Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
BANGER · Shooter · 2019
The verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER 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
$5.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$0.8985% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.73/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 2,093
- Critics
- 85 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.89 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.2h
- To 100%
- 14.1h 1.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 99 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.59 July 2013
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 68% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 99 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter ($5.99, scores 89) and Serious Sam Classics: Revolution ($9.99, scores 80), are both worse buys on this math.
$9.65 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $5.99.
More about Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
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 344 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 476 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
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
Probably the best serious sam game there is, such a huge improvement over the first encounter, and it's pretty cheap.
2 more reviews
At time of writing I finished the first half of the game and I've never laughed harder. Play it in a good mood, with ample time on your hands of course, and have a blast.
Serious more serious More I want more serious Serious Sam Sam Serious Sam Samuel Samson We need a third encounter, in Classic style We don't want prequel We don't want a roguelike We want Serious Sam 5 in classic style Edit: GRRR I just noticed they called the Sirian Werebull the Syrian Bull in the description
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator, 451 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.