Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

Worth it · Shooter · 2019

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$1.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hourS
$0.83/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 3,865
Genre rank
Top 6% Shooter
Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
12h
To 100%
43.5h 3.6x the story
Achievements
42

Price and sales

Sales
95 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 October 2014
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $1.99 at Humbleall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
19 now
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
83% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

62% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 95 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter ($5.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter ($14.99, scores 69).

More about Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

This site sampled 486 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 747 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 12 hours. Doing everything runs 44, 3.6 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.83/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
For context
Refunds2 of 486 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

The comedy work, largely thanks to voice acting. Guns are a bit mediocre (especially so in the First Encounter, SE adds several that answer most issues). The music is excellent, and skies are still as impressive as they would be back in the day. Enemy design is largely fine, but encounter design is very much not (especially so in the First Encounter, where half the enemies are ambush spawns). Due to this approach to...
n13e86Recommendedafter 22h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through four beautiful worlds, confronting countless foes on his way to Mental's base.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, OpenGL 1.1 compliant, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Serious Sam Classics: Revolution scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/227780/serious-sam-classics-revolution
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperCroteam
PublisherDevolver Digital
GenreShooter
Released2019
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements42