Painkiller Hell & Damnation
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT (256 MB), 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Evil has returned! Demonic powers are manifesting themselves as a myriad of dark creatures, fighting over the fates of imprisoned souls caught in Purgatory.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in October 2014. 103 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 31 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Painkiller Overdose ($0.99, scores 26).
64 from critics against 78 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 497 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 599 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.8 hours. Doing everything runs 28, 5.8 times as long.
The drop-off
56% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Я серьёзно хотел дать игре шанс. Но дошёл до "восточного дворца", сжёг глаза местным солнцем, пытаясь найти ебучего врага где-то там наверху и мне стало ♥♥♥. . . . Но давайте поподробнее: 1. Дико всратые хитбоксы и коллизии, непонятно попадёт по тебе враг или нет. Аналогично в обратную сторону, непонятно попаду ли я по врагу из КАЛомёта или нет. Уже за этот пункт можно было бы обосрать всю игру, но мы двинемся...
Got this for coop, not the best. first painkiller had better music maybe, but this one does not rock my socks off.
Trash game. Don't buy. Lost progress and got stuck because they spawned an enemy clipped behind walls. Spent several minutes wandering an empty arena with dramatic fight music playing and couldn't trigger the next wave because one stupid mob was off map.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Painkiller Hell & Damnation scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214870/painkiller-hell-damnationThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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