Painkiller: Black Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2007
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
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- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirextX 9.0 64MB Video Card, 3.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Painkiller Black Edition includes the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villains.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was October 2016. 77 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Painkiller Hell & Damnation ($1.99, scores 55).
This site sampled 459 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, 82 percent of the 223 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Players
15 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Painkiller: Black Edition scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/39530/painkiller-black-editionThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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