Fit check
Is Overcoming Pain worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Action players who want repeated combat against groups of enemies
- Players who prefer choosing enemy types and encounter settings
- Players seeking short survival or wave-based sessions rather than a story campaign
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for a story-led campaign or character-driven progression
- Players who want varied activities beyond repeated combat encounters
- Players seeking multiplayer battles against other people
Our take on Overcoming Pain
The game’s three modes share settings that can be applied across all four city and factory day-or-night locations.
What is Overcoming Pain?
Overcoming Pain is an action game built around surviving fights against groups of enemy soldiers, robots, and zombies.
Players choose from four location and time combinations: city by day or night, and factory by day or night. The game offers three difficulty levels and three modes: Clearing the Area, Waves, and Survival. Settings can combine different enemy selections across locations, and a friendly soldier can join the fight. The available weapons range from a knife to a grenade. Waves mode lets players choose the wave length, while Survival mode includes a timer. The game also includes achievements and a leaderboard for Survival time in Survival (mix) mode.
How Overcoming Pain plays
- 01Three game modes
- Clearing the Area, Waves, and Survival provide distinct ways to structure enemy encounters.
- 02Enemy selection settings
- Players can select which enemy types appear or combine them, with settings applying across locations.
- 03Survival leaderboard
- The leaderboard records Survival time in the Survival (mix) mode.
- 04Wave length control
- Waves mode lets players set how long the wave sequence runs.
Overcoming Pain compared to similar games
Overcoming Pain centers on configurable encounters against soldiers, robots, and zombies across three modes. Apocryph: an old-school shooter is a first-person fantasy shooter built around swords, sorcery, and settings such as castles and dungeons; Feral Fury is a twin-stick shooter rogue-lite with a panda-led science-fiction setting.
Overcoming Pain: platforms & release
Is Overcoming Pain worth it?
It is worth it if: action players who want repeated combat against groups of enemies. Skip it if: players looking for a story-led campaign or character-driven progression.
Where can I download Overcoming Pain?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Overcoming Pain's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Overcoming Pain on?
Windows only.
