Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.00/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 76,855
- Critics
- 83 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 80% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.5h
- To 100%
- 9.2h 1.2x the story
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 70 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 January 2024
- Sale every
- 35d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 51 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 70 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 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).
More about Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 80 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 5,946 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I thought Senua's Sacrifice would be a narrative-driven action-adventure game, but it's actually closer to a walking simulator. (Mind you, a horror walking simulator.) Gameplay-wise, you either have to solve puzzles or fight enemies. Puzzles are usually the environmental kind and not very difficult. Enemies come in different types, but once you have figured out their moves and timings there are no surprises...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
"The Hardest Battles Are Fought In Mind " one of the best inspirational game I've ever played. first time playing a character with psychosis/ schizophrenia and the game showed how hard it is to have it this literally shows you how far a person can go for love. Beside that the level designing is excellent Graphics/Story on top Ivl. only problem was there was so much walking and repetitive fights. if it wasn't like...
Very repetitive puzzles. Lack of interesting characters/enemies/bosses. The music and sound effects with headphones were the only likeable thing about this game that everyone with positive reviews is going crazy about. But we all know it takes more than music/sound effects to make a good, memorable game. Also, cannot forget those bugs that frustrated me to no end. Doors in this game won't budge even after you...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 770 with 2GB VRAM / Radeon R9 280X 3GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/414340/hellblade-senua-s-sacrificeReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.