By leveling up, the player could improve their performance during a run. The game ended when the player was hit without any rings or fell in a bottomless pit. After Eggman was defeated, the difficulty would increase. The player would occasionally engage in boss fights with Doctor Eggman, who would drop objects to stop them. When the player passed a checkpoint, the rings were banked and added to their overall score. Wisps granted the player temporary powers, rings protected them from getting hit by enemies or obstacles, and crystals increased their score. They collected power-ups like invincibility, Wisps, rings, and crystals.

While running, the player ran through vertical loops and jumped in cannons and on springboards and platforms. The goal was to obtain high scores by running for as long as possible.

For example, Classic Sonic from Sonic Generations was added on Jto celebrate the 24th anniversary of the original Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic Runners received periodic updates, which often included new characters. The player started as Sonic and would unlock more characters as they progressed. The game featured a wide variety of playable characters from the cast of the Sonic franchise with unique abilities, such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles 'Tails' Prower, and Knuckles the Echidna. To avoid obstacles and defeat enemies, the character jumped when the player tapped the touchscreen. Sonic Runners was a free-to-play side-scrolling video game in which the player-character was constantly running forward. Sonic, the player-character, runs forward as Doctor Eggman tries to stop him The game came a few days after the franchise's 24th anniversary. Gameloft released a replacement game, Sonic Runners Adventure, in 2017. It failed commercially and received mixed reviews although critics praised its gameplay, they criticized the pop-up ads, pay-to-play elements, and technical problems.

The game was soft launched in select regions in February 2015 before its full release the following June. They designed Sonic Runners to have more replay value than other endless running games. Sonic Team sought to take advantage of the uses of smartphones and built the game using the Unity game engine. The game was free-to-play, featured a wide variety of playable characters from the Sonic series, and received periodic updates.ĭevelopment began in late 2013 and lasted a year and a half. In Sonic Runners, the player-character constantly ran forward, and players controlled their jumping from a side-scrolling perspective using the touchscreen. It was developed by Sonic Team as its first Sonic game exclusive to smartphones and published by Sega. Sonic Runners was a 2015 endless runner game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise for Android and iOS.

Sonic runners revival