Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Fair · Shooter · 2010
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.4h
- Value
- $2.70/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 7600, ATI Radeon X1600 (Shader Model 3.0 Required), 2.2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!
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 $1.99, set in July 2013. It has been discounted 101 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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 23 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter ($14.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Serious Sam 4 ($39.99, scores 46).
76 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 7.4 hours. Doing everything runs 23, 3.1 times as long.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/41014/serious-sam-hd-the-second-encounterThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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