If you would like a single platform to play video games at residence and on the go, the Nintendo Swap has received your again. Even higher when you’re a fan of Sonic: Ever for the reason that Swap arrived in 2017, Sega has labored like clockwork to constantly launch Sonic video games for the hybrid console. Final yr we received Sonic x Shadow Generations alongside the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film, so it is protected to say Sega’s speedster is greater than ever.
Now that the Swap 2 has formally launched, it is just about assured extra Sonic video games are on the way in which. The subsequent massive launch, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, is launching on the unique system, however as we transfer towards Swap 2-exclusives, some good ol’ backward compatibility means your current Sonic video games aren’t going anyplace.
For anybody wanting to take a look at the trendy period of Sonic (and pals), listed below are all of the Sonic the Hedgehog video games you may play proper now in addition to upcoming Sonic video games on the Swap 2.
How Many Sonic Video games Are There on Nintendo Swap?
A complete of 9 Sonic video games have been launched for Nintendo Swap. This spans the primary yr of the system again in 2017 to the latest sport, Sonic x Shadows Generations, launched in October 2024. Take into account that this record beneath doesn’t embody the extra video games out there with a Nintendo Swap On-line subscription.
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Each Sonic Recreation Launched on the Swap (in Launch Order)
Sonic Mania (2017)
Sonic Mania was developed by PagodaWest Video games and Sonic fangame group member Christian Whitehead as a love letter to the traditional Sonic the Hedgehog titles launched on the Sega Genesis and Sega CD platforms. Going down after the occasions of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the sport remixes eight iconic ranges, together with Inexperienced Hill Zone and Chemical Plant Zone, and introduces 5 new ones, together with the glamorous Studiopolis Zone and the peaceable Press Backyard Zone. This sport additionally introduces a brand new troupe of Eggbots known as the Onerous-Boiled Heavies for Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles to beat.
Mania is taken into account the most effective Sonic video games of the 2010s due to the experiment in permitting a gaggle of Sonic followers to create a sport different Sonic followers would love, the vivid neon graphics, and the brand new challenges current in each stage.
Sonic Forces (2017)
Sonic Forces makes Traditional Sonic and Fashionable Sonic type a resistance towards Dr. Eggman after he conquered a lot of the world alongside Infinite, a masked jackal who makes use of the Phantom Ruby to create doppelgangers and warp actuality. The sport switches gameplay modes between third-person Enhance gameplay with Fashionable Sonic, side-scrolling gameplay with Traditional Sonic, and a mode with the customized avatar character, which might be any animal you need, whose weapons use Wisp power-ups. Forces’ writing and lighting aren’t precisely the perfect within the collection, however the sport remains to be tolerable for some folks.
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Workforce Sonic Racing (2019)
Workforce Sonic Racing takes racing video games to a complete new stage by having gamers race with one another, not towards one another. This sport has a cooperative gameplay mechanic much like Splatoon and Overwatch, utilizing Sonic Heroes as a body of reference, the place you play in groups of three characters and work collectively to win every race, paying very shut consideration to your teammates’ efficiency and sharing Wisp power-ups with them to permit them to hurry up and pull your ranks. Since a lot of the karts are sports activities vehicles, you may customise them with gold rims and paint your automotive any colour you need West Coast Customs type.
2 Video games Sonic Mania + Workforce Sonic Racing
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Mario & Sonic on the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 (2019)
Launched a yr earlier than the real-life Tokyo Olympic Video games was scheduled to start (solely to be postponed to 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic), Mario & Sonic on the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 brings the platform rivalry between the jolly crimson plumber, the speedy blue hedgehog, and their respective pals again to the world stage with new occasions, like browsing, skateboarding, karate, and sport climbing, and bonus options. The sport features a story mode that takes Mario and Sonic again to the Tokyo 1964 Olympics and their early 2D sprite selves, whereas everybody else works to assist convey them again to the actual world within the current day. You get the perfect of each eras and a few historical past classes concerning the Olympic Video games in Tokyo to go along with it.
