Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
Worth it · Shooter · 2019
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator, 451 MB of storage. Windows only.
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month February 2002!
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.59. That was July 2013. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 98 in the 14 years tracked, about 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.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 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 Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter ($14.99, scores 69).
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
2 of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 475 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
Players
10 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/41060/serious-sam-classic-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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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