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2025 · Arcade · Battle royale

Sonic Rumble Party

Ready, Set, Rumble! Join Sonic in this intense arcade royale game set in Dr. Eggman's diabolical Toy World. Collect legendary skins, all-new emotes, and build skills as you progress through this action-packed game! Mayhem is best with friends!

Released: 5 November 2025
Platforms: Android Windows iOS
Genres: Arcade Battle royale Platformer Racing
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Series: Sonic the Hedgehog
Modes: Multiplayer
Perspective: Third person Side view
Themes: Action
Age ratings: ESRB E PEGI 3 CERO A GRAC ALL USK 12 CLASS_IND L ACB G
Languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish and 7 more
Time to beat: 1hmain story1hwith extras1hcompletionist

About

Sonic Rumble Party is a 2025 party battle royale game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, developed and published by Sega with Sonic Team. It features players as toy versions of Sonic characters competing in various challenges and minigames. Initially announced in May 2024, Sonic Rumble Party released for Windows, iOS, and Android on November 5, 2025, after multiple delays, and has been played by over 15 million players.

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Gameplay

Sonic Rumble Party is an online party game in which numerous players compete against each other in various mini-games and challenges, with the goal of collecting the most rings. The game supports up to 32 players in the first round, with half of the players being eliminated afterwards. The second round features the remaining 16 players, and again, half of them are eliminated. The final round then consists of the remaining 8 players, who compete in a final round to determine the winner.

The game features multiple game modes, which consist of the following:

Development

Sonic Rumble Party was developed primarily by Sega, with input from Sonic Team. Rovio Entertainment was in charge of marketing and community relations for the game.

Program optimization was a major concern during development, as many mobile devices do not have powerful hardware. Hiromitsu Soto, the game's lead programmer, stated the following:"On mobile, we prioritized lightweight performance to support a broad spectrum of hardware, including low-end devices. On PC, our focus shifted toward high-fidelity visuals and low-latency responsiveness. Balancing these needs required iterative testing and fine-tuning across platforms."

Reception

Giovanni Colantonio's pre-release review on Digital Trends praised the gameplay as fun, but criticized its slow pace, considering the game's presence in the fast-paced Sonic the Hedgehog series. Colantonio compared the game to Fall Guys and felt it was like "an unrelated game that's been reskinned to look like the franchise," and that it was missing what "make[s] Sonic games fun".

During the extended pre-release period, updates and adjustments were tested with more than 8 million soft-launch players, while an additional 1.4 million users pre-registered in regions not included in the soft launch.