Serious Sam 3: BFE Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-15
- Weapon and enemy variety abundant
- Co-op enhances gameplay experience
- Fun and addictive shooter action
- Massive enemy hordes overwhelm players
- Monotonous and boring gameplay loop
- Poor level design and empty levels
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 28,780
- Positive
- 25,37688.2%
- Negative
- 3,40411.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 2,013,500
- Estimated revenue
- $60,384,865
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 262.07%
- Estimated copies lost
- 1,819
- Estimated revenue lost
- $54,552
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 262.1% Avg playtime 0.8h | 453.6% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 15112% Avg playtime 16h | 1,03682.4% Avg playtime 65.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.2 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 16 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 5,394.6 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,258 total
Organic purchasers1,04382.9%
Voted up: 86%
Key activations21517.1%
Voted up: 85%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,258 total
First impression0-2h1048.27%
Voted up: 72%
Mid game2-10h49439.3%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h37129.5%
Voted up: 87%
Endgame20h+28923.0%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
33.3%
Global baseline 85.9%
3 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 28,780 total.