Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode I
Skip · Other · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews▼
- 40% of 3,915
- Genre rank
- Top 93% Other
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.5h
- To 100%
- 7.1h 2.8x the story
- Finish
- 13% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 July 2013
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 40% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
76% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 73 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II ($9.99, scores 34) outscores it, and so does SONIC SUPERSTARS ($39.99, scores 13). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode I
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 821 reviews written there were positive, against 40 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
2.5 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 24 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
i downloaded the steam version of episode 2 and it wouldnt launch AT ALL I HATE YOU SEGA
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Underhated pile of ass. Something to gift to people I truly hate. I'm even more pissed off that episode 2 is reviewed highly which means I dare risk another couple of hours going from suffering to diet suffering just to see if the reviews are botted or not.
I get that it's not the best game out there, but like how I was with Forces, this game has its charm. I didn't even encounter the infamous, slope walk. but I had a lot of fun with this.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The sequel fans have waited 16 years for is finally here - Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I! Featuring enhanced gameplay elements, including the classic Sonic Spin Dash, and the versatile Homing Attack, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I picks up right where Sonic and Knuckles™ left off. Dr.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 7600/AT Radeon X1300) & above, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode I scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/202530/sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-iReviews 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 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.