Serious Sam 3: BFE
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Constant firearm and melee combat against alien monsters and cloned soldiers with heavy blood spray, and gory close-kills such as ripping out a creature's eyeball or smashing enemies apart with a sledgehammer.
The player-character delivers crude, profane action-hero one-liners during combat.
Some flying female monster enemies are designed bare-chested with exposed breasts.
The backdrop is an alien invasion that has driven humanity to the brink of extinction, referenced in the setup rather than dwelt on.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a fast, old-school first-person shooter set in a 22nd-century Egypt overrun by an alien army. As a lone soldier, the player wields a large arsenal of guns plus a sledgehammer to fight off huge waves of monsters and cloned enemy troops across open arenas. Combat is loud and bloody: enemies bleed and burst apart under fire, and close-range melee kills can rip an eye from a creature or tear it open. Beyond the gore of combat there is no sexual content, no substances and no real-money spending, though a few enemy monster designs feature bare, exposed torsos. The campaign can be played solo or online with up to sixteen players, with voice and text chat and player-made content through the game's map tools and Steam Workshop.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as cartoonishly over-the-top spectacle rather than realistic harm — the targets are alien monsters and invaders, and killing them in large numbers is the entire point and reward of play. A thin story of a doomed Earth-defense mission sets the stage but is not dwelt on; the tone is wisecracking and action-driven rather than grim.
Details
- Developer
- Croteam
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Released
- Nov 22, 2011
Similar games
We built this because we needed it
Balanced Play pools your kids' game time into one budget across Steam, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and more. We're taking 100 founding families — free for life.
Claim a founding spot →Free for life for the first 100. No card, no spam.