The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

Steam Deck Playable

SEGA · Visual Novel · Mar 31, 2023

Yes, worth playing.

It's free to play.

97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
25k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 156 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 46 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 24 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 25k player reviews · updated 3 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
83% of themes are praise17% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
this game was quite the spectacle especially for such an unexpected visual novel, at first i had no hope because it was free but boy was i wrong. this game has a very comforting story despite being a murder mystery, i highly recommend this to play and even if you're not a story person, the art is more than enough to give this a go, and while it is short it has enough difficulty to keep you interested but just one thing i would say is that you should CREATE CONSTANT SAVES my game crashed and i had to restart it (it was stupid of me i know) but better safe than sorry.
156 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The gameplay itself isn't too hard and most people shouldn't have a problem with it, and the story itself is easy to follow.
46 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The art style and aesthetic of the game are great.
24 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Although there was no voice acting, you could still feel the good synergy between the characters by how they interact with each other.
13 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Accessibility
Players who bring up Accessibility mostly praise it.
The accessibility settings in the menu for the minigame are also very helpful, and can also be used to make the minigames more beatable with lag (if you have a lower-end device).
10 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters156 reviews
Gameplay46 reviews
Graphics24 reviews
Audio13 reviews
Accessibility10 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty28 reviews
93%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

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Player review score
97%
Overwhelmingly Positive
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