HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 91%Very Positive · 91%2015

The verdict

A chaotic, teamwork-driven top-down co-op shooter with friendly fire and a shared camera, best with friends. Skip it if you play solo or dislike the shared camera and community-driven war.

Great for

Friends who enjoy chaotic co-op and friendly fire, Helldivers 2 fans, low-spec PC owners

Main risk

Shared camera, weak solo play and a small playerbase with a community-driven war that can lock content

What players love

Better than Helldivers 2 for many

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“This is what Helldivers 2 should be.”
Steam review · 7.2 h played ↗

“HD1 has given me everything I was wishing for from HD2.”
Steam review · 564.9 h played ↗

“Thanks to the shared screen and top-down view it feels more distinctive than Helldivers 2, which lost much of its identity.”
Steam review · translated · 65.9 h played ↗

Active, friendly community and easy lobbies

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“the playerbase is super nice. when i only had a few hours in there were some very good people who were very patient with me”
Steam review · 34.8 h played ↗

“The game is still active, and your lobby will be full in about 5 minutes.”
Steam review · 47.1 h played ↗

Runs on low-end PCs and Steam Deck

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“also runs super well on the steam deck”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗

“but I can play this PS3-era game happily on ultra at 120 fps.”
Steam review · translated · 7.1 h played ↗

“A great co-op game that's undemanding on hardware and still pleasant to look at.”
Steam review · translated · 6.1 h played ↗

Chaotic co-op with friendly fire

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“a mission can start with everyone working together perfectly and end with the entire squad accidentally killing each other while trying to survive.”
Steam review · 246.9 h played ↗

“Friendly fire is the most brilliant thing you can add to a top-down game with a shared screen for 2+ players.”
Steam review · translated · 10.4 h played ↗

“Best played with friendos.. because of friendly fire.”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗

Shared screen forces real teamwork

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“Even when I played with Randoms we were able to work together because of the mindset that we are FORCED to stick together.”
Steam review · 8.1 h played ↗

“This game in my opinion is better than the sequel because you are forced to work together as a team.”
Steam review · 38.8 h played ↗

“I thought that sharing a screen with strangers would be miserable. This is the most fun I have had playing a video game in a while.”
Steam review · 63.4 h played ↗

Great value on sale, plenty of gear

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews

“an ABSOLUTE BARGAIN of a game if you can pick it up on special with all the DLC.”
Steam review · 187.6 h played ↗

“for 8 Euros you get hours of fun, alone or in squad.”
Steam review · 51.4 h played ↗

What players complain about

Shared camera is restrictive

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Great game ruined by ridiculous camera being bound across all 4 players.”
Steam review · 113.8 h played ↗

“Forced static camera ruins this game. What a bizarre decision.”
Steam review · 1.2 h played ↗

“you can't spread out to different corners of the map!”
Steam review · translated · 7 h played ↗

Galactic war locks missions and factions

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“the game disables large mission categories if the total playerbase is too successful at those missions.”
Steam review · 97.8 h played ↗

“Literally unplayable for a new player because of the galactic war system.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

“if you play too close from the end of a rotation, the most fun regions will have been completely conquered, and you won't be able to play them.”
Steam review · 63 h played ↗

Disconnects, crashes and lost rewards

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Game keeps crashing after a game ends and we rng who will and won't crash and not reccieve the progress we should had gotten.”
Steam review · 2.1 h played ↗

“I can't even play the game since it keeps disconnecting.”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗

“when I enter someone mission, the game crash and exit and I lost the process.”
Steam review · 49 h played ↗

Repetitive missions and grind

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“There are approximately 3 different missions in this game which you will repeat over and over and over”
Steam review · 99.5 h played ↗

“There’s content here for maybe two weeks.”
Steam review · 59.6 h played ↗

Poor for solo play, tuned for full squads

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“This game, however, was balanced EXCLUSIVELY around a full lobby, and with nobody to play with, it's unplayable.”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗

“this game isn't fun Solo.”
Steam review · 20.8 h played ↗

“This is not a single player game and I don't recommend it even at 1,5€ for anyone planning to play solo.”
Steam review · 1.5 h played ↗

DLC-gated gear feels pay-to-win

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“If you didn't buy the "Terrain Specialist Pack DLC" for this game, don't bother playing.”
Steam review · 56.4 h played ↗

“Game is pay-to-win with the DLC gear being much stronger than vanilla gear.”
Steam review · 149 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows Vista / Windows 7

Processor2.4GHz Dual Core

Memory4 GB RAM

Graphics512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Storage7 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows Vista / Windows 7

Processor2.4GHz Dual Core

Memory4 GB RAM

Graphics1 GB NVIDIA 460 / AMD Radeon 5870

Storage7 GB available space

OSWindows Vista / Windows 7

Processor2.4GHz Dual Core

Memory4 GB RAM

Graphics512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Storage7 GB available space

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