Fun avatar creator and customization
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The avatar system is cool and very customizable.”
Steam review · 95.5 h played ↗
Sonic Forces
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 62%Mixed · 62%Sonic Team, Hardlight20173D Platformer · Adventure · Action
$39.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 4 h ago
The verdict
A short, easy, heavily automated boost-to-win Sonic game with great music, visuals and an avatar creator, but a weak story and poor Classic Sonic physics. Skip at full price.
Great for
Sonic fans on a deep sale who want a quick, easy ride, a character creator and a great soundtrack, ideally with mods
Main risk
Only 2-4 hours of automated, shallow gameplay with clunky controls, poor value at full price
What players love
Great soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“No matter what anyone says, the soundtrack is GREAT.”
Steam review · 95.5 h played ↗
Mods like Overclocked redeem it
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Only Bought this for Sonic Forces overclocked when that mod relesed and its 10 times better go play that”
Steam review · 10.2 h played ↗
Great visuals
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“The visual fidelity of this game looks amazing, even after being out for nearly a decade.”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗
Replayable challenges and wispons
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“The true fun comes from all the challenges.”
Steam review · 34.4 h played ↗
Fast, fun and easy to zone out
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“it's just fun zone out and enjoy some easy gameplay with flashy, fast moving graphics.”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Weak story and wasted villain
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Out of all the sonic games I’ve played I have to say this has some of the worst writing decisions ever”
Steam review · 4.8 h played ↗
Very short
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Almost a decade old and barely 2 hours long.”
Steam review · 7.7 h played ↗
Automated hold-boost gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“levels for 90% of the game's runtime can purely boil down to holding a button down.”
Steam review · 1.8 h played ↗
Awful Classic Sonic physics
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Classic Sonic feels like complete dogwater.”
Steam review · 8.4 h played ↗
Grindy 100% completion
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“please for the love of god do NOT try to 100% this game”
Steam review · 61.8 h played ↗
Save loss and bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“This game doesn't save data anymore, and Sega doesn't want to fix that problem anymore.”
Steam review · 2.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support18 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 Service Pack 1
ProcessorIntel i5 5th gen @ 2.7Ghz or AMD A10 7th gen @ 3.0Ghz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 750 Ti or AMD R7 265
Storage18 GB available space
OSWindows 7 Service Pack 1
ProcessorIntel i5 5th gen @ 2.7Ghz or AMD A10 7th gen @ 3.0Ghz
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 750 Ti or AMD R7 265
Storage18 GB available space
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