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SONIC SUPERSTARS

SEGA · 2023-10-16

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Action

Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 17, 2023 (Xbox One), Oct 17, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Oct 17, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Oct 17, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 17, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 17, 2023 (PlayStation 4)

Adventure through the mystical Northstar Islands in this all-new take on classic 2D Sonic high-speed action platforming in Sonic Superstars.

SONIC SUPERSTARS is a 2023 Action game priced at $11.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (68% of 3902 reviews).

13
playing now
68%
positive of 3.9k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (336 downloads)
3.97★
PlayStation Store rating (5,412 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Sonic Superstars is a 2023 platform game developed by Arzest and Sonic Team and published by Sega. It features side-scrolling gameplay similar to the Sonic the Hedgehog games released for the Sega Genesis in the 1990s. As one of four player characters—Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, and Amy Rose—the player completes side-scrolling levels as they set out to defeat Doctor Eggman and Fang the Hunter. Superstars introduces power-ups that the player can obtain by collecting the seven Chaos Emeralds and four-player local multiplayer.

Trailer

SONIC SUPERSTARS trailer thumbnail

Sonic Superstars - Announce Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 13 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 401 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~50/week).
  • · Review velocity up 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,157 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 78k–176k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,914 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.75 at GameBillet (2026-09-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 50 of 85 observed days · $49.24 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
78678620232026Week of 2023-10-01: 786 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 371 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5792026-09-14 22:00 — 17 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 9 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 12 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 20 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 16 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 10 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 28 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 17 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 13 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 33 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 18 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 11 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 24 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 23 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 13 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 46 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 40 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 15 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 24 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 41 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 37 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 24 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 39 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 13 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
39715Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 397 · peak 1,783Nov 2023 — avg 89 · peak 205Dec 2023 — avg 62 · peak 171Jan 2024 — avg 42 · peak 127Feb 2024 — avg 48 · peak 119Mar 2024 — avg 32 · peak 73Apr 2024 — avg 24 · peak 64May 2024 — avg 24 · peak 64Jun 2024 — avg 23 · peak 73Jul 2024 — avg 34 · peak 80Aug 2024 — avg 21 · peak 51Sep 2024 — avg 28 · peak 93Oct 2024 — avg 23 · peak 58Nov 2024 — avg 25 · peak 80Dec 2024 — avg 33 · peak 84Jan 2025 — avg 35 · peak 88Feb 2025 — avg 39 · peak 144Mar 2025 — avg 30 · peak 86Apr 2025 — avg 18 · peak 45May 2025 — avg 19 · peak 48Jun 2025 — avg 17 · peak 47Jul 2025 — avg 22 · peak 44Aug 2025 — avg 18 · peak 41Sep 2025 — avg 17 · peak 46Oct 2025 — avg 15 · peak 40Nov 2025 — avg 21 · peak 49Dec 2025 — avg 22 · peak 45Jan 2026 — avg 22 · peak 47Feb 2026 — avg 21 · peak 46Mar 2026 — avg 17 · peak 48Apr 2026 — avg 18 · peak 47May 2026 — avg 21 · peak 62Jun 2026 — avg 38 · peak 115Jul 2026 — avg 34 · peak 84Aug 2026 — avg 30 · peak 75
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$59.99$10.952023-08-222026-10-142023-08-22 — best price $59.992023-11-03 — best price $59.992023-12-21 — best price $35.902024-01-26 — best price $38.992024-03-21 — best price $59.992024-05-07 — best price $50.952024-06-27 — best price $21.592024-08-01 — best price $52.192024-08-30 — best price $55.192024-10-02 — best price $53.992024-11-02 — best price $52.742024-12-16 — best price $16.992025-01-20 — best price $16.192025-02-05 — best price $52.742025-03-20 — best price $16.592025-04-27 — best price $59.992025-05-09 — best price $23.992025-06-03 — best price $53.352025-07-14 — best price $59.992025-08-26 — best price $59.992025-10-06 — best price $59.992025-11-03 — best price $18.592025-12-12 — best price $56.392026-02-03 — best price $56.392026-02-27 — best price $16.922026-03-30 — best price $17.992026-04-26 — best price $59.992026-05-20 — best price $39.992026-07-01 — best price $12.002026-07-31 — best price $11.532026-09-09 — best price $59.992026-10-14 — best price $59.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3221512026-05-31 — 191 pageviews2026-06-04 — 175 pageviews2026-06-08 — 207 pageviews2026-06-12 — 182 pageviews2026-06-16 — 182 pageviews2026-06-20 — 227 pageviews2026-06-24 — 322 pageviews2026-06-28 — 255 pageviews2026-07-02 — 195 pageviews2026-07-06 — 224 pageviews2026-07-10 — 182 pageviews2026-07-14 — 166 pageviews2026-07-18 — 201 pageviews2026-07-22 — 206 pageviews2026-07-26 — 187 pageviews2026-07-30 — 200 pageviews2026-08-03 — 182 pageviews2026-08-07 — 157 pageviews2026-08-11 — 160 pageviews2026-08-15 — 229 pageviews2026-08-19 — 245 pageviews2026-08-23 — 242 pageviews2026-08-27 — 259 pageviews2026-08-31 — 260 pageviews2026-09-04 — 181 pageviews2026-09-08 — 219 pageviews2026-09-12 — 236 pageviews2026-09-16 — 190 pageviews2026-09-20 — 227 pageviews2026-09-24 — 236 pageviews2026-09-28 — 221 pageviews2026-10-02 — 166 pageviews2026-10-06 — 193 pageviews2026-10-10 — 212 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

38
achievements tracked
88.4%
earned "Charge!"
31.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Achievements8 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil…

Post-launch support: 8 DLC released, first 2023-10-17, latest 2024-07-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)8,1019%39
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)2,9984%38
Steam (Steam)2,6537%38
PS4 (PlayStation)1,94314%39
Switch (Nintendo)1,0350%0
Switch (Nintendo)170%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DActionCasualCartoonColorfulAdventureFast-PacedPlatformerMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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