Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.3h 10.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.77/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 753 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.51 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
75 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 39 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners ($19.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope ($29.99, scores 39).
More about Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 263 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 325 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter, developed by Croteam VR and published by Devolver Digital, is a high-octane reimagining of the classic first-person shooter built entirely for virtual reality. It takes the frantic energy and absurd chaos that defined the original Serious Sam and transposes it into a fully immersive environment where you're no longer just playing as Sam-you are Sam, standing in the middle of a...
1 more review
I have played the original many times since childhood, but OMG how great this game feels in VR! This game port is awesome, holding a weapon in each hand is super cool, definitely recommend!
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Cite this score
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/552450/serious-sam-vr-the-first-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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.