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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 2,040 reviews of which 1,823 were positive and 217 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 less on K4G.

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

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Nov. 2025

Game play is fast, frenetic, and can be a lot of fun. That said, this title isn't all sunshine and roses. Some bosses can be a little vague on what you're suppose to do. Some of the later levels are confusing and/or tedious. If you're looking for a standard 2010's cover shooter, this isn't it. Your only defense is moving and killing foes first. If that's what you're looking for and you can put up with the occasional jank, give Painkiller a shot. If you're not willing to deal with jank, move along cause you probably wont enjoy this game. It can be great fun, if you accept it for what the game is.

Sept. 2025

Old school run and gun classic. It's my comfort game :))

May 2025

Painkiller is a blast to play, especially on the hardest difficulty because it's wickedly punishing and really forces you to put an effort in to survive. Both this and Hell and Damnation are essentially the same game, but Black edition has more levels and is a tad harder while Hell and Damnation has much better graphics. The story is kind of hilarious, as it's about a regular man who dies in a car accident and for no reason is called upon to kill four guardians of hell, of which are basically large giant golem-type creatures. The fun in these games is the sheer number of enemies the game throws at you, combined with the fact that you will often be locked into a small arena and forced to scramble to survive. It is similar to Serious Sam, but perhaps less chaotic and a bit more strategic since you can guide the enemies to certain places and use specific weapons to obliterate them. My only real complaint with this game is that the levels just feel random. One level you're at a carnival and the next you're fighting in a world war 2 setting. I would've liked a little more consistency to keep the game more in line with the story, but beyond that I recommend playing this game and Hell and Damnation, though maybe not immediately because you will be playing some similar content twice.

March 2025

I'm surprised that this game isn't talked about more. Playing Painkiller for the first time in 2025, I noticed how much of its DNA is in the new wave of fast-paced shooters: the level structure and challenge system for power-ups came back in Doom 2016, the simplified bunny-hopping for speed came back in Dusk, the system for collecting enemy souls to activate a special mode where you're overpowered came back in Amid Evil... This is a super fun game that has aged remarkably well. Coming out in 2004 it may have been overshadowed at the time by Half-Life 2, when people started becoming more interested in "mature" fps with integrated story-telling, but Painkiller represents an equally valid alternate path toward optimizing fast-paced 3D fps action the PVE games didn't pick up on until over 10 years later. Awesome find; I'm excited to play all of the DLC. Hopefully the new installment coming later this year can maintain the irreverant and arcadey spirit of the original.

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

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Painkiller: Black Edition is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

Painkiller: Black Edition is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

Painkiller: Black Edition received 1,823 positive votes out of a total of 2,040 achieving a rating of 8.54.

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Painkiller: Black Edition was developed by People Can Fly and published by Prime Matter.

Painkiller: Black Edition is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Painkiller: Black Edition is not playable on MacOS.

Painkiller: Black Edition is not playable on Linux.

Painkiller: Black Edition does not currently offer any DLC.

Painkiller: Black Edition does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Painkiller: Black Edition does not support Steam Remote Play.

Painkiller: Black Edition is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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