Painkiller (video game)

Painkiller
Developer(s)People Can Fly
Publisher(s)DreamCatcher Interactive
Director(s)Adrian Chmielarz
Designer(s)
  • Adrian Chmielarz
  • Michał Sadowski
Programmer(s)Bartek Sokołowski
Writer(s)
  • Adrian Chmielarz
  • Jeremy Bell
  • Russell Challenger
  • Brian Gladman
Composer(s)
  • Adam Skorupa
  • Marcin Czartyński
Platform(s)
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
    • NA: April 12, 2004
    • PAL: April 16, 2004
  • Xbox
    • WW: July 25, 2006
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Painkiller is a first-person shooter video game developed by Polish game studio People Can Fly and published by DreamCatcher Interactive in April 2004 for Microsoft Windows and ported to Xbox in 2006. The game's single player campaign follows a dead man in Purgatory who is offered a deal to defeat the invading forces of Lucifer's army in exchange for being allowed to enter Heaven. The game was particularly well-received for its multiplayer experience and was featured for two seasons on the Cyberathlete Professional League's World Tour.