Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter
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Action game Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter launched in 2017, developed by croteam-vr and published by devolver-digital. Its initial price was $19.99; the supplied Steam figures list 711 reviews, a mixed rating, and 0% positive feedback.
Overview
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is a 2017 Action game developed by Croteam VR and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 713 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Croteam VR 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 39,000 to 90,000 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 VR: The First Encounter can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
713
Positive
88%
Steam appid
552450
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.039K to 90K
units (median: 64K)
≈ $440K to $1.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter at roughly 39,000 to 90,000 copies, with a median around 64,000, derived from its 713 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $733K 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
5 observed days · window low $1.99Across 5 observed UTC days from 2026-09-22 to 2026-10-20, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-10-06.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter sold?
- indielist estimates Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter has sold between 38,502 and 89,838 units (median 64,170), derived from its 713 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter?
- Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter was developed by Croteam VR and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter?
- Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Croteam VR. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter released?
- Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter have on Steam?
- Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter has 713 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter worth playing?
- Steam players rate Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter 88% positive across 713 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Croteam VR's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Serious Sam VR: 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 VR: 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.
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