Painkiller
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $7.55/hr
- Reviews▼
- 55% of 1,302
- Genre rank
- Top 98% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.3h
- Achievements
- 41
Price and sales
- Sales
- 9 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 April 2026
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 3% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
9 discounts in the 17 months on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent.
More about Painkiller
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 62 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 26 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 6 of the 62 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 33 of 235 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 454 reviews written there were positive, against 55 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 10 and Nov 23, at about $7.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 80% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 79 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 15 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super or AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT or Intel Arc A750, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Painkiller scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2300120/painkillerReviews 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 Oct 22, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.