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Med-Art · 2012 · 43 % positive of 432

24 games that play like Painkiller: Recurring Evil and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Painkiller Redemption, Painkiller: Black Edition and Painkiller Overdose.

Player tags

  • Action
  • Supernatural
  • Gore
  • 3D
  • Violent
  • FPS
  • Shooter
  • First-Person

At a glance

What games like Painkiller: Recurring Evil have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Painkiller: Recurring Evil: FPS (24 of 24), Gore (17) and Violent (16).
  • They came out between 2007 and 2025, 18 of them after Painkiller: Recurring Evil (2012).
  • Best rated by Steam players: ULTRAKILL (97 % positive of 169,751).
  • 5 games both play and look like Painkiller: Recurring Evil, among them Painkiller Redemption, Painkiller: Black Edition and Painkiller Overdose.

By gameplay

Plays like Painkiller: Recurring Evil

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. DOOM: The Dark Ages87 % positive of 21,671Shared: Gore · FPS · Shooter
  2. Monument75 % positive of 895Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
  3. Possessed65 % positive of 217Shared: Gore · Violent · FPS
  4. Putrefaction70 % positive of 478Shared: Gore · Violent · FPS
  5. Forgive Me Father 285 % positive of 1,635Shared: Violent · FPS · Shooter
  6. CRUEL95 % positive of 1,023Shared: Gore · Violent · FPS
  7. DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One67 % positive of 6,129Shared: Gore · Violent · FPS
  8. ULTRAKILL97 % positive of 169,751Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
  9. QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity91 % positive of 340Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
  10. Devilated81 % positive of 209Shared: FPS · Shooter · First-Person
  11. Shrine92 % positive of 892Shared: Violent · FPS · Shooter
  12. DOOM VFR54 % positive of 3,117Shared: Gore · Violent · FPS

By look

Looks like Painkiller: Recurring Evil

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Iron Storm66 % positive of 171
  2. Quake96 % positive of 14,400
  3. Planet Alcatraz 291 % positive of 294
  4. Painkiller Overdose71 % positive of 1,115
  5. Nightmare of Decay95 % positive of 3,872
  6. Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi87 % positive of 3,026
  7. Unreal Gold89 % positive of 2,475
  8. Blade of Darkness90 % positive of 2,279
  9. Putrefaction70 % positive of 478
  10. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl94 % positive of 47,291
  11. Alone in the Dark (2008)39 % positive of 1,384
  12. Daikatana52 % positive of 1,082

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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