Serious Sam 4
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 9.5h
- Value
- $4.21/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 780/970/1050 or AMD Radeon 7950/280/470 (3 GB VRAM), 42 GB of storage. Windows only.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.99, set in June 2023. 44 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 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 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 41 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter ($5.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy ($14.99, scores 38).
68 from critics against 83 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 2,029 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.5 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
145 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
kinda good story is good but the graphics are ♥♥♥ then some of the serious sam games but its still good a little bit but still fix the graphics :D
goated game and very well optimised, it runs on potatoes and you won't struggle feeling like a badass
Uncapitalized potential held together by duct tape, dreams, Croatian alcohol and covered in a river of steaming dogshidd and agony.
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 4 scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/257420/serious-sam-4The 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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