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Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

93% positive of 7,386 Steam reviews

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Main story
14 h
Everything
Unknown
Released
2009
Steam Deck
Playable
Known on
Steam, Xbox / PC Game Pass

Made by Croteam. Published by Devolver Digital.

About the game

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!

What sets it apart

  • FPS
  • Co-op
  • Shooter
  • Online Co-Op
  • Old School
  • Comedy
  • Aliens
  • Action
  • First-Person
  • Difficult
  • Funny
  • Sci-fi

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What players say

  • Recommended
    I can`t say that the first part of Serious Sam gave the world anything new. No new mechanics, no new ideas, and yet people still fell in love with this game for something. Probably it gave players a chance to relax after a hard day, running around locations and destroying a mountain of enemies without thinking about anything. It`s hard to say anything specific. Run and kill enemies, and just like that I`ve described…

    3.7 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Serious Sam: The First Encounter — thanks for the childhood, but I’m not gonna play it now Bought it out of nostalgia. I remember as a kid talking with the boys about those headless kamikazes and skeletons with grenade launchers, arguing who was cooler — Sam or Duke. We took turns playing, laughed our asses off when he got torn to pieces. But I never finished it — not back then, not now. Launched it recently. The…

    6 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Game didn't age too well. I get that people fell in love with the sillyness back when it first released, but nowadays it's technologically just subpar. There are dozens of horde shooters that are more satisfying to play than this jank and I'm sure the humor of headless screming men with cartoon bombs in their hands has been surpassed as well. This is a nostalgia trip for people nostalgic about the games. If you're…

    2.4 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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