Sonic Runners
Featuring true Sonic the Hedgehog, retro-style, side-scrolling action. By SONIC TEAM, SEGA's top Sonic game design masters. On 27 July 2016, Sega closed the game's servers and pulled the game out of its…
Sonic Runners is a platform developed by Sonic Team, released 25 February 2015 on Android and iOS.
What Sonic Runners is
Sonic Runners is a platform game developed by Sonic Team and released in 2015. It is available on Android and iOS. It runs on Unity 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Featuring true Sonic the Hedgehog, retro-style, side-scrolling action. By SONIC TEAM, SEGA's top Sonic game design masters. On 27 July 2016, Sega closed the game's servers and pulled the game out of its respective store apps. The game later had a sequel named Sonic Runners Adventure.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Runners is the 303rd of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Dash Extreme in 2015. Its critic score of 60 is 11 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 Runners holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Sonic Runners launched on 25 February 2015, within three weeks of Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and Cities: Skylines. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Cities: Skylines.
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