Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Fair · Shooter · 2010
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9990% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.70/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 993
- Critics
- 76 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 24% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.4h
- To 100%
- 23h 3.1x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 102 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 July 2013
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 102 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 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 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 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).
More about Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
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.
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
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-encounterReviews 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.