Serious Sam Double D XXL
Fair · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.8h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB Card, supports Shader Model 2.0, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Pile on the firepower with the revolutionary Gunstacker and fire all your weapons at once in a symphony of destruction!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
July 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $0.79. It has been discounted 59 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Expendabros (free, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats NOT A HERO ($19.99, scores 45).
Steam's global achievement data says about 13 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. None of the 233 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 258 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.8 hours; clearing it takes 13, which is 4.6 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
47% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I was not expecting to enjoy this game, but I somehow liked it more than the traditional Serious Sam games. You'd wonder how the Serious formula would translate into a 2D environment -it turns out, quite well! Enemies that spawn out of thin air don't blindside you like they do in the 3D games. You have full visibility on the screen, so no more cheeky nonsense. The hordes of enemies don't drag the pace down as unlike...
I picked this up without expecting much, and it ended up being way more fun than I thought. The Gunstacker mechanic is awesome, the action never slows down, and blasting through hordes of enemies is just satisfying. Definitely an underrated Serious Sam game that deserves more love.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Serious Sam Double D XXL scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/111600/serious-sam-double-d-xxlThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 22.
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