Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 100% guide

• Thirteen achievements are story unlocks. You can't miss them by playing normally.
• The only real work is Stories From the North: activate all 44 Lorestones. Each one sits inside a specific area, and every area shuts behind you as the story moves on.
• Everything is offline and single-player. Nothing is discontinued or unobtainable.
• One playthrough is enough if you collect every Lorestone as you go.
• No achievement depends on difficulty. The game starts on Auto, and you can switch to Easy in the options at any time.
• The opening warning about the dark rot erasing your save is a bluff. The rot never reaches Senua's head and no progress is lost, so dying costs you nothing except a checkpoint reload.
• There is no New Game+ and no post-credits free roam.

• A Lorestone is a tall carved standing stone. Focus on it while standing close. When a voice starts the story and a glyph lights up on the stone's ring, it's counted, and you can walk away without listening to the rest.
• Every Lorestone shows a ring of glyphs as a progress tracker. Lit glyphs are collected and red ones are still missing. Small dots split the ring into one group per area. Glyphs fill in the order you activate stones and change between playthroughs, so they won't match other people's screenshots, and a red glyph can't tell you which physical stone you skipped. Use the ring to count each area, and go by location to find stones.
• Progress only saves at checkpoints. If you die or quit to the menu before the next autosave, any Lorestone activated since the last save has to be activated again. There are no manual saves.
• Chapter select depends on your console. The Xbox Series X|S and Windows versions have it on the main menu. Once a chapter shows up there, the list shows how many Lorestones you've found in it, and replaying the chapter to pick up a missed stone counts toward the achievement. Which chapters are listed depends on how far your current save has progressed, and a save started before the enhanced update may not show every chapter until you've finished the game again.
• The Xbox One version has no chapter select. On Xbox One, every Lorestone is a true missable: if you leave an area without one, the only fix is a new game.
• Safest route on every version: finish each area's count before moving on. The area-end checks in this guide are mandatory on Xbox One. On Series X|S and Windows, chapter select is your safety net, not your plan.
• There is no map or detector. Each area section below lists its stones in the order you'll reach them, and the Collectibles section at the end has the full checklist.

• CURRENTLY COMMUNITY-FLAGGED / BUGGY (as of October 2026): achievements sometimes don't unlock after the game has sat suspended in Quick Resume or rest mode. Missed achievements don't unlock later when you pass the same point again. Before each session, fully close Hellblade from the Xbox home screen and launch it fresh. This matters most before Stories From the North, since that achievement can't be re-earned by replaying the story beat.
• Headphones are strongly recommended. The Voices sometimes warn you about attacks coming from behind and hint at the solution to a puzzle.

There are 4 Lorestones between the boat and the Gate. The fourth sits in the Gate area itself.

1. Right after you step off the boat, look slightly to the right in the open.
2. Follow the coastline under the bridge. The stone is at the base of the small waterfall, right beside the way up. Get it before you climb.
3. Past the first rune door, walk out along the narrow wooden beam over the cliff. The stone is at the end of the beam.
4. At the Gate to Hel, after the first Northmen fight, the stone stands to the right of the two doors as you face them, beside the cave exit.

There are 5 Lorestones. Valravn's trial is built around illusion gateways. Looking through a gateway changes what exists in the world, so several stones only become reachable after you remove or rebuild something with one.

1. In the first area, take the right side of the fork and climb the steps of the ruined tower.
2. Before the arena, in the area where Valravn's figure leads you on: use the gateway to remove a wall, slip through and unbar the doors on the far side, then go back to the gateway and restore the wall. Enter through the door you unbarred, climb the stone stairs and cross the balance beam to the stone. This is the easiest stone in the keep to miss.
3. As soon as the circular arena fight ends, climb the nearby ledge.
4. In the next area, the open forest where the raven symbols are lined up, look to your right on entry for an inactive gateway. The stone is at the back of the area, opposite that gateway, so turn around and check behind you.
5. At the crumbling ruin, lower the bridge and use a gateway to open the wall. Crawl into the small space under the ruin. The stone is opposite the wooden stairs.

There are 5 Lorestones. Surtr's trial uses Fire Doors that burn the area as you move through it.

1. Right at the start, take the right fork across the stream into a small cave opening.
2. After the first Fire Door, before you cross the blocked bridge, go left, then left again at the fork, and head down the slope. The stone is in the corner at the bottom.
3. While you hunt for the slabs that open the second Fire Door, go right instead of into the tunnel on the left. The stone is at the back of the burned forest, under the bridge.
4. After the second Fire Door, cross the balance beam, drop down to your left and turn around. The stone is on the ground floor of the ruined house on the right.
5. In the final area past the third Fire Door, climb into the first house and cross the bridge to the second. Turn left onto the second house's balcony for the stone.

Once both bosses are down, you never come back to the Gate this run. The fortress opens with a short nightmare sequence and a few fights on the bridge, then the hall of rune doors. There are only 2 Lorestones here, but the second one is right next to the door that moves the story forward.

1. After the Executioner fight, on the balcony overlooking the ship, right next to the first rune door.
2. Once you've found the third and final rune symbol, climb down the ladders from the upper floor into the outdoor courtyard to the left of the rune door. The stone is there.

Past the final rune door, Senua walks the rest of the bridge until Hela appears, shatters her sword and casts her down into the water below.

Senua is swordless from here until she pulls Gramr. There is no combat on the shore or in any of the four Shard Trials. There are 6 Lorestones here, two of them around the great tree. The shore is the hub for the Shard Trials, but clear all six before you start the first trial.

