Games like Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
If Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam 3: BFE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its epic, nostalgic 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 →Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter is an action and indie game released in 2019 from developer Croteam, published by Devolver Digital. Its design brings together arena combat, co op, modding support and quick saves. It offers a challenging difficulty, a medium-length campaign, online co-op and longer sit-down sessions. On Steam it holds 95% positive of 1,167 user reviews, alongside a Metacritic score of 87. Reviewers describe the tone as epic, nostalgic, retro and tense and point to arena style combat with no cover and enemies spawn in overwhelming waves. It supports both solo and multiplayer play and ships with a level editor. It carries a list price of $5.99.
About Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter: Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!
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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month February 2002!
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
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Shares secret hunting with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Second-strongest match for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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!
Serious Sam 3: BFE
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Third-strongest match for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
DOOM + DOOM II
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Ranked #4 for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
Blood: Refreshed Supply™
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Ranked #5 for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Things are about to get… bloody! Soak up 42 pulse-pounding levels dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere as you battle your way through armies of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hell hounds, and other insatiable horrors, in your quest to defeat the loathsome Tchernobog.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
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Ranked #6 for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!
Quake
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Shares modding support, secret hunting and a retro mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Ranked #7 for Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Unreal Tournament 3
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
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Wolfenstein 3D
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Quake
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Shares modding support, secret hunting and a retro mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
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Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.
DOOM
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POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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The Talos Principle
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Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Serious Sam 3: BFE
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Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
Serious Sam 4
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Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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.
The Talos Principle 2
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Serious Sam II
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Shares secret hunting and an epic mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Serious Sam II is a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
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Shares secret hunting with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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!
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
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!
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
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Shares secret hunting and an epic mood with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Another title from Croteam, the studio behind Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter. Shares Action with Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is a new stand-alone expansion to the world of the classic FPS series. Join the fight against Notorious Mental on a journey through the wild lands of Russia, and find your way through this lost chapter of Sam Stone's adventures.
Frequently asked about Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
- Does Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter work on Steam Deck?
- Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter cost?
- Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter are Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3: BFE.
- Who developed Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter?
- Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter was developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
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