Games like Painkiller: Black Edition
If Painkiller: Black Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Painkiller Hell & Damnation, Painkiller Overdose and BONETOX — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its enemy and weapon variety, great soundtrack and tactical positioning matters. 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 Hell & Damnation
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Top pick for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Evil has returned! Demonic powers are manifesting themselves as a myriad of dark creatures, fighting over the fates of imprisoned souls caught in Purgatory.
Painkiller Overdose
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Shares a challenging mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Second-strongest match for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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...
BONETOX
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
A fast-paced arena shooter where you grind demons into piles of bones and meat. Choose your favorite weapon and unleash uncompromising carnage. Survive as long as you can, break your limits, and drown the arena in blood.
CARNAGE OFFERING
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Ranked #4 for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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.
Quake 4
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Ranked #5 for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
As part of the elite Rhino Squad, you must spearhead Earth’s military invasion of a hostile alien homeworld. But, in this desperate war for humanity’s survival against an unrelenting enemy, you may discover that the only way to defeat them...is to become one of them.
DOOM Eternal
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Ranked #6 for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares a brutal mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Ranked #7 for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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.
Turbo Overkill
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Shares a brutal mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Ranked #8 for Painkiller: Black Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
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Quake
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Shares a challenging mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Reviewers of Painkiller: Black Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Painkiller: Resurrection
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Reviewers of Painkiller: Black Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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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Reviewers of Painkiller: Black Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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!
Painkiller Hell & Damnation
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Painkiller: Black Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Evil has returned! Demonic powers are manifesting themselves as a myriad of dark creatures, fighting over the fates of imprisoned souls caught in Purgatory.
Serious Sam 4
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Shares a brutal mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Reviewers of Painkiller: Black Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Painkiller: Black Edition at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~90% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
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Priced ~50% under Painkiller: Black Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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: Black Edition.
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: Black Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
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: Black Edition.
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: Black Edition.
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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OUTRIDERS
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Shares a brutal mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Another title from People Can Fly, the studio behind Painkiller: Black Edition. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Outriders’ brutal and bloody combat combines frenetic gunplay, violent powers and deep RPG systems to create a true genre hybrid.
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
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Shares a brutal mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Another title from People Can Fly, the studio behind Painkiller: Black Edition. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Step into the boots of Grayson Hunt after a crash landing on an old resort planet forces him to make a hard choice: survival or revenge. Execute masterful kills with Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition’s unique combat system that rewards you for performing the most creative and deadly kills imaginable.
Lost Rift
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Another title from People Can Fly, the studio behind Painkiller: Black Edition. Shares Action with Painkiller: Black Edition.
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Frequently asked about Painkiller: Black Edition
- Does Painkiller: Black Edition work on Steam Deck?
- Painkiller: Black Edition is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Painkiller: Black Edition cost?
- Painkiller: Black Edition is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Painkiller: Black Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Painkiller: Black Edition are Painkiller Hell & Damnation, Painkiller Overdose, BONETOX.
- Who developed Painkiller: Black Edition?
- Painkiller: Black Edition was developed by People Can Fly and published by Prime Matter.
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