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Painkiller Overdose
Developer Mindware Studios
Painkiller: Overdose is a stand-alone expansion pack for the first-person shooter video game Painkiller, developed by Mindware Studios. Mindware originally intended it to be fan-made mod but the publisher DreamCatcher Interactive granted the project full financial and technical support, and officially published it in 2007. The expansion offers 40 types of monsters, 16 additional levels, and six additional weapons.… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
183 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
54
Mixed
98 positive · 82 negative
95% range 47–62%
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| Steam reviews | 98 | 82 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
858 of 1,210 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 183 · most liked firstPainkiller Overdose is developed by Mindware Studios and released in 2007. It's a full-fledged new episode and an indirect sequel to Painkiller Black Edition, released in 2004. Forget the adventures of Daniel Garner; this new opus puts us in control of a certain Belial, a new half-angel, half-demon character born from a forbidden union. Imprisoned by Lucifer for his potential to manipulate dimensional portals, Belial is a tormented, even enraged being, driven by a thirst for vengeance after…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.” ~Gabor Maté Painkiller was a success. Not because it was groundbreaking, but exactly the opposite. While most of the other FPS games started to move into scripted, immersive, and story-driven territory, Painkiller rebelled and, instead of all that, gave us just simple adrenaline-powered violence. Sure, technically it was just repeating after another successful project of such a kind – Serious Sam – without providing anything really…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another sweet demonic horde shooter. Has a neat story to it with a variety of monsters and weapons to annihilate them with. More mindless shooter action is great to just relax and not have to think about much other than what to shoot in the head next.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Concise reviews for the Painkiller series in order of what you should play Painkiller Black Edition: Great oldschool no messing around shoot things from point A to B using a variety of weapons, for such and old game the gunplay (especially the shotgun) is strangely satisfying. Painkiller Hell & Damnation: A remake of the OG and as a result, it is a solid entry worth playing, albeit similar. A lot of changes were made some for the best some watering down the experience, but ultimately if you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing the first Painkiller i'm not gonna bother with this awful series even tho i bought all the games years ago. My time is better spent on other games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →powerful statement
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best fan made expansion.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing this game for almost 20 hours. Despite the cringe Belial dialogues "tAsTe lIkE cHiCkEn", The game was overall good. Huge maps, beautiful graphics, and the seriously specialized AI that differs women characters to be less intelligent than the male were the main points that attracted me to finish this game on the hardest difficulty. Too hard but significantly fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only expansion/mod worth playing. Don't go for "Resurrection", "Redemption" or "Recurring Evil", as their quality and polish drops dramatically. This one right here is all you need.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. #GameDev #RetroGaming #GameChallenge #promosky 10: Painkiller: Overdose (PC)
unlabelledView post →Unlike its predecessor, Painkiller Overdose commits the cardinal sin of being a sequel/follow up with an even more boring protagonist than the first installment. Now considering Painkiller ain’t known for its Shakespearian level of storytelling nor interesting character building, I still kind of warmed to the thought of a regular goon waking up in limbo running and gunning through infernal setpieces in gory abandon! Enter Beilal, a character that could have been plucked straight from the dreams…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before I played this... I had a small wee wee, no friends, no girlfriend, depression and absolutely no will to live. None of these things have changed, but the game is pretty good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painkiller Overdose is a mixed bag. For standalone expansion over Painkiller Black, I think it does a good job in providing engaging maps, new weapons, enemies, and a good amount of variety. Some of the levels are phenomenal, Japanese Massacre was incredible, Village of the Damned feels like an RE4 map, and Haunted Valley is just my favorite level I have played so far in a Painkiller game. The enemies are great, and the map layout, besides being the most beautiful map ever, is also well…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Painkiller Overdose" is pretty underrated and actually improves on some of the things from the original game, but it's also really rough around the edges and has incredibly uneven difficulty, so you need patience to really see the better parts of it. The biggest problem with the original Painkiller was the fact that you could play pretty casually and just spam rockets and switch to the shotgun up close. This game's weapons are way more balanced in that you will be using every weapon on every…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would rather run a nail through my palm than play this again, and I couldn't get passed the end of chapter 2 because the game crashes each time, in the same place. Hell, I felt joy when I couldn't play the game anymore, because it meant I was able to internally excuse myself from ever playing it again. The "new" guns are part reskins, part mix-and matches with fire modes of other guns. There are maybe 2 cool new additions, and that's the only nice thing I have to say about all of it.