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Game2009
Painkiller: Resurrection
Developer Homegrown Games
Painkiller: Resurrection is a first-person shooter video game developed by Homegrown Games and published by DreamCatcher Interactive (now acquired by Nordic Games). It is a stand-alone expansion to the 2004 Painkiller, and runs on an updated version of PainEngine. It was released for Microsoft Windows in 2009. There was a planned Xbox 360 version, but was cancelled. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
294 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
22
Rotten
39 positive · 141 negative
95% range 16–28%
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| Steam reviews | 39 | 141 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
114 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
162 of 655 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 294 · most liked firstCautious optimism in the face of always-on co-op (3 players?) with AI companions and 3D Realms publishing. Anshar Studios has contributed to other games and dev’d a couple VR games so hard to say anything about their record. Congrats to Painkiller fans for getting a new game that isn’t shovelware.
unlabelledView post →Drafted a huge review for the new Painkiller. It contains more words about the new Painkiller than anyone else will ever want to read, but I had a lot to say about it. Review’ll be up later today, but I really must confess that I love the game even if very few others seem to. The guns are SO good.
unlabelledView post →Painkiller | Reveal Trailer ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGkJ... "Saber Interactive and 3D Realms are developing a brand new game based on the legendary 2004 purgatorial shooter. Coming to PC and consoles in Fall 2025" #Painkiller #FutureGamesShow
unlabelledView post →You will like my game KOOK if you enjoyed: - Quake - Prey (2006) - Painkiller - Quake2 - HROT - DUSK - LawBreakers - M. C. Escher store.steampowered.com/app/2329690/...
unlabelledView post →Happy 20th anniversary to the debut game from People Can Fly, the diabolically fast-paced first-person shooter Painkiller
unlabelledView 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…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painkiller is such a ridiculous game. Bunnyhopping around army dudes wearing ball gags shooting them with a shuriken launcher and then suddenly you're in a cutscene that seems to think it's telling a serious story about heaven, hell and redemption. It's adorable
unlabelledView post →Just some video game weapons I remember The stake launcher from Painkiller The blue beam gun from UT Kate Archer Thief's blackjack Those gloves from Heretic Something about frozen mercury in Oni two shots then cooldown? Gloo Gun from Prey My beak in Goose Game Gep Gun Bloodborne fucking Chain Cane
unlabelledView post →A new 'Painkiller' game launches later this year on Xbox Series, PS5 and PC. youtu.be/uGkJUhm9nc0?...
unlabelledView post →No need to waste an hour writing a review for this game. It doesn’t deserve that much attention, and I’m stunned they even dared to release it. This is a downright disaster in the franchise. Yet, it started off okay. The gameplay is the same as Black Edition or Overdose. No changes there, but the formula is fun at its core. Now, let’s move on to the stuff that pisses me off, and there’s a ton of it. In fact, that’s pretty much all there is. Let’s start with the French translation,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Satan'z gonna get da biznus end of me kombi-shoota! Finishing up the best FPS game of 2004, Painkiller in one hour! www.twitch.tv/gaijingoomba
unlabelledView post →Life is genuinely like a video game, fr 👁️👄👁️ some people aren’t tanks, they’re supports and that’s totally okay (Painkiller medication high thoughts really do different)
unlabelledView post →This game is so unfinished that almost EA tried to publish it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painkiller-at-bedtime really is a game changer. Maybe I ought to just surrender to it for a month and see what happens.
unlabelledView post →beat Old Blood, a good time was had, I like by the end the game just looks like something outta Painkiller lol
unlabelledView post →“It is a basic rule of life that if you reward bad behavior, you get more of it.” ~Mark Steyn You know what I think? I think that we kinda suck. As a society, I mean. Every time there’s some bullsh*t we should face and say “no” to, we swallow it and say “that’s fine”. Remember that horse armor for TES IV: Oblivion? “It's just the cosmetics”, right? “It won’t change anything”. How’s that going? What’s with the grim intro you may ask? Well, the thing is, that’s exactly the story of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This series is ok but this particular entry feels rushed. Everything looks lazy, map design is terrible, and this pile of junk crashed a dozen times in 2 hours. Hard pass!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like very much Painkiller series but this part is bad, tons of bugs and bad map desing. I'm spending more time to find the way, where to go than fighting with enemies, also in The Town map after it loads, i'm spawning out of map and my character dies so i can't progress. At the end i can say that this game is badly optimized, fps goes under 60 often on GTX1060 and i5 3570 3.4Ghz processor + 8GB ram, i'm really dissapointed how bad this game is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The latest @pcgamer.com magazine is out now, with world exclusive access to Anshar Studios' exciting new co-op reimagining of classic FPS game Painkiller. Plus, Anno 117: Pax Romana, The Alters, Redneck Rampage, air coolers tested, and much more, too. 🏹😈💥 tinyurl.com/ywdetejm
unlabelledView post →Painkiller reimagining announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, Fall 2025 by Saber Interactive and 3D Realms, developing a brand new game based on the legendary 2004 purgatorial shooter. youtu.be/uGkJUhm9nc0?...
