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Painkiller: Resurrection cover art

Painkiller: Resurrection

Homegrown Games · Prime Matter · 2009-10-27

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

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.

Painkiller: Resurrection is an Action game released in 2009, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (25% of 650 reviews).

0
playing now
25%
positive of 650 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
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)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 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.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 26k–52k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 650 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 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820172026Week of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.13$1.902015-01-012026-09-182015-01-01 — 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 $1.992026-09-18 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1932026-06-02 — 11 pageviews2026-06-06 — 14 pageviews2026-06-10 — 7 pageviews2026-06-14 — 13 pageviews2026-06-18 — 5 pageviews2026-06-22 — 10 pageviews2026-06-26 — 9 pageviews2026-06-30 — 17 pageviews2026-07-04 — 14 pageviews2026-07-08 — 7 pageviews2026-07-12 — 11 pageviews2026-07-16 — 15 pageviews2026-07-20 — 13 pageviews2026-07-24 — 13 pageviews2026-07-28 — 19 pageviews2026-08-01 — 17 pageviews2026-08-05 — 14 pageviews2026-08-09 — 9 pageviews2026-08-13 — 11 pageviews2026-08-17 — 11 pageviews2026-08-21 — 17 pageviews2026-08-25 — 14 pageviews2026-08-29 — 9 pageviews2026-09-02 — 10 pageviews2026-09-06 — 11 pageviews2026-09-10 — 13 pageviews2026-09-14 — 14 pageviews2026-09-18 — 11 pageviews2026-09-22 — 12 pageviews2026-09-26 — 10 pageviews2026-09-30 — 8 pageviews2026-10-04 — 13 pageviews2026-10-08 — 15 pageviews2026-10-12 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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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