Serious Sam Classics: Revolution similar games & best alternatives

Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action shooter heavily focused on frantic action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, Sam travels through four beautiful worlds, confronting countless foes on his way to Mental's base.

What works

  • Includes both first and second encounter campaigns
  • Supports cooperative multiplayer and survival mode
  • Steam workshop and level editor for mods and custom content
  • Improved graphics and ui for modern systems
  • Affordable price with free originals included

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access bugs and occasional crashes
  • Multiplayer population can be low
  • New campaign (bright island) has balance and optimization issues
  • Some new weapons considered less useful
  • Long load times and occasional technical issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Onirism

  • Hellbreach: Vegas

  • BrainBread 2

  • Heretic + Hexen

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Madballs in Babo:Invasion

Less intimate

Games that feels like Serious Sam Classics: Revolution but with less focus on close relationships

  • Prodeus

  • Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

  • DOOM + DOOM II

  • Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

  • Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition

  • Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour

Less competitive

Games that feels like Serious Sam Classics: Revolution but with less competition against others

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Killing Floor

  • Desecrators

  • Sanctum

  • Abyssus

  • Turbo Overkill

Less expressive

Games that feels like Serious Sam Classics: Revolution but with less self-expression and customization

  • Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

  • Blood™ Fresh Supply

  • Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

  • Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

  • Command & Conquer Renegade™

  • CastleMiner Z

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

  • Serious Sam II

  • Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

  • Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

  • Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

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 Classics: Revolution: 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, Intimacy, Exploration.

Last update: 04/08/2026