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 7,250 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 392,000 to 914,000 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 HD: The First Encounter can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,250
Positive
93%
Steam appid
41000
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0392K to 914K
units (median: 653K)
≈ $3.4M to $7.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2009 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_93% | +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 HD: The First Encounter at roughly 392,000 to 914,000 copies, with a median around 653,000, derived from its 7,250 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.6M 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
45 observed days · window low $14.99Across 45 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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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 391,500 and 913,500 units (median 652,500), derived from its 7,250 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
- Who published Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter?
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Croteam. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- 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 7,250 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
- Is Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter worth playing?
- Steam players rate Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter 93% positive across 7,250 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 HD: The First Encounter can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, 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 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.
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