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This site contains information regarding PC games based on PainEngine/NecroEngine

Painkiller
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Painkiller is a first-person shooter video game developed by the Polish game studio People Can Fly and published by DreamCatcher Interactive in April 2004.

It was the first game based on PainEngine.
Apparently, this engine used some modified pieces of Quake code and included some proprietary tools like: Havok 2.0 (for physics), Miles Engine (for sound), Xtreme Toolkit (for exe).
NecroEngine is a continuation of PainEngine that was significantly improved.
The engine seems to have been deprecated after 2010.

Some history on the Painkiller development was told by the former People Can Fly employees who founded The Astronauts game company. The article can be found here.

PainEngine games

  • Painkiller 2004
  • Painkiller: Battle out of Hell 2004
  • Painkiller: Black Edition DVD / Gold Edition CD 2004 (Painkiller with BooH expansion)
  • Painkiller: Special Edition 2006 (a cut and budget version of the game)
  • Painkiller: Hell Wars 2006 (Xbox port; PSP version was canceled)
  • Painkiller: Overdose 2007
  • Painkiller: Resurrection 2009
  • Painkiller: Redemption 2011
  • Painkiller: Recurring Evil 2012

NecroEngine games

  • NecroVisioN 2009
  • NecroVisioN: Lost Company 2010

Unreal Engine 3 game remake

  • Painkiller Hell & Damnation 2012 (PS3 and Xbox 360)

Ripp3D Engine mobile games

  • Painkiller: Purgatory 2010
  • Painkiller: Purgatory HD 2010