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Anti-Russian company that doesn't mind selling to evil countries like Israel and the US, despite their constant child murder and genocide. By the way, Ukraine has been at war for 8 years with 13, 000 dead (don't worry, they were mainly only Russian-Ukraines, and most of them were adults). There are currently 40 wars worldwide. Israel shot a boy a few days ago for throwing a stone at a tank. The US senate must swear allegiance to Israel.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Serious Sam in its evil version
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dear Lord, this game...so, I love PainKiller. Great game; under-appreciated. Battle Out of Hell is the expansion that comes with the Black Edition of the game; another ten or so levels of Dan Garner shooting things and blowing s*** up. Mostly great; a couple of levels sucked. Later on, a fan project got noticed by the publisher of PainKiller and got studio backing to create an expansion. That's how we got Overdose. The core gameplay is still there; the movement system is the same;…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painkiller: Overdose: More of the Same, With Less of the Fun Gameplay & Gunplay: 7/10 The shooting itself isn't the problem. If you've played Painkiller, you know what you're getting: fast, simple and familiar. But there's nothing new here, and you're just doing the same thing again. Level Design & Structure: 4.5/10 This is where the game falls apart. The levels and their structure are extremely repetitive and boring, and no matter how hard I tried to push through, I couldn't get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game crushes. you canot play it. its a nightmare
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Level design by the “copy paste and pray” school of architecture, enemies spawn in like confetti at a birthday party, loud, messy, and not nearly as fun as you'd think. Even the original game’s leftovers feel more polished than this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the difficulty is all over the place, the levels are mostly flat squares, the tarot challenges are annoying at best and downright sadistic at worst, and all the guns save one are nothing but weaker copies of the original game. belial won't shut up and none of his quips are worth a hoot, and load times are oddly long for being a 2004 game I am currently playing on an SSD. and on top of all of that, the game just feels outright worse than black edition. the enemies don't react as well, there's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →./Data/LScripts/Templates/Process/PBindJointToJoint.CProcess:32:Tick :-1: foreachi ./Data/LScripts/Main/GObjects.lua:163:Tick ./Data/LScripts/Main/Game.lua:491:Tick ./Data/LScripts/Main/Game.lua:1572:Game_Tick Didn't think I'd leave a negative review on a Painkiller game but this is just unplayable, tried severeal times but the game is just unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game crashes at a certain point and loading savegame also doesn't help. No updates and no fixes can solve this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tinkering required to play the game in a playable state. A lot of corrupted saves and crashes. Some levels are fun and cool but others are extremely hard and unfair. Enemy design blends into the backgrounds and frustrating mechanics such as invisibility/immortality until the enemy attacks and armour will make your blood boil. Health is nowhere to be seen while armour might be given frequently. I finished many levels with 1 health after many many loads. Play on the easier difficulties if you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All of the bad things of Painkiller & BOOH rolled into a package that will probably crash before you care enough to finish it. Easily the worst Painkiller Experience in both enemy design and gameplay, filled to the brim with poorly executed designs and concepts. The new weapons are almost entirely reskins of Daniel's Arsenal, but you'll rarely even get to use them due to very limited ammo pickups on the 16 maps included. I genuinely cannot recommend this over any other Painkiller experience,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so yeah basically you start the game right after the ending of the first game where jeremy painkiller has finally collected every pharmaceutical drug in the world and at the beginning of this game he overdoses and dies immediately so im not sure why they made a whole game when it ends right at the beginning but overall pretty good just dont buy it instead watch markiplier play it and also i recommend playing king of bowling for the playstation 1 instead