unlabelledView post →Ridiculous as today's Cartoon Network, boring as Witcher from Netflix, no cutscenes or videos just some pictures with stories told, boards suck. It's better to buy already classic worms or Painkiller: Black Edition
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A couple new hands-on previews from me today. First up is Painkiller, the revival of the 20-year-old boomer shooter. It probably won't knock your socks off, but that's fine. We need just-chill-with-your-friends low-stakes games like this. My impressions: www.ign.com/articles/pai...
unlabelledView post →Am I the only one who actually likes this game?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the worst game from the Painkiller saga. The loading screens take 3~5 to load a single map, the level design is beyond horrible, the enemy placement is boring and tedious, the "enormous, explorable areas" just don't mix well with the gameplay and will make sure you get lost way too often, the story is too predictable, a lot of performance issues & bugs. Do yourself a favor and get Painkiller Black Edition instead of this mess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New Painkiller game follows the tradition of the series. AKA it's terrible. The writing/gameplay don't feel like it was made by people who understood what the original game was about. It's essentially discount Doom Eternal with forced multiplayer. Let me kill demons alone, don't force bots on me!
unlabelledView post →I bought DL The Beast thus weekend, played 30min and returned it. Nothing against the game at all, but I realized I only like thwacking zombies in those games. Never finished one of em. Just seasonal thwacking. So my dumbass bought Painkiller instead. Vermintide clone yeah, but a solid one. A lotta
unlabelledView post →Hot buggy garbage compared to the rest of the titles in the PK franchise. Honestly, you can skip this one, unless you are a masochist like myself who has to complete everything. :/
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would rather drink my own piss than playing this crap
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bugs, bugs, bugs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This thing even greets you with the words "fun made product". Firstly, the engine and core are the same, so you have rhythm jumping, pleasant 150 FOV, climbing, shortcuts for shotgun and stakegun and the game looks good and clean (that is, in the places where devs used textures and not blurry placeholders). But it runs very poorly and has its share of bugs and crashes. When i reached haunted city it wouldn't load the level and i would just fall down into grey abyss. Fortunately, i forgot about…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is for fans of first-person games like Duke Nukem, Doom, Half-Life, Serious Sam, Painkiller or even Cyberpunk 2077. Brutal John 2 on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1859620 #indiegames #halflife #cyberpunk #dukenukem #city
unlabelledView post →How Painkiller RTX Uses Generative AI to Modernize Game Assets at Scale #gamedevelopment #indiedev #gamedev
unlabelledView post →To call this game flawed would be an understatement, and yet... there is something strangely satisfying about finishing it. At least on Trauma difficulty (hardest difficulty). The game play is mentally traumatizing despite the fact that there are only six levels. The new protagonist in this game has Max Payne-style graphic novel cutscenes- he stood in front of a bus as C4 he planted to kill a bunch of mobsters was about to kill innocent civilians. Now he's in hell and he has to kill a bunch of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →55. Twisted Tower (2026 Video Game) Visually it feels like Bioshock, mechanically it reminds me more of Painkiller. The ending was trippy but look man, I'm just happy there's an indie FPS that isn't taking influence from the same pool of Quake and Doom that every other indie FPS does.
unlabelledView post →"This game is basically Painkiller, guys. Stop saying 'Blood' at me, that's basically a death threat"
unlabelledView post →For the new #RandomGameSaturday I have the original Painkiller [2004]. It is needless to say it was a great FPS and it still is. So surreal I needed 3 CDs to install the game.
unlabelledView post →It's 2025 and Painkiller has been reborn. But is it worth your time? After spending time shooting his way out of Purgatory, @andresplays.bsky.social offers his review: seasonedgaming.com/2025/10/29/r...
unlabelledView post →Time for our first sponsored stream of the week! We've got three of these planned, and the first is the reboot of the 2004 shooter Painkiller! Disclosure: I received a free copy of this game from Lurkit! Check out Painkiller here: lurk.ly/sbH92J www.twitch.tv/jimmy_wuffster
unlabelledView post →Wait... is that new Painkiller game out?
