Sonic Origins
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 86% over the last 30 days against 77% all-time.
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($11.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($8.99)
- Last discount ended
- 36 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7790, 2 GB. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.99, set in February 2026. 29 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 39 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sonic Mania ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Endorlight ($0.79, scores 7).
Players rate it 77 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 86 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 45 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 436 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 45 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 998 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
At 10.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
89% start to 10% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
82 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 23:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Decent collection. It's definitely lacking compared to something like Mega Collection, but if you just want to play 1-3&K, it gets the job done. It's still classic Sonic at the end of the day.
Changed my mind. This game is only alright. i figured out the music and Sonic CD makes me hard now.
First, I was unaware this game had denuvo drm. That should be a good reason not to buy this. When I bought this game not long after launch, I was not in my "avoid non drm free games" ark. Anyways, there isn't really a reason to play this collection, especially if you're on PC. There are multiple better ways to play all the games featured in Origins. Sonic 1, 2, and CD all have decomp ports. Sonic 3 & Knuckles can be...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sonic Origins scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1794960/sonic-originsReviews 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 Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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