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very buggy. Crashes often, doesn't scale properly to widescreen resolutions even with the HUD fix mod. Difficulty is unfair, making you choose between very easy where you can tank every shot without a care or very hard where you will be scraping for health and ammo through the whole game. Some levels also feature effectively unavoidable environmental hazards. The game overall is fun. I do like the more balls to the wall version of the original. But I go to the Nuclear power plant level and the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Compared to the OG Painkiller, this one is a downgrade. Many enemies feel uninspired, and many enemies from Black Edition and BooH are re-used (which are still some of the best ones in this game). Some weapons lack impact in the early game, like the shotgun. Difficulty thresholds are awful and enemies hit really hard on Insomnia compared to the Nightmare mode from the Black Edition. There's not much of a soundtrack, and it's just not as fun as blasting through hordes of enemies with the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The third title in the series bring a new face with a new arsenal. Everything is as good as in the previous titles, except the soundtrack. It’s a bit weaker. Also the first boss is boring. Gameplay: 4/5 Story: 4/5 Design: 5/5 Graphics: 4/5 Soundtrack: 4/5 Rating: 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the weakest from the series I have played so far, the first chapter is a complete slog, the music overall is poor, and the early enemies and environments are uninspired, however it does pick up in the later chapters although it's still a fairly easy game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate these Painkiller games. Refer back to my review on Painkiller: Black for my thoughts on the original. Painkiller: Overdose is a standalone expansion of the original. Thus it shares assets and the same engine of the first. This game's weapons and enemies are actually more fun than the original. The game is still tedious as all hell, but there was decidedly more creativity in this game's design. This came at a cost: this game is much less stable. The last episode in particular you will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game only supports Windows XP and Vista, as clearly stated in the system requirements. That is not the same as running in compatibility mode. If you’re not on XP or Vista, it simply won’t work. Both operating systems have been officially unsupported for years (XP since 2014 and Vista since 2017), so selling a product that requires them feels misleading. At best, this title might make sense as a free download for curiosity or archival purposes, but charging money for software that is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty much just the first game but with slightly better level design.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I appreciate Painkiller and it's expansion Overdose for their endless creativity; every single level has unique enemy and world designs. It's such a fun and goofy experience... when it works. While I recommend Painkiller and its expansion Battle out of Hell, Overdose crashes so often I'm having a great deal of difficulty making it to the end. I hope the other expansions aren't this unforgivably janky, but I'm not counting on it,
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lacks the charm and nostalgia for me personally compared to the original title. Still an enjoyable enough time to help turn the brain off. (6/10)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the taste of evil souls in the morning yeah this one sucks
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Believe it or not, my dad used to let me play this when i was like 13-14 years old xD the only thing i was scared of was that head weapon since whenever you pull it out the character inspects it and i was terrified of it, ♥♥♥♥ was so scary to me i was forced to use only that shotgun weapon but oh well my "childhood" game, anyway the game itself is awesome and im glad i can buy it on steam to replay this gem like i used to before <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very cool horror shoot-em-up style game. I will say sometimes when it loads you back in, it'll bring you back in at the beginning of the chapter. And sometimes the game does crash even though I have the recommended specs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game but long ass loading
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would not recommend
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painkiller Overdose got a fair amount of flak when it first came out, much of it undeserved in my opinion. This time, you play as the witty dim-wit Belial, a half-angel half-demon hybrid who spent centuries in captivity, resulting in permanent brain damage where he can only communicate in pop-culture references and one-liners. Although his jokes can be cringeworthy, I find Belial to be an oddly compelling and charismatic character, much thanks to Nolan North's great performance. The story sees…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painkiller Overdose was released in 2007, three years after release of original Painkiller. It's a single-player "old-school" FPS with Deathmatch multiplayer. And a sequel or stand-alone second expansion pack for Painkiller. It started out as a mod, being made by fans effort, and then was made official.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to hate this game because it is difficult and really annoying, especially at higher difficulties. I freaking hate that enemies can spawn on you and two shot you immediately, probably the worst part of the whole game. The aesthetics are insanely good but the gameplay can be a letdown because of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ enemy placements. More variety on what enemies do would also add to the game a ton, but most enemies just do a different amount of damage. There is barely any gimmicks to them. It is a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just Play Reloverdose. https://www.moddb.com/mods/painkiller-reloverdose
