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Games like Serious Sam: The First Encounter 2001
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Games closest to Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope 2016Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter 2002Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
Metal Slug 2 1998Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
Metal Slug 3 2000Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
Serious Sam 4 2020Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Immortal Redneck 2017Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Chenso Club 2022Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Battletoads 1994Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Chivalry 2 2021Also relentless, resolved and unpretentious
Rise of the Triad: Dark War 1994Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death 2013Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Twisted Metal 2 1996Also unpretentious, relentless and classical in form
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- B-Day 2002Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
- Death Race 2000 1999Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
- Zonked! 1997Also unpretentious, resolved and relentless
Series
Ash vs Evil Dead 2015Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Chucky 2021Also unpretentious, relentless and classical in form
Black Monday 2019Also unpretentious, relentless and epic
Films
The Toxic Avenger Unrated 2025Also unpretentious, resolved and nostalgic
The Dirt 2019Also unpretentious, resolved and nostalgic
Seoul Vibe 2022Also unpretentious, classical in form and relentless
Books
Queen Victoria 2009Also relentless and unpretentious
Flashman and the mountain of light 1990Also classical in form
The Dirt 2002Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
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