Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001!

Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter is a action, fps and classic game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on August 30th 2019 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 3,099 reviews of which 2,973 were positive and 126 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 5.89€ on Steam.


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Minimum
  • OS *: Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 5), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system
  • Processor: AMD K6-3 400MHz, Pentium II or Celeron-A 300MHz
  • Memory: 64MB
  • Graphics: full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator
  • Hard Drive: 600MB free hard disk space
  • Sound: 100% Windows compatible sound card

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Jan. 2025
Probably the best Serious Sam game. Lots of big fights, trapped ammo/health pickups, and silliness. You need to quicksave often because the game isn't remotely fair. The first few levels are a bit slow and annoying because you don't have all the weapons yet. Unless you're playing on tourist/easy, the gameplay isn't just dumb shooting. You have to prioritize enemies and switch weapons constantly, otherwise you will get overwhelmed. It is a unique type of gameplay. Compared to the "Classics: Revolution" version: this one works better. Compared to the HD version (or Fusion), this original version has a few gravity gimmick rooms that weren't ported over. It doesn't matter much. Compared to The Second Encounter, this has fewer enemy types and weapons, and only one setting (Egypt), but more big difficult fights. Compared to SS2, this is much less goofy. Compared to SS3 and later, this has no NPCs talking in your ear, no running, ~no reloading, no aim-down-sights.
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Nov. 2024
Certainly a serious game with very serious enemies and serious bossfights
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Aug. 2024
Playing the Original Serious Sam TFE for the first time, and all I can say is this game is a fucking banger! Compared to the remastered, this one is much better overall. Lighting don't hurt your eyes, the skies and graphics look prettier. And only after playing this, I realized the remastered version had some cut content in it. Defo go for this one, works still fine on modern pcs after 2 decades.
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June 2024
It's hard to recommend this to someone. Not because it's a bad game. It's actually far from a bad game. It is an amazingly good and well designed game. It's just that it's designed to be very, very, very hard and a test of your patience. If you're gonna get this, be warned
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May 2024
A forgotten classic. This game clearly drew inspiration from the first person shooters at the time like Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D but it also added so many new things that it really becomes its own subgenre of boomer shooters. I wish more games were like this nowadays.
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Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
9.2
2,973
126
Online players
7
Developer
Croteam
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Release 30 Aug 2019
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