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Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga

Ninja Theory · Xbox Game Studios · 2024-05-21

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 12, 2025 (PlayStation 5), May 21, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 21, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S)

The sequel to the award winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua returns in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without.

Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga is an Action, Adventure game released in 2024, priced at $49.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (87% of 10010 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

37
playing now
87%
positive of 10k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (185 ratings)
4.47★
PlayStation Store rating (4,345 ratings)
7.8h
to beat · rushed 7.5h · completionist 9.6h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$49.99
steam price (US)

37 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is a 2024 action-adventure game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is the second installment in the Hellblade series. The game serves as the sequel to Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017) and is set in 9th century Iceland, drawing inspiration from Norse mythology and culture.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 37 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,966 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~246/week).
  • · Review velocity up 69% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 201k–452k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 10,047 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$49.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $12.49 at Microsoft Store (2025-12-11)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $49.99 · on sale 16 of 36 observed days · $37.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.5k2.5k20242026Week of 2024-05-01: 2,539 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 342 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 748 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 115 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 232 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 221 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 334 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 463 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 177 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 15 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

101102026-09-15 15:00 — 30 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 23 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 12 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 42 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 31 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 10 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 15 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 34 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 31 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 82 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 83 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 24 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 37 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 73 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 62 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 21 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 77 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 33 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 18 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 58 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 48 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 19 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 37 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
94518May 2024Aug 2026May 2024 — avg 945 · peak 3,892Jun 2024 — avg 154 · peak 624Jul 2024 — avg 48 · peak 138Aug 2024 — avg 57 · peak 192Sep 2024 — avg 44 · peak 157Oct 2024 — avg 34 · peak 97Nov 2024 — avg 38 · peak 119Dec 2024 — avg 83 · peak 221Jan 2025 — avg 66 · peak 214Feb 2025 — avg 43 · peak 131Mar 2025 — avg 40 · peak 125Apr 2025 — avg 35 · peak 143May 2025 — avg 38 · peak 117Jun 2025 — avg 25 · peak 62Jul 2025 — avg 18 · peak 48Aug 2025 — avg 31 · peak 88Sep 2025 — avg 44 · peak 215Oct 2025 — avg 55 · peak 209Nov 2025 — avg 46 · peak 149Dec 2025 — avg 64 · peak 177Jan 2026 — avg 81 · peak 218Feb 2026 — avg 56 · peak 203Mar 2026 — avg 42 · peak 126Apr 2026 — avg 54 · peak 158May 2026 — avg 41 · peak 123Jun 2026 — avg 71 · peak 225Jul 2026 — avg 50 · peak 158Aug 2026 — avg 34 · peak 79
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$49.99$12.492024-04-302026-10-142024-04-30 — best price $49.992024-07-17 — best price $39.992024-07-31 — best price $49.992024-08-12 — best price $39.992024-08-22 — best price $49.992024-09-20 — best price $34.992024-09-27 — best price $49.992024-10-18 — best price $32.492024-11-01 — best price $49.992024-11-14 — best price $32.492024-12-03 — best price $49.992024-12-09 — best price $32.492024-12-18 — best price $49.992025-01-02 — best price $49.992025-01-09 — best price $44.992025-01-24 — best price $34.992025-02-07 — best price $49.992025-03-20 — best price $49.992025-04-09 — best price $49.992025-04-24 — best price $24.992025-05-08 — best price $49.992025-10-06 — best price $49.992025-11-03 — best price $49.992025-11-21 — best price $17.492025-12-04 — best price $49.992025-12-18 — best price $12.492026-01-08 — best price $49.992026-02-02 — best price $49.992026-03-26 — best price $49.992026-04-16 — best price $12.492026-05-09 — best price $49.992026-06-05 — best price $12.492026-06-16 — best price $49.992026-07-09 — best price $49.992026-07-23 — best price $49.992026-08-25 — best price $12.492026-09-02 — best price $49.992026-09-16 — best price $49.992026-09-30 — best price $49.992026-10-14 — best price $49.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5.8k1722026-06-04 — 294 pageviews2026-06-08 — 4,477 pageviews2026-06-12 — 676 pageviews2026-06-16 — 5,778 pageviews2026-06-20 — 594 pageviews2026-06-24 — 363 pageviews2026-06-28 — 344 pageviews2026-07-02 — 343 pageviews2026-07-06 — 1,244 pageviews2026-07-10 — 304 pageviews2026-07-14 — 260 pageviews2026-07-18 — 253 pageviews2026-07-22 — 223 pageviews2026-07-26 — 236 pageviews2026-07-30 — 239 pageviews2026-08-03 — 200 pageviews2026-08-07 — 199 pageviews2026-08-11 — 205 pageviews2026-08-15 — 172 pageviews2026-08-19 — 197 pageviews2026-08-23 — 207 pageviews2026-08-27 — 267 pageviews2026-08-31 — 245 pageviews2026-09-04 — 238 pageviews2026-09-08 — 231 pageviews2026-09-12 — 260 pageviews2026-09-16 — 182 pageviews2026-09-20 — 253 pageviews2026-09-24 — 976 pageviews2026-09-28 — 345 pageviews2026-10-02 — 224 pageviews2026-10-06 — 651 pageviews2026-10-10 — 235 pageviews2026-10-13 — 238 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
81.6%
earned "The Next Sign"
46.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudHDR availableFamily Sharing1 DLC

26 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian…

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-09-17 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,3569%12

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

DarkActionHorrorAdventureCinematicMythologyStory RichAtmosphericSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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