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Andy Chalk

Hellblade studio kills its mysterious 'horrors of the mind' project so it can make a new Senua game instead

Senua submerged in a gold murk in Senua.

Back in 2020, Senua studio Ninja Theory announced a new game, Project Mara, 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, 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.

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—"an out-and-out action adventure game," Matthews said in an Xbox Wire interview, with "broader gameplay, more combat depth, and an interconnected world."

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