PlayStation Store in Europe for the month of its release. According to director Tameem Antoniades the game sold "better than expected" and broke even in approximately three months, ahead of the six to nine months the developers expected. PC Gamer stated about Hellblades success that "the news can only be positive. Perhaps if other developers see an experimental game like Hellblade finding commercial success then they'll be more likely to take risks on their own titles—and that, ultimately, will lead to more interesting games". To celebrate World Mental Health Day on October 10, 2017, Ninja Theory donated all profit made from the sales of Hellblade on that day to Rethink Mental Illness. By June 2018, the game had sold over a million copies across all three platforms. Awards In addition to the awards received by the game, the team of Hellblade, including Antoniades and Juergens, won the award for Best Real-Time Graphics & Interactivity at SIGGRAPH in 2016, for a showcase demonstration of a technique they called "Realtime Cinematography", during which they performed and filmed live a scene from Hellblade, which was "shot, captured and edited to final quality in minutes, a process that would normally take weeks or months". Sequel Senua's Saga: Hellblade II was announced during The Game Awards 2019, with plans for release on Windows and Xbox Series X/S. The game soundtrack will be composed by Heilung and will be set in Iceland and will use Epic Games's new Unreal Engine 5. Notes References External links 2017 video games Action-adventure games Art games Dark fantasy video games Fantasy video games set in the Middle Ages Video games set in the Viking Age Fiction with unreliable narrators Hack and slash games Indie video games Interactive Achievement Award winners Ninja Theory games Nintendo Switch games PlayStation 4 games PlayStation 4 Pro enhanced games Psychological horror games Single-player video games Unreal Engine games Uxoricide in fiction Video games about mental health Video games based on Celtic mythology Video games based on Norse mythology Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games featuring female protagonists Windows games Works set in the 8th century Xbox Cloud Gaming games Xbox One games Xbox One X enhanced games Xbox Series X and Series S games British Academy Games Award for British Game winners British Academy Games Award for Game Beyond Entertainment winners