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Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter is a high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month February 2002!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“It's been 25 years since the [i]Serious Sam[/i] franchise started. The team decided to add card drops to both classic [i]Encounter[/i] games. It is nice to be able to pick this one up and start it without any issues on Win 11. And while both games have an HD version, purists can…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“The undefeated classics. Classics is harder on normal dificulty than HD version. Those gravity trics they used in this one make me feel joy. Not a boom shoot, play only if nostalgic”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“When I played this game in 2003-ish it was an absolute revelation. First Encounter had been something, but I remember this just doubling down on everything; more traps, more enemies, more weapons and generally more action. To this day it's probably my favorite Sam game overall,…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 11:47 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Action · FPS · Classic · Gore · Shooter · Co-op · First-Person · Indie · Multiplayer · Old School · Singleplayer · Comedy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op |
| Languages | English * * |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://serioussam.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum OS *: Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 5), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system Processor: AMD K6-3 400MHz, Pentium II or Celeron-A 300MHz Memory: 64MB Graphics: full OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator Hard Drive: 450MB free hard disk space Sound: 100% Windows compatible sound card