Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice Puzzle Solutions & Symbol Locations Walkthrough

Puzzles are a big part of Hellblade Senua’s Sacrifice. This walkthrough shows all their solutions and glyph symbol locations.

The puzzles you must solve include sealed glyph symbol doors, locked gates, repairing objects and navigating through illusions and dark labyrinths.

Glyph Doors / Locked Gates: Require you to scan a red symbol (glyph, rune or letter) on the door and then find the corresponding symbol in the game world. You must line up certain objects to get the required picture.

Repairing Objects: At certain points there are glass shards floating in the air. Look at them from a certain angle to repair a broken object.

Illusions: Sometimes you must interact with illusion gates. When you walk through them you can see certain things changing in your surroundings.

Labyrinth: This is a special “shard challenge” later in the game. You must navigate through an endless maze.

All of these puzzles must be solved to progress through the story!

Puzzles Video Walkthrough

Chapter 1 – Prologue

Symbol Door #1

Location: In the very same corridor as the gate. Simply turn around and look at the wall. The shadow looks like an M.

Chapter 2 – Illusion Trial (Left Gate)

Raven Symbol Door #1

Look through the illusion gate near the raven symbol gate in order to create a hole in the wall in front of you. Now you can go to the top of the gate wall and simply have to look at the raven symbol through the correct angle.

Raven Symbol Door #2

Illusion Gates: You must use a series of 4 illusion gates to repair the staircase in the middle of the area. The first one is to the left of the sealed gate. Step through it and the wall in front of you will disappear. The next 2 illusion gates do the same thing, you walk through them and they make walls disappear. The fourth illusion gate is in the old castle ruins after climbing a ladder. Once you go through the 4th gate the stairs in the middle of the area will be repaired. Now you can go up the stairs to line up the symbols with the door.

Raven Symbol Door #3

Look at the gate, then turn around. Now head to the far left side. There’s an illusion gate. Step through it to repair a wooden beam. Walk over the wooden beam and once on the other side, line up the blue symbols with the door to unlock it.

Raven Symbol Door #4

This is the last illusion puzzle of this chapter. Be careful, finishing this puzzle will trigger a boss fight! First scan the door as usual, then step through the illusion gate on the left (must climb up a ladder). This reveals a tree branch which you can walk over. On the other side there’s another illusion gate. Walk through it then over the wooden beams, unlock the bridge, go back through the same illusion gate again and this time look at the tree to reveal a branch to walk on. Then from the tree you can scan the symbol.

Chapter 3 – Fire Trial

Glyph Symbols Puzzle #1

Symbol Location #1: Go up the Hill and look at the wooden pillars sticking out of the ground. Look at them from the correct angle to see an “H” shape. Scan it by holding R2.

Symbol Location #2: Walk downhill and look for wooden structures that look like a “Y”. Scan it by holding R2.

Glyph Symbols Puzzle #2

Symbol Location #1: Look at the trees that look like an “X”.

Symbol Location #2: Go upstairs in the house and when standing on the balcony look down on the ground. There’s a burning shape in the ashes.

Glyph Symbols Puzzle #3

Symbol Location #1: Behind the right house. There are some wooden planks missing from the wall that look like a “T”.

Symbol Location #2: In the left house align the wooden planks to look like a “P”.

Symbol Location #3: Climb the ladder up the watchtower. On top of the watchtower there’s a piece of wood sticking out. Look at it and align it with the rooftop of the right house to form a “p” symbol.

Chapter 4 – Fortress

Repair Stairs

After the big fight in the fortress you will see another glyph symbol door (with 3 symbols) and a boat on the right. Stand on the boat and look at the staircase with R2 to repair it.

Glyph Symbols Puzzle

Symbol Location #1: Stand in the middle of the arena (bottom floor) and look for the “X” symbol that’s hanging overhead.

Symbol Location #2: On the second floor (after going up the staircase that you repaired in the previous step). Look for an “S” sign hanging in the air.

Symbol Location #3: On the top floor after climbing a ladder.

Chapter 5 – Beach

No glyphs, puzzles or gates to be found here!

Chapter 6 – Labyrinth Shard Challenge

The Labyrinth is the blue portal to the right of the glowing tree.

From the start of the labyrinth (where you pick up the torch) take the following directions: LEFT – RIGHT – LEFT – RIGHT – LEFT – RIGHT – RIGHT – RIGHT – [TUNNEL] – RIGHT – RED GATE.
Interact with the Red Gate (press X) to open it and complete this challenge chapter.

Chapter 7 – Tower Shard Challenge

Tower shard is one of the blue portals to the left of the glowing tree.

