Hellblade II was touted as one of 2024’s biggest exclusives when it launched in May, but overall sales figures have been hard to come by since launch. Now, thanks to Circana’s latest sales data, we have a clearer picture of its performance.
According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, Hellblade II was 37th overall in terms of full dollar sales for May 2024 and 21st overall on Xbox Series consoles. Hellblade II did not receive a physical release.
Getting a lot of questions about this… Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II ranked 37th in May 2024 in US total game dollar sales (to share physical + digital pubs), and 21st in the Xbox Series caught
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) July 8, 2024
Notably, Hellblade II was initially released on Xbox Game Pass, which revealed in benchmark data that it ranked 12th on Xbox in terms of monthly active users. That puts it behind Fallout 76 on the platform, but ahead of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Apex Legends, and Forza Horizon 5.
Piscatella shared the sales data on X/Twitter because Hellblade II’s performance meant it didn’t appear on any of the major charts. Xbox and Ninja Theory have shared little about Hellblade II’s sales since its initial release, leaving fans to speculate on Steam parallels and other information. Gamesindustry.biz publisher Chris Dring noted that it failed to break into the Top 100 in the European sales charts. “brutal month” for game sales.
Hellblade II, the sequel to Ninja Theory’s acclaimed action-adventure game, was announced not long after Xbox acquired the studio in 2018 and finally released earlier this year. described as “a defining moment in the evolution of real-time visuals”. Digital castingand we wrote in our review that “Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II delivers a magical adventure full of cinematic spectacle and narrative surprises that maintain a sense of forward momentum and never lose a second of its exquisite runtime.”
Elsewhere, Ghost of Tsushima returned to number one thanks to its Steam release, while Call of Duty dominated the sales charts for both Xbox and PlayStation. Overall, it was a tough month for hardware spending as all three consoles recorded double-digit declines.
With Hellblade II now available, the Xbox looks forward to the rest of 2024, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Avowed among the first-party releases in its docket. You can see all the biggest games of 2024 here.
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