Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

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The glorious high-definition (HD) chaos from The First Encounter continues now in Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, a remake of the classic arcade FPS Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, which originally scored an overall of 85% on Metacritic and was awarded Game of The Month on Gamespot! Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter includes spectacularly enhanced visuals and more special effects like Hippy and Kid’s mode, with trademark frantic Single-play, newly developed Survival and Beast Hunt modes, along with all time favorite Cooperative play.

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Developer:
Croteam
Publisher:
Devolver Digital
Engine:
Serious Engine
Release date:
28 April 2010
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (737)

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Description

The glorious high-definition (HD) chaos from The First Encounter continues now in Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, a remake of the classic arcade FPS Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, which originally scored an overall of 85% on Metacritic and was awarded Game of The Month on Gamespot!

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter includes spectacularly enhanced visuals and more special effects like Hippy and Kid’s mode, with trademark frantic Single-play, newly developed Survival and Beast Hunt modes, along with all time favorite Cooperative play. Combine those with intense Versus and Team modes for up to 16 players and in over 18 multiplayer maps, Demo Recording option, Spectators and Dedicated Server support, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a worthy successor to the original masterpiece.

Key Features


SINGLE PLAYER
  • Various Environments and Secrets - Unleash mayhem on 3 different spectacular worlds: South America, ancient Mesopotamia and medieval Europe.
  • Discover over 130 secrets including over 15 brand new ones hidden in the fray.
  • Unique Enemies and Bosses - Fight with 27 nightmarish warriors in Mental's army, including old favorites from The First Encounter like Beheaded Kamikaze, Syrian Werebull and Kleer Skeleton. Go head to head against 5 new enemies and 3 new Bosses.
  • Special Weapons and Power-Ups - Wreak havoc with a huge arsenal of weapons including 3 new toys: the Sniper Rifle, Flamethrower and Chainsaw. Use Power-Ups to additionally increase your fighting and agility skills.
  • Serious Editor 3 - Create your levels and share them on SteamWorks!

MULTIPLAYER
  • NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Survival Mode - Try to stay alive as long as you can against continued enemies’ attacks in specially designed survival maps!
  • Classic Co-Op Mode - Plunge into chaos with up to 16 players in campaign cooperative mode!
  • NEW! (not seen in Classic game) More Co-Op Modes - Play even more along your friends in newly developed Coin-Op and Survival cooperative modes with up to 16 players in campaign game!
  • NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Beast Hunt Modes - Fight against other players or teams while also playing campaign levels in Beast Hunt and Team Beast Hunt!
  • Versus Mode - Watch all hell break loose in over 8 classic and brand NEW! deathmatch maps with up to 16 players!
  • NEW! (not seen in Classic game) More Versus Modes - Fight against your friends in more versus modes including My Burden, Last Man Standing and Instant Kill!
  • NEW! (not seen in Classic game) Team Modes - Compete against other teams in team matches including Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Last Team Standing!

STEAM FEATURES - NEW! (not seen in Classic game)
  • Steam Achievements - Earn 50 amazingly attractive achievements to boost your social standing.
  • Steam Leaderboards - See your score recorded in both single player and cooperative leaderboards.
  • Steam Cloud - Store your profile online on the Steam Cloud servers, including your bindings, last played level and campaign progress.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows XP w/SP1 or newer
Processor:
Intel Pentium 4 3+ Ghz or AMD Athlon64 3500+
Memory:
1 GB for Windows XP or 2 GB for Windows Vista
Hard Drive:
2.2 GB free space
Graphics:
nVidia GeForce 7600, ATI Radeon X1600 (Shader Model 3.0 Required)
Sound:
Direct X 9.0c compatible sound card
DirectX®:
DirectX 9.0c August 2009 Edition or newer

recommended*

Not specified

User reviews

xxadonisxx
Recommended | 03 Nov 2025
26.1h played

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a high-octane reimagining of one of the most explosively chaotic first-person shooters ever created. Developed by Croteam, this remastered edition takes the 2002 classic and

Helpful: 3
MR Onion
Not recommended | 15 Nov 2025

sounds good, ♥♥♥♥ execution. some textures(especially buttons to press in the crushing puzzles) overlap. so you can't finish the game because you can't push the buttons. mobs are reworked, guns are reworked, THIS IS NOT

Helpful: 0
Larendell
Recommended | 12 Dec 2025

If you haven't already, read my SS:TFE review first, since a lot of it is applicable for SS:TSE as well! Like the first game, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter holds a bunch of nostalgic value for me. Though unlike The

Helpful: 4
Momovsky
Recommended | 12 Dec 2025

The first and only shooter series that made me use ALL of my weapons. In most shooter games you just stick to one that sucks the less, maybe changing between one long range and one short range from time to time. In

Helpful: 1
The Killer
Recommended | 23 Aug 2025

When this HD remake of Second Ecounter was released i was in AWE of how awesome it looked, the textures, the normal maps, shadows, the dust when shooting rockets into the ground and how they updated everything to look

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blue
Recommended | 15 Jul 2025

it is serious sam 2. online is as dead as the first game. buy and play at your leisure for the single player i guess? if i want to be critical, i think the maps are too big. 1 kinda suffered of this, but on a smaller

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