Serious Sam 3: BFE on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 3: BFE is a fps, action and co-op game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on November 22nd 2011 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Bulgarian.

It has received 27,625 reviews of which 24,414 were positive and 3,211 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.63€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Serious Sam 3: BFE into these genres:

FPS Action Co-op Gore Comedy Online Co-Op Multiplayer Aliens First-Person Shooter Old School Local Co-Op Indie Split Screen Difficult Funny Singleplayer Adventure Sci-fi Local Multiplayer

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP 32-bit (with service pack 2 or 3)
Processor: Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.0 GHz
Memory: 1GB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7800/7900/8600 series, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 or 1800/X1900 series
DirectX®: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 4GB free hard drive space
Sound: DirectX9.0c Compatible Sound Card

MacOS

OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Disk Space: 6 GB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce GT 120/9600M/320M, or ATI (AMD) Radeon HD 4670. Intel integrated GPUs are not supported.

Linux

OS: Linux Ubuntu 12.04
Processor: Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 (Graphic drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11)
OpenGL: 2.1
Hard Drive: 4GB free hard drive space
Sound: OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ 7 / 10 }---

Feb. 2025

This was such a relief after playing SS2, which wasn't really that bad.. but SS3 feels like the true successor to the original and the second encounter. They calmed down on the traps, but there're still bunch of secrets to find. Gunplay is back to its former glory with refreshed weapons and a bunch of interesting enemies. Excellent pacing and it's really fun and satisfying to blast hundreds of those headless rocket freaks, no matter what weapon you use. Wicked music! Later fights require finesse and some knowledge of what weapons are most effective in various situations. I ran out of ammo frequently, but that's probably on me for being a bit careless with my shots. Bunch of interesting enemies! Except maybe the space monkeys. They are fun at first, but I quickly tired of them. And maybe the flying tentacle demon lady, she's like a forced slow kill, but luckily you don't meet too many. I almost rage quit during the gasoline fetching map, because I was rushing to gather all the gasoline before being overrun by enemies. After getting seriously angry, I realised that each time I pick up a can, more enemies spawn. Take your time, there's like 1 spot with endless enemies in the entire game, you don't have to rush anything. After finishing both campaigns, I'm left wanting MORE.

Jan. 2025

I've seen some people saying that Serious Sam 3 is a boring FPS game because it is just all about defeating waves of hordes. Come on, bros. That is the best selling point of this game. Serious Sam is a place where you can take a full rest from a long day of work. What you need to do here is just grab some beer, and enjoy killing numerous enemies. In this game, you have only one task: shooting whatever that can move. If it moves, you kill it, that's all about this game. If you are expecting something that is more profound or requires you to use more brain, you'd better go somewhere else. So, if you play Serious Sam and expect the series to be profound or contain deep narrative, you are literally in the wrong place because you did not do your homework about the game well before playing it. PS Serious Sam 3 has its own achievements that are connected to Steam, meaning that when you play offline and connect to Steam later, you won't have to repeat everything again. I really love this concept.

Jan. 2025

Easily the weakest of the mainline Sam games but its still a serious sam game so its still pretty high up on the shelf of blistering intense high octane FPS games

Aug. 2024

If you player Serious Sam 1 & 2 back in the days, it is probably a good idea to pick this one up whenever it is on rebate. However, I can't say that the game is very good, not in 2024 at least. 1- It gets repetitive quickly. Les than 25 different enemy types, counting bosses, and with the DLCs. No power-up or skill tree. Just a secondary function with some weapons, that's it. It's as simple as it gets, really. 2- Level design is... barely average overall. There are secrets rooms but you probably won't bother finding everything. 3- Some of the fights are tedious a bit. I regret playing this on a harder difficulty setting. My recommendation is to play normal difficulty and zip through. It's not worth putting much efforts. There isn't much of a story anyways. The humour makes it more tolerable or it would just be boring. But for 10$ including DLCs... I really can't complain. It's not a bad game, it just feels dated by modern standards.

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