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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month February 2002!

What works

  • Fast-paced, challenging combat
  • Varied and large levels with secrets
  • Diverse weapons and enemies
  • Cooperative multiplayer modes
  • Strong nostalgic appeal

Things to keep in mind

  • Dated graphics
  • Some repetitive level design
  • Annoying trap rooms
  • Lack of deep story
  • Limited character customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

  • Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

  • Blood™ Fresh Supply

  • Quake II

  • Guardians Frontline

  • LOST EPIC

More expressive

Games that feels like Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter but with more self-expression and customization

  • ATLYSS

  • Mycopunk

  • Murder Miners

  • Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

  • Serious Sam Double D XXL

  • Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)

More intimate

Games that feels like Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter but with more focus on close relationships

  • CastleMiner Z

  • Heretic + Hexen

  • Apewar

  • Iron Grip: Warlord

  • Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

  • Command & Conquer Renegade™

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

  • Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

  • Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

  • Serious Sam II

  • Serious Sam 3: BFE

Similarity map

How to use the graph

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 Classic: The Second Encounter: A very typical example of its motivational profile. 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, Intimacy.

Last update: 04/08/2026