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Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Developer Vlambeer, Croteam
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is a 2011 role-playing and bullet hell game developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital. It follows Sam "Serious" Stone travelling to the future in search of his nemesis, Mental, teaming up with mercenaries on the way. The player controls Sam and his accomplices through confined levels, engaging in battles through random encounters. These pit the player characters… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
271 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
32
Rotten
55 positive · 119 negative
95% range 25–39%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 55 | 119 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
97 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
401 of 821 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 271 · most liked firstSerious Sam 2 is a video game
unlabelledView post →Ooh, (very WIP) trailer dropped for Zortch 2. The first game was short but tons of fun, like a long-lost N64 shooter given a PC remaster. The sequel kinda makes me think of Serious Sam meets Duke Nukem 64 so far.
unlabelledView post →Game Pass titles leaving in 2 weeks: -Anuchard -Darkest Dungeon -Broforce -Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem -Maquette -Death's Door
unlabelledView post →Every Serious Sam game looks like it's a fake game that a TV show character is playing and I love it
unlabelledView post →A super early version of the Colosseum from Serious Sam Next Encounter, running on the PC's Serious Editor. This is from January 25, 2002, while the game wouldn't release on GameCube until April 2004.
unlabelledView post →Showed the gang an Easter Egg in Serious Sam Double D XXL where there’s a monument to the Xzibit “X in your X” meme that gets you an achievement. Was a little hard finding the footage as Youtube search sucks now and few recall this game.
unlabelledView post →The easiest way to dabble in #GameDev? Modding. Pick your favorite game and it probably has some sort of modding support. My first #IndieDev experience was adding a tiny feature to Serious Sam, back in 2001. It was ~5 lines of code and seeing it in-game felt amazing.
unlabelledView post →People talk about video games that look fake sometimes but I think Serious Sam TSE might somehow have the fakest looking video game cover art ever.
unlabelledView post →Seriously flawed game with great art and presentation but with boring repetitive gameplay that is too hard and tedious to bother with. Stick with the FPS SS games or you're going to be in for a seriously awful time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please everyone buy this game It's so great and i have been enjoying it lots too! It has catgirls. It plays similar to DOOM Quake & Serious Sam, but it's own unique experience to the FPS genre. Also a meow button And made by trans devs too 💙🏳️⚧️
unlabelledView post →Every action game fan needs to play Serious Sam because of much it tests player patience and crowd control skills.
unlabelledView post →Forget about furious running and shooting this is RPG Sam... Walk around the map and fight some random encounters. Gameplay is somewhat turn based and each action takes one move. You can choose between shooting, swapping weapons or using an item. While in action phase you're able to dodge incoming enemies and bullets by going up or down. Music feels a bit melancholic but it's not the main con. What drives me insane are encounters which happen too frequently. On top of that gameplay gets…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AAAA games are nothing special, Serious Sam was the world's first AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA game.
unlabelledView post →The classic Serious Sam 2 gets a big upgrade and now Steam Deck Verified https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-classic-serious-sam-2-gets-a-big-upgrade-and-now-steam-deck-verified/ #SeriousSam2 #SteamDeck #SeriousSam #PCGaming #FPS
unlabelledView post →A short spin-off that probably shouldn't have happened. More for the lols than a serious game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games leaving Game Pass on February 1st. - Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem - Darkest Dungeon - Deaths Door - Broforce - Maquette - Anuchard
unlabelledView post →Serious Sam can be in any video game, at any time.
unlabelledView post →NEW SERIOUS SAM GAME??
unlabelledView post →My patch to add #SeriousSam to #Guix got merged!!! It's a really fun and silly FPS, and it wasn't a trifle to get it working on Guix :) #programming #gaming #retro
unlabelledView post →I did say I'd like to do something for you all when I get my channel access back. Thinking of perhaps a live stream, but what game should it be? I know people often request a repeat playthrough of the janky Serious Sam 3 port for PS3, lol.
unlabelledView post →Serious Sam: Shatterverse announced as a new co-op roguelite FPS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/serious-sam-shatterverse-announced-as-a-new-co-op-roguelite-fps/ #SeriousSam #Shatterverse #FPS #PCGaming
unlabelledView post →Author: 200. Francis — unknown. 1/ An African mercenary named Francis, originally recruited as a foot soldier, was repurposed into a headless “kamikaze” role reminiscent of a Serious Sam video game character. Continue… ⬇️
unlabelledView post →THREAD of Remix 80s now that I have more than one, will be updated with each one I level! number one: Samward "Serious" Stonefuse. my "main" for remix this time, he's a cosplay character of Serious Sam from classic FPS game ... Serious Sam.
unlabelledView post →Serious Sam does a better job being a "bullet hell" than alot of gentrified modern/indie games putting bullet hell elements in their game cause it actually gives a shit about you actually dodging shit and not having a million different ways to ignore damage
unlabelledView post →We’re now in the paper session - we had a great range of papers, first exploring the representation of Egypt in Talos Principle from @jennycromwell.bsky.social - a great deep dive into what this game is made of (part of which is: Serious Sam!)
unlabelledView post →I made the mistake of playing through both Mouse PI and Serious Sam lately. Too many jumpy shooters that get me all worked up and tense. Need to play something more laid-back next time like an RPG or Kirby game.
unlabelledView post →On this windy #RandomGameSaturday, I have Serious Sam: Next Encounter, a game not to be confused with Serious Sam: The Second Encounter or Serious Sam II no matter how much it sounds like a direct sequel. I've not played much of any game in this series, but I feel like I'd really enjoy it once I do
unlabelledView post →number 1 rule of a Serious Sam game: anyone with a homing projectile must die first (Aludran Reptiloids, Technopolyps) number 2: keep fucking running number 3: the sooner you ride the Werebull, the better
unlabelledView post →Doom 2016: A great action shooter with a compelling narrative throughline. Half Life on coke Doom Eternal: Fast paced arcade arena shooter. Mobility is everything. Nobody's knows wtf is going on Dark Ages: Serious Sam with lore??? They're trying to add story this late in the game???
