First introduced throughout the Recreation Awards 2019, the sequel to the critically acclaimed Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Hellblade 2 was excessive on everybody’s want checklist (mine included). The Ninja Concept title had fairly huge boots to fill this time round and although the advertising surrounding the sport wasn’t one of the best, followers have been nonetheless enthusiastic about getting caught into the hellish world of Senua as soon as extra.
Lastly launched on Might 21 this 12 months, we’ve not heard an excessive amount of about Hellblade 2’s gross sales and the way properly (or not) it had executed, however latest Xbox chart figures present what we had sadly anticipated.
Might Was Not Hellblade 2’s Month
In keeping with Circana analyst Mat Piscatella on Twitter/X, who posted about online game gross sales knowledge yesterday, Hellblade 2 fell very quick when it comes to promoting expectations. The Ninja Concept title got here thirty seventh on the chart for full-dollar gross sales in Might 2024 and totaled twenty first place on Xbox Collection consoles. When it comes to how properly it did on Xbox Recreation Move, that wasn’t nice information both, because it ranked twelfth place right here however simply forward of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Apex Legends, and Forza Horizon 5.
On Steam, Hellblade managed to drag in 3,982 concurrent gamers at its peak, however sadly, this quantity additional dwindled over the weeks and this disappointment stretched over to Twitch as properly the place the sport noticed 110,193 viewers when it launched however per week later, falling to 900. As an additional knife twist, Hellblade 2 did not handle to make it into the High 100 European gross sales charts both, which is a motive why its gross sales hadn’t been recorded till Piscatella did some digging.
It is actually a tragic state of affairs for the multi-talented Ninja Concept studio who’ve busted their backs to make Hellblade 2 simply as huge of successful as the primary Hellblade.
Sadly, as beforehand famous, the sport’s horrible and lackluster advertising certainly did not assist the title’s possibilities. Regardless, Hellblade 2 continues to be sitting at a good rating of 80 on Metacritic and a “very optimistic” placement on Steam.
