Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a atmospheric, psychological and female protagonist game developed and published by Ninja Theory.
Released on August 07th 2017 is available only on Windows in 20 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 73,178 reviews of which 65,959 were positive and 7,219 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.41€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice into these genres:

Atmospheric Psychological Female Protagonist Story Rich Mythology Singleplayer Dark Adventure Horror Third Person Dark Fantasy Action Violent Indie Walking Simulator Hack and Slash Action-Adventure Fantasy Realistic Blood

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7, 8, 10
  • Processor: Intel i5 3570K / AMD FX-8350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GTX 770 with 2GB VRAM / Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 30 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Minimum spec screen resolution: 1280x720

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Nov. 2024
It really isn't combat focused - the fights are awesome though. The puzzles were a bit tedious at times. The psychosis aspect was wild and i truly feel for those that suffer from it in real life, that must be very difficult. Great game overall. Play with headphones for the best experience, the audio is epic. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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Sept. 2024
This game is unique. It deals with serious, difficult and unfortunately all too often ignored topics about mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia. In doing so, hallucinations, traumas, fears, psychoses and delusions are portrayed well and realistically, for which the developers have also brought many experts on board. For this reason alone, you should definitely play it.
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July 2024
Okay, so this is a game helps to understand how it feels like when suffering from a mental illness. The constant whispering and illusions are definitely damaging the sanity. The lacking of clues on sealed doors, unexplained portals and broken paths are not helping either. Maybe there are clues in the whispers, but I’ll rather keep them muted. In the end, I have to play a few adult games to lift my spirits before coming back to finish the game. Achievements are not missable except for the Nordic mythology collections. You can select chapter to complete them so no worry. The whole game is less than 10 hours in terms of contents. While the game can run smoothly on steam deck in default setting, the battery drain is significant and the deck can become very hot. It’s better to limit the deck to 30 fps for better overall performance.
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May 2024
So on of the first things you'll see when starting the game is a disclaimer about how they worked with psychologist to create a realistic depiction of psychosis and that people who suffer from psychosis may find it disturbing. Don't assume that's just a "We hope nobody is offended" type of statement, like I did. I have psychosis, and just the opening scene, the voices in her head (especially since I had surround sound headphones on) triggered my own psychosis. I had to take a break about 1-2 minutes in, but decided that I was so impressed with the depiction of it that I would calm myself down and keep playing. Her hallucinations are done so well, the live action rotoscoped people she hallucinates are so uncanny and uncomfortable (My own hallucinations don't look anything like that so I can't say how accurate that part is). Now typing it out it sounds like a very backhanded compliment, but I actually really appreciate how much effort was put into depicting her psychosis in a way that was so real to me that it instantly triggered my own. It's not often that we get good/"accurate" (it's different for everyone, so nothing is gonna be accurate to everyone) depictions of something like that and it deserves a lot of praise just for that aspect alone.
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May 2024
Such a beautiful, unique concept of a game that playing it has never given me so much anguish and frustration. In terms of artistic vision, the game is great in its depiction of psychosis, really immerses you into the perspective of a character with schizophrenia. The audio, the music, the atmosphere and visuals are well crafted. The story is incredibly messy and confusing but I think it perfectly reflects the mental illness throughout Senua's journey. The gameplay is utterly miserable to play through. Senua's inner voices are also used to provide tips and aid the player in combat in substitute for the lack of HUB and UIs. It's quite clever approach for immersion purposes, made me enjoy the combat a lot; Simple, yet satisfying. Unfortunately, the mechanic has not been utilized enough outside of combat and there's just not enough information to guide the player, for which majority of my playtime was trying to figure out where am I supposed to go - "Am I going the wrong way?", "Is this thing interactable?", "What now?". Some puzzles and level design were absolutely obnoxious and rage inducing to go through due to the lack of visual feedback for what has changed in the environment and clunky world interactions. Maybe I'm just impatient and cranky but the exploration and puzzles are just not for me. Though the game will be on sale for $3 and the length is only under 10 hours. If you can tolerate the flaws in gameplay it has, I would say it's definitely worth it for the experience and storytelling. You absolutely need a headphone to get the most out of this game.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice received 65,959 positive votes out of a total of 73,178 achieving a rating of 8.88.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was developed and published by Ninja Theory.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is not playable on MacOS.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is not playable on Linux.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Explore additional content available for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice PEGI 18
29.99€ -85% 29.40€ 4.41€
8.9
65,959
7,219
Game modes
Features
Online players
57
Developer
Ninja Theory
Publisher
Ninja Theory
Release 07 Aug 2017
Platforms
Remote Play
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