No, Helldivers 2 is not on sale on Steam, don’t fall for this scam!

You probably haven’t missed the Helldivers 2 phenomenon. It seems like almost the entire Earth has been playing the newest Arrowhead game since its launch in early February. This isn’t far from the truth: Helldivers 2 brought together more players simultaneously on Steam than GTA 5. In terms of popularity, we are there too. Frankly, it was expected that this success would also attract malicious people.

A particularly egregious scam has been going on on Steam for the last few hours. When you type Helldivers 2 in the search bar, three results appear. The first is the actual game, while the other two look completely similar. Except for one detail: they are on sale at -50% and -75% respectively. As a result, it is said that the games will be sold at prices of € 20 and € 13; This is a much more attractive price than the real game.

Don’t buy Helldivers 2 on sale on Steam, it’s a scam

Frankly, if you are tempted by these attractive offers, the games you buy will have nothing to do with Helldivers 2. That’s exactly what’s scary about this scam. As a matter of fact, hackers managed to perfectly imitate the Helldivers 2 Steam page from the pages of other games. Changing the name and photos of the title is one thing, but the authors of the scam went so far as to use the name Arrowhead and PlayStation for the publisher part.

At the time of this writing, these two fake pages appear to have disappeared from the Steam listings. But this is not reassuring. In effect, this scam means that it is possible for anyone who gains control of a Steam page to perfectly emulate that of a more popular game to attract less cautious players. A similar incident occurred in the Last Epoch game a few days ago. Be more careful than ever when purchasing a game that’s on sale on Steam.