Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE similar games & best alternatives

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Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE

2017

Should you play it?

Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE is a virtual reality action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom.

What works

  • Excellent vr implementation with many locomotion and control options
  • Fast-paced, satisfying arcade-style shooting gameplay
  • Supports multiplayer co-op with crossplay between vr and flat players
  • High replayability with campaign and survival modes
  • Good graphics and performance with customization

Things to keep in mind

  • Some players experience motion sickness with free locomotion
  • Cutscenes have awkward camera angles and lower quality
  • Dual wielding and lack of reloading can unbalance gameplay
  • Graphics are dated compared to modern vr games
  • Multiplayer audio and positional issues reported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

  • Serious Sam 3: BFE

  • Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

  • Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

  • Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

  • Hellsweeper VR

More expressive

Games that feels like Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE but with more self-expression and customization

  • Borderlands 3

  • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

  • Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)

  • Arizona Sunshine® VR 2

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • Borderlands 2

Less social

Games that feels like Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • DOOM Eternal

  • KIBORG

  • Dead Space™ 2

  • Vanquish

  • The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

  • DOOM

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Creativity.

Last update: 03/08/2026