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Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

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App ID 41000
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Devolver Digital
Franchise Serious Sam, Croteam
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Serious_Engine Engine
Last Changenumber 28969816
Last Record Update 13 May 2025 – 23:07:44 UTC ()
Release Date 24 November 2009 – 20:46:00 UTC ()
😍 90.53%
8k reviews
18
In-Game

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!

Additional Information

Developer Croteam
metacritic_url pc/serioussamhdthefirstencounter
gamedir serioussamhd
metacritic_name Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
icon empty string
controller_support partial
metacritic_score 68
NoServers No
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/serious-sam-hd-the-first-encounter?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
primarycache 41001
state eStateAvailable
serverbrowsername Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
community_visible_stats Yes
InstallScript installscript.vdf
g4w_Type 2
g4w_GDF Bin\SamHD.exe
Publisher Devolver Digital
languages (extended) english,german,french,spanish,italian,russian,czech,polish
Store Release Date 24 November 2009 – 20:46:00 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://www.facebook.com/SeriousSamFan/
https://x.com/SeriousSamIAm
https://www.youtube.com/croteam/
Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 24 November 2009 – 20:46:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 23 September 2019 – 15:26:06 UTC () (1569252366)
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library_heroen
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review_score 8
review_percentage 93
Detected Technologies (?) Serious_Engine Engine, Lua SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on SteamOS
  •  
  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Unsupported
  • test_timestamp: 1 March 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 5820849
  • configuration:
    supported_inputother
    requires_manual_keyboard_invoke0
    requires_non_controller_launcher_nav0
    primary_player_is_controller_slot_00
    non_deck_display_glyphs0
    small_text0
    requires_internet_for_setup0
    requires_internet_for_singleplayer0
    recommended_runtimeproton-7.0-1
    requires_h2640
    requires_voice_files0
    gamescope_frame_limiter_not_supported0
    hdr_support0
First seen on SteamDB 20 March 2013 – 07:42:47 UTC (), in changelist #196282

Supported Languages

8 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes
French Yes Yes
German Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes
Polish Yes
Czech Yes

Tags

🔫 FPS 💥 Action 🔫 Shooter 🤝 Co-op 😖 Gore 🕹️ Multiplayer 🤡 Comedy 👥 Online Co-Op 🕒 Classic 🙌 First-Person 🕹️ Old School 🌱 Indie 👤 Singleplayer 👽 Aliens 😓 Difficult 😃 Funny 🔄 Remake 🗺️ Adventure 🚀 Sci-fi 🎨 Colorful

Categories

Single-player Online PvP Shared/Split Screen PvP Online Co-op Shared/Split Screen Co-op Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Steam Cloud Steam Leaderboards Remote Play Together Family Sharing Multi-player Co-op HDR rendering PvP Shared/Split Screen

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

Assets

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small_capsule
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header_image
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library_assets_full
library_capsule ↴
image/englishlibrary_600x900.jpg
image2x/englishlibrary_600x900_2x.jpg
library_hero ↴
image/englishlibrary_hero.jpg
library_logo ↴
image/englishlogo.png
image2x/englishlogo_2x.png
logo_position/pinned_positionCenterCenter
logo_position/width_pct100
logo_position/height_pct100
Assets
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headerheader.jpg
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library_herolibrary_hero.jpg
community_icon9aeb464ed7dba489ba5ecb5077ea577b62ca426b.jpg
page_background_pathapp/41000
timestamp11 October 2024 – 23:00:23 UTC
Trailers
80492 ↴
trailer_nameSerious Sam HD Christmas Movie
trailer_category0
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trailer_480p/video/mp480492/movie480.mp4
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microtrailer/video/mp480492/microtrailer.mp4
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trailer_base_id4486
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timestamp1447353807

Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
228990 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980DirectX Jun 2010 Redist No size
41003 Serious Sam HD The First Encounter Bin 11.37 MiB 3.58 MiB
41002 OptionalSerious Sam HD The First Encounter NonUS 428 B 0 B
41001 Serious Sam HD The First Encounter Content 1.11 GiB 1.10 GiB

Total size on disk is 1.12 GiB and total download size is 1.11 GiB.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 5820849 12 November 2020 – 17:27:28 UTC
publicbeta 4015310 16 July 2019 – 09:31:06 UTC

Other

Name Value
overridescddb 1
baselanguages English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Italian, Russian, Czech, Polish
privatebranches 1
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