Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a single-player action-adventure game set in a dark fantasy world inspired by Norse mythology and Celtic culture. Players control Senua, a Pict warrior who journeys into the…
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is an adventure developed by Ninja Theory, released 7 August 2017 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 7.9 hrs to finish.
What Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is an adventure game developed by Ninja Theory and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the late 8th century, Senua is a Pict warrior from Orkney who embarks on a journey into Helheim, the Norse underworld, to rescue the soul of her dead lover Dillion from the goddess Hela. Carrying his severed head as a vessel for his soul, she must overcome trials, defeat mythological beings, and survive the influence of the Darkness, a malevolent entity that haunts her. Senua suffers from psychosis, hearing voices she calls "Furies" and experiencing hallucinations that blur the line between reality and delusion. Guided by memories of her friend Druth, a former slave of the Norsemen who taught her their legends, Senua pushes deeper into a hostile world shaped as much by her fractured…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 14 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 1,113 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10.4 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5 3570K / AMD FX-8350, 8 GB RAM and GTX 770 with 2GB VRAM / Radeon R9 280X 3GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 30GB.
What it launched against
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice launched on 7 August 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Sonic Mania and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Sonic Mania, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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