1. When you drop down from the high ledge onto the beach, look beside the broken wooden plank on the shore.
2. At the large rune gate carved with the great tree, near the bridge support. The stone is below the gate.
3. After the ladder, walk past the wreck flying a white flag and go through the opening in its hull. The stone is behind the rocks at the water's edge.
4. In the maze of overturned ships, where the path curves left, go right instead and turn around. The stone is in an alcove in the rocks.
5. At the great tree, halfway round the left side, between two metal runestones.
6. Around the back right of the great tree, past the Labyrinth's runestone, behind the large rocks.

There are 4 Lorestones. Two of them sit on dead ends, so this trial rewards taking the wrong turn. Inside the maze, rooms whose torches are already lit are ones you've explored, so keep lighting new ones until you've found all three inside.

1. On arrival, go left along the shore, away from the flags, to the far end of the beach. The stone stands at the waterline between two big rocks.
2. Inside, turn left twice to reach the dead end with a shaft of light. The stone is beside the barred door there.
3. In the room with a tree-shaped map carved into the floor, the stone stands at the crossroads.
4. Off the path to the exit, a wrong branch leads to an unlit dead-end room. The stone is inside.

There are 6 Lorestones, spread across the Past (bright and intact) and Present (dark and ruined) versions of the fortress tower. Switching between the two changes which walls, stairs and bridges exist.

1. Past: outside, after crossing the bridge and climbing the steps, in the corner beside the main entrance gate.
2. Past: on the ground floor, by the long dining table.
3. Present: on the ground floor, at the back near the broken stairs.
4. Present: on the second floor, at the top of the stairs, with the rune door ahead of you.
5. Past: on the third floor, on the inner walkway between the two balcony doors.
6. Past: on the third floor, out on the balcony where you find the final rune.

There are only 2 Lorestones here, but the second one is the most commonly missed stone in the game.

1. In the first swamp area, behind one of the illusion gates near the wooden watchtower and its steps.
2. Inside the glowing main house you reach after repairing the bridge, on the right side of the hall, opposite the three-symbol door.

There are no Lorestones in this trial. It takes place mostly in darkness, so lean on sound. Keep the headphones on, follow the Voices, and move slowly.

Before pulling the sword, check the ring on any Lorestone. Every group through the Swamp should be fully lit, which is 34 stones so far. Pulling the sword sends you straight into the Sea of Corpses, and you can't return to the shore or any trial afterwards.

There are no Lorestones here. This is a long string of fights and your first combat with Gramr. Some enemies arrive wrapped in shadow and shrug off normal hits. Break that protection first with focus, a charged heavy attack, or a well-timed parry, then attack. If it's grinding you down, switch the difficulty to Easy in the options.

After the Sea of Corpses, head back through the shipwreck tunnel to the broken bridge. The large door there is now open and leads into Helheim. There are 6 Lorestones inside the mountain. Several are in dark caves you explore by torchlight, and some can only be seen once your torch lights them.

1. Directly in front of you as you step inside the mountain.
2. Down in the caves, once you have the torch, light the torches in the shaft of light. Then look back toward where you first entered the cave, near the water, and light the area with your torch to reveal the stone.
3. Up the stairwell where you got the torch, look to the left of the door. The stone is in an opening in the crumbling wall, up a climbable ledge.
4. Past the waterfall that puts out your torch, relight it and cross the narrow beam. The stone is to the right among the crucified corpses.
5. Take the left path and drop into the cavern. The stone is on the left wall beside the door marked with the red rune.
6. In the tunnel just past that door, on the way down to Fenrir's lair.

Fenrir is fast and keeps blinking out of reach. Stay inside the lit part of the arena, and when he vanishes into the darkness, get ready to dodge his lunge. Use focus often to slow him down and open him up for hits.

The last 4 Lorestones are in the climb toward Hela, spread through the pit, the prison cells and the long wooden bridge. This is your last chance to collect anything before the ending.

1. Climb out of the pit using the ladder on the left wall and keep to the right into the room with the spiral staircase. The stone is at the base of the stairs.
2. After the cutscene facing the great wooden bridge, turn around. The stone is to the right of the barred door behind you.
3. Repair the first section of the bridge, stand on it and line up the floating shards to dissolve the illusion wall. The stone is in the open prison cell on the right at the bottom of the stairs.
4. At the top of the tall spiral staircase leading up from the prisons, before the bridge is complete.

The final fight comes in phases: waves of Northmen, then shadow versions of Surtr, Valravn and Fenrir, then the final platform with Hela and endless enemies. Fight through the early waves, but the battle can't be won by killing everything. When the enemies on the final platform become endless, stop fighting and let them bring Senua down. That ends the fight and plays the ending.

Use this only if Stories From the North didn't unlock. Chapter select exists only on Xbox Series X|S and Windows.

1. Once the chapter appears in chapter select, compare its Lorestone count with the total for that area in this guide.
2. Load the chapter that's short and replay it, activating every stone in it, not just the one you think you missed. Glyphs fill in activation order, so the red glyph won't tell you which stone is missing. Activating them all makes sure the missing one counts.
3. Reach the next autosave after the last stone before you quit to the menu.

• Fully close the game from the Xbox home screen and launch it fresh. Achievements that were skipped while the game was suspended do not pop retroactively when you reload a save past that point.
• For a missed story achievement on Series X|S or Windows, use chapter select to replay the chapter where it unlocks, with the game freshly launched.