Serious Sam 4
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line 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
$39.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$7.9980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.21/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 17,916
- Critics
- 68 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 45% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.5h
- To 100%
- 19.1h 2.0x the story
- Finish
- 26% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 54
Price and sales
- Sales
- 45 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 June 2023
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 111 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 63% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
92% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
45 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 45 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter ($5.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy ($14.99, scores 44).
More about Serious Sam 4
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 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 2,034 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.
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
What players say
Serious Sam 4 is a perfectly fine game and not even close to being the worst game in the series. But for all the things this game does right, there is also something it does wrong. The graphics are fine, aside from the awful foliage draw distance, texture pop-in and glitches during cutscenes, and the pretty bad character models and animations. Performance is also just fine. I sat around 100fps during normal...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Another yes but not full price review. Better out there for less (I bought it ages ago on sale and only just got around to playing it properly). It's the usual Serious Sam, just dumb and shooty.
>This is by design and won't be removed. ...Thanks Croteam, very nice Every time I get into a heated battle, the game unloads the level and tells me to lower the difficulty. Aside from this, the lack of collisions on furniture and various objects, the visual bugs (horrendous indoor lightning, ugly generic characters, etc) it's a pretty fun game, an improvement over 3.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Serious Sam 4 scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/257420/serious-sam-4Reviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.