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Sonic Colors: Ultimate

Join Sonic in the high-speed adventure of a lifetime across a colorful interstellar amusement park. Color the Universe in Sonic Colors: Ultimate!

74 7 September 2021

Sonic Colors: Ultimate is an adventure developed by Blind Squirrel Entertainment, released 7 September 2021 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Sonic Colors: Ultimate is

Sonic Colors: Ultimate is an adventure game developed by Blind Squirrel Entertainment and released in 2021. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Godot.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The evil Dr. Eggman has built a gigantic interstellar amusement park bursting with incredible rides and colorful attractions – but he’s powering it with a captured alien race called “Wisps.” Use Sonic’s lightning speed to free the Wisps and learn the secrets of their amazing powers as you explore six unique colorful worlds, each filled with dangerous enemies and hurdles to overcome.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Colors: Ultimate is the 351st of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Colors: Ultimate - Launch Edition in 2021. Its critic score of 74 is 3 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Sonic Colors: Ultimate holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Sonic Colors: Ultimate launched on 7 September 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut.

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When did Sonic Colors: Ultimate come out?
Sonic Colors: Ultimate was released on 7 September 2021 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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