The Universal Unreal Engine 4 Console Unlocker (UUE4CE) is the key to being able to change the FOV. While this program is mainly intended to use for modding purposes and screenshots, it does this by enabling the developer console in the game, something that was typically easy to access in older versions of Unreal Engine but completely disabled in all retail UE4 games. The engine has a built-in FOV command that allows you to change the game camera's FOV to any value of your choosing (though rendering breaks at 180 degrees) that can be accessed from the console.

Download the UUE4CU here (version 2.0.4 as of the time of writing this guide): UUE4CU Download[framedsc.github.io]

Once you have downloaded the unlocker, extract the files into the location of your choosing. Run it and you will be presented with a simple program window:


Don't do anything with the program yet, but start the game up and importantly load your save so you're fully in-game. I found that UUE4CE tends to crash the game if you try to use it while on the game's main menu.

Alt+tab back to the desktop and click the Select button in UUE4CE which will display a list of programs running on your PC.


Find and select Hellblade from the list, then back in the main program window click "Inject DLL".


After a second or two you should be presented with a success message and the program will close when clicking "OK".


Now open the game back up and you will see this message in the upper left corner, indicating that UUE4CE has properly loaded:

Now comes the easy part! Open up the console using the ~ key (may vary depending on your keyboard layout, but it's typically the key in the upper left of the keyboard just under escape.) In the console, type in:
Where ## is the FOV value of your choosing. The game's default FOV is 80.

As I stated at the beginning, the FOV value will not save so you must use UUE4CE every time you launch the game in order to play with modified FOV.

An interesting quirk of this game is that increasing the FOV also slightly increases performance, at least on my PC. Changing the FOV from the default 80 to 150 in the screenshot location increased my FPS from 80 to 90. Increasing the FOV from 80 to 90 increased my FPS by 1-2. I believe this is happening due to decreasing the size of shader effects on the screen.

Some FOV examples:
Default 80:


90 (my preference):


150 (probably works a lot better with an ultrawide monitor):

A big thank you to Otis_Inf and SunBeam for creating the very useful tool utilized in this guide.