Sonic Forces
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $9.75/hr
- Reviews
- 59% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or AMD R7 265, 18 GB of storage. 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 $9.99, set in November 2018. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 56 in the 9 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. Sonic Frontiers ($39.99, scores 56) outscores it, and so does SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS ($49.99, scores 77). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 24 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 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, 507 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 771 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.1 hours. Doing everything runs 27, 6.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
92% start to 22% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
16 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Only Bought this for Sonic Forces overclocked when that mod relesed and its 10 times better go play that
Its a great game by SEGA. The graphics, script, gameplay and story was AMAZING. Just the homing attack during boss fights like VS Infinite and VS Metal Sonic isn't working properly as it does in the other stages, but still it's a great game in the Sonic Franchise
The control feels funny, good ost, it has potential, I REALLY LOVE THE CONCEPT. Don't get me wrong, i really like the concept of Eggman winning and how dark the whole concept is (especially Infinite gosh i love him) but it got ruined by lame jokes that feel out of place that doesn't match with the dark tone here, and it feels FORCED. And somehow the beta dialogues are better and it got me thinking, why? And other...
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Cite this score
Sonic Forces scores 6/100 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/637100/sonic-forcesReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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