Painkiller: Resurrection
Skip · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5h 12.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 25% of 653 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
William "Bill" Sherman has a problem - he's dead. Blown to pieces by his own C4 payload, which he wanted to eliminate a South American druglord with on behalf of some shady secret service people.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon 3800 / Geforce 7800 or better, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
95 discounts in the 14 years 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 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. WRATH: Aeon of Ruin ($24.99, scores 23) outscores it, and so does Painkiller Overdose ($4.99, scores 30). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Painkiller: Resurrection
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 38 against 25 percent.
None of the 307 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 22 percent of the 171 reviews written there were positive, against 25 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
5 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
"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...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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.
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Painkiller: Resurrection 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/39560/painkiller-resurrectionReviews 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.