Sonic the Hedgehog is dead. That's the premise of The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog, a free visual novel officially released by Sega today.
The new game was announced and released today, and you can go . As you'd expect, this is an April🎐 Fool's Day gag, but like all good April Fool's goofs, the result is something substantial you can actually enjoy. Surprisingly substantial, even - you've gotta play through like 20 minutes before Sonic even dies.
The setup has you assisting with a murder mystery party aboard a luxury train, so there's a decent chance that Sonic isn't actually dead here. But hey, the sto🉐ry does include some proper mysterious happenings alongside the party, so maybe some real murder is happ🃏ening along with the game. It's the perfect setup to a mystery story, in any case.
Honestly, I'm struck by how, uh, well-executed The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is. This is a complete game with custom art, loads of dialog, a fun premise, and more fully-featured mechanics than just clicking through endless text screens - there's even a 2.5D scrolling minigame that channels the series' old secret stages. Lead dev says the team spent the past year producing and developinౠg this thing, and it shows.
"🌃You know what they say: everything is canon," the devs note in the Steam page. Though they do add a parenthetical: "This is no🅘t a Sonic Team title, but we strongly believe in the power of headcanon!"
We might have a new candidate for one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Sonic games of all time. Either way, it'll be a good stopgap for fans awaiting that Sonic Frontiers follow-up.
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the lꦰatest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
