Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II
Skip · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 8600/AT Radeon HD3650) & above, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Sonic 4 Saga continues in Episode II with the return of a beloved side kick and fan-favorite villains! Following the events of Episode I, Metal Sonic has returned to form an alliance with Dr. Eggman! To face this new evil, Sonic will have to call upon an old friend to help him save the day!
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was March 2017. It has been discounted 72 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre. On the same math Rayman® Legends ($29.99, scores 59) and Rayman® Origins ($19.99, scores 56) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 54. Players sit 20 points higher at 74 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. This site sampled 451 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 409 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
72% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/203650/sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-iiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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