Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Last updated: 2026-01-19
- Chaotic and satisfying combat experience
- Diverse and engaging enemy variety
- Exceptional nostalgic remaster quality
- Outstanding co-op multiplayer mode
- Poor level and boss design issues
- Technical issues and bugs present
Emotions
Excitement19%Nostalgia19%Frustration14%Satisfaction10%Disappointment8%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 8,582
- Positive
- 8,00593.3%
- Negative
- 5776.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 638,319
- Estimated revenue
- $9,568,402
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 192.22%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,413
- Estimated revenue lost
- $21,181
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 202.3% Avg playtime 1h | 667.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 556.4% Avg playtime 10.5h | 71583.5% Avg playtime 16.3h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 10.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,791.4 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
856 total
Organic purchasers73285.5%
Voted up: 91%
Key activations12414.5%
Voted up: 93%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
856 total
First impression0-2h13916.2%
Voted up: 85%
Mid game2-10h50458.9%
Voted up: 92%
Late game10-20h13015.2%
Voted up: 93%
Endgame20h+839.70%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 91.2%
4 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 8,582 total.