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Serious Sam: The Random Encounter

Vlambeer · Devolver Digital · 2011-10-24

Steam

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 24, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Choose your weapons and take aim at the most random Serious Sam adventure yet!

0
playing now
49%
positive of 818 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
57/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is a 2011 role-playing and bullet hell game developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital. It follows Sam "Serious" Stone travelling to the future in search of his nemesis, Mental, teaming up with mercenaries on the way. The player controls Sam and his accomplices through confined levels, engaging in battles through random encounters. These pit the player characters against large waves of enemies, and the player controls the weapons and items each character uses against them in five-second turns.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–65k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 818 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Humble Store$0.74-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2013-07-16) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 19 of 31 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-202015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-06-20 — best price $0.742015-08-13 — best price $0.492015-11-25 — best price $0.992016-01-24 — best price $4.992016-06-13 — best price $4.992016-09-22 — best price $4.992016-12-01 — best price $0.752017-03-30 — best price $0.992017-09-11 — best price $0.742017-12-21 — best price $0.992018-04-23 — best price $4.992018-08-02 — best price $4.992018-12-21 — best price $0.992019-07-09 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $0.992020-05-27 — best price $4.992020-10-29 — best price $0.992021-02-15 — best price $4.992021-05-14 — best price $0.992021-10-18 — best price $0.992022-01-10 — best price $0.992022-05-24 — best price $4.992022-11-22 — best price $0.992023-02-07 — best price $4.992023-07-28 — best price $4.992023-11-17 — best price $0.992024-02-29 — best price $4.992024-06-20 — best price $0.742024-10-24 — best price $0.742025-01-27 — best price $0.742025-06-27 — best price $0.742025-11-20 — best price $0.742026-04-30 — best price $4.992026-08-17 — best price $0.742026-08-20 — best price $0.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGJRPGFunnyIndieActionComedyTurn-BasedSingleplayerPixel Graphics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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