Games like Serious Sam: Tormental
If Serious Sam: Tormental is your kind of game, the closest matches are I Hate Running Backwards, Mystic Gate and Serious Sam's Bogus Detour — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic but satisfying combat, intense 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: Tormental: 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!
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I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Shares character unlocks and a retro mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Top pick for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Mystic Gate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
A Mystic Gate created by the gods suddenly appears in the human world. Adventurers challenge themselves with the tests that await them beyond the gate. In order to earn your wish you must defeat hordes & bosses in this roguelike dungeon exploration bullet hell!!
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and a retro mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Third-strongest match for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Ranked #4 for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Greedland
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
"Greedland” is a roguelike game mixed with survivor-like elements. It's reminiscent of Crimsonland and Vampire Survivors, and as the battle progresses your character will become a mobile arsenal of destruction!
Woodpunk
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Ranked #8 for Serious Sam: Tormental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Serious Sam: Tormental cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Reviewers of Serious Sam: Tormental cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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!
Hades
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Serious Sam: Tormental cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Serious Sam: Tormental at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serious Sam: Tormental.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Action with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Serious Sam: Tormental on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Super Animal Royale
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Welcome to the coziest way to kill your friends. Super Animal Royale is a 64-player, top-down 2D battle royale where adorably murderous animals fight tooth, claw, and machine gun. Then, relax in Super Animal World with fishing, hamsterball races, and story quests before the next fight to the death.
SAS: Zombie Assault 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Purge the undead! Intense action-shooter with deep rpg elements, including upgradeable guns and armor, unique class skills, and class special abilities. Entire game can be played single player or as a 4-player online co-op game, including PvP events like Last Man Standing.
Super Crate Box
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Vlambeer's SUPER CRATE BOX is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list. Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can.
Relic Hunters Zero: Remix
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Relic Hunters Zero: Remix is a remaster of the FREE 1 million player hit game about blasting evil space ducks and turtles with tiny cute guns. It’s fast, it’s tactical, and feels deliciously smooth to play. Unlock new weapons, characters and relics to defeat the Ducan Commander!
CS2D
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
CS2D is a free fast-paced top-down multiplayer shooter. Featuring many different game modes, a built-in map editor and much more.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Shares character unlocks and a retro mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Mystic Gate
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
A Mystic Gate created by the gods suddenly appears in the human world. Adventurers challenge themselves with the tests that await them beyond the gate. In order to earn your wish you must defeat hordes & bosses in this roguelike dungeon exploration bullet hell!!
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Greedland
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Serious Sam: Tormental.
"Greedland” is a roguelike game mixed with survivor-like elements. It's reminiscent of Crimsonland and Vampire Survivors, and as the battle progresses your character will become a mobile arsenal of destruction!
Shape Shifter: Formations
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Serious Sam: Tormental.
Shape Shifter: Formations is an action twin-stick shooter with rogue-lite elements, where you must destroy hordes of geometric enemies alone or with a friend. Select your ship and combine a large variety of weapons, abilities and infinitely stacking upgrades to craft your own unique build.
Frequently asked about Serious Sam: Tormental
- Is Serious Sam: Tormental verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Serious Sam: Tormental is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Serious Sam: Tormental cost?
- Serious Sam: Tormental is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Serious Sam: Tormental have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Serious Sam: Tormental supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Serious Sam: Tormental?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Serious Sam: Tormental are I Hate Running Backwards, Mystic Gate, Serious Sam's Bogus Detour.
- Who developed Serious Sam: Tormental?
- Serious Sam: Tormental was developed by Gungrounds (Macanga Games j.d.o.o.), Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Serious Sam: Tormental.
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