Painkiller: Recurring Evil
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.5h 4.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 42% of 480 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Battle never ceases in the realm known as Hell. This time around it's a battle for the freedom of your very soul. Will you be able to escape from the prison hidden in the darkest deepest chasm of Hell? Do you have enough courage to travel through the most dangerous and twisted areas, infamous for their unsafety, even among demons...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, AMD Radeon/Nvidia GeForce with 256MB RAM, and Shader Model 3.0, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 98 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Forgive Me Father ($19.99, scores 49) outscores it, and so does The Darkness II ($29.99, scores 56). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Painkiller: Recurring Evil
This site sampled 204 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 42 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Its not bad or good, as a giant and as i mean GIANT fan of painkiller i think this is passable not good or bad its better than resurrection but worst fan HD. the og and worst than painkiller overdose but its passable.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
"You're dead! We killed you!" ~Emil Antonowsky, RoboCop JoWooD , who previously consumed DreamCatcher with its Painkiller IP and kept milking the living Hell out of the poor thing, was finally dead. Which means that finally, finally we stopped getting crappy mods being sold to us as proper commercial products, right? Right? Well... About that . Remember that old RoboCop meme? The one about how "the dude died, but...
It's not bad, no matter what people say. The pacing is sometimes a bit off, due to the high number of enemies. They also should have placed significantly more emphasis on atmosphere and environmental storytelling. As it is, everything feels a bit lazy. It's a level pack. For example, many enemies don't fit the environment thematically. But the gameplay is that of the legendary Painkiller, so it still plays very well...
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Cite this score
Painkiller: Recurring Evil scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/206760/painkiller-recurring-evilReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.