Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II
Skip · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews▼
- 75% of 2,352
- Critics
- 54 players 21 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 47% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 9.4h 3.6x the story
- Finish
- 18% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 March 2017
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 47% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 73 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rayman® Legends ($29.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats SONIC SUPERSTARS ($39.99, scores 13).
More about Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II
Critics scored it 54. Players sit 21 points higher at 75 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. On a 2.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 554 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 412 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.6 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 3.6 times as long.
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
About the game
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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 8600/AT Radeon HD3650) & above, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode II scores 34/100 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/203650/sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-iiReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.