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Sonic Colours: Final (2021)
Sonic Colours: Final is a remastered model of the unique Sonic Colours developed by Blind Squirrel Video games for Sonic’s thirtieth anniversary in 2021. The remaster enhanced the graphics to brighten up the colours of Eggman’s interplanetary amusement park and the character fashions, launched a brand new Jade Ghost Wisp to assist Sonic section via partitions and ceilings, changed the standard lives with rescues from Tails, and launched mini races towards Metallic Sonic. You can too accumulate Park Tokens to customise Sonic with the wackiest designs for his footwear and gloves.
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Sonic Origins (2022)
Sonic Origins compiles the primary 4 traditional Sonic video games launched on the Sega Genesis and Sega CD and remasters them for contemporary consoles and the viewers that performs on them, whether or not they’re veteran followers in search of a nostalgia repair or younger followers who need to perceive Sonic’s historical past. Gamers can expertise the sport in Traditional Mode, which is the unique format introduced in a 4:3 facet ratio, or Anniversary Mode, which replaces lives with cash and permits Sonic to make use of Drop Sprint as he did in Sonic Mania. Every sport within the compilation options new animated cutscenes firstly and finish accomplished by the incomparable Tyson Heese to attach all 4 video games right into a cohesive story, offered you play them within the unique launch order.
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Sonic Frontiers (2022)
Sonic Frontiers is the primary open-world sport within the Sonic franchise – or ought to we are saying, “open-zone”? – born out of a development of open-world video games being styled after The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Sonic explores the huge Starfall Islands to combat cybernetic enemies, remedy varied puzzles, and run via Cyber House ranges modeled after the degrees from previous Sonic titles in an effort to avoid wasting his pals from the digitized dimension. Each veteran and new Sonic followers alike will get pleasure from working across the mysterious island set to a soundtrack that strikes a fragile steadiness between serenity and chaos.
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Sonic Superstars (2023)
Sonic Superstars is a collaborative effort between Sega and Arzest to convey 3D graphics to a Traditional Sonic sport, a transfer that stunned everybody on the 2023 Summer time Recreation Fest (together with this creator). With Traditional Sonic being a CGI character on his personal for the primary time and traditional ranges getting revamped with new music and upgraded stage designs, the sport permits as much as 4 folks to regionally play collectively as Sonic and his pals all through 11 ranges throughout the Northstar Islands and grants new powers for each Chaos Emerald they accumulate to beat obstacles.
Sonic X Shadow Generations (2024)
Workforce Sonic’s newest is Sonic X Shadow Generations, a remastered model of 2011’s Sonic Era that goes past graphical upgrades and quality-of-life enhancements by together with an all-new marketing campaign comprised of reminagined Shadow levels from previous Sonic video games. The 2 campaigns mix for 15-20 hours of content material throughout over 150 levels, main us to say in our Shadow x Generations overview that it “soars far and above earlier enhanced variations we have gotten within the Sonic franchise.”
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Extra Sonic Video games Obtainable with Nintendo Swap On-line + Growth Pack
Should you’re seeking to play some traditional Sonic video games with a Nintendo Swap On-line subscription, there are just a few out there underneath the SEGA catalog. You could find extra data about them beneath:
Upcoming Sonic Video games on the Swap
2024 was a giant yr for Sonic followers between the discharge of a brand new sport (Sonic X Shadow Generations) and film (Sonic the Hedgehog 3). An upcoming Sonic sport, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, was introduced on the 2024 Recreation Awards and is ready to launch on the Swap (in addition to PC, PS5, and Xbox) on September 25.
The sport follows up on 2019’s Workforce Sonic Racing, that includes the total set of Sonic characters in addition to new crossover racers like Joker, Hatsune Miku, and Steve from Minecraft. Jada Griffin’s overview of Cross Worlds for IGN says the sport “fires on all cylinders with a implausible roster, wonderful programs, and prolonged record of customization choices.”
Outdoors of video games, Paramount has confirmed it’ll make Sonic the Hedgehog 4. The film is focusing on a Spring 2027 launch window.
Cristina Alexander is a contract author for IGN. She has contributed her work to numerous publications, together with Digital Tendencies, TheGamer, Twinfinite, Mega Visions, and The Escapist. To paraphrase Calvin Harris, she wears her love for Sonic the Hedgehog on her sleeve like a giant deal. Comply with her on Twitter @SonicPrincess15.
