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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2010

Should you play it?

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!

What works

  • Fast-paced, satisfying combat
  • Large, varied levels with secrets
  • Co-op multiplayer support
  • Modding and workshop content
  • Good value especially on sale

Things to keep in mind

  • Some repetitive and tedious enemy waves
  • Minor bugs and occasional instability
  • Some levels have frustrating design
  • Multiplayer community less active
  • Story is minimal and not immersive

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Banzai Escape 2: Subterranean

  • Orcs Must Die! 3

  • Dead Effect 2 VR

  • Echo Point Nova

  • Onirism

  • Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

Less competitive

Games that feels like Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter but with less competition against others

  • Sanctum

  • Abyssus

  • Mycopunk

  • Serious Sam 4

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Knights Within

Less intimate

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

  • Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

  • Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

  • Serious Sam 3: BFE

  • Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition

  • Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

  • Quake II

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter but with more leadership over others

  • Guardians Frontline

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Borderlands 2

  • Shatterline

  • Iron Brigade

  • Hellbreach: Vegas

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

  • 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 HD: The Second Encounter: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Violence, Status.

Last update: 03/08/2026