Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (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.
Game Information
Genres: Action, Adventure, Role-Playing
Developer: Ninja Theory
Publisher: Ninja Theory
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice belongs to 8 collections
1. Game Pass for PC (public: moderated by howabe - 3 stars)
2. Art games (public: moderated by Veterini - 2 stars)
3. Female protagonist (public: moderated by Veterini - 1 star)
4. BAFTA Best Game winners and nominees ~o~ (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2)
5. Console games that run at 60fps (public: moderated by moviepatrick)
6. Psychological horror games (public: moderated by Veterini)
7. Games Currently on Game Pass for XBox (public: moderated by oldscotland)
8. Viking Age Games (public: moderated by Veterini)
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| Date | User | Rating | |
| Jun 12 |  |
Zaltys | 85 84% |
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Excellent soundscape, unconventional story. Unfortunately marred by uninspired puzzle design.
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| Mar 24 |  |
JSchlansky | 70 70% |
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Excellent from an artistic perspective, decent from a gameplay perspective. The combat is extremely repetitive and the puzzles are boring, too easy, and take too long with Senua's slow walk/jog speed. The threat to erase all your progress if the infection reaches her head is a good motivator to stay alive, but it made it feel extra cheap when Senua keeled over and died once while literally walking down an empty path, no enemies around or anything, just a random glitch death.
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| Nov 22, 2021 |  |
War Machine | 75 76% |
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some great stuff, coulda been 90+ if more like rpg and less annoying puzzles, some were still great, and the combat could be too overwhelming which made it fun when you start getting OP. then starts getting overwhelming again but they were on the right track. i like how the game didnt teach you a lot. the first time she said "behind you" or whatever lool. those voices stopped having the same effect too.
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| Nov 08, 2020 | Errol246 | 2 13% |
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Hellblade is just a boring game to me. Nothing about its design, presentation, gameplay or story is inherently offensive to my sensibilities; I just never find myself wanting to get back into it. It's primarily a puzzle game, and I generally have 0 patience for puzzles. It also has some very lacklustre combat moments. Its theme around mental illness, a topic that usually interests me, has done nothing to intrigue me, so I reckon the story here isn't terribly well written. VR mode is sick, though
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| Sep 13, 2020 |  |
Bown | 80 47% |
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I don't really like the whole Norse mythology being taken super seriously thing so I wish they had told a story about psychosis using basically any other genre but the sound design is SO good and it's remarkable that this was made by such a small team
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| Apr 19, 2020 |  |
TheEscapist | 84 68% |
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Something special, love the setting and soundtrack. Would like to see more of this.
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| Jan 13, 2018 |  |
Obdurate | 65 24% |
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It's an important game to play because of the way it treats mental illness. It has excellent sound and artistic design, so from a purely artistic standpoint it is a triumph. It's just that the combat is repetitive and shallow while the core puzzle solving is boring.
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| Average Percentile 58.35% from 112 Ratings |  |