Sonic Frontiers

Platforms

• PC

  Nov 8, 2022

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  7.8

  playscore

  7.2

  16 Critics

  8.9

  14.8K Players
• PlayStation 5

  Nov 8, 2022

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  7.9

  playscore

  7.3

  64 Critics

  9.0

  10.2K Players
• Xbox Series X|S

  Nov 8, 2022

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  7.9

  playscore

  6.9

  18 Critics

  9.3

  1.93K Players
• Nintendo Switch 2

  Jun 23, 2026

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  NA

  playscore

  NA

  0 Critics

  NA

  0 Players
• PlayStation 4

  Nov 8, 2022

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  7.8

  playscore

  7.2

  14 Critics

  9.0

  7.81K Players
• Xbox One

  Nov 8, 2022

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  7.8

  playscore

  6.9

  10 Critics

  9.4

  1.20K Players
• Nintendo Switch

  Nov 8, 2022

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  7.7

  playscore

  6.6

  16 Critics

  9.2

  6.67K Players

98 critic reviews · 6 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  Impulse Gamer

  6.6

  Though it is still the best way to experience this open-world adventure of Sonic, it is still an underwhelming port of a mediocre game.

  Reviewed on Switch 2

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  Dual Shockers

  7.0

  Generate a summary of this story Sign in now Mortal Shell II MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls Palworld Star Wars Zero Company ARC Raiders Close Sonic Frontiers - Definitive Edition Review: Some Direction is Better Than None By Zackari Greif Published Jul 1, 2026, 3:54 PM EDT Zackari Greif is a List…

  Reviewed on Switch 2

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  ZTGD

  8.0

  Ultimately, that’s the feeling I leave Sonic Frontiers with. It’s not perfect and it could never be perfect with the chances it takes but ultimately the chances are generally the best parts of the game.

  Reviewed on XB1

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  Screen Rant

  6.0

  Sonic Frontiers takes many steps in the right direction for Sonic games. Still, its biggest fault is that it tries to do so much, with how well it accomplishes everything varying greatly between interesting and frustrating.

  Reviewed on Switch

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  Hey Poor Player

  6.0

  A lot of Sonic Frontiers is still a mess, actually, and Sonic himself still doesn’t feel great. Those two things alone will keep a lot of players away, and I can’t blame them. Still, there’s something about Frontiers that no recent Sonic game can match. It’s ambitious, and its core gameplay loop actually works. It’s downright engaging.

  Reviewed on Series X|S

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  PC Gamer

  6.7

  While ricocheting around pin-ball like arenas and boosting up walls to reach seemingly impossible places feels rad as hell, the world it’s all set in is flat. The drama of the story makes for a compelling reason to keep playing, but it’s hard to recommend Frontiers given how much gets in the way of letting you enjoy the purity of Sonic’s movement.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Comic Book

  8.0

  Sonic Frontiers has a lot of little flaws, but its strengths are great enough that it's hard to harp on them too much. The game's Open Zones are fun to explore, the Cyber Space levels are well-crafted, and the audio is excellent. Sonic Team has clearly put a lot of thought and care into crafting this new direction for the series, and the results are impressive.

  Reviewed on Switch

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  PS Lifestyle

  7.5

  The insistence by Sonic Team to jam in minigames that block progress to the story is frustrating to say the least, and some of the larger maps’ designs feel a little haphazard. Overall, though, the weirdness of the story will keep some going just to see, well, where the hell it’s all going.

  Reviewed on PS5

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  Pure Nintendo

  7.0

  Sonic Frontiers takes a huge gamble on changing up its entire gameplay presentation and the open-zone approach mostly works. It’s a blast running around in these open zones discovering all there is to offer. There’s also plenty of variety in the side quests and minigames, although you won’t truly love the throwbacks unless you’re a long-time Sonic player. That said, Sonic Frontiers suffers from being glitchy, where you run into graphical issues at nearly every section.

  Reviewed on Switch

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  Way Too Many Games

  6.5

  Sonic Frontiers is so frustrating because it was so close to greatness. Despite the story weirdness, I did genuinely enjoy Kronos Island. The mechanics and feeling of speed were great, the levels were fantastic (this carries across the whole game), and the boss fight was absolutely incredible. But then you fly off to Ares Island, something shoots you scattering the Chaos Emeralds, and you crash land realizing that you have to do everything you just did all over again. It’s at that exact point the game falls apart and it never recovers because it pulls this nonsense two more times.

  Reviewed on PS5

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