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Painkiller Redemption

Eggtooth Team · Prime Matter · 2011-02-25

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Feb 25, 2011 (Linux), Feb 25, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Painkiller Redemption is an Action game released in 2011, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (46% of 752 reviews).

1
playing now
46%
positive of 759 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
36/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 30k–61k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 759 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at GameFly (2014-10-22) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 13 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-14 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
31Jul 2012Apr 2023Jul 2012 — avg 2 · peak 9Oct 2012 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2013 — avg 2 · peak 11Apr 2013 — avg 2 · peak 13Jul 2013 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2013 — avg 1 · peak 8Jan 2014 — avg 1 · peak 7Apr 2014 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2014 — avg 1 · peak 6Oct 2014 — avg 1 · peak 21Jan 2015 — avg 1 · peak 11Apr 2015 — avg 2 · peak 10Jul 2015 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 8Oct 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2017 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 7Apr 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2020 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2021 — avg 1 · peak 5Dec 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2023 — avg 2 · peak 5
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$6.93$0.952015-01-012026-08-132015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-03-06 — best price $1.242015-04-10 — best price $1.242015-06-11 — best price $2.492015-07-21 — best price $0.992015-09-04 — best price $1.242015-11-27 — best price $0.992016-01-11 — best price $4.492016-03-11 — best price $1.232016-06-23 — best price $1.242016-09-12 — best price $1.242016-11-27 — best price $4.992017-01-30 — best price $4.992017-06-05 — best price $4.992017-09-20 — best price $1.252017-12-25 — best price $4.992018-04-30 — best price $1.242018-07-20 — best price $1.462018-09-15 — best price $4.992018-11-22 — best price $1.252019-01-10 — best price $1.242019-04-26 — best price $4.992019-07-26 — best price $1.252019-09-28 — best price $4.912019-11-27 — best price $1.242020-01-11 — best price $4.292020-02-13 — best price $4.882020-06-25 — best price $1.242021-01-14 — best price $0.992021-09-27 — best price $0.992022-02-02 — best price $4.992022-10-24 — best price $0.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-11-06 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-09-01 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-13 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FPSGoreActionHorrorClassicShooterViolentFirst-PersonSingleplayerBoomer Shooter

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.