Action · November 22, 2011

Serious Sam 3: BFE (2011)

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Serious Sam 3: BFE is a first-person action shooter, a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom. Serving as a prequel to the original indie and Game of the Year sensation, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3 takes place during the Earth’s final struggle against Mental’s invading legions of beasts and mercenaries. Key Features Frantic Arcade-Style Action – Hold down the trigger and lay waste to a never-ending onslaught of attackers or face being overrun by Mental’s savage beasts. No cover systems, no camping – it’s just you against them. All of them! Fearsome Enemy Creatures – A new battalion of unforgettable minions including the rumbling Scrapjack and towering Khnum join the legendary Headless Kamikaze, Gnaar and Sirian Werebull to create the fiercest opposition you’ve ever had the pleasure of mowing down! Spectacular Environments – Battle across the expansive battlefields of near-future Egypt bursting at the seams with total chaos. The shattered cities of tomorrow lined with the crumbling temples of an ancient world become your destructible playground! Destructive Arsenal – Unleash Serious Sam’s arsenal of weapons including a scoped assault rifle, the double-barreled shotgun, the explosive automatic shotgun, the punishing minigun, and the almighty barrage of flaming cannonballs! Carry all of Sam’s weapons at once and switch between each gun on the fly for maximum firepower! Brutal Melee Attacks – When the going get’s tough, the tough take matters into their own hands! Rip out the eye of a closing Gnaar, twist off the face of the hideous Scrapjack or snap the neck of an Arachnoid Hatchling for an instant kill! Co-Op Multiplayer – Go to war against Mental’s horde with up to 16 players online and annihilate everything that moves across 12 single-player levels of mayhem in Standard Co-Op, Classic Co-Op, Coin-Op Co-Op, Beast Hunt and Team Beast Hunt mode. Survival Singleplayer & Multiplayer – Try to survive alone (offline) against wave after wave of enemies with specially created levels in Survival mode or have your online friends join two teams, fighting both each other and enemies, in the relentless Team Survival mode! Versus Multiplayer – Fight against each other or other teams in various multiplayer versus modes like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Last Man Standing, Last Team Standing, Instant Kill and My Burden, along with Team Beast Hunt and Team Survival! Split Screen Modes – Play local (offline) split screen co-op and multiplayer versus modes with up to four players on one screen! It even includes the support for multiple keyboards and mice! Level Editor * – Create your own levels, MODs, textures and other content with the inclusion of the fully featured Serious Editor 3.5! Steam Workshop – Submit your content creation or download new player-created content and modifications for Serious Sam 3! Misc Game Options – 5 difficulty levels, quick-save, auto-save, multiple save slots, 3rd person view, co-op gameplay tweaking options, game controller support, localized with subtitles, parental blood & gore control including hippie mode, various color schemes, tons of advanced graphics options to tweak, cheats, console, Steam trading cards, achievements, leaderboards and cloud and much, much more! * This item is only available on PC

Action releases from 2011

54 Action titles launched in 2011 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume27.7k Steam reviewsTop 19% in Action
Positive rating88% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 46%
Metacritic72/100Genre average 77 — top 77% of Action titles
Concurrent peak105 playersTop 34% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours13 h averageTop 38% for session depth among Action

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • FPS · 680
  • Action · 617
  • Co-op · 442
  • Gore · 439
  • Comedy · 319
  • Online Co-Op · 291
  • Multiplayer · 258
  • Aliens · 251
  • Shooter · 250
  • First-Person · 250
  • Old School · 223
  • Local Co-Op · 180
  • Indie · 176
  • Split Screen · 156
  • Difficult · 137

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Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Reception Metrics

Steam community

88%Very Positive · 27.7k reviews

24.4k positive · 3.3k negative

Metacritic

72/100 critic aggregate

Open Metacritic page

Metacritic user score

8.1/10

Curator recommendations

21.3k

Peak concurrent players

105

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen PvP
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer

Community

  • Steam Achievements

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (9)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Russian volume_up
  • Japanese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Bulgarian volume_up

Full audio (3)

  • English
  • Russian
  • Bulgarian

Press Quotes

“You've never seen anything like this before.” A- – 1UP “You get an awesome experience at an absurd value with Serious Sam 3: BFE.” 9/10 – Inside Gaming Daily/Machinima “Serious Sam 3: BFE is a masterpiece of mayhem.” 9/10 – Dealspwn

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Release & Availability

Release dateNov 22, 2011
DeveloperCroteam
PublisherDevolver Digital
Base price$2.99 -90%
DLC / Add-ons2 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

13h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

Achievements

62

Steam unlocks available

Editions & Packages

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