How many copies has Serious Sam 3: BFE sold?

indielist estimates Serious Sam 3: BFE has sold between 1,238,610 and 2,890,090 units (median 2,064,350), derived from its 21,730 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Serious Sam 3: BFE?

Serious Sam 3: BFE was developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.

Who published Serious Sam 3: BFE?

Serious Sam 3: BFE was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Croteam. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Serious Sam 3: BFE released?

Serious Sam 3: BFE was released in 2011.

How many reviews does Serious Sam 3: BFE have on Steam?

Serious Sam 3: BFE has 21,730 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Serious Sam 3: BFE worth playing?

Steam players rate Serious Sam 3: BFE 88% positive across 21,730 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.

Serious Sam 3: BFE

Nov 22, 2011 Action $29.99

Developer Croteam Publisher Devolver Digital

Profile updated Jun 2026

Fast-paced FPS action indie game with co-op, gore, and comedy tags, Serious Sam 3: BFE fits players searching for arcade-style shooter chaos. Released in 2011 by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital, it has 28,442 Steam reviews at 88% positive and launched at $29.99.

Serious Sam 3: BFE is a 2011 Action game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 21,730 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, mac, windows, and launched at $30. 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 1.2 million to 2.9 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 3: BFE can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

21,730

Positive

88%

Steam appid

41070

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.2M to 2.9M

units (median: 2.1M)

≈ $21.2M to $49.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.2M median 2.9M

+ How is this calculated?

21,730 reviews × NB(95) = 2,064,350 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2011	+30
price_$30	+5
positive_88%	+10
final NB	95

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 3: BFE at roughly 1.2 million to 2.9 million copies, with a median around 2.1 million, derived from its 21,730 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $35.4M 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

46 observed days · window low $2.99

Across 46 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-26, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-06-08.

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Serious Sam 3: BFE sold?: indielist estimates Serious Sam 3: BFE has sold between 1,238,610 and 2,890,090 units (median 2,064,350), derived from its 21,730 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Serious Sam 3: BFE?: Serious Sam 3: BFE was developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
Who published Serious Sam 3: BFE?: Serious Sam 3: BFE was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Croteam. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Serious Sam 3: BFE released?: Serious Sam 3: BFE was released in 2011.
How many reviews does Serious Sam 3: BFE have on Steam?: Serious Sam 3: BFE has 21,730 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Serious Sam 3: BFE worth playing?: Steam players rate Serious Sam 3: BFE 88% positive across 21,730 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.

Players looking for games like Serious Sam 3: BFE can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Who's Your Daddy?!, Serious Sam 4, Black Mesa, Overcooked! 2, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Croteam's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Serious Sam 3: BFE 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 3: BFE 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.