Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice ▶ Trailer
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.

Developer
Ninja Theory
Publisher
Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios
Franchise
Hellblade Franchise
Release date
Aug 7, 2017
Store page updated
Apr 16, 2026
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

80.3/ 100

Based on 453 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 79% of 173
All time 😄 Very Positive 90% of 76,599
“one of a kind labor of love providing an overall experience that transcends individual complaints”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.73
Controls & feel +0.15

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Story & World
+3.69
Story +3.48
“gripping story about Senua's quest and backstory” (106)

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Content Volume
-1.69
Volume -0.85
“finished in 6.5 hours, game is short” (22)

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Visuals & Sound
+3.91
Visuals +3.80
“лицевая анимация главной героини хорошо проработана” (71)
Давно хотел пройти Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice и не спойлерил себе ничего об игре и при прохождении разочаровался. Главная героиня в игре передвигается очень вяло, управление топорное. Проходя игру всё время думал о кнопке автобега которой нет, причем не сказал бы что при зажатом шифте она бежит быстрее. Первый босс это наверное одно из немногих вещий за которую стоит похвалить игру. Интересная механика с рунами, но через пару открытых дверей уже надоедает. Геймплей в игре не меняется с первой по последнюю главу. Средненький сюжет бабы которая всю игру разговаривает с шизой в голове меня не т

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Multiplayer
+0.00

Not enough data — only 0% of reviews mention this.

Community +0.00

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Fairness
-1.42

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Monetization -0.09

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Tech & Ops
-1.08
Performance -1.39

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
70%80%90%100%
Aug 2017Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 169 reviews, peak 15/day
01020
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 453 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English41%
  • Portuguese14%
  • Russian11%
  • Spanish10%
  • Chinese9%
  • Turkish4%
  • Other10%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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