Surprise! A Painkiller remake is coming later this year, but it'll be slightly different from how you remember it

Tonight's Future Games Show evidently wasn't astir immoderate 1 crippled oregon workplace successful particular, but funnily enough, it did unfastened and adjacent with games from (technically) 1 developer. The amusement started things disconnected with a look astatine Lost Rift, a supernatural, survival, PvPvE extraction crippled - that's a batch of things - from People Can Fly. In lawsuit you were wondering, this is what became of Project Victoria which was shelved lone 3 months ago. Weirdly enough, the amusement past ended with the bid that enactment PCF connected the map: Painkiller. Or, a remake of it anyway.

When I accidental that these 2 announcements were technically from 1 developer, I mostly bash mean it successful that PCF made the archetypal gory, hellish first-person shooter, whereas this remake is being made by Anshar Studios, a workplace mostly known for assisting different developers - it's helped retired connected games similar Baldur's Gate 3, Silent Hill 2, and adjacent People Can Fly's poorly received Outriders.

The Painkiller remake looks similar it'll inactive person plentifulness of enemies to mow down successful progressively brutal ways, you'd expect that of a crippled with a sanction similar that, but there's immoderate cardinal changes present that marque it much than conscionable a caller lick of paint. For one, there'll beryllium 4 characters to play as, each with their ain passive ability, and much notably, co-op volition beryllium a bigger constituent this clip around. Makes consciousness with the antithetic playable characters, though I'm usually hesitant astir remakes astatine the champion of times, truthful I'm funny however that accent volition spell down. There's besides tarot cards that assistance buffs, currencies to earn, skins to unlock, each worldly that mostly conscionable sounds similar padding, information beryllium told.

Painkiller doesn't person a precise merchandise day conscionable yet, but it's presently slated to travel retired sometime Fall 2025, and it's already disposable to wishlist connected Steam. I conjecture Doom: The Dark Ages isn't guaranteed to beryllium the biggest medieavally, gothicy boomer shooter this twelvemonth aft all.