Serious Sam: Tormental
Skip · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $5.45/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 267 positive
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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: Tormental is a 3D rogue-lite top-down shooter where you blast your way through the tormented mind of demigod of destruction Mental, as he imagines worlds and monsters that stand on your path towards his inner ego. Let the showdown begin!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3D graphics card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 48 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Greedland ($12.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Extremely Powerful Capybaras ($5.99, scores 11).
More about Serious Sam: Tormental
66 from critics against 76 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
84% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's like an arcade game. The developers are open-minded, sociable and generous.
1 more review, not recommended
Tormental misses the mark on being a Rouge-like and a Serious Sam game. As a Serious Sam game, it features a small cast of unremarkable enemies, only a few being from the main games. The rest can be summed up as cube or blob. As a Rogue-like, the aforementioned small enemy roster, the same one boss on every floor, bullet vomit, constant bomb spam, and very little progression/permanent upgrades makes this very...
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Cite this score
Serious Sam: Tormental scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/640340/serious-sam-tormentalReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.