Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Trophy Guide & Roadmap

At the start of the game take the right path to fight this boss (if you go left you’ll encounter Valravn God of Illusion, but you’ll have to fight both of them anyway).

Surtr is the easiest boss in the game. He is very slow and doesn’t spawn any minions. Dodge sideways and he will almost always miss you. Then do one or two heavy attacks and repeat.

Over the course of the fight Surtr will kneel down and be surrounded by fire. The fire doesn’t hurt you, so rush towards him and land some with heavy attacks from behind while he kneels. This will deplete his health very quickly.

If he knocks you on the ground press X quickly to get back up.
When he starts burning, stop attacking and press R2 to use your vision. This will make him vulnerable and he will stop burning.

At the start of the game take the left path to fight this boss (if you go right you’ll encounter Surtr God of Fire, but you’ll have to fight both of them anyway).

This boss isn’t too difficult. Some attacks can be parried with a well timed block (press R2). The boss likes to throw projectiles at you from a distance. A quick way to close the gap is to press X, which makes you dodge forward. You can also dodge sideways to counter Valravn’s jump attacks and then attack with a few heavy attacks from behind.

During the fight some smaller enemies will spawn. As soon as the spawn use the X – Square – Square – Triangle – Triangle to kill them instantly (if performed correctly, Senua dashes forward and performs a quick stab combo).

Remember you can change the difficulty in game options at any time. If you get knocked on the ground press X very quickly to get back up.

During the last phase you must press R2 to use your vision and make the boss vulnerable. If you don’t do it the boss will appear as a shadow shape and won’t take damage from your attacks.

There are 4 silver “challenge” trophies but you must complete them as part of the story (about halfway through the game). They aren’t really “challenges”. Rather, they have you walk through some dark places, labyrinths and swamps. They require no skill whatsoever and you don’t even have to engage in combat to complete them. Just play through the story and you’ll unlock this.

There are 4 silver “challenge” trophies but you must complete them as part of the story (about halfway through the game). They aren’t really “challenges”. Rather, they have you walk through some dark places, labyrinths and swamps. They require no skill whatsoever and you don’t even have to engage in combat to complete them. Just play through the story and you’ll unlock this.

There are 4 silver “challenge” trophies but you must complete them as part of the story (about halfway through the game). They aren’t really “challenges”. Rather, they have you walk through some dark places, labyrinths and swamps. They require no skill whatsoever and you don’t even have to engage in combat to complete them. Just play through the story and you’ll unlock this.

There are 4 silver “challenge” trophies but you must complete them as part of the story (about halfway through the game). They aren’t really “challenges”. Rather, they have you walk through some dark places, labyrinths and swamps. They require no skill whatsoever and you don’t even have to engage in combat to complete them. Just play through the story and you’ll unlock this.

This battle takes place in a dark cave. You will have to use your focus a lot (press R2). This makes the boss vulnerable. Without your focus active you won’t deal him damage. The focus also slows down time which makes it easier to dodge attacks and land more combos.

Fenrir is a big wolf enemy and only uses close range attacks. He is big and slow, but powerful. Dodge all his attacks, blocking usually gets you knocked to the ground. For his AOE jump attacks dodge away, for his other attacks dodge sideways. It’s best if you stick to heavy attacks. Land 1-2 hits, dodge, repeat.

When the screen goes dark you need to activate your focus. When you have to search fenrir (he hides in the dark multiple times throughout the fight), you should get ready to dodge. He always does a charge or jump attack when he comes out of the dark.

It’s rewarded for beating the endboss, which is an easy fight. You will have an overpowered sword that kills most enemies in one hit. Activate your focus ability (press R2 during combat when it’s powered up) and then do L1+Square combos. This is a running sword stab. Senua will jump a few meters to the enemies. The weak ones die in just one hit. You can chain together really long combos with this and kill one enemy after the other.

You don’t actually have to fight the boss himself, only his mobs. In the last phase when the boss is sitting in the middle of the arena you must let the enemies kill you. Otherwise they just keep spawning infinitely. When they kill you the final ending cutscenes starts.

There are 3 phases:

Phase 1: Fight the mobs until they are all dead.

Phase 2: Fight the shadow bosses until they are all dead. Remember to use R2 to trigger the focus ability.

Phase 3: Let the enemies kill you.

Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice contains 44 collectable Lorestones. They are exactly what they sound like – big stones that provide additional lore (story info). They have a glowing glyph on them and are relatively easy to spot. Most of them are in plain sight.

Use your focus (press R2) to activate them. You do not have to listen to the lore. After activating the stone you can walk away.

There is a collectible tracker on the Lorestones themselves. You will notice different looking glyphs and a few dots between them. Red glyphs are what you’re missing and white means you have found them. The dots stand for the different chapters / areas. Each unique area or story part is divided by a dot. Meaning if there are 6 glyphs between two dots then the chapter has 6 lorestones in it. I’m using the word “chapter” vaguely here because there isn’t an official chapter select. The areas are just uniquely distinct.

You need to be careful because the lorestones can be missed! If you progress too far you can’t go back to some places. For this reason it his highly recommended that you make a manual save game backup from time to time (PS4 Settings > Application Saved Data Management). Furthermore, if you die or exit to the main menu you need to activate the lorestones again. You must reach the next checkpoint alive to save the progress.

The amount of lorestones collected does carry over to the second playthrough but the runes on the lorestones will change. To avoid any tracking issues it is highly recommended you collect them all again. If you go for just the missing stone there have been reports of it not counting (because it shows a different rune than it did on first playthrough). They are all on your path anyway, so play it safe and get them all again, otherwise you could miss the trophy.

For a full text guide refer to Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice All Lorestone Locations