Along with Sonic Forces, it was announced in commemoration of the series’s 25th anniversary. It was later released for the PC on August 29, 2017.ĭeveloped as an official collaborative effort between creators previously known for Sonic the Hedgehog fanwork (including the enhanced ports of Sonic CD, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2), Sonic Mania is heavily stylized on the series’s original early-’90s Genesis-based platformers. Sonic Mania is a 2D side-scrolling platformer developed by a group of indie studios (composed of project lead Christian Whitehead, programmer Headcannon, and some designers and composers of PagodaWest) and published digitally by Sega for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on August 15, 2017.
