Sonic Forces: Speed Battle

Overview

Sonic Forces: Speed Battle is a free-to-play behind-the-back on-foot racing game developed by Hardlight and released by Sega for iOS devices on November 2, 2017 and for Android devices on November 15, 2017.

Based on the 2013 endless runner Sonic Dash, Speed Battle has players racing others in four-player multiplayer on-foot races, collecting gold rings for increased speed, dodging various obstacles, and utilizing power-ups to both hinder opponents and give themselves a speed boost. Unlike Sonic Dash, it utilizes a gacha system for acquiring new characters and upgrading their abilities.

As the name implies, Sonic Forces: Speed Battle is a promotional tie-in game with the mainline Sonic game Sonic Forces.

Characters

Unlike Sonic Dash and its sequel, Speed Battle uses a gacha system and has all the characters grouped by their rarity.

Each character has unique attributes for their maximum speed, acceleration, and body strength, and have three unique power-up items (one offensive attack, one speed boost, and one defensive trap). Both attributes and items can be upgraded by collecting duplicates in the gacha system or by using the in-game Gold Rings currency.

Common

• Amy Rose
• Charmy Bee
• Classic Sonic
• E-123 Omega
• Knuckles the Echidna
• Miles "Tails" Prower
• Silver the Hedgehog
• Sonic the Hedgehog

Rare

• Espio the Chameleon
• Rouge the Bat
• Vector the Crocodile
• Blaze the Cat (added on January 2018)
• Cream the Rabbit (added on February 2018)
• Jet the Hawk (added on July 2018)
• Wave the Swallow (added on September 2018)
• Storm the Albatross (added on November 2018)
• Tangle the Lemur (added on July 2020, guest character from the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comic series)
• Whisper the Wolf (added on July 2020, guest character from the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comic series)

Super Rare

• Chaos
• Metal Sonic
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Zavok
• Big the Cat (added on May 2018)
• Zazz (added on July 2018)
• Zeena (added on December 2019)
• Tikal (added on June 2020)
• Dr. Eggman (added on February 2021)

Special

Most characters from this category are special costumed variants of other characters, with the only notable exceptions being "Teen Sonic", "Baby Sonic", and Longclaw (all three from the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog).