Sonic Forces
Fight through a world destroyed by Dr. Eggman and a powerful new villain in Sonic Forces, the new fast-paced action platformer from the team that brought you Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. Sonic Forces…
Sonic Forces is a platform developed by Sonic Team, released 7 November 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What Sonic Forces is
Sonic Forces is a platform game developed by Sonic Team and released in 2017. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Hedgehog Engine 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game follows Sonic the Hedgehog as a member of a resistance force against Doctor Eggman, who has taken over the world with the help of his robot army and a mysterious new villain known as Infinite. Gameplay is similar to Sonic Generations with players controlling "Classic" and "Modern" versions of the titular character; the former plays from a 2.5D side-scrolling view reminiscent of the original Sonic games on the Sega Genesis, while the latter uses three-dimensional gameplay similar to Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors. In addition to the two Sonics, Sonic Forces also introduces a third gameplay mode featuring the "Avatar", the player's own custom character.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Forces is the 320th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Forces: Episode Shadow in 2017. Its critic score of 57 is 14 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Sonic Forces holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 14 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 56, across 119 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5 5th gen @ 2.7Ghz or AMD A10 7th gen @ 3.0Ghz, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or AMD R7 265. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 18GB.
What it launched against
Sonic Forces launched on 7 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sonic Forces yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
All media
Dlc
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