Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Painkiller Black Edition includes the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villains.

Painkiller: Black Edition is a gore, action and fps game developed by People Can Fly and published by Prime Matter.
Released on January 24th 2007 is available only on Windows in 4 languages: English, French, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 2,008 reviews of which 1,794 were positive and 214 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.48€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Painkiller: Black Edition into these genres:

Gore Action FPS Classic Shooter Great Soundtrack First-Person Singleplayer Demons Arena Shooter Horror Atmospheric Fast-Paced Multiplayer Violent Gothic Zombies Cult Classic Boomer Shooter Dark

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Windows

OS *: Win 98/2000/Me/XP
Processor: 1GHz
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: DirextX 9.0 64MB Video Card
Storage: 3.4 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

you boot up the game and immediately start decimating an entire skeleton warrior army in a gothic cemetery in the first 5 minutes 10/10

Dec. 2024

bunnyhoping at 50km/h to annihilate clown demons with a makeshift double barreled shotgun is the most fun I've had in a long long time. very fun yet simple movement mechanics, nothing out there is quite like it. requires tinkering with to get it working properly, just a few mods to drop in your folder and copying text into configs, nothing complicated. just go to its pcwiki page

Nov. 2024

I love this game, I really do. More than I should because it is filled with problems. The game crashed on me multiple times, I was softlocked, items were spawned out of bounds and the secrets are out of this world difficult. Yet this jank is what makes this game so special. Don't be dumb like me and 100% this game. It isn't worth it. But its so fun so maybe it is worth it. I can't make up my mind just like this game can never decide if it wants to run or not. Never change, Painkiller

Sept. 2024

This game is very awesome and might be one of the best shooter games I ever played. I played and finished it on both PC and original xbox and had a lot of fun playing it on both systems. The game has a large variety of enemies, including Monks, Amputees, Freaks, Zombie Warriors, Ninjas, Witches and more. The enemies range from ones using only melee attacks to ones using projectile attacks or special types of attacks. Each chapter in the game has different enemy types which makes them feel fresh, and while many of them are samey it's very satisfying to kill them. The weapon variety is also very good. There's things like a shotgun that is not only very powerful, but also can fire an ice projectile that causes most of the enemies it hits to freeze and instantly get killed with the next shot, making it powerful against tougher enemies. There's a gun that serves as both a rocket launcher and a minigun and both firing modes are very useful against hordes of enemies. The stake gun/grenade launcher is useful against lower tier enemies as well. The electrodriver fires a beam that can kill weaker enemies relatively quickly but also depletes ammo fast, so I don't use it often. The environments also are diverse. There's things like a a graveyard, an asylum, a theater, a ghost town, a snowy wasteland and many more. The game is similar to Serious Sam and Doom 2016 and Eternal in that it frequently locks the player into arenas that spawn in waves of enemies and said arenas open after all enemies die, and I really enjoy that style of gameplay. The combat is just really good. Weapons sound powerful, have satisfying hit feedback, enemies are sent flying with powerful blasts and the ragdolls are good. The gore effects are also some of the best I've seen in a shooter. The game also includes the Battle Out Of Hell expansion. It's even crazier than the base game. It adds new enemies like Clowns, Doctors that inhale gas and fart out said gas (yeah, that type of enemy really exists), Panzer Spiders, Lab Commandos armed with pistols, Butchers and more. There's two new weapons, a submachine gun/flamethrower combo and a powerful Boltgun with a sniper scope that fires many stakes at once and and some grenades. The areas are once again diverse, with things like a lab, an apocalyptic city, the loony park and a Colosseum. Despite all these additions the gameplay is mostly unchanged, and is still as fun as ever. There's also the Tarot Card system, but I never used it. Yo get the cards for completing specific objectives in each level like killing all enemies or finding all secrets. There's different types of cards, one that is active for the entire level and one that can only be activated for a limited time. The game isn't that hard without using the cards, which is why I didn't use them. The boss fights, unlike the rest of the game, are just bad. Aside from the Necrogiant all of the bosses can only be killed in specific ways that you can't easily figure out. For example you need to shoot bubbles to damage the Swamp Thing or shoot and destroy the Guardian's hammer first before you can damage him. The bosses also have attacks that are often difficult to dodge, and that combined with the tedious ways to damage them make them boring and frustrating. I highly recommend this game to shooter fans. It's very fast-paced, action-packed and filled with a lot of content. If you like Serious Sam or Doom 2016 and Eternal, I think you would like this game too as it's similar to them.

June 2024

This classic FPS combines fast-paced action with gothic horror aesthetics, immersing you in dark, adrenaline-pumping journey through hauntingly atmospheric purgatory, armed with an array of devastating weapons. Yes, I especially liked the diverse arsenal (from the iconic stake gun to explosive weaponry, each satisfying to wield against hordes of enemies) and the funny ragdoll physics that makes the gameplay feel dynamic and satisfying. "Painkiller" excels in delivering pure and unapologetic fun without relying too much on nostalgia. It's a must-play for fans of demon-slaying action-packed FPS games. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3271256839 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3266656853

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