Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

Croteam · Devolver Digital

Released: Nov 24, 2009
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 00:03 GMT

Updates & announcements

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26 Mar 2026Developer post
Serious Sam is Back, Baby! Enter the Shatterverse
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, a
11 Oct 2022Developer post
SERIOUS SAM COLLECTION goes physical for Nintendo Switch!
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,
12 Nov 2020Developer post
SSHD TFE Hotfix is available now
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 shoul
22 May 2020Developer post
Serious Sam 4 is launching August 2020, pre-orders are open now
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 to
24 Dec 2019Developer post
Happy Holidays from Croteam!
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!
01 Nov 2019Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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13 Aug 2019Developer post
Featured Mod – Serious Sam Fusion - Plastic Patrol 2: Replastered
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
16 Jul 2019Developer post
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter build 445592 is live
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
21 May 2019Developer post
Featured Mod of the Month – Red Day: Episode One
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
14 May 2019Developer post
Serious Sam Fusion update 433900 is live!
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
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 the player would stop moving after using the weapon wheel
added various missing translations
fixed some navigation issues in Karnak (TFE)
fixed an issue where the menu palette would not change in some cases after leaving multiplayer games
fixed an issue with the weapon wheel becoming unusable after finishing a level
fixed an issue with the text overlapping on certain screens
VR FPS counters will no longer be shown in non-VR games
fixed an issue with client aiming being off in 3rd person in multiplayer
newer Nvidia Quadro GPU's should no longer be marked as not compatible by mistake
rebaked visibility on all SSHD and Sam 3 levels
fixed an issue where the serious bomb would not disappear from the inventory upon finishing the level
fixed an issue where killing certain enemies would cause crashes in rare instances
the game no longer has issues starting-up on lower end dual-core CPU systems
the weapon wheel should now work when using custom button layouts on a gamepad
various other tweaks and performance/stability fixes
As ever, in case you are having issues with this update, you can roll back to the previous one:

locate the game in the Steam's "Library" panel
right click and invoke "Properties"
select the "Betas" tab
choose "previousversion"
Note – After downloading this patch, it is most likely that many custom maps will crash when played. The authors of these maps can fix this by rebaking the visibility on their maps and updating their workshop items. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Player Feedback
We value your input, and we want you to reach out to us with all feedback. For general thoughts and ideas, please use the General section of this message board. Should you encounter any issues or bugs, please report them on the Tech & Support subforum, along with your game log (located in the game installation folder) and a detailed description of the issue.
Stay Serious!
Danny, on behalf of Croteam.
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21 Mar 2019Developer post
Whoah! Serious Sam is 18 years old
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 su
08 Dec 2016Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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04 Oct 2016Developer post
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope to be released on Oct 17th
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! 😉
04 Oct 2016Developer post
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope to be released on Oct 17th
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! 😉
14 Jun 2016Developer post
Serious Sam VR project announcement - release this summer as EA!
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 t
14 Jun 2016Developer post
Serious Sam VR project announcement - release this summer as EA!
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 t
21 Mar 2016Developer post
Serious Sam 15th anniversary trading cards released
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 celebr
21 Mar 2016Developer post
Serious Sam 15th anniversary trading cards released
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 celebr
13 Aug 2015Developer post
Croteam games available at discounted prices – check it out!
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 m
13 Aug 2015Developer post
Croteam games available at discounted prices – check it out!
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 m

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