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Evil has returned! Demonic powers are manifesting themselves as a myriad of dark creatures, fighting over the fates of imprisoned souls caught in Purgatory.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation is a action, fps and gore game
developed by The Farm 51
and published by Prime Matter.
Released on October 31st 2012 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 10 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish and Russian.
It has received 4,177 reviews of which 3,258 were positive and 919 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on K4G.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista/7
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT (256 MB)
- DirectX®: 9.0c
- Hard Drive: 5 GB HD space
- Sound: DirectX Compatible
MacOS
- OS: OS X version 10.6.3 or later
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core Intel CPU
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GT 9600M/320M, or ATI (AMD) Radeon HD 4670 with 256 MB VRAM. Intel integrated GPUs are not supported
- Hard Drive: 5 GB HD space
- Network: Internet (TCP/IP) connection
- Additional: These specs are still being determined.
Linux
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 equivalent
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT (256 MB)
- Hard Drive: 5 GB HD space
- Additional: These specs are still being determined.
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Painkiller: Hell & Damnation – A high-octane remake of the cult classic shooter, delivering fast-paced combat, heavy metal energy, and hordes of demonic enemies. The visuals and performance are vastly improved, though level design feels dated in places. Pure, unapologetic old-school fun. ⭐ Rating: 8/10 – Loud, brutal, and satisfying — a hellish blast from the past done right. - Video Gameplay - https://youtu.be/Ro464-E_KQE - Follow my curator page - https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45547027/
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After playing the original and this back and forth, it's very clear to me that the original Painkiller comes together much better in terms of visuals, tech, sound, and overall feeling and implementation. Hell and Damnation suffers from a very generic Unreal Engine 3 vibe, clearly built on top with minimal engineering effort to adapt the engine to the needs, vs. the original, which had an entire tech stack developed and adapted just for that project and its vision & needs alone. How does this manifest then? Well, in a bunch of ways, but right off the bat, the game just screams UE3 in its rendering characteristics for all the wrong reasons. The art, identity and overall atmosphere and vibe just doesn't come together as good as the original, making it feel worse to look at than the game that came 8 years before it at several times. There are sections that are quite dense with geometric detail compared to others, like the sewer before the train station or the first cemetery (even more excellent in the Halloween edition), but it is rare and not a quality that is kept over the entire game, unfortunately. I think both the original and the remake looked their best in darker, moodier and smaller environments. Some say the OPERA is gorgeous, and in some aspects it might be, but to me, it's a low point. This is because the arena is so large, open and bright. It lacks density and detail, as opposed to something more polished and moody that really embraces the tech it's built on, like Cemetery. There are some very moody and well crafted levels like the Orphanage and a few others where it plays extremely nice with both aesthetics and pacing. But eventually you run into something like Oriental Castle which is another low point for me. It effectively turns the game into Serious Sam, hundreds of enemies in open empty spaces result in a drag that isn't challenging, methodical or fun at all, and for me the game loses its identity at stages like that. I find it much more interesting with dense, confined and more challenging engagements that also spawn more detailed environments. While things certainly can be janky in the original, it's more so here. Movement feels less smooth, and balancing and pacing isn't as good as the original, with a bunch of levels mixed up or never brought over entirely, leaving the game with a lot fewer maps. It’s not all bad though, and the game was very faithful to the original in many aspects with a decent attempt at “remaking” it. The UI is a big improvement over original and stays clean and on theme, so credit where credit is due. Plenty of models, details, textures and animations also look better, which one would expect. Some levels also have a much more things going on, such as the Necrogigant walking around giving you a hint of what is to come. A special shoutout to the SoulCatcher which is an awesome new weapon that fits perfectly into the identity of Painkiller in both design and function. The impact from hitting enemies with it and lining them up for multi-gibs is awesome. It’s well implemented and stands out in the arsenal. The downside is that it is extremely overpowered, and you get the gun from the start. The hit detection seems strange, and again, possibly because this is very generic UE3 tech running under the hood, but a thing that is beyond understanding is how they didn’t implement a visual indication that you are taking damage. So not only does it feel like you get hit when enemies shouldn’t hit you, but when you get hit you also have no visual indicator of it in terms of shake/blood etc which is really annoying as you might just die all of a sudden without even knowing you were tanking a lot of damage. I can’t review MP today, but the original was very competitive and served as an excellent arena shooter. It was popular in high level e-sport tournaments such as CPL at the time, but by the time this dropped, arena shooters were already in a decline. It doesn’t matter how good of a game you make, those games ain’t getting a Multiplayer playerbase anytime soon, as shown with the excellent Diabotical. You can play LAN which is a godsend and makes it possible to enjoy and explore this game, and it’s multiplayer far after the game has died out on its own. However, being UE3, I would have little faith in its net code, especially if it wasn’t tailor-made for the game given how poorly UE has performed in tight MP-environments up to this day compared to something like ID Tech 3. People who say devs are lazy for the most part is just spewing out shit they know nothing about, you don’t produce anything near this while being lazy, but it is unfortunate that the project wasn't managed better or came together better as whole package, or was given enough time if that was an issue as well.
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i'm high af and this is the most fun i've had playing a shooter game for quite some time unfortunatately very short
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Blast from the past. Still fun after all these years.. Some fun weapons. Pretty much shoot enemies and survive areas like most retro first person shooters. Graphics still look good to me in 2025, just mindless shooting to kill time.
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Playing side by side, I would say that this game is the best way to experience Painkiller nowadays. It has good graphics and the best maps of the original and previous entries. Buy it on a big sale with all DLC and enjoy.
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Painkiller Hell & Damnation is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation received 3,258 positive votes out of a total of 4,177 achieving a rating of 7.57.
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Painkiller Hell & Damnation was developed by The Farm 51 and published by Prime Matter.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There are 10 DLCs available for Painkiller Hell & Damnation. Explore additional content available for Painkiller Hell & Damnation on Steam.
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Painkiller Hell & Damnation supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Painkiller Hell & Damnation 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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Multiplayer
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Online players
4
Developer
The Farm 51
Publisher
Prime Matter
Release
31 Oct 2012
Platforms
Remote Play
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