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Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition

Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition includes - • Sonic Frontiers game • "The Final Horizon" story campaign • "Sights, Sounds, and Speed" and "Sonic's Birthday Bash" Content Updates • Bonus in-game items…

84 23 June 2026

Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition is an adventure developed by Sonic Team, released 23 June 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2.

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What Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition is

Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition is an adventure game developed by Sonic Team and released in 2026. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 only. It runs on Hedgehog Engine 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition includes - • Sonic Frontiers game • "The Final Horizon" story campaign • "Sights, Sounds, and Speed" and "Sonic's Birthday Bash" Content Updates • Bonus in-game items (Explorer's Treasure Box, "Monster Hunter" Collaboration Pack, "Sonic Adventure 2" Shoes, and Holiday Cheer Suit) • Digital Art Book and Mini Soundtrack
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition is the 404th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Classic Sonic Collection in 2026. Its critic score of 84 is 13 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 Frontiers: Definitive Edition holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition launched on 23 June 2026, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Palworld, Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations and Meccha Chameleon. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 9 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, Palworld, Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, Meccha Chameleon.

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When did Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition come out?
Sonic Frontiers: Definitive Edition was released on 23 June 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2.

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