Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 79% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 770 with 2GB VRAM / Radeon R9 280X 3GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
January 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 69 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alice: Madness Returns ($9.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga ($49.99, scores 40).
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 79 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 5,934 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
At 7.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
83% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
73 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Incredible Game, Been on my back catalog for many years, It's just the right length, not too short you feel short changed, not so long it kinda outstays it's welcome. The Audio in this game, chef's kiss.
"F*ck the gods!" Even though the gameplay isn't that groundbreaking, the story is what carries this game. The fact that only 20 developers were working on it is insane. The visuals and audio are brilliant. Also, it's a low-budget game, and somehow the motion capture and the expressions look f*cking amazing. Looks better than most AAA games. Senua is a f*cking badass. 8.5/10
Slower start story wise and scuffed optimisation but the puzzles, combat and story are very enjoyable
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/414340/hellblade-senua-s-sacrificeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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