Serious Sam HD: The First 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!

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a fps, action and shooter game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on November 24th 2009 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Russian.

It has received 7,891 reviews of which 7,383 were positive and 508 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.49€ on Steam and has a 90% discount.

The Steam community has classified Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter into these genres:

FPS Action Shooter Co-op Gore Multiplayer Comedy Online Co-Op First-Person Classic Old School Indie Singleplayer Aliens Difficult Funny Remake Adventure Sci-fi Colorful

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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 w/SP1 or newer
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3+ Ghz or AMD Athlon64 3500+
Memory: 1 GB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7600, ATI Radeon X1600 (Shader Model 3.0 Highly Recommended)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c August 2009 Edition or newer

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

HD remake of a great game<3 The classics may feel better to play to some degree, but it's still an amazing HD remake, despite some models (mainly armor and health pickups) getting copy and pasted from the original. Overall feels great to play and for anyone who doesn't like the classics because of the outdated graphics this might be the best solution.

Nov. 2024

A childhood classic for me, I still recall having the disc for it and playing it on my grandfather's boxy desktop computer. This game was magical to me as a kid and still lives up to how it felt playing it then. Good times.

Aug. 2024

This shit is awesome. Very low stakes, arcadey fun. Great linear, horde based levels. Lots of bullshit like enemies hidden around corners that jump out at you, enemies spawning behind you, walking down a dead end hallway and 50 enemies spawning behind you. But because the stakes are so low (you just respawn in place if you die) it feels more like a practical joke by the developers that you're in on. Lots of secrets, super interesting level design that is so different to modern day FPS games. The game started strong, got a bit gruelling and slow two thirds in, and then back up again during the final level. Overall some great fun, and not very long to play through.

July 2024

The product of a bygone era. It's a fascinating experience, charmingly unrefined with passion deliberately and thoroughly spread throughout. It's by no modern standard incredible, but still captivating in how it decides to treat the player. Definitely not for everyone, but for those who aren't totally braindead and the capacity to appreciate imperfection, I recommend giving it a try.

March 2024

Great game, and part of the appeal for me was to find strategies for every waves of enemies to pull off a Deathless Run on Serious. A few problems with the HD Version is that it doesn't have the gravity shenanigans of the Originals, and Demo Recordings hardly work correctly as they often get cut off in the middle of specific Levels like Karnak. Overall though, I find myself replaying this pretty often.

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-90% 14.99€ 1.49€

9.1

7,383

508

Online players

107

Developer

Croteam

Publisher

Devolver Digital

Release 24 Nov 2009

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