Sonic Superstars
Adventure through the mystical Northstar Islands in this all-new take on classic 2D Sonic high-speed action platforming. Play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose and harness all-new Emerald powers to move…
Sonic Superstars is a platform developed by Arzest, released 17 October 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Sonic Superstars is
Sonic Superstars is a platform game developed by Arzest and released in 2023. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The adventure takes place across the lush and untamed North Star Islands, a brand-new setting home to a population of enormous, gentle creatures. Trouble arrives when the villainous Doctor Eggman, scheming as ever to seize power, sets out to capture these giant animals and harness them to build a formidable new army. To carry out his plot, he enlists two accomplices: the greedy bounty hunter Fang the Hunter and the mysterious newcomer Trip the Sungazer. Standing against them are the heroic Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose, who race across the islands to foil Eggman's scheme. Dashing, flying, gliding, and smashing their way through a series of vibrant zones…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, kids, party and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Sonic Superstars is the 374th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic Superstars: Digital Deluxe Edition featuring LEGO in 2023. Its critic score of 77 is 6 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Sonic Superstars holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Sonic Superstars launched on 17 October 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sonic Superstars yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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