Sonic Frontiers is off to a great start on Steam, setting a new concurrent player record for the series.
According to SteamDB, the game’s all-time high is 19,181 concurrent players.
The previous record was set by Sonic Mania about five years ago, with 11,937 concurrent players.
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Earlier this year, the launch of Sonic Origins only managed 2668 concurrent players. Sonic Frontiers is definitely the most popular Sonic release on Steam for a while, then.
On Steam, the game currently has an overwhelmingly positive rating, with fans detailing their praise in reviews.
“The big cat appears,” says one review, apparently praise enough.
“This game feels like welcoming an old friend back into your life,” says another reviewer, while another describes the game as “a Sonic game with Metal Gear Rising boss fights and if that doesn’t get you sell nothing will do.”
Our review of Sonic Frontiers was more critical, describing it as “a hot mess of a reinvention that can’t commit to its new direction.”