Games like Painkiller Hell & Damnation
If Painkiller Hell & Damnation is your kind of game, the closest matches are Painkiller: Black Edition, Rise of the Triad and DOOM — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Painkiller: Black Edition
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Top pick for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Painkiller Black Edition includes the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villains.
Rise of the Triad
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Second-strongest match for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
DOOM
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Shares an intense mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Third-strongest match for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
CARNAGE OFFERING
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Shares an intense mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Ranked #4 for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Ultra fast-paced sci-fi FPS where you battle waves of robots and genetically engineered creatures. Upgrade your arsenal, unleash explosive physics, and survive relentless combat.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
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Shares an intense mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Ranked #5 for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!
Serious Sam 3: BFE
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Shares an intense mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Ranked #6 for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
DOOM Eternal
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Ranked #7 for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.
Painkiller Overdose
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Shares a bleak mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Ranked #8 for Painkiller Hell & Damnation fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
The critically-acclaimed and award-winning FPS franchise is back! Packed with tons of fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled single player and multiplayer action, Painkiller Overdose brings with it 6 innovative new demonic weapons, mind-bending physics, lightning-player maps, over 40 demented and sickly-twisted monsters from Hell and gigantic end...
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Painkiller: Black Edition
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Reviewers of Painkiller Hell & Damnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Painkiller Black Edition includes the expansion pack Battle Out of Hell, featuring 10 additional single-player levels and many new villains.
Painkiller Overdose
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Shares a bleak mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Reviewers of Painkiller Hell & Damnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
The critically-acclaimed and award-winning FPS franchise is back! Packed with tons of fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled single player and multiplayer action, Painkiller Overdose brings with it 6 innovative new demonic weapons, mind-bending physics, lightning-player maps, over 40 demented and sickly-twisted monsters from Hell and gigantic end...
Painkiller: Resurrection
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Shares a bleak mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Reviewers of Painkiller Hell & Damnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
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.
Serious Sam 3: BFE
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Shares an intense mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Reviewers of Painkiller Hell & Damnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
Serious Sam 4
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Reviewers of Painkiller Hell & Damnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
Prodeus
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Reviewers of Painkiller Hell & Damnation cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Painkiller Hell & Damnation at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller Hell & Damnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller Hell & Damnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller Hell & Damnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller Hell & Damnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Painkiller Hell & Damnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Painkiller Hell & Damnation on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Other recommendable Steam games by The Farm 51, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Chernobylite Complete Edition
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Another title from The Farm 51, the studio behind Painkiller Hell & Damnation. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
NecroVision
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Shares a bleak mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Another title from The Farm 51, the studio behind Painkiller Hell & Damnation. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
War is Hell. NecroVision is a first-person shooter that takes gamers across the frantic battlegrounds of World War I and into a dark underworld of vampires, demons and dark magic.
Deadfall Adventures
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Another title from The Farm 51, the studio behind Painkiller Hell & Damnation. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Deadfall Adventures is an action-driven first-person shooter, spiced up with elements from action-adventure games. Become an adventurer, hunt for treasures, explore unknown regions of the world and rescue the damsel in distress from the clutches of enemies, both earthly and not-so-earthly.
GET EVEN
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Another title from The Farm 51, the studio behind Painkiller Hell & Damnation. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Take a deep breath... Try to remember: a girl, a chair, a bomb. Just keep... calm. Follow the voice into the depths of you memory. Relax... and search for the darkest memories in the deepest recesses of your mind. Can you find her? The clock is ticking... And this is just a part of the treatment.
Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Another title from The Farm 51, the studio behind Painkiller Hell & Damnation. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Explore the mysterious, beautiful, yet dark world of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in this post-apocalyptic action-RPG. Make your mark on this world, through your character development, choices and playstyle. But remember – everything has a price and consequences.
NecroVisioN: Lost Company
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Shares weapon swapping and an intense mood with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
Another title from The Farm 51, the studio behind Painkiller Hell & Damnation. Shares Action with Painkiller Hell & Damnation.
NecroVisioN: Lost Company is the prequel to original horror FPS shooter, taking place before the NecroVisioN story begins. It contains a bunch of unique levels, characters, weapons and gameplay elements as well as new main hero that presents the original game story from opposite perspective.
Frequently asked about Painkiller Hell & Damnation
- Does Painkiller Hell & Damnation run on Steam Deck?
- Painkiller Hell & Damnation is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Painkiller Hell & Damnation cost?
- Painkiller Hell & Damnation is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Painkiller Hell & Damnation have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Painkiller Hell & Damnation supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Painkiller Hell & Damnation?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Painkiller Hell & Damnation are Painkiller: Black Edition, Rise of the Triad, DOOM.
- Who developed Painkiller Hell & Damnation?
- Painkiller Hell & Damnation was developed by The Farm 51 and published by Prime Matter.
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