Serious Sam 4 similar games & best alternatives

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Serious Sam 4

Xbox Series X|S, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac • 2020

Should you play it?

Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.

What works

  • Fast-paced, satisfying combat
  • Large maps with secrets and side quests
  • Weapon variety and upgrades
  • Humorous b-movie style story and characters
  • Cooperative multiplayer mode

Things to keep in mind

  • Poor optimization and performance issues
  • Some bugs and graphical glitches
  • Long loading times
  • Empty large map areas
  • Awkward animations and voice acting

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • Generation Zero®

  • Volcanoids

  • RuneScape: Dragonwilds

  • Dawn of Defiance

More intimate

Games that feels like Serious Sam 4 but with more focus on close relationships

  • Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Shadow Warrior 2

  • Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta)

  • John Carpenter's Toxic Commando

  • 7 Days to Die

Less social

Games that feels like Serious Sam 4 but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Shadow Warrior

  • Crimson Desert

  • Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

  • Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition

  • Kristala

  • Blades of Fire

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter

  • Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

  • Serious Sam II

  • Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Serious Sam 4. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Serious Sam 4. These titles are not in What to play next.

Serious Sam 4: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026