unlabelledView post →it's a bullet hell game, which is a genre Amy got me into back in the day with Serious Sam
unlabelledView post →🎊🎈Pre-Birthday Twitch stream 🎈🎊 Tune in at 2pm CST, about two and a half hours from this post going up BUT I will QRT again with the link when I go live! Playing the Alpha build of Serious Sam! It will be jank! But should prove... interesting!
unlabelledView post →I woke up hearing new Serious Sam… Good.. very nice.. wait… Hunter the Reckoning?? New game? In this modern day???! I was literally talking to friends about it maaany maaany times begging for a new game since the original xbox days! The game was one of the inspirations for this commission!
unlabelledView post →lol my kids still pull up the 2000s interview I gave to EP for Serious Sam to laugh at how much I have aged and how excited I was about dual wield uzis as a game mechanic
unlabelledView post →Does not function on modern computers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In some videogames with no player character options, you get to actually have a character (Serious Sam). In some, you get a blank slate with pronouns (FEAR). To an extent, I can accept it if the game is old. . . . This post is about Mechwarrior 5.
unlabelledView post →Serious Sam on the original Xbox. Never played Halo on it, lmao, But Serious Sam I loved so much, I'd regularly try to convince my parents to play it with me No clue who I'd be if I hadn't played that silly little game back when I was a wee little batty
unlabelledView post →I found out about new Serious Sam game. Not really sure if I want to play it or not. I love Serious Sam but this game looks like the most generic "Fortnite wanna be" slop. Feels like they wanted to make Serious Sam popular among gen Z or something. I hate that trend and direction.
unlabelledView post →They call this the random encounter, but i call it the failed encounter. Who even thought this game was a good serious sam game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable in Windows 10, Games crashes at second battle upon recieveing the shotgun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A GIRL SERIOUS SAM? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? Yeah man Sammy was in the game long before the new girl Sam like who gives a fuck you can be aliens and shit in these games lmao
unlabelledView post →87. Serious Sam 3 Jewel of the Nile: Solid little expansion. The secret weapons from the main game became normal pick-ups and the hammer is now a sick axe. The first couple levels are oddly stingy on health though which got annoying. I liked it, but I'm taking break before I play Serious Sam 4!
unlabelledView post →Plan to postpone artwork with I-NO again, start artwork with Barry Stickfries, who will refer to the cover of the game Serious Sam 3: BFE and at the same time finalize the summer SparkTEJ illustration
unlabelledView post →So, back to Game Club, the very first game project I ever worked on was the first Game Club project - a mod for Serious Sam, called "Propain", with transforming mechs I made. I made the Mechs. 15/?
unlabelledView post →I think what's great about Serious Sam The First Encounter is that despite 99% of the game taking place in the desert, the environments still feel varied, and the game is quite vibrant.
unlabelledView post →⚫️LIVE FROM 3:30PM BST🟡 We've launched some seriously cool collections over the last few weeks but now it's time to relax and enjoy a game with some pals as the boys from the Coin try out Serious Sam: Shatterverse. Watch here www.youtube.com/live/EWi7_l1... or on twitch.tv/officialinsertcoin
unlabelledView post →I see you, new Serious Sam game. Lizard man
unlabelledView post →THEY MADE SERIOUS SAM A PICK ONE OF THREE GAME SELL THE INDUSTRY
unlabelledView post →When there’s a secret teleport or ammo stash in a Serious Sam game
unlabelledView post →I’m watching Serious Sam: The Second Encounter being played with 5 player co-op and this is the fakest video game ever in a fun way
unlabelledView post →Submitted my #SeriousSam patch to #Guix [1]!!!! This took a few days to get working, but I'm happy with the result. The engine assumes both its libraries and the official game data exist in the same directory. This is impossible on Guix, since the store where the engine libraries are located is immutable. Some work had to be done to get the game to read all of the game data from the user directory, as well as patch some linking errors. [1] https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/1480 #programming…
unlabelledView post →Serious Sam HD: Second Encounter (2010): Definitely better and more fast-paced than the first game, but not nearly as fun as Serious Sam 2. I still despise Kleers, though the flamethrower makes quick work of them. But let's be real, the main reason we play this one is because of the Grand Cathedral.
unlabelledView post →I can't wait for the next serious Sam game to be announced #gaming #serioussam
unlabelledView post →Is ᴛʜɪs ᴀ ʙᴀᴅ ᴊᴏᴋᴇ?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starts out fun, becomes extremely frustrating soon after due to completely unbalanced random enemy composition.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like this video game man (Serious Sam)
unlabelledView post →This game is for fans of first-person games like Duke Nukem, Doom, Half-Life, Serious Sam, Painkiller or even Cyberpunk 2077. Brutal John 2 on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1859620 #indiegames #halflife #cyberpunk #dukenukem #city
unlabelledView post →my biggest video game theory is that croteam keeps making prequels cause otherwise they'd have to acknowledge the events of Serious Sam 2
unlabelledView post →Shooters were getting browner, grittier and slower at the turn of the millennium so Croteam decided to fix that with Serious Sam - a very bright, colorful game with tons of fast-paced Smash TV style shooting action. Plenty of hidden secrets and self-aware humor too.
unlabelledView post →have you all seen this? Half-Life-inspired game from the Serious Sam devs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qdZ...
unlabelledView post →Uhhhhhhhhhh Serious Sam: The Random Encounter Machine Broke
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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