Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Ninja Theory
Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Indie, Simulator
Release Date: August 7, 2017
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.
Created in collaboration with neuroscientists and people who experience psychosis, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice will pull you deep into Senua’s mind.
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Critic Reviews
6 reviews
ComicBook.com
3/5
60
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is aptly named, as it could end up being a sacrifice for developer Ninja Theory. The studio has been making finely-tuned action games like Heavenly Sword and DmC: Devil May Cry for years, but now they strike out on their own without a major publisher’s backing with a game that delves deeply […]
Giant Bomb
★★★★
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80
This intense exploration of a young woman's personal anguish is a triumph of interactive storytelling.
Destructoid
7.5/10
75
They breathe a certain spark of life into their projects that practically no one studio can replicate. Yet, they insist on crafting relatively simplistic action sequences that detract from much of what they set out to accomplish.
Eurogamer
★★★★★
100
Doubt and uncertainty are, I think, very difficult things to accurately portray in video games. We're used to the idea …
PC Gamer
78/100
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A wonder of sight and sound, Hellblade explores psychosis while dissecting demons.
IGN
9/10
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Ninja Theory has created a thoughtful, masterful marriage of mechanics and story that breath life into a world steeped in darkness.