Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
Fair · Shooter · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.9h 9.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.12/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 551 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 61 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 35 percent of its genre. Police Stories ($2.99, scores 72) outscores it, and so does Heroes of Hammerwatch ($14.99, scores 70). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% 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
What players say
Quite fun, but it uses a lives system that makes failure extremely irritating, especially with the low view distance, the humongous levels, and the lack of a map.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I wanted to like this game. I wanted to like it so much, I played 7 hours of it. I can't. It's not a bad game. But there's so many things that are frustrating, that it's a death by a thousand cuts situation. That's your TLDR. Now onto the rant. Levels are massive. And mostly empty. On it's own it's not that bad, but you move very slow (unless you equip melee and use all your 7(!) dashes to move around). I...
Criminally underrated, SSBD is one of crackshell's best games and sports a truly killer soundtrack by Damjan Mravunac. All hits, no filler.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/272620/serious-sam-s-bogus-detourReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.