Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
Serious Sam returns in his first ever VR adventure to dual wield an overwhelming amount of explosive ordinance and battle Mental’s relentless hordes in Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope. The Earth Defense Force is…
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is an indie developed by Croteam, released 17 October 2016 on Oculus Rift, Oculus VR and SteamVR.
What Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is an indie game developed by Croteam and released in 2016. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Oculus Rift, Oculus VR and SteamVR.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Serious Sam is a video game series created and primarily developed by Croteam. It consists predominantly of first-person shooters. The series follows the advances of Sam "Serious" Stone against Mental, an extraterrestrial overlord who attempts to destroy humanity at various points in time. The first game, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, was released for Microsoft Windows in March 2001. Several spin-offs were developed by other developers, such as a Palm OS conversion of The First Encounter by InterActive Vision, Serious Sam: Next Encounter by Climax Solent, and Serious Sam Advance by Climax London. All three were published by Global Star Software.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 55 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Serious Sam series
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope is the fifth of 11 entries we hold in the Serious Sam series. It arrived 5 years after Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter. The next entry was Serious Sam's Bogus Detour in 2017. Its critic score of 82 is 8 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Serious Sam Collection at 84.
How it was received
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 - 4590 equivalent, 6 GB RAM and AMD R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope launched on 17 October 2016, within three weeks of Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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