{"id":1601651,"date":"2026-06-08T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dB9T2GnW27jC9pNUunzNzS"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:53:26","slug":"hellblade-studio-kills-its-mysterious-horrors-of-the-mind-project-so-it-can-make-a-new-senua-game-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hellblade-studio-kills-its-mysterious-horrors-of-the-mind-project-so-it-can-make-a-new-senua-game-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellblade studio kills its mysterious ‘horrors of the mind’ project so it can make a new Senua game instead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in 2020, Senua studio Ninja Theory announced a new game, Project Mara<\/a>, that aimed to “recreate the horrors of the mind” with a “real-world and grounded representation of mental terror.” A year later we got a look at the game’s absurdly photorealistic apartment<\/a>, but beyond that it pretty much fell off the radar until yesterday, when studio head Dom Matthews said work on the project has been ended.<\/p>\n

Cancellations suck as a general rule, but word of this one came amidst the announcement of Ninja Theory’s new Senua game, entitled simply Senua\u2014”an out-and-out action adventure game,” Matthews said in an Xbox Wire interview<\/a>, with “broader gameplay, more combat depth, and an interconnected world.” <\/p>\n

That’s also part of why the new game isn’t called Hellbade 3: “The title of just Senua really reflects that this is something fresh and new and different.”<\/p>\n

“It is a different style of game. I think Hellblade 1 and Hellblade 2 had an intention that we delivered on\u2014but this is a different intention,” Matthews explained. “I think of it as being additive\u2014we\u2019re taking all of that goodness and adding the types of things that people expect from a premium action-adventure game.”<\/p>\n

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