Sonic Frontiers (2022)

Developer: Sonic Team
Publisher: SEGA
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action, Adventure
Rating: 4.5 of 5, 28,074 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 17 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A high-speed open-zone adventure where you race across vibrant islands, fight hordes of enemies, and explore at speed.

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What players say

Players are split on Sonic Frontiers. Many love the music, titan boss fights, and free DLC, but others find the open zones repetitive, full of busy work, and marred by severe pop-in and janky controls. The cyberspace levels reuse assets from older Sonic games.

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