unlabelledView 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 →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 →It's looked more promising then Redemption, but it's still kind of mediocre and unplayable due to bugs + Reasonable amount of enemies, levels look interesting, well-drawn comic cutscenes - Buggy mess: long loading times, frame drops, placing tarot cards crashes the game, in the ends it refused to launch regardless of re-install. Worst is use of absolutely unreliable physics: super-steep ladders you're not sure you can climb, small holes you might fit or might get stuck in, player or enemies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I guess this is where the bell curve begins to dip on quality, not good at all. Hearing that the games after this get worse... I think I'll get off pain train here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mostly Negative? Come on that's a meme this point. Is nowhere near as bad to deserve this rating. Mixed would be fine, like a 50% on rotten tomatoes or something. It has good stuff and bad stuff. I love the metal/goth aesthetic. The story is insane and blowing up demons feels like a doom or a quake but on steroids. They ragdoll and explode like as if you did a fatality on them. The loading times, bad level design and jank do bring it down but it's worth at least one playthrough IMO. Then…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fake Game Watch tier list as of today. Painkiller 2025 had the strongest showing of the games we've played so far. FAKE GAME WATCH WILL RETURN 🕵️♂️
unlabelledView post →Kicked off Fantasy Month by giving Amid Evil a decent chance, and I'm so glad I did. If someone had told me that this game pulls heavily from Painkiller, I would have played through it much sooner.
unlabelledView post →The original painkiller is S tier, one of the greats. Everything else is increasingly garbage. The og Painkiller devs are now making Witchfire and holy fuck is that game good. Highly recommend
unlabelledView post →I had Fatal Error when applying Black Tarot cards and other issues . I downloaded " painkiller resurrection updater 44 " and so far so good . I know you shouldn't have to patch a steam game but it's unplayable otherwise. I like the big levels and when it's playing right it's worth a go.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thankfully this is a fan made game.... Why i don't like this game? -spaming same enemy which is a new character with 1 color texture. -no spawning effect. -super small enemies. -the smaller is your enemy the more health it has. -unreachable secrets. -you have 0% light in dark places. -getting stuck in every corner. -has glitches that can get you out of the map and won't let you go back until you restart. -sometimes the arrow stops without telling you where to go. -the hero looks like a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me list the reasons nobody likes this game: 1. technical issues- lighting is awful, collision? what's that?, hitboxes range from small to large with no consistency, fatal error when going into demon mode, fatal error when loading within the last 20 minutes, fatal error on a fatal error (i ♥♥♥♥ you not), and no amount of bug fixing can fix this. 2. weapons- slower than previous games, weaker than previous games, one new weapon in ONLY levels 5 and 6 (so you'll never get to use it). 3.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painkiller: Resurrection: Released, but Not Really Finished With Ideas Gameplay & Gunplay: 6/10 The gameplay isn't what drove me away. It's the same simple, fast shooting you'd expect, but it feels flat and has no spark to keep you interested. Level Design & Structure: 3.5/10 The level design and structure are extremely repetitive and boring. I tried hard to keep playing and couldn't. I dropped it very quickly, and it wasn't because of the graphics or the gameplay, only because of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As loading screen says, it's a fan made game. It should be free. It should also be avoided because of how many bugs, bad level design and performance drops it has. Any positives do not make this game worth a try.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried to play Painkiller: Black Edition on my beefy $6k computer last night and was shocked to see it ran 3fps. Spent 30 minutes of my 1 hour of game time last night trying to "fix" the issue.
unlabelledView post →This is the absolute worst Painkiller game there is. I even refuse to believe that it exists right now when I am writing this review. It's weird, it's redundant, it's repetitive, and it does not even work properly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this is the actual no ♥♥♥♥ worst game I've ever paid for. This is the version of painkiller they make you play in purgatory.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bear stream! Tonight's feature is a pair of FPS games, Painkiller (the new one) and Painted in Blood! I'll also be trying some demos and giving in to my usual tangents. www.twitch.tv/aogumabear
unlabelledView post →Painkiller is still great. NuPainkiller, well, it's a videogame.
unlabelledView post →The game is fun. But the maps are so bad. even for 2009 this is 0/10 map design. A lot of times I got no clue where to go. These trash maps make it a challenge to find the next checkpoint. The game crashed a lot, and sometimes i find myself in a spot where i can't move anymore. I can't believe that at the end of the game i get asked to play these trash maps again on the highest difficulty too see the "real" ending. Hell no, i watched the real ending on youtube. Never ever i play these maps…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing Resurrection had me longing for the good old days of Overdose again. Overdose may have been unforgivably buggy; inexplicably long loading times together with frequent crashes artificially extended its play time by a factor of 2 at least, but it was admirably creative. Every level had a different theme, with distinct textures, props, and even enemy designs. Resurrection is more stable, on my PC at least, but the levels are depressingly uninspired: gigantic, sprawling expanses of gray…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →oh, sure, but if you can't pull that off, you uhhhhh probably shouldn't make a Painkiller game
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