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Painkiller: Resurrection cover art

Painkiller: Resurrection

Homegrown Games · Prime Matter · 2009-10-27

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Oct 27, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

0
playing now
25%
positive of 649 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
34/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Painkiller: Resurrection is a first-person shooter video game developed by Homegrown Games and published by DreamCatcher Interactive. It is a stand-alone expansion to the 2004 Painkiller, and runs on an updated version of PainEngine. It was released for Microsoft Windows in 2009. There was a planned Xbox 360 version, but was cancelled.

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  • · Top 41% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 26k–52k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 649 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at GameFly (2014-10-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 13 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 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 $3.992015-03-22 — best price $9.992015-05-29 — best price $2.492015-08-10 — best price $2.492015-10-30 — best price $1.902015-12-22 — best price $1.992016-02-05 — best price $2.492016-04-21 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $8.992016-11-01 — best price $9.992016-12-27 — best price $9.992017-04-03 — best price $2.492017-07-14 — best price $9.992017-09-20 — best price $2.502017-12-22 — best price $2.492018-04-15 — best price $2.492018-06-30 — best price $9.992018-09-06 — best price $2.492018-10-31 — best price $9.992018-12-19 — best price $2.492019-03-11 — best price $2.492019-05-20 — best price $9.992019-08-03 — best price $9.992019-09-28 — best price $9.842019-11-11 — best price $8.992019-12-19 — best price $2.492020-02-05 — best price $9.892020-04-07 — best price $2.722020-09-07 — best price $9.992021-03-15 — best price $2.492021-11-24 — best price $2.492022-07-11 — best price $1.992022-12-02 — best price $9.992023-06-11 — best price $9.992024-01-18 — best price $1.992024-07-18 — best price $1.992025-01-29 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $1.992026-07-02 — best price $1.992026-08-13 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

FPSGoreActionHorrorShooterViolentSingleplayerBoomer Shooter

Census log

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

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