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Painkiller: Recurring Evil cover art

Painkiller: Recurring Evil

Med-Art · Prime Matter · 2012-02-29

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 29, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Battle never ceases in the realm known as Hell. This time around it's a battle for the freedom of your very soul. Will you be able to escape from the prison hidden in the darkest deepest chasm of Hell? Do you have enough courage to travel through the most dangerous and twisted areas, infamous for their unsafety, even among demons...

0
playing now
42%
positive of 477 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
52/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 46% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–38k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 477 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at GameFly (2014-10-22) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 12 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.13$1.902015-01-012026-08-132015-01-01 — best price $3.992015-03-06 — best price $2.492015-04-10 — best price $2.492015-05-20 — best price $9.952015-07-15 — best price $9.992015-08-28 — best price $4.992015-11-13 — best price $1.992016-01-04 — best price $2.002016-02-16 — best price $11.132016-05-31 — best price $2.492016-08-24 — best price $9.992016-11-21 — best price $9.992017-01-16 — best price $2.502017-05-11 — best price $2.492017-08-09 — best price $2.492017-11-04 — best price $1.992018-02-23 — best price $8.292018-05-17 — best price $7.692018-08-23 — best price $2.492018-10-22 — best price $10.372018-12-02 — best price $8.492019-02-15 — best price $9.992019-05-13 — best price $2.492019-08-03 — best price $9.992019-10-16 — best price $9.992019-11-27 — best price $2.492020-01-11 — best price $8.392020-02-14 — best price $9.742020-04-20 — best price $8.992020-12-22 — best price $1.992021-10-04 — best price $9.992022-05-06 — best price $1.992022-11-18 — best price $1.992023-05-23 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $1.992024-12-05 — best price $1.992025-10-30 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-13 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, German, Russian

Player tags

3DFPSGoreActionHorrorShooterViolentFirst-PersonSingleplayerSupernatural

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.