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Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga — patch notes and updates

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Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced Patch Notes - 18th December 20252025-12-18Fixed instances where rain was accidentally removed in the Enhanced Edition. Fixed rare instances of projectiles not colliding with Senua. Fixed missing distance-fields & lumen-scene on integrated-GPUs.
New Development Diary Released2025-11-14We've released a new development diary! Find out how our award-winning audio team crafted the sound of Senua's Saga: Hellblade II. From our original soundtrack, to working with collaborators, implementing immersive audio tech, and visiting locations to capture the sounds of Senua's journey to Iceland.
Enhanced Update Out Now2025-08-12The Enhanced update for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II has arrived, and with it, comes some new features and enhancements for you to explore.Very HighWhen the game launched last year we offered Low, Medium and High graphics presets. With this update we’ve made some select visual enhancements to take advantage of newer, more powerful hardware, which you can enable with our new ‘Very High’ graphics preset. Rather than dialling everything up, our team carefully considered where we could make the most impactful improvements for a visual quality bump at a reasonable performance cost. The result sees more detailed and accurate shadows, improved AntiAli
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced Patch Notes2025-08-12Dark Rot mode can be selected after completing the game. Dark Rot Achievement added. Developer Commentary can be selected after completing the game. Very High graphs preset added. DLSS4 / Multi Frame Gen. Dolby Atmos for speakers. Enhanced Photo mode. Steam Deck Verified + performance improvements. DualSense controller support. Fixed overlaps present in localised languages in pause menu when text size is set to large. Fixed Senua's hair turning white when she steps into the light in Chapter 4 "Act of Sacrifice". Fixed a bug where changing upscaler for the first time does not load upscaler quality mode properly Fixed Senua's hair sometimes tur
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced Arrives August 122025-06-25Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced, a special update with new features and ways to experience the game, arrives on Steam August 12. Pushing PerformanceSenua’s Saga: Hellblade II is a cinematic experience of immersion where we push real-time visuals to deliver rich, believable environments and characters to sink you deep into Senua’s story. In this update we’re adding a new ‘Very High’ graphics preset to push the visuals even further, and we’re also happy to confirm that the game will be Steam Deck Verified when the update drops in August. The Dark Rot ReturnsThe Dark Rot from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice has returned and offers an additional
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Takes Home Two Wins at The Game Awards2024-12-16Last week saw the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards hosted by Geoff Keighley, celebrating the best games of the year and giving us a glimpse of what’s to come from your favourite game studios in 2025 and beyond. We’re no stranger to The Game Awards, you might remember last year we debuted a trailer for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II after an epic performance from Heilung, and we announced our game at the show in 2019. It was a pleasure then to return this year with four nominations: • Best Audio Design • Best Performance • Best Narrative • Games for Impact Ninja Studio Head Dom Matthews, Ninja Audio Director David Garcia Diaz, and Senua herself
Vote for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II in The Golden Joystick Awards2024-10-29Awards season approaches and we are very proud to let you know that Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II has been nominated for a total of four Golden Joystick Awards. Best Visual Design Best Audio Design Best Lead Performer – Melina Juergens as Senua Best Supporting Performer - Abbi Greenland & Helen Goalen as The Furies Will we be successful and win? That’s up to you! The Golden Joysticks are voted for by players, so we’d greatly appreciate your vote in these categories. Voting closes this Friday, November 1st. Vote now!
