Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
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Ninja Theory's 2017 action title, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, offers a story-rich, psychological experience. This atmospheric game, featuring a female protagonist and mythology themes, has garnered 66,114 Steam reviews with a 90% positive rating.
Overview
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a 2017 Action game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Ninja Theory. On Steam it has gathered 66,550 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Ninja Theory with publisher Ninja Theory is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.8 million to 8.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
66,550
Positive
90%
Steam appid
414340
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
109
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.03.8M to 8.9M
units (median: 6.3M)
≈ $65.0M to $151.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice at roughly 3.8 million to 8.9 million copies, with a median around 6.3 million, derived from its 66,550 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $108.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
50 observed days · window low $7.49Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-06-06.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice sold?
- indielist estimates Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has sold between 3,793,350 and 8,851,150 units (median 6,322,250), derived from its 66,550 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice?
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was developed by Ninja Theory and published by Ninja Theory.
- Who published Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice?
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was published by Ninja Theory, developed by Ninja Theory. See Ninja Theory's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice released?
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice have on Steam?
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has 66,550 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice worth playing?
- Steam players rate Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 90% positive across 66,550 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Visage, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, The Beast Inside, Fran Bow, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ninja Theory's other releases and Ninja Theory's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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