC. Platform: PC, available through the Xbox store. Release date: August 26, 2025.