Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter — patch notes and updates
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| Serious Sam is Back, Baby! Enter the Shatterverse | 2026-03-26 | Hey folks, It's a massive day for everyone at Croteam and Devolver Digital because we get to announce a brand new partnership with Behaviour Interactive, who are working on the next installment of the Serious Sam series. Serious Sam: Shatterverse is their take on the franchise, and a reimagining of the backpedalling mayhem you all love as a roguelite cooperative shooter. With Croteam hard at work on the Talos Principle and an exciting new IP, we're thrilled to have games industry legends at Behaviour Interactive take on the legendary Serious Sam IP as the lead developer on Serious Sam: Shatterverse. Davor Hunski, lead designer at Croteam, lea |
| SERIOUS SAM COLLECTION goes physical for Nintendo Switch! | 2022-10-11 | Special Reserve Games has teamed up with Devolver Digital and Croteam to create outstanding physicals! This is a PREORDER for a physical product. Estimated shipping date is NOVEMBER 2022. At the heart of our SERIOUS SAM COLLECTION is SRG's signature RESERVE EDITION for the game, which is LIMITED TO 3,000 COPIES and features: SWITCH CARTRIDGE Includes critical updates, patches, and DLC at the time of manufacture INCLUDES MULTIPLE GAMES Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Serious Sam 3: BFE includes The Legend of the Beast expansion includes Jewel of the Nile expansion SEQUENTIALLY NUMBERED GAME PACKAGING RE |
| SSHD TFE Hotfix is available now | 2020-11-12 | Hey guys and girls! The unfortunate certificate issue has been fixed and a small update is available now. If your game hasn't updated automatically, please go ahead and restart Steam and enjoy Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter once more. The fix is permanent so this issue should never come up again. :) Sorry for the trouble and much love from Croteam! Danny |
| Serious Sam 4 is launching August 2020, pre-orders are open now | 2020-05-22 | Hey everyone! I'm pretty sure many of you have already seen what's up by today, but here's a breakdown. Serious Sam 4 is launching this August, and pre-orders are open now. You can get your hands on a Standard and Digital Deluxe editions with cool bonuses. The store page has a ton of new info and some new screenshots, so check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/257420/Serious_Sam_4 We have released a cinematic trailer, as well as a few behind the scenes videos that show some actual gameplay. Both are listed below. Love you all! Byeeee. |
| Happy Holidays from Croteam! | 2019-12-24 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025992/e9b890df2bd5aa55977bcfd2e902114cdfa54ad4.jpg All of us at Croteam wish you have a great Winter break. Happy Holidays and have a great New Year. 2020 is about to get Serious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvz1-pWeq7I |
| Featured Mod – Serious Sam Fusion - Plastic Patrol 2: Replastered | 2019-08-13 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025992/65025a5a0594884f0f74ee986c01024272efe9c8.jpg Hey everyone! By now, we really hope you played through Red Day: Episode One, an amazing mod that was the star of our first Mod Feature back in May. We also believe it’s about time for another one. We’ve played some of them recently and decided that summertime is perfect to play through Plastic Patrol 2: Replastered. This custom campaign mode tells the story about the Green Army and a fight to save their home. Some of the highlights of this really cool mod include six unique maps that you can play through solo or with frien |
| Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter build 445592 is live | 2019-07-16 | Hey everyone, we've just updated Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter with a fix for the certificate issue that came up this past weekend. There are no other changes in the latest version. Cheers, Danny on behalf of Croteam |
| Featured Mod of the Month – Red Day: Episode One | 2019-05-21 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025992/7ef6d49e0f65afcd24d0faba34a7ca8a4571ed67.jpg Hey everyone! Check out this epic Serious Sam Fusion mod – Red Day: Episode One. It's a custom campaign mod telling a story about Sam's war against the Mental forces in Russia. The highlight of this Serious Sam Fusion mod is a three-part, 50-minute long campaign set in a typical Russian provincial city Muhogradsk. The Red Day campaing is full of chaos and crazy arena-style action spaning over three custom levels, with cutscenes and everything you'd expect from a full-blown campaign. Oh, and there's a brand new soundtrack, a |
| Serious Sam Fusion update 433900 is live! | 2019-05-14 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025992/eb2e9caea03bb68d6e5685a4e0992bbfdd827a79.jpg Hey everyone! It's that time of the year again, the time of Fusion updates. This time, we're bringing to you a relatively small update focusing mostly on bug fixes and tweaks, rather than new features, engines and other huge changes that were introduced several months ago. Guided by our community we have made huge progress in providing you with a stable, up-to-date Serious Sam experience, and Fusion is at its peak right now. It's THE way to play all supported Serious Sam games. The changelog is below: fixed an issue where t |
| Whoah! Serious Sam is 18 years old | 2019-03-21 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33025992/2cd3cc0ede390b7a42ac854bf289f593a9ba1dfe.jpg Serious Sam is 18 years old today. It was on March 21st, 2001 that Serious Sam: The First Encounter hit the shelves. Quite literally, as digital distribution was still a distant future back then. We were young, super passionate and, after a successful tech test launched in the summer of 2000, confident that Serious Sam would resonate well with the gaming community. Turns out, we were right. Serious Sam: The First Encounter caused quite a stir in the gaming community, won dozens of awards (including Gamespot's Game of the Ye |
| Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope to be released on Oct 17th | 2016-10-04 | That’s right ladies and gentlemen, we have the official date for the Early Access release of our first VR game, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope and it’s two weeks from now, Oct 17th to be exact! Now get there and wishlist it! 😉 http://store.steampowered.com/app/465240/ |
| Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope to be released on Oct 17th | 2016-10-04 | That’s right ladies and gentlemen, we have the official date for the Early Access release of our first VR game, Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope and it’s two weeks from now, Oct 17th to be exact! Now get there and wishlist it! 😉 http://store.steampowered.com/app/465240/ |
| Serious Sam VR project announcement - release this summer as EA! | 2016-06-14 | Dear serious bunch, we have great news for you! Yesterday at E3 Expo in LA we announced new title in Serious Sam franchise - Serious Sam VR It is due to be released this summer on Steam as Early Access. Can you imagine seeing real Werebull running at you full speed and you have two shotguns in your hands? Well, that is how good it will be! Check out the trailer and don't forget to follow the game on its Steam page for more news! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WxwHBxupbI http://store.steampowered.com/app/465240/ Just to be clear, Serious Sam VR is a fun separate side project, we are still working hard on Serious Sam 4 as our prime goal. Plea |
| Serious Sam VR project announcement - release this summer as EA! | 2016-06-14 | Dear serious bunch, we have great news for you! Yesterday at E3 Expo in LA we announced new title in Serious Sam franchise - Serious Sam VR It is due to be released this summer on Steam as Early Access. Can you imagine seeing real Werebull running at you full speed and you have two shotguns in your hands? Well, that is how good it will be! Check out the trailer and don't forget to follow the game on its Steam page for more news! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WxwHBxupbI http://store.steampowered.com/app/465240/ Just to be clear, Serious Sam VR is a fun separate side project, we are still working hard on Serious Sam 4 as our prime goal. Plea |
| Serious Sam 15th anniversary trading cards released | 2016-03-21 | Hey! We are working so hard on Serious Sam 4, that we almost forgot it’s been 15 years since we first launched Serious Sam: The First Encounter! Can you believe it? Neither can we, but we are still here, Sam is still here, and most importantly, you are still here. So let’s celebrate this together: in light of this anniversary which is taking place today, on 21st of March, we prepared trading cards for both Serious Sam HD First and Second Encounter. Now all you boys and girls can go back playing these classic games and get your shiny cards, you know you deserve them! Btw, how do you like them? http://i.imgur.com/n8jeVsn.jpg?1 |
| Serious Sam 15th anniversary trading cards released | 2016-03-21 | Hey! We are working so hard on Serious Sam 4, that we almost forgot it’s been 15 years since we first launched Serious Sam: The First Encounter! Can you believe it? Neither can we, but we are still here, Sam is still here, and most importantly, you are still here. So let’s celebrate this together: in light of this anniversary which is taking place today, on 21st of March, we prepared trading cards for both Serious Sam HD First and Second Encounter. Now all you boys and girls can go back playing these classic games and get your shiny cards, you know you deserve them! Btw, how do you like them? http://i.imgur.com/n8jeVsn.jpg?1 |
| Croteam games available at discounted prices – check it out! | 2015-08-13 | For all you Sam fans out there we have some great news: as a part of Devolver Digital Weekend Sale (August 13-17th) ALL Croteam's games are on sale NOW! This is the time to complete your Serious Sam collection and a chance to try something different and challenge your mind even more with critically acclaimed puzzler The Talos Principle and it's DLC, Road to Gehenna. Here's what we offer for you: Serious Sam Series 90% off Talos Principle 66% off Talos Principle DLCs 66% off Road to Gehenna 25% off Share this great news with your friends and go buy yourself some great games. You deserved it! http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_5_9__12& |
| Croteam games available at discounted prices – check it out! | 2015-08-13 | For all you Sam fans out there we have some great news: as a part of Devolver Digital Weekend Sale (August 13-17th) ALL Croteam's games are on sale NOW! This is the time to complete your Serious Sam collection and a chance to try something different and challenge your mind even more with critically acclaimed puzzler The Talos Principle and it's DLC, Road to Gehenna. Here's what we offer for you: Serious Sam Series 90% off Talos Principle 66% off Talos Principle DLCs 66% off Road to Gehenna 25% off Share this great news with your friends and go buy yourself some great games. You deserved it! http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_5_9__12& |
| BIG ANNOUNCEMENT for Serious Sam fans! Serious Sam HD Extended mod is released! | 2015-06-26 | Great news for all Serious Sam fans! After years in development and hard work, epic fan-made expansion named Serious Sam HD: Extended is finally released! It merges The First Encounter, The Second Encounter and Legend of the Beast DLC into a single story with a bunch of new original content, many improvements and alterations that make playing fresh and exciting experience! Just watch this trailer as see for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmzH9BZ6YWY Main Features: 5 completely new levels (with more to come in Episode 2) New enemy types, powered by the Ultimate Enemy Pack, incl. enemies from SS3:BFE 4 Bosses to fight Some weapon cha |
| BIG ANNOUNCEMENT for Serious Sam fans! Serious Sam HD Extended mod is released! | 2015-06-26 | Great news for all Serious Sam fans! After years in development and hard work, epic fan-made expansion named Serious Sam HD: Extended is finally released! It merges The First Encounter, The Second Encounter and Legend of the Beast DLC into a single story with a bunch of new original content, many improvements and alterations that make playing fresh and exciting experience! Just watch this trailer as see for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmzH9BZ6YWY Main Features: 5 completely new levels (with more to come in Episode 2) New enemy types, powered by the Ultimate Enemy Pack, incl. enemies from SS3:BFE 4 Bosses to fight Some weapon cha |