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Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga cover art

Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga

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

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

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.

24
playing now
87%
positive of 9.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (185 ratings)
7.8h
to beat · rushed 7.5h · completionist 9.6h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$49.99
steam price (US)

24 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

In 9th-century Orkney, the warrior Senua allows herself to be captured by Northmen slavers, intending to cross the sea to Iceland where her people are held in bondage. When a violent storm wrecks the slave ships, Senua washes ashore alone on the Icelandic coast, haunted by the voices that have followed her since childhood. She soon learns that the land is gripped by a different kind of terror: giants born from a volcanic eruption have driven settlements to ruin, and the survivors live under the tyranny of those who exploit the chaos. Guided by the mysterious Hiddenfolk and joined by unlikely a(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 24 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 11% of 10,904 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 199k–447k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 9,940 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$12.49-75%
Microsoft Store$12.49-75%

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 17 of 31 observed days (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

71122026-08-11 19:00 — 46 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 23 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 22 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 34 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 30 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 26 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 71 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 37 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 25 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 43 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 21 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 27 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 28 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 22 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 25 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 26 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 16 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 43 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 52 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 13 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 20 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 24 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 41 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 33 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 46 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 41 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 24 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$49.99$12.492024-04-302026-08-262024-04-30 — 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 $12.492026-08-26 — best price $12.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

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…

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.

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