The first discount for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II on Steam is here!2024-08-12Our first discount for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II has arrived with 20% off in this Midweek Deal, bringing the price down to just £39.99 / $39.99 / €39.99. Find out why critics have been describing Senua’s Saga as “a defining moment in the evolution of real-time visuals” (Digital Foundry) and “a sequel that is nothing short of stunning” (Eurogamer) in this brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2461850/Senuas_Saga_Hellblade_II/
Patch Notes - 7th June 20242024-06-07Hi everyone, Before the weekend arrives we wanted to update the game with some new functionality and a fix. Steam Trading Cards now available. Fix for a rare FSR3 crash. Added the option to link your Microsoft account. This will enable cross-achievements (earn Xbox achievements as you play and unlock achievements on Steam). That's all for now! If you run into any issues not listed, please visit this link for support: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/game/hellblade/support/home Thanks. Ninja Theory
Patch Notes – 31st May 20242024-05-31Hi everyone. We hope you’ve been enjoying Senua’s new journey into Viking Iceland. Today we have some small fixes to improve the game experience. Added a warning prompt when selecting ‘New Story’ as this option resets the current save's story progress. Fixed the large text size option, which was causing UI elements in chapter selection to go out of bounds. Animation sync issues during some enemy executions in combat have been adjusted and fixed. Adjusted the combat events during the Thórgestr battle at the end of Chapter 1 Several localization fixes. Tree collision fixes in Chapter 2 settlement puzzle. Fixed the crash when closing photo mode
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Arrives Tomorrow2024-05-20Hi Everyone, as we sit on the eve of the release of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II I wanted to thank you, our fans, on behalf of everyone here at Ninja Theory. We see you and we hear you when you give us such love and support, when you tell us how much Senua means to you, when you tell us how much you are looking forward to the game and how much faith you have in us to continue Senua’s story in a way that does justice to the connection so many of you have to her and to Hellblade. From the very beginning of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II we have had you in-mind and I truly hope that when you play the 2nd chapter of Senua’s story, you will find that fa
PC System Requirements & Pre-Purchase Available Now2024-05-03Today we’d like to reveal the PC system requirements for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. We have crafted a high fidelity experience of cinematic immersion, and therefore recommend the ‘High’ graphics preset. From recreating real locations in Iceland, to digitizing our actors and their costumes, we’ve brought Senua’s world to life in incredible detail. We hope these hardware recommendations help you prepare to get the best possible experience come May 21st. We also recommend you wear headphones for the full binaural experience, to help fully immerse you in this new journey. This is also a good opportunity to let you know that pre-purchase is now a
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is coming May 21, 20242024-01-18The following post was originally published on Xbox Wire. Hello, Dom Matthews here, Studio Head at Ninja Theory. As I write this, we are now in the final few months of development on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, preparing for our launch Day One on Xbox Game Pass and across Xbox Series X|S, Windows and Steam on May 21. It was a pleasure to give you all a deeper insight into Senua’s next journey, our studio and our talented team in Developer Direct. Since the release of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice , Ninja Theory has transitioned from being an independent team to one that sits within Xbox Game Studios. Although this has seen change for Ninja The
New Trailer at The Game Awards 20232023-12-18Last week we debuted a new trailer for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II at The Game Awards, our biggest look yet at Senua’s upcoming journey into the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. We’re really proud to be able to show you what we’ve been working on, including a first look at our brutal combat gameplay, a new taste of our graphics that push the boundaries of realism, and immersive audio. All footage captured on Xbox Series X by the team here at Ninja Theory. Put on some headphones and watch below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qUd9ayfGS8 We were also excited to bring Heilung to the stage of The Game Awards, with an exclusive performance of
New Development Diary Video – Crafting Senua2023-11-21Our Development Diaries take you behind the scenes of how we’re making the next chapter in Senua’s story, and why we take the approach we do. By capturing the likeness of real actors and handcrafting costumes using traditional techniques, we’ll achieve a level of realism that will further immerse you in our story. In our latest Development Diary we explore how we achieved this with Senua. Be sure to wish list Senua's Saga: Hellblade II to stay up to date with future episodes and announcements. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2461850/Senuas_Saga_Hellblade_II/
Save 85% on Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice2023-07-13The Steam Summer Sale ends today, and with it your chance to pick up Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice for under £/$/€5 in our biggest ever discount on Steam. Find out where Senua's journey began with a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover. https://store.steampowered.com/app/414340/Hellblade_Senuas_Sacrifice
Welcome2023-06-29Welcome to the Steam page for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, where we’ll be keeping you up to date on our development journey. This year we kicked off a new series of development diaries, taking you behind the scenes at our studio, and showing you how and why we make our games. Catch the latest episode where we explore our performance capture process and how we plan to use it to immerse you in Senua’s world and story. We also have a new Podcast! Each month we speak to a member of the development team at Ninja Theory to reflect on our journey in games, and the inspiration behind our craft. Be sure to wishlist Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II to stay up