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

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is ranked no. 140 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,820 and 66% of duels won.

World rank

no. 140

ELO score

1,820

Wins

66%

Duels played

404

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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 1,820 ELO points over the last 123 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Marvel's Spider-Man 60% 10 duels played · 74 points ahead
against Batman: Arkham Asylum 20% 10 duels played · 27 points behind
against God of War 50% 8 duels played · 10 points ahead
against Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales 80% 5 duels played · 258 points ahead
against God of War Ragnarök 60% 5 duels played · 67 points behind

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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.
qstanton

It's short, or rather compact, and that works in its favor most of the time.
Abernathy37

Everyone praises the atmosphere but nobody mentions how repetitive some of those puzzle sections get after the third temple.

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