Every Sonic Game on the Nintendo Switch in 2025

Every Sonic Game Released connected the Switch (in Release Order)

Sonic Mania (2017)

Sonic Games: Sonic Mania

Sonic Mania was developed by PagodaWest Games and Sonic fangame assemblage subordinate Christian Whitehead arsenic a emotion missive to the classical Sonic the Hedgehog titles released connected the Sega Genesis and Sega CD platforms. Taking spot aft the events of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the crippled remixes 8 iconic levels, including Green Hill Zone and Chemical Plant Zone, and introduces 5 caller ones, including the glamorous Studiopolis Zone and the peaceful Press Garden Zone. This crippled besides introduces a caller troupe of Eggbots called the Hard-Boiled Heavies for Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles to beat.

Mania is considered 1 of the champion Sonic games of the 2010s due to the fact that of the experimentation successful allowing a radical of Sonic fans to make a crippled different Sonic fans would love, the vivid neon graphics, and the caller challenges contiguous successful each stage.

Sonic Forces (2017)

Sonic Forces makes Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic signifier a absorption against Dr. Eggman aft helium conquered astir of the satellite alongside Infinite, a masked jackal who uses the Phantom Ruby to make doppelgangers and warp reality. The crippled switches gameplay modes betwixt third-person Boost gameplay with Modern Sonic, side-scrolling gameplay with Classic Sonic, and a mode with the customized avatar character, which tin beryllium immoderate carnal you want, whose weapons usage Wisp power-ups. Forces’ penning and lighting aren’t precisely the champion successful the series, but the crippled is inactive tolerable for immoderate people.

Team Sonic Racing (2019)

Team Sonic Racing takes racing games to a full caller level by having players contention with each other, not against each other. This crippled has a cooperative gameplay mechanic akin to Splatoon and Overwatch, utilizing Sonic Heroes arsenic a framework of reference, wherever you play successful teams of 3 characters and enactment unneurotic to triumph each race, paying precise adjacent attraction to your teammates’ show and sharing Wisp power-ups with them to let them to velocity up and propulsion your ranks. Since astir of the karts are sports cars, you tin customize them with golden rims and overgarment your car immoderate colour you privation West Coast Customs style.

Mario & Sonic astatine the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 (2019)

Released a twelvemonth earlier the real-life Tokyo Olympic Games was scheduled to statesman (only to beryllium postponed to 2021 successful effect to the COVID-19 pandemic), Mario & Sonic astatine the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 brings the level rivalry betwixt the jolly reddish plumber, the speedy bluish hedgehog, and their respective friends backmost to the satellite signifier with caller events, similar surfing, skateboarding, karate, and athletics climbing, and bonus features. The crippled includes a communicative mode that takes Mario and Sonic backmost to the Tokyo 1964 Olympics and their aboriginal 2D sprite selves, portion everyone other works to assistance bring them backmost to the existent satellite successful the contiguous day. You get the champion of some eras and immoderate past lessons astir the Olympic Games successful Tokyo to spell with it.

Sonic Colors: Ultimate (2021)

Sonic Colors: Ultimate is simply a remastered mentation of the archetypal Sonic Colors developed by Blind Squirrel Games for Sonic’s 30th day successful 2021. The remaster enhanced the graphics to brighten up the colors of Eggman’s interplanetary amusement parkland and the quality models, introduced a caller Jade Ghost Wisp to assistance Sonic signifier done walls and ceilings, replaced the accepted lives with rescues from Tails, and introduced mini races against Metal Sonic. You tin besides cod Park Tokens to customize Sonic with the wackiest designs for his shoes and gloves.

Sonic Origins (2022)

Sonic Origins compiles the archetypal 4 classical Sonic games released connected the Sega Genesis and Sega CD and remasters them for modern consoles and the assemblage that plays connected them, whether they’re seasoned fans seeking a nostalgia hole oregon young fans who privation to recognize Sonic’s history. Players tin acquisition the crippled successful Classic Mode, which is the archetypal format presented successful a 4:3 facet ratio, oregon Anniversary Mode, which replaces lives with coins and allows Sonic to usage Drop Dash arsenic helium did successful Sonic Mania. Each crippled successful the compilation features caller animated cutscenes astatine the opening and extremity done by the incomparable Tyson Heese to link each 4 games into a cohesive story, provided you play them successful the archetypal merchandise order.

Sonic Frontiers (2022)

Sonic Frontiers is the archetypal open-world crippled successful the Sonic franchise – oregon should we say, “open-zone”? – calved retired of a inclination of open-world games being styled aft The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Sonic explores the immense Starfall Islands to combat cybernetic enemies, lick assorted puzzles, and tally done Cyber Space levels modeled aft the levels from past Sonic titles successful an effort to prevention his friends from the digitized dimension. Both seasoned and caller Sonic fans alike volition bask moving astir the mysterious land acceptable to a soundtrack that strikes a delicate equilibrium betwixt serenity and chaos.

Sonic Superstars (2023)

Sonic Superstars is simply a collaborative effort betwixt Sega and Arzest to bring 3D graphics to a Classic Sonic game, a determination that amazed everyone astatine the 2023 Summer Game Fest (including this author). With Classic Sonic being a CGI quality connected his ain for the archetypal clip and classical levels getting revamped with caller euphony and upgraded level designs, the crippled allows up to 4 radical to locally play unneurotic arsenic Sonic and his friends passim 11 levels crossed the Northstar Islands and grants caller powers for each Chaos Emerald they cod to flooded obstacles.

Sonic X Shadow Generations (2024)

Team Sonic's latest is Sonic X Shadow Generations, a remastered mentation of 2011's Sonic Generation that goes beyond graphical upgrades and quality-of-life improvements by including an all-new run comprised of reminagined Shadow stages from past Sonic games. The 2 campaigns harvester for 15-20 hours of contented crossed implicit 150 stages, starring america to accidental successful our Shadow x Generations reappraisal that it "soars acold and supra erstwhile enhanced versions we've gotten successful the Sonic franchise."

More Sonic Games Available with Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack

If you're looking to play immoderate classical Sonic games with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, determination are a fewer disposable nether the SEGA catalog. You tin find much info astir them below:

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Sonic Spinball

Upcoming Sonic Games connected the Switch

2024 was a large twelvemonth for Sonic fans betwixt the merchandise of a caller crippled (Sonic X Shadow Generations) and movie (Sonic the Hedgehog 3). An upcoming Sonic game, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, was announced astatine the 2024 Game Awards and is acceptable to merchandise connected the Switch (as good arsenic PC, PS5, and Xbox) connected September 25. The crippled follows up connected 2019's Team Sonic Racing, featuring the afloat acceptable of Sonic characters arsenic good arsenic caller crossover racers similar Joker, Hatsune Miku, and Steve from Minecraft. You tin cheque retired IGN's preview of the caller Sonic racing crippled for much details.

Outside of games, Paramount has confirmed it volition marque Sonic the Hedgehog 4. The movie is targeting a Spring 2027 merchandise window.

Cristina Alexander is simply a freelance writer for IGN. She has contributed her enactment to assorted publications, including Digital Trends, TheGamer, Twinfinite, Mega Visions, and The Escapist. To paraphrase Calvin Harris, she wears her emotion for Sonic the Hedgehog connected her sleeve similar a large deal. Follow her connected Twitter @SonicPrincess15.

Originally posted:

Jun 11, 2025 4:39 pm