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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 484 duels settled by the community, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice stands no. 247 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,786 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. 13 out of 222 (2017).

World rank

no. 247

ELO score

1,786

Wins

68%

Duels played

484

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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.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,786 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 244 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 1,787
  2. 245 SuperHot 1,787
  3. 246 Kirby and the Forgotten Land 1,787
  4. 247 Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 1,786
  5. 248 Far Cry 2 1,786
  6. 249 Donkey Kong Country 1,786
  7. 250 Super Smash Bros. Melee 1,785

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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: 13 out of 222 (2017).

Where Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 247 5,110
Action-adventure 35 332
2010s 91 2,044
2017 13 222

The community

The debate

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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