Hellblade 2 release window announced at Xbox Showcase

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 lastly has a launch window. The Norse-inspired motion sport is coming subsequent 12 months to Xbox Collection X and Home windows PC, Microsoft introduced throughout Sunday’s Xbox Video games Showcase.

Developer Ninja Principle technically first introduced Hellblade 2 in 2019, at that 12 months’s Recreation Awards, however didn’t present footage of the sport till two years later, in the course of the 2021 Recreation Awards. A short clip demonstrated roughly six minutes of gameplay footage, glowing with the extent of visible constancy that makes you go, “OK, yeah, I see why that’s not on Xbox One.” (Hellblade 2 is current-gen solely.)

Immediately’s footage featured a equally putting clip, displaying titular protagonist Senua wandering in a cave, speaking with seemingly ethereal beings. As with the earlier sport, it’s not instantly clear what’s “actual” and what’s not.

Although the 2017 unique was broadly praised for its narrative — and for its portrayal of psychosis — Ninja Principle hasn’t revealed a lot concerning the plot for Hellblade 2. It’s nonetheless set across the flip of the ninth century. It nonetheless attracts closely on Norse mythology. You continue to play as Senua. That’s… just about it.

Hellblade 2 will launch day one on Recreation Go, at a time when Microsoft’s games-on-demand service sorely wants successful. To this point this 12 months, Microsoft’s games-on-demand service has seen few tentpoles (nothing to match the likes of Halo Infinite or Forza Horizon 5, as an example). And probably the most notable new sport (that’d be Redfall) was mainly the textbook definition of a flop.

Microsoft didn’t announce a particular date for Hellblade 2 past a broad “2024.”