Sonic Lost World
Skip · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.17/hr
- Reviews▼
- 62% of 5,641
- Genre rank
- Top 95% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.2h
- To 100%
- 19.3h 2.7x the story
- Achievements
- 100
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $7.49 March 2016
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7 now
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 5% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
63 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. Sonic Frontiers ($39.99, scores 56) outscores it, and so does Hover ($19.99, scores 30). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Sonic Lost World
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to November 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 88 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 746 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.2 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
At 7.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
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 played Sonic Lost World on the Wii U when it came out. I enjoyed this a lot was back then when I was 13. Now coming back to this game a decade plus later. The game for me was a little difficult in my opinion since playing this on my desktop pc. I got used to the gameplay, overall the game has a mid story but its not terrible like the Sonic Forces story. I would recommend this game for the nostalgia if you played...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
game is enjoyable TO A POINT its not horrible but its just frustrating to deal with the gimmicks.
There have been a few times in my life I've considered suicide. My life wasn't going well, my parents yelled at me a lot, my grades were dropping, and I was bullied often. But through it all, I managed to get through everything with the help of my friends, especially my wonderful boyfriend. Being with them...its made me feel so much happier. Like no matter how bad things get, I'll always have them by my side. The...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
When the Deadly Six threaten to destroy his world, Sonic’s new moves & power-ups are the only way to defeat them before it’s too late!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 (512MB) / ATI Radeon HD 2900 (512MB), 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sonic Lost World scores 8/100 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/329440/sonic-lost-worldReviews 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 19, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.