Sonic Frontiers: Everything We Know So Far

Sonic Frontiers is the latest release in the massively popular franchise from Sega and was officially announced at The Game Awards 2021.

There have already been a number of 3D Sonic The Hedgehog games beyond the Sega consoles that the iconic mascot started on, including for Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo.

Frontiers looks to be building on the highs and lows of the series ever since it made a move to the 3D platforming elements beyond the classic 2D games on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive.

Here’s everything we currently know about Sonic Frontiers, including the Release Date, Leaks, Gameplay, Open World aspects and more.

Update 17th June: Sonic Frontiers director Morio Kishimoto has revealed more about the game and what open zone is when speaking to IGN. He said: “Level-based platformers often have a world map. Our Open Zone is a world map, only we’ve made it entirely playable.

“A playable world map that includes stage-like elements is something that hasn’t really been done before, so we had to come up with a new name. What is often defined as a World in other level-based platformers is called a Zone in Sonic games, so we took that and combined it with Open, which refers to a freely explorable field. So that’s what Open Zone stands for.”

Sonic Frontiers was reportedly meant to be released back in 2021 as part of Sonic’s 30th Birthday.

SEGA revealed the following in a Q&A: “Originally it was planned to be released on this year, the 30th anniversary of Sonic. but we have postponed the release for a year in order to further brush up on the quality.

“Not only for this title, but during the development phase, we have been steadily conducting analysis to improve the quality of the title before release, such as introducing game