Game entry

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

2017 · Action-adventure, Beat 'em up, Simulation · PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S · Ninja Theory

After 449 duels settled by the community, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice stands no. 166 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,804 ELO points and 68% of wins. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against Marvel's Spider-Man: 10 duels settled, 6 to 4. Where it fares best, it sits at no. 10 out of 223 (2017).

World rank

no. 166 =

ELO score

1,804

Wins

68%

Duels played

449

Join the debate · 49

About 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 Norse underworld to rescue the soul of her dead lover from the goddess Hela. The game blends melee combat, puzzle solving, and psychological horror, with Senua's psychosis shaping how the world is perceived, including voices that provide guidance or attempt to mislead the player.

The game was developed by a team of around twenty people and features no heads-up display or tutorials. Instead, audio cues from voices in Senua's head guide the player through combat and environmental challenges. The portrayal of psychosis was developed in collaboration with neuroscientists and people who experience the condition.

The community says

Compared to something like God of War, the combat here is thin, but the game isn't trying to win that fight, it's trying something else entirely.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,804 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Marvel's Spider-Man 60% 10 duels played · 15 points ahead
against Batman: Arkham Asylum 20% 10 duels played · 79 points behind
against God of War 50% 8 duels played · 14 points ahead
against Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales 80% 5 duels played · 301 points ahead
against God of War Ragnarök 60% 5 duels played · 11 points behind

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The standing

Where Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 10 out of 223 (2017).

Where Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice ranks
Ranking	Position	Games competing
World ranking	166	5,035
Action-adventure	25	329
2010s	62	2,050
2017	10	223

The community

The debate

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ArcadeBard

Compared to something like God of War, the combat here is thin, but the game isn't trying to win that fight, it's trying something else entirely.
CoopKnight4

I played it alone at night with headphones and it completely changed how I felt about it.

Madyson_88

Same feeling here, alone, headphones on, and the comparison to bigger games just stopped mattering...

Éric_25

et voilà, dans le fond ce combat de rangement dit surtout que les votes le mettent en face de mastodontes qui n'ont rien à voir

VinylPhoenix

Rejoué récemment sans le casque et sans le noir total, l'effet retombe d'un coup.
GhostSamurai

Sure, ranked below Arkham Asylum, because combos matter more than psychosis apparently

SilentMaster

Fair point, but the vote counts still show it holding its own agaisnt games built for spectacle first.

Eloisa_40

People act like six hors of headphone paranoia is a joke but it genuinely messed with my head for days afterward, not something I laugh about now.

CritRunner70

Claro, porque la psicosis se mide en combos ahora (mi sobrino también pensaba eso y tiene doce años).

ArcadeWarden2

Played it right after a rough breakup and the whole descent felt uncomfortably close to home for a while.
NovaRex88

I went in expecting a slow arty walk and got genuinely tense combat encounters too, this game does more than people give it credit for!

NeonRunner58

Face à God of War la tension venait d'ailleurs, pas des combats.

thompson_raleigh

My son found the combat way tenser than Arkham Asylum's, and he's usually the calm one at our house.
qstanton

It's short, or rather compact, and that works in its favor most of the time.

Harvey73

So the compact runtime is a virtue now? (funny how that argument never saves other short games from getting buried in these rankings)

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