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Sonic Forces

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Sonic Forces
Sonic Forces cover
Developers
Sonic Team
Windows Hardlight Studio
Publishers
Sega
Engines
Hedgehog Engine 2
Release dates
Windows November 7, 2017
Reception
Metacritic 56
OpenCritic 56
IGDB 57
Taxonomy
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Series Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic Forces on HowLongToBeat
Sonic Forces on IGDB
Sonic Forces guide on StrategyWiki
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Sonic Forces on Wikipedia
Sonic the Hedgehog fangames (series)
Sonic CD 1995
Sonic's Schoolhouse 1996
Sonic 3D Blast (series)
Sonic & Knuckles Collection 1997
Sonic R (series)
Sonic Adventure (series)
Sonic Heroes 2004
Sonic Mega Collection Plus 2006
Sonic Riders 2006
Sonic Racing (series)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2010
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine 2010
Sonic Spinball 2010
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2011
Sonic 3 & Knuckles 2011
Sonic Generations 2011
Sonic CD (2012) 2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I 2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II 2012
Sonic Dash 2014
Sonic Lost World 2015
Sonic Mania 2017
Sonic Forces 2017
Sonic the Hedgehog (Mobile Decompilation) 2021
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Mobile Decompilation) 2021
Sonic Colors: Ultimate 2021
Sonic Origins 2022
Sonic Frontiers 2022
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog 2023
Sonic Superstars 2023
Sonic Dream Team 2023
Sonic X Shadow Generations 2024

General information

Bug Report - Use the Customer Service to report bugs.
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[1]

DLC and expansion packs

Some of the free DLCs download has been disabled on Steam storefront and they fail to automatically add to your account. In these cases, copy-paste following URL into browser or steam URL bar to download that DLC.
Name Notes
Episode Shadow Free
steam://install/715850
Windows
Shadow Costume Free
steam://install/715900
Windows
SEGA Pack Free.
steam://install/715870
Windows
Persona 5 Costume Free
Windows
Super Sonic Free
Windows
Sanic T-Shirts Free
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savedata\GraphicsConfig.txt[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/637100/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savedata\<user-id>\savedata.xml[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/637100/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Display settings.
Display settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
16:9 aspect ratio only. Use Sonic Forces FOV Fix or the Flawless Widescreen script.
Multi-monitor
Use Sonic Forces FOV Fix or the Flawless Widescreen script.
Ultra-widescreen
Use Sonic Forces FOV Fix or the Flawless Widescreen script.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use Sonic Forces FOV Fix or the Flawless Widescreen script.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Cutscenes are internally and externally capped at 29 FPS. The external cap can be removed with Cheat Engine while the internal one requires a hex edit. Gameplay is internally capped at 59 FPS and will stutter at higher rates due to duplicating previous frames, especially if v-synced to a 60 Hz panel. See 120+ FPS notes. Fullscreen is locked to 60Hz and cannot be overwritten with GPU control panel. Use either windowed or borderless mode.
120+ FPS
The internal 59 FPS cap can be removed by hex editing a modified executable. Replace all instances of 89 88 88 3C with 2F 8E E3 3B (144 FPS) or 3F 0B 36 3B (360 FPS) (preferably with slightly higher values like 150 FPS or 365 FPS if v-syncing is desired, otherwise use external 142 and 355 FPS external caps to prevent stuttering). This will cause physics issues that progressively get worse, the higher the cap is set; however these are usually concerned with automated sequences; 144 FPS for example, will break "Red Gate Bridge", "Guardian Rock" and "Metropolitan Highway" while 360 FPS adds "Lost Valley", "Egg Gate", "Vs. Infinite 1st", "Casino Forest" and "Network Terminal" to the list. Some elements such as QTES and character dialogue animation are still locked at 60 (externally and internally respectively).
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
One key per action.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Can't use duplicate controls even for non-overlapping buttons.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Through generic controller support.
Generic/other controllers
If third party controller detected during launch, enables Steam Input and Big Picture overlay.
Button prompts
Additional information
Button prompts
For DualShock Prompts use this mod : Playstation Prompts Mod
Controller hotplugging
XInput only.
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts

Audio

Volume settings.
Volume settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Castilian.
Traditional Chinese

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2300 2.7 GHz
AMD FX-8100 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 18 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti
AMD Radeon R7 265
DirectX 11 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/637100/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (637100) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Sonic Forces on Steam - last accessed on 2017-09-21
    "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper"