Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
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Action-focused shooter from Croteam, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter launched in 2009 with Devolver Digital as publisher. On Steam it has 8,798 reviews with 93% positive sentiment, and its listed initial price is $14.99.
Overview
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a 2009 Action game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 8,813 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Croteam with publisher Devolver Digital is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 476,000 to 1.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,813
Positive
93%
Steam appid
41000
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0476K to 1.1M
units (median: 793K)
≈ $4.1M to $9.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2009 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter at roughly 476,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 793,000, derived from its 8,813 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $6.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $7.82Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $7.82 to $14.99, averaging $13.72 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $7.82 on 2026-05-05.
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Platforms
windows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter sold?
- indielist estimates Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter has sold between 475,902 and 1,110,438 units (median 793,170), derived from its 8,813 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter?
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter was developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
- When was Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter released?
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter was released in 2009.
- How many reviews does Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter have on Steam?
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter has 8,813 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Croteam's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.