2017 · Platformer · Retro · Fast-Paced
How long isSonic Mania?
by Christian Whitehead & Headcannon
8.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 4 hours and 20 hours
Sonic Mania among the 238 2D platformers here
The whole tier list#121
of 238
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 41%
- got past 2 hours
- about the kind's 39%
- 4%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 5%
- 72%
- launched it
- +14 on the kind's 58%
- 213
- libraries own it
- 1 in 12 of the 2,472 read here
Next to it in the ranking
On the long side for a 2D platformer: 8.5 hours for the typical player, longer than 228 of 303 2D platformers here.
79% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
93% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
95% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
97% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
98% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
99% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
97% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
98% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
Does Sonic Mania hold up?
Holds steady
At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Sonic Mania tell you?
In the first two hours79%recommend it
After that96%recommend it
6 in 100 said no: 4 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 8.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4 hours and 20 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 29,200 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 93% and 99% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
12% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 79% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 60% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 3 hours in.
When would you get there?
9days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 8.5 hours on Monday, November 23.
Half of its reviewers had played between 4 and 20 hours: Nov 18 to Dec 4 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Sonic Mania worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Sonic Mania
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 8.5 h
- 2D platformer rate
- $2.50/h
- 8.5 h at that rate
- $21
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Sonic Mania worth it? Mostly.
Fair price
About what a typical 2D platformer charges: $2.35 an hour
Loved
96% recommend it after the refund windowmost 2D platformers: 91%
Usually played
72% of owners here have played itmost 2D platformers: 64%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 8.5 hours come to $2.35 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Sonic Mania costs about what the typical one of 303 2D platformers here charges $2.50.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (2D platformers) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Is Sonic Mania better now than at launch?
August 2017
87%
≈ 4,070 reviews
Now
95%
≈ 2,900 reviews
How this is counted
Its Steam reviews began in August 2017. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 87% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 95% do.
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Where can I play Sonic Mania today?
Almost anywhere
PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One and 2 more.
- todayXbox One2019in The Ultimate Sonic Bundle
- todayPC2020in Sonic the Hedgehog: Ultimate Bundle
- todayPS42021in The Ultimate Sonic Bundle
- todayAndroid2024in Sonic Mania Plus
- todayiPhone2024in Sonic Mania Plus
- todaySwitch2026in Classic Sonic Collection
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Sonic Mania came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Sonic Mania?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Sonic Mania, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Sonic Mania would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@rafel holds this page
- 1st
@rafel16 h - 2nd
@tyr9.1 h - 3rd
@ravage5.5 h - 4th
@eltorga5 h - 5th
@deafsuki4.6 h - 6th
@zaczaczac2.5 h - 7th
@radu1071.7 h - 8th
@elreymagnifico1.5 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Sonic Mania?
1 in 31
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
Games like Sonic Mania
Super Fancy Pants Adventure
Sonic Mania, but with parkour, and half the hours
Loved · 93%Games like Super Fancy Pants Adventure
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Sonic Mania: a kind of game it is that Sonic Mania is not, a feature its tags carry that Sonic Mania's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.