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Serious Sam: Tormental
Developer Gungrounds (Macanga Games j.d.o.o.), Croteam
Serious Sam: Tormental is a 2022 twin-stick shooter and rogue-lite game developed by Gungrounds and published by Devolver Digital. One or two players traverse procedurally generated levels across several stages set in the mind of Mental, the antagonist of the Serious Sam series. They use two weapons each, of which the primary weapon can be enhanced through "mods" found throughout the game. The unlockable player… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
226 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
75
LovedLoved
97 positive · 32 negative
95% range 67–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 97 | 32 | 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
Mostly Positive
202 of 267 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 226 · most liked firstI'm a 52 year old guy and been playing games since Atari 2600 back in 1977 and this game is awesome. It's very addictive, i just can't stop playing it. This was well worth the $6.42 on sell price that i paid for it. I can't wait to see what updates they do for it. I love most games but its very rare that i get addictive to one like this one. It's funny, entertaining, brutal, just everything in one, i wish it had more gore but thats me, maybe they can make an adult patch for it and add some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Serious Sam 2 is a video game
unlabelledView post →Serious Potential Serious Sam: Tormental is a rogue-lite spin-off of the Serious Sam series, this particular game is developed by Gungrounds as well as Croteam. I’m not exactly a fan of the Serious Sam franchise, I just picked this game up due to my interest in rogue-lites. So far, I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It doesn’t really do anything unique, but it does the whole top-down shooter rogue-lite thing quite well, even just as it’s released in Early Access. Note: Obviously, this is more…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Mobile Sam. Sorry, but I feel like this one looses that "Serious" charm. Controls are better with mouse + keyboard than on my controller because they feel kinda jumpy. Not entirely bad game but it plays like a different one not related to the series.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →The writing, sound, and simplistic are style are great, but there's just not enough variation in levels and game play.
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 →It's like an arcade game. The developers are open-minded, sociable and generous.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is actually a super solid twin-stick shooter. Shooting feels fantastic, the music is amazing and the writing made me laugh several times. The simple aesthetic makes it easy to follow the action and it's adorable. I would put this game above Enter The Gungeon and at the level of Nuclear Throne.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frustrating, irritating and not fun. Badly balanced (smaller enemies do the same damage as bigger enemies), the areas are tightly cramped with hardly any room to dodge attacks and I can't think of anything more "fun" than getting hit and killed by a stray projectile while trying to perform a "Brutal Kill". There's nothing rewarding about finishing a dungeon except for the same old weapon upgrades you'll pick up regardless and I just feel like I'm not making any kind of progress. It is also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every action game fan needs to play Serious Sam because of much it tests player patience and crowd control skills.
unlabelledView post →They use popular games saying its what inspired the game, thats what got me to try it. This just felt like a mobile game. After playing it a few runs i was not interested in playing the game anymore.
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 →Tormental misses the mark on being a Rouge-like and a Serious Sam game. As a Serious Sam game, it features a small cast of unremarkable enemies, only a few being from the main games. The rest can be summed up as cube or blob. As a Rogue-like, the aforementioned small enemy roster, the same one boss on every floor, bullet vomit, constant bomb spam, and very little progression/permanent upgrades makes this very repetitive and a chore to play. The only reason why I have so much time in it is just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the current state I can not recommend the game. On the surface it Looks like an amazing game that has potential with a artstyle that looks rather cute, vivid colors and that arcadish feel. You can see a lot of care went into the presentation. However deep down it seems that "Mental, the demigod who's mind we are invading" has a rather shallow imagination and likes to bug us with the concept of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting things to change. change they do. But…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Serious Sam: Tormental Tormental is the latest top-down spin-off in the infamous FPS series of Serious Sam, and it comes with the same procedural roguelike packaging that you'd expect from an indie action title of the times. A 3D view with a classic vantage point give this roguelite a particularly stylish feel, but the mechanics remain familiar. There isn't too much to say about Tormental as a roguelike, everything follows the formula of procedural level design and progressively crazy…
positive · 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 →Very generic, boring without any inspiration attempt to replicate the succes of Nuclear Throne. Those matrix effects try to hide the poor optimization. You can't fool me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →This game was fun once, I really like it, but with every update it got more irritating and less fun. No real content update besides new weapons and perks which break the game balance even more. While the devs try to balance some aspects of the game, the core game got changed. At first the game had lots of enemies with little health and you could choose the rooms/challenges you wanted and the rewards coming with it, but you had to fight through a horde of enemies. Now the the devs changed the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →So i gave it a try, and it's meh: Incentive to dash through ennemies, but no invincible frame, sometimes ennemies are on a trap or spawn some others mob on top of you; dash is useless otherwise and jump barely works, and only for sam (!). Loot disappears way too fast, super annoying. No icon in hub to know which NPC is a quest giver or got a reward. No meta progression, just a few powers to unlock. No xp level up, just uninspired upgrade for the base gun. keys are some alternative money, some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →frustrating, unfair, badly balanced and not fun! small enemies do as much harm as big enemies you go dead with 3 hits not fun and one can not save even if it should be a rogue shooter in any case because Serious Sam's Bogus Detour had done better even if you try it 5-6 times you do not come to the next world, start all over again not a fun game i had expected more beautiful and i'm disappointed, sorry croteam
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 →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 →I can’t really imagine trying to balance a roguelike. More than any other genre, roguelikes live and die on the razor’s edge of difficulty. Too easy, and people blow through it in a few runs. Too hard, and frustration claims most of your would-be player base. It took me awhile to come around to the balance struck in Serious Sam: Tormental. There are some choices here that I wouldn’t have made, and some mechanics that weren’t immediately apparent despite how important they were. Still, it’s…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Really awesome game, surprised with all the fun cool mechanics this game offers that make it very fun/ fast and arcady! Destructable environment, timed chests, Sacrifice Chests, "Brutal" killing weak enemies. Modding your weapons to create different weapons and upgrading your character is all really really fun. Also enjoying all the new Secondary weapons i have been finding! Cant wait to see what else is added ! twitch.tv/esty8nine
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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
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