Games like Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
If Serious Sam's Bogus Detour is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trigger Fever, Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta) and Yet Another Zombie Defense HD — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, epic and retro. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Serious Sam's Bogus Detour: Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
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Trigger Fever
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Top pick for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Engage in chaotic multiplayer battles in Trigger Fever, a top-down shooter party game. Crush foes solo or with friends, wielding 50+ unique weapons. Show off skills, tactically dominate, and embrace the crazy onslaught!
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer and an epic mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Second-strongest match for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Serious Sam Fusion is a central hub for several existing Serious Sam games developed by Croteam. Cool new features, engine upgrades, patches and updates will be released to existing owners for FREE!
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Third-strongest match for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?
VERSUS SQUAD
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Ranked #4 for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!
Gears 5
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
Nation Red
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer and a retro mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Ranked #6 for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.
Warshmallows
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Shares a whimsical mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Ranked #7 for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Blink, and you’re hit. Warshmallows is a hilariously fast-paced multiplayer shooting game, where you battle over the championship as sweet but dangerous marshmallows at war!
CONTRA: ROGUE CORPS
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Ranked #8 for Serious Sam's Bogus Detour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Pre-order to get two T-Shirt skins for Hungry Beast.
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Serious Sam 4
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Shares a challenging mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Reviewers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
Serious Sam Double D XXL
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and an epic mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Reviewers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Pile on the firepower with the revolutionary Gunstacker and fire all your weapons at once in a symphony of destruction!
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution
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Shares co op multiplayer and an epic mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Reviewers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through four beautiful worlds, confronting countless foes on his way to Mental's base.
Serious Sam: Tormental
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and a retro mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Reviewers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
Heroes of Hammerwatch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Reviewers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.
Diablo® IV
WHY THIS
Shares skill tree progression and an epic mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Reviewers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Serious Sam's Bogus Detour at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Serious Sam's Bogus Detour on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from Crackshell
Other recommendable Steam games by Crackshell, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Heroes of Hammerwatch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Serious Sam's Bogus Detour. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
WHY THIS
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Serious Sam's Bogus Detour. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
Hammerwatch
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer and an epic mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Serious Sam's Bogus Detour. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.
Hammerwatch II
WHY THIS
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Serious Sam's Bogus Detour. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Gather your heroes and journey beyond the dungeons of Castle Hammerwatch to explore a pixelated world like never before. Aid King Roland’s resistance while helping villagers along the way. Battle beasts, finish off hordes of the undead, and face the forces of evil.
Hammerwatch Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Another title from Crackshell, the studio behind Serious Sam's Bogus Detour. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
Choose between seven hero classes, each with unique capabilities. Brave hordes of deadly creatures alone, or band together with your noblest of champions in co-op mode available both online and locally. Take on the challenges in three different campaigns, or build your own custom scenario.
Frequently asked about Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
- How much does Serious Sam's Bogus Detour cost?
- Serious Sam's Bogus Detour is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Serious Sam's Bogus Detour have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Serious Sam's Bogus Detour supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Serious Sam's Bogus Detour?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Serious Sam's Bogus Detour are Trigger Fever, Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta), Yet Another Zombie Defense HD.
- Who developed Serious Sam's Bogus Detour?
- Serious Sam's Bogus Detour was developed by Crackshell, Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
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