Glyph Symbol Puzzle #1

Symbol location: You have to make your way inside the fortress by switching between the past and the present. Once inside, you have to be in the past to scan this symbol. Stand on top of the platform and look in the direction of the sealed main entrance. You should see the sunbeams forming this symbol on the wall now.

Repair Stairs

Now that the symbol has been scanned, you can leave the fortress again and return to the present. Open the main entrance by using the code and once you are inside, you should see the missing staircase right in front of you. align yourself correctly and scan the staircase pieces to repair it.

Glyph Symbols Puzzle #2

Symbol location #1: Switch back to the past again and simply turn 180° from the door. You should see the arrow being formed by the sunbeams again.

Symbol location #2: Go upstairs and oben the 2 doors to the balcony. You have to go into the present again and stand on the balcony. You can see the M which is made up from some wooden beams and ropes when you look down from the balcony. You can also see Dillion in the background.

Symbol location #3: Once you’ve lowered both bridges on the highest floor of the tower, you can simply switch back to the past and go outside on the other balcony of this floor. The symbol is pretty hard to miss once you are outside.

Chapter 8 – Swamp Shard Challenge

Swamp Challenge is the second portal to the left of the glowing tree.

Illusion Gates

You have to use the three illusion gates at the start of the challenge in order to restore a bridge. Gate #1 will clear a barricade in your way. Gate #2 will clear the barricade sealing off the watchtower area of the swamp.  Gate #3 will permanently open up a door to the watchtower area. Now you have to use gate #2 again to restore the barricade and the stairs leading up to the watchtower.

Repair Bridge

Now on top of the watchtower, simply stand on the board that connects both towers. Look down to the bridge and align all the floating pieces to fully restore it.

Glyph Symbols Puzzle

Once you focus on the door, you will be instantly teleported to a maze area with an enemy chasing you, so be ready for this! The enemy is made up of fire and you can’t get too close to him. You have to find all 3 symbols in this maze and then return to the door to escape. The symbols are in different corners of the maze and they are emitting a very bright white light.

Chapter 9 – Blindness Shard Challenge

No glyphs, puzzles or gates to be found here!

Chapter 10 – Helheim

Glyph Symbols Puzzle #1

Symbol location #1: Do a 180° turn and then take the first left. Go downstairs once you are in the spiral staircase area. Once you’ve escaped Fenrir and acquired a new torch, turn around and head over to the right side of the room. You have to find an archway in front of some stalagmites and go through it. At the very end of that corridor, you have to light a torch in order to make the symbol reflect from the water surface.

Symbol location #2: Back at the spiral staircase, go upstairs this time. Follow the corridors until you get to an area with another torch that you can light. Light it and the symbol will be cast onto the wall next to it.

Symbol location #3: Back at the initial puzzle, turn around and then take the second turn to the right. Walk down the stairs and you should be in a room with about 4-6 torches. Light them all and get on top of a broken cage nearby. Now that the room is lit, the bloody symbol on the floor will be visible.

Glyph Symbol Puzzle #2

Symbol location: Turn to the right, go up the stairs, turn right again and go even further up the stairs. Once you are on top, there is a torch for you to light. Now that it has been lit, go back into the previous area and take a left. The R you were looking for will now be visible.

Glyph Symbols Puzzle #3

Location: Light the torch in front of the gate to complete the first part of this symbol. Now turn around and go through the tunnel to your left (don’t go through the waterfall just yet, or you will die). At the end of the tunnel, there is another torch for you to light. Now that that torch has been lit, go through the waterfall. Your torch will go out and Fenrir will start to chase you. Run towards the torch you previously lit and Senua will slam herself onto the bridge. Now simply re-ignite your own torch, turn around and light the last torch of this area. Go through the waterfall/ tunnel to get back to the gate. The M should now be clearly visible on the wall.

Chapter 11 – After Fenrir Boss

Repair Bridge Part 1

Go all the way up the first spiral staircase in this area. Once you are near the ledge, simply look down at the bridge and align the pieces.

Repair Bridge Part 2

When you are standing in front of the bridge, take a right and go up two sets of stairs. Now simply look down at the bridge again and align the pieces.

Repair Entrance

This time you actually want to stand on the bridge itself. Turn around, looking at the side you came from. On the left you’ll see some floating pieces in the air again, align them correctly to restore the missing entrance.

Repair Bridge Part 3

Now go through the entrance you just restored. After coming through a prison cell area, there will be another spiral staircase. Go up to the second highest floor and walk up to the ledge at the end of the corridor. Now simply align the pieces again.

That’s all of the puzzles in Hellblade! Hope this guide helped you out.