Serious Sam II
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Serious Sam II is a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
July 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 100 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter ($5.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter ($14.99, scores 69).
74 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,874 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
At 10.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
8% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
61 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A Blast from the past!! I'm a big fan of the Serious Sam games since I was around 12 yrs old when I played The Next Encounter on my Game Cube. The Serious Sam games mix simple gameplay and gluing down your left mouse button with a great variety of enemies and you always have the fun problem to solve which enemy to focus and which weapon works best for each enemy type. While each encounter is none stop gunfire...
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 II scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204340/serious-sam-iiThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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