Single-player games like Painkiller: Black Edition
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Painkiller: Black Edition, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Painkiller Hell & Damnation
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Painkiller Overdose
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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...
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BONETOX
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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CARNAGE OFFERING
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Quake 4
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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DOOM Eternal
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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DOOM
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Turbo Overkill
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Painkiller: Resurrection
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Serious Sam 4
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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OUTRIDERS
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
Single-player alternative to Painkiller: Black Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.