Free games like Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Propagation VR
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
Combining survival horror and static wave shooting, Propagation VR will get your adrenaline pumping as you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Armed only with your guns and your fists, fight off terrifying zombies and other multi-species mutants. Will you get out alive?
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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
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.
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Hellbound: Survival Mode
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
FULL GAME NOW AVAILABLE. GO GET IT! This is the Free Survival Mode for Hellbound: a '90s style First Person Shooter, made 30 years later… but just a glimpse of the full game, go check it out!
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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
Wolfenstein®: Enemy Territory is a free-to-play, objective-based multiplayer World War 2 first-person shooter. Featuring up to 32 players, choose either the Axis or Allies, as you fight across six maps based on real-world battle locations.
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Soldat
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
Soldat is a unique 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game. Soldiers fight against each other in 2D battle arenas using a deadly arsenal of military weapons, across 7 default game modes.
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PAPERHEAD EP.0
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
In this cute cardboard world, something went horribly wrong... You wake up in a prison cell. A strange voice calls to you from the depths of dark corridors covered in runic symbols and blood. Reload your trusty shotgun and find out... WHY WOULD CARDBOARD... BLEED?
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Belko VR: An Escape Room Experiment
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
Exploring the themes in THE BELKO EXPERIMENT, the Belko VR – Escape Room Experiment provokes the question: “What does it take to survive at work?” Players are prompted to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to escape from their office before a microchip in their head explodes.
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Devolverland Expo
Free-to-play alternative to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter.
Devolverland Expo is a first-person 'marketing simulator' set within an abandoned convention center after the annual Devolver Digital game expo was mysteriously canceled.