Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Serious Sam: The First Encounter (PC, 2001) has an official source code release, Croteam-official/Serious-Engine, and 6 other public projects, including an open-source reimplementation and a source port.
Data checked 2026-10-13 · unbaked registry
Projects
An open source version of a game engine developed by Croteam for the classic Serious Sam games.
Official source; community forks active
Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS). Based on https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-E…
Active cross-platform builds; bots available
Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic with Vulkan support (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS). Based on https://github.com/sultim-t/Serio…
latest release 1.10.7 (2025-02-02)
Porting of Serious Sam: The First Encounter and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter for Android
status beta
A port to the OpenPandora (and working fine on plain Linux) of the open source version of a game engine developed by Croteam for the classic Serious Sam games. Status: Working (for both FE and SE).
Playable on dos.zone
itch.io release
In PortMaster (main) as 'Serious Sam - The First Encounter' (serioussam-tfe), updated 2025-09-16; needs game data
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What you need
You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.
Same toolchain
More on PC
Found via tx00100xt/SeriousSamClassic-VK, DreamyCecil/CecilBotMod, SubmitGame/awesome-decomp-games, 42amsterdam.net/samforum/content.php, radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes
GitHub data checked 2026-10-13. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.