Sonic Frontiers
Fair · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$13.9965% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.44/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 28,698
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 79% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.4h
- To 100%
- 26.9h 1.6x the story
- Finish
- 23% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 28 on record
- Typical cut
- 65% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 November 2025
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 149 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 23% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
28 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hob ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Prince of Persia® ($9.99, scores 52).
More about Sonic Frontiers
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 79 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 38 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 1,599 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 23 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The open world is not fun. It apes off BoTW for no reason, especially in it's quiet tone. It's like playing one of those 2014 fan tech demos where you run around aimlessly until you accidentally find a goal, except it's just boost gameplay that people pretend to like because they played the first level of Unleashed. the cyberspace levels are acceptable in that you don't feel like shooting yourself in the head while...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I tried really hard to like this game and started it multiple times, thinking I was missing something. But no, it's just boring. Not bad, just boring.
If you are a Sonic Fan. YOU-NEED-THIS-GAME! It has it's rough edges with lots of varying difficulty and quite a few glitches. But the positives HEAVILY outweigh the negatives. This is actually a controversial take, despite the pop-in, I like the visuals. They are just the style I want. The gameplay is mostly a collectathon but there is really fun combat and the feeling of running around these giant islands as a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Sonic Frontiers is a groundbreaking open-zone action-adventure game set on the ancient Starfall Islands. Join Sonic as he battles hordes of powerful enemies with an all-new combat system, explores the mysteries of the islands, and saves his friends!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sonic Frontiers scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1237320/sonic-frontiersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.