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Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR • 2017

Should you play it?

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a frantic arcade action FPS, featuring singleplay and co-op campaign, various multiplayer modes, all presented in glorious VR and with different locomotion movements.

What works

  • Multiple locomotion options including smooth and teleport
  • Dual wielding any weapons enhances gameplay
  • Fast-paced, chaotic, and immersive vr action
  • Large levels with secrets and varied enemies
  • Supports multiplayer co-op and deathmatches

Things to keep in mind

  • Some players experience motion sickness with smooth locomotion
  • Graphics and assets feel dated compared to newer vr titles
  • Occasional bugs and crashes reported
  • Online multiplayer population is low
  • Price considered high by some given age of original content

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

  • HordeZ

  • Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

  • Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Demo

  • Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE

  • Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

More expressive

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

  • Mycopunk

  • Borderlands 3

  • Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)

  • Hellsweeper VR

  • Shatterline

  • Sky Noon

Less competitive

Games that feels like Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter but with less competition against others

  • Starship Troopers: Extermination

  • Roboquest

  • Serious Sam 4

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM)

  • EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

Choose your own criteria ->

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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 VR: The First Encounter: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026