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave this ten chances or something.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of first games i played,still loved to this day!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In my review of the original Painkiller I said something along the lines of "if even part of this game is just a little off it quickly becomes bad". Painkiller relied on a very specific type of pacing and combat design and knowing the expansion was made by a different studio had me worried this wouldn't be very good. Seeing the mixed reception had me worried but while Overdose does have its issues I think the new team actually understood the most important parts of Painkiller's design and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A painkiller downgrade. The weapons are slower and pack less punch. The enemies are terribly designed so are the levels. Crashed on the second level and I couldn't care to play this boring experience any more. Shame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Painkiller but worse Every weapon feel like a direct downgrade of the previous game one's with the exception of the Razor Cube looking really nice. Forgettable Music that is so bland you don't even notice it's presence Weapons feel a lot less punchy as well
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is not as bad game as many make it to be. Definitely inferior to original Painkiller, but still solid. Harder, but not in the good way. Less ammo, which limits the way of playing in this type of the game (at least in 2 out of 3 game chapters it felt like there was much less ammo to go around), enemy spawns were usually quite muffled which made it easy to get surprised hits in the back. On a positive side, design is great, both enemies (the new ones, not rehashed from previous installment)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I'm aware this is older, I played Hell & Damnation first and was somewhat expecting to see its roots in Overdose. While some of the features of Painkiller HD exist here, I can't bring myself to play more than I already have. The spooky gothic horror vibe is great. I hear the monster design is awesome, but for the most part it's been so dark and blurry that I haven't really seen any of them. I'm sure I could crank the gamma or something to get a better look, but it didn't seem worth…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game optimization is a mess. Also the gameplay s not fun at all. Pretty boring aciton FPS.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the only game of Painkiller series which I have in my library. I was never a fan of this type of FPS and the only games of this genre I played were Doom and Doom Eternal. But I still decided to try Painkiller Overdose in 2026 because I remember Painkiller games from 2000s and I even saw their DVDs back then. And I was very surprised that this game actually runs well on my modern system. However, it's hard to actually enjoy playing it and the reason is not because it is very old. This…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buy if you want, this is not really as much fun as Painkiller Black Edition. Replaces Daniel Carner with Belial, both play the same, except Belial has 5 more HP which is pretty much nothing and uses different set of weapons. Unfortunately Overdose is more stingy with ammunition and have less of Tarot Card options (bunch of them are outright obsolete and useless, such as Ascendance (+5 HP) and Hellish Armor (20 untagged armor which causes it to be just a number as only Bronze, Silver and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I couldn't beat the game, constant crashes and lua errors. I tried it on many computers. I wanted to see if it really is that bad, but I couldn't. Begging of the game is just too boring. 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, but for me it keeps crashing a couple levels in every time I try to reload my save file. Tried different "fixes", but nothing really worked. Big shame.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played some Painkiller Overdose on Trauma after the recent Painkiller demo. Honestly it sucks so fucking bad that I feel like it's recommended to play it just to get a sense for what a shitty FPS game looks like.
unlabelledView post →Taste like chicken
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A surprisingly fun old school FPS. The good: Lots of level themes and enemy variety. Combat is relatively smooth and simple. Less frustrating when it comes to level design than the original. Less ambitious and thoughtful, too, though. Despite the endless repetition, I kind of liked the dumb Duke Nukem-esque quips. Difficulty levels. The meh: I'm not really sure the default weapon (the one that can spin or sort of whip out and back) is all that fun. There was one level that kept crashing;…
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