Serious Sam 3: BFE
Fair · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $2.97/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying. Your call on what that means.
Get one email when Serious Sam 3: BFE is worth buying.
One email per game. Unsubscribe in a click.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was November 2022. It has been discounted 109 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 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 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. On the same math Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter ($14.99, scores 69) and Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter ($5.99, scores 89) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 556 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 2,984 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
10.1 hours to finish it, 29 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
71% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 10.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
105 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's A Lot Of Bloody Fun ! I Like So Much All Of This Game And The Sound Makes It More Great .
Well it's not bad in fact I would say it's one of the best games made kids. Straight forward objectives shoot and kill secrets to find consol with kids and a badass protagonist but for a Serious Sam game it's a massive step down. In BFE they added executions that are pointless they don't give you health iframes etc. They are just there. Weapons are much less fun to use most of them that is (RPG Minigun and Double...
Was able to grab it for free many years ago on Steam itself. Will therefore most likely be on huge sales. It was decent fun - never played a Serious Sam-Game before, but this was fun enough for some hours.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Embed the live badge, copy the line, or download the card.
Serious Sam 3: BFE scores 57/100 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/41070/serious-sam-3-bfeThe 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
A number here look wrong? Tell me what it got wrong and I will look at the inputs behind it.