Sonic Frontiers Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-05-31
- Open-world design highly praised by users.
- Boss fights highly entertaining and engaging.
- Outstanding soundtrack enhances overall experience.
- Tedious and empty open world design.
- Poor controls and gameplay mechanics.
- Severe pop-in issues and technical flaws.
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMmixedWindows 12-15GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 27,729
- Positive
- 24,77389.3%
- Negative
- 2,95610.7%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,841,591
- Estimated revenue
- $73,645,224
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 2326.14%
- Estimated copies lost
- 15,408
- Estimated revenue lost
- $616,166
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 2326.1% Avg playtime 0.8h | 651.7% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 49713.2% Avg playtime 21.8h | 2,98379% Avg playtime 39.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 2.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 8.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 143.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 1,299.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
3,777 total
Organic purchasers2,69171.2%
Voted up: 84%
Key activations1,08628.8%
Voted up: 72%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
3,777 total
First impression0-2h38710.2%
Voted up: 36%
Mid game2-10h1,05828.0%
Voted up: 82%
Late game10-20h72919.3%
Voted up: 84%
Endgame20h+1,60342.4%
Voted up: 89%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
68.0%
Global baseline 80.7%
128 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 27,729 total.