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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 ()
😍 90.52%
8k reviews
50
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_capsuleen
library_heroen
library_logoen
logo_position ↴
pinned_positionCenterCenter
width_pct100
height_pct100
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
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  • 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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trailer_base_id4486
all_agestrue
timestamp1447353807

User File System

Key Value
quota 1.00 MiB (1048576)
maxnumfiles 100

Save File Locations

This app does not have Steam Auto-Cloud configured, which likely means save files are in [Steam Install]/userdata/{Steam3AccountID}/41000/ folder.

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