Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is Coming to VR Soon

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, the provocative RPG by Ninja Theory, will be making its way to virtual reality next week. A VR Edition of the game will release on Steam on July 31, supporting the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

Ninja Theory explains that their primary motivation to implement such a feature was out of curiosity. Viewing the world in this new format was fascinating to the devs, and the challenges they'd overcome making it happen would improve the base game as well. This includes engine optimization to manage the stable 90 FPS necessary for virtual reality.



Even with optimizations, this mode is rather resource intensive. They recommend a minimum of an Nvidia GTX 1080 or AMD Radeon RX 580 GPU graphics card for the VR variant. Due to this heavy requirement, the VR mode won't be present for the PlayStation VR.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice can be purchased on Steam for $30. The VR Edition will be free to anyone who owns or purchase the original game. You'll need a VR headset too, of course.