Games like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
If Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is your kind of game, the closest matches are Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Senua and The Medium — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its short but impactful experience, atmospheric and emotional. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a 2017 action-adventure indie title developed by Ninja Theory. Set during the Viking age, players guide a Celtic warrior named Senua through a dark psychological journey into Viking Hell to retrieve her lover's soul. The game features binaural audio, environmental exploration, parry-and-counterattack combat, puzzle-solving, and a psychological doubt system that influences progression. Players describe the experience as emotionally immersive and unsettling, with reviewers highlighting the combat as satisfying and tactical. The storytelling is described as deeply personal and thought-provoking, and players note that the portrayal of Senua's internal voices feels disturbingly real. Currently priced at $29.99 and verified on Steam Deck, the game holds a 90% positive rating from over 28,000 Steam reviews.
About Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice: 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.
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Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Top pick for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
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.
Senua
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
A Celtic warrior is trapped between life and death in a fractured vision of purgatory. In an action‑adventure set in the Hellblade universe, Senua fights to reach the afterlife and reunite with those she loved and lost, battling forces that threaten all she believes in.
The Medium
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Third-strongest match for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
A third‑person psychological horror game where you explore both the real world and the spirit realm. As a medium drawn to a deserted resort, you’ll uncover dark secrets, confront echoes of trauma, and face the consequences of seeing more than one truth.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Ranked #4 for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.
Vampyr
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Ranked #5 for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Husk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Ranked #6 for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Husk is a purebred FPP horror inspired by the most classical representatives of the genre. Discover Shivercliff - a daunting town where you uncover the ominous and tantalizing plot. Face the worst nightmares, solve mysteries and survive the devouring darkness in order to find your family.
Fran Bow
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an emotional mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Ranked #7 for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Still Wakes the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares environmental exploration and an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Ranked #8 for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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God of War
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
Ryse: Son of Rome
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Shares an immersive mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
“Ryse: Son of Rome” tells the story of Marius Titus, a young Roman soldier who witnesses the murder of his family at the hands of barbarian bandits, then travels with the Roman army to Britannia to seek revenge.
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Amidst the scorched sands of ancient Persia, there is a legend spun in an ancient tongue. It speaks of a time borne by blood and ruled by deceit. Drawn to the dark powers of a magic dagger, a young Prince is led to unleash a deadly evil upon a beautiful kingdom.
Spec Ops: The Line
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Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
A Third-Person modern military Shooter designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
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.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.
Sea of Solitude
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
When humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world of darkness and light, and discover what it means to be human.
Prince of Persia®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Reviewers of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~67% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~83% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~67% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~67% under Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Ninja Theory
Other recommendable Steam games by Ninja Theory, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DmC: Devil May Cry
WHY THIS
Another title from Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
In this retelling of Dante's origin story which is set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry™ retains the stylish action.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Another title from Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
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.
ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Another title from Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Follow a gripping, surprise-filled journey as two dissimilar characters form an uneasy partnership in order to survive through a perilous, post-apocalyptic America. 150 years in the future, war and destruction have left the world in ruins with few humans remaining and nature having reclaimed the world.
Bleeding Edge
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Another title from Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Shares Action with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Grab your team and tear it up in Bleeding Edge, an electrifying online brawler where every fighter comes mechanically enhanced for mayhem!
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Another title from Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Shares Action and Indie with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
The VR Edition of the critically acclaimed BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. 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.
DEXED
WHY THIS
Another title from Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Shares Action with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
From Ninja Theory, creators of Heavenly Sword and DmC: Devil May Cry comes DEXED, an endless on-rails VR shooter where DEXterity is a must. Target and shoot flurries of enemies with two blasters, one launching ice to destroy fire and the other shooting fire to destroy ice.
Senua
WHY THIS
Another title from Ninja Theory, the studio behind Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
A Celtic warrior is trapped between life and death in a fractured vision of purgatory. In an action‑adventure set in the Hellblade universe, Senua fights to reach the afterlife and reunite with those she loved and lost, battling forces that threaten all she believes in.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
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.
Vampyr
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.
Fran Bow
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an emotional mood with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Frequently asked about Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
- Is Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice cost?
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice are Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Senua, The Medium.
- Who developed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice?
- Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice was developed by Ninja Theory and published by Ninja Theory, Xbox Game Studios.
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