Painkiller Redemption
Skip · Shooter · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hourA
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews▼
- 46% of 764
- Critics
- 43 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 100% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.2h
- To 100%
- 7.8h 1.9x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 99 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 October 2014
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 3% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 99 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 5 days ago.
It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution ($9.99, scores 13) outscores it, and so does Earthfall ($19.99, scores 16). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Painkiller Redemption
None of the 285 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, 40 percent of the 226 reviews written there were positive, against 46 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 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
What players say
Pretty uninspiring Painkiller game but it's at least fun to play, on the contrary to Resurrection. An okay meat grinder for an evening with a big amount of enemies, familiar Daniel/Belial characters and weapons. 6/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's 50/50. Redemption was the very first ''Painkiller-Containing product'' I played after the original games. I was quite surprised to see that I did miss something earlier. Little did I know... I hadn't really missed much after all. It's fine if you REALLY want to play something that's at least related to Painkiller. Otherwise, skip this one. I had fun playing it in 2016, but overall it's just an attempt to...
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." ~Peter Drucker "When in doubt, sell Painkiller mods." Funny how that became a motto. On the other hand, it's really, like, really sad how the series got completely f*cked up right after the very first entry. I mean, it only had one proper game. And after that? It was, like, one long downfall. The official expansion (called...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Welcome to a world of pain. Heaven is once again in danger and threatened by a reckless army of hell spawn monsters - and they will stop at nothing.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon 3800 / Geforce 7800 or better, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Painkiller Redemption 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/65560/painkiller-redemptionReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.