Games like Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter
If Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE and Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its epic, immersive and intense. 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 VR: The Second Encounter: Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter is a sequel to Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter - frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.
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Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter
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Shares dual wielding and an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Top pick for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.
Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE
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Shares dual wielding and an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Second-strongest match for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is a virtual reality action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom.
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Third-strongest match for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Serious Sam is back! And this time it's REAL!
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Ranked #4 for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second 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!
Sairento VR
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Ranked #5 for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
VR was made for this. Perform triple jumps, wall runs, power slides and slow time down while blasting away at a foe before landing to deliver a blade attack on another. Kit yourself with katanas, firearms, bows, throwing glaives and legendary relics. Keep upgrading as you play. PURE CYBER NINJA FUN.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
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Shares secret hunting and an intense mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Ranked #6 for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second 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!
Pavlov
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Ranked #7 for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Pavlov is a multiplayer shooter in VR with heavy focus on community features. Realistic reloading features and fast paced combat as part of the core experience. Play the #1 most popular VR shooter on PC today.
After the Fall®
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Shares an immersive mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Ranked #8 for Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
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The Talos Principle
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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).
Portal 2
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The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Red Faction
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Reviewers of Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Lured to Mars by the Ultor Corporation's promise of a better life, thousands have come to seek their fortune and work for the massive mining company. But all is not as it seems. A deadly plague is sweeping through the barracks, and miners suffer daily abuse at the hands of the Ultor guards.
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
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Shares secret hunting and an intense mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Reviewers of Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second 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!
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Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
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.
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 VR: The Second Encounter.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Serious Sam VR: The Second 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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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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.).
Iron Snout
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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 VR: The Second Encounter.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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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 VR: The Second Encounter.
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The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Hog Hunter 2021
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Other recommendable Steam games by Croteam VR, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
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Shares an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Another title from Croteam VR, the studio behind Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Serious Sam is back! And this time it's REAL!
The Talos Principle VR
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Shares an immersive mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Another title from Croteam VR, the studio behind Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
The Talos Principle VR is a virtual reality version of Croteam's critically acclaimed first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction.
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter
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Shares dual wielding and an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Another title from Croteam VR, the studio behind Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.
Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE
WHY THIS
Shares dual wielding and an epic mood with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Another title from Croteam VR, the studio behind Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter.
Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is a virtual reality action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom.
Frequently asked about Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter
- How much does Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter cost?
- Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter are Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope.
- Who developed Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter?
- Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter was developed by Croteam VR and published by Devolver Digital, Croteam.
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