Sonic Forces: Speed Battle

**Sonic Forces: Speed Battle** is a competitive racing game on mobile devices. Developed by Sega Europe & SEGA Hardlight, it acts as a cross-promotion for the mainline game Sonic Forces. It was soft-launched on September 12, 2017 and was then officially released on November 2, 2017 for iOS systems and November 15, 2017 for Android systems.

## Gameplay

Sonic Forces: Speed Battle resemble other mobile games, but with a more competive aspect. Instead of being an endless runner, 4 different players are tasked to beat each other in a race to the goal by using their runners. During the race, players are able to pick up both Rings and Items to both outmanuever and halt their opponent's progress. Depending on the players's placement, they can either gain or lose an amount of Trophies, altering their Tier placement and which tracks they can run on.

Throughout the game, players are able to obtain both Rings and Red Star Rings as the main form of in-game currency. Rings are the primary usage for unlocking and upgrading Runners (which in turn will also upgrade the Player Level), but can also be used to obtain additional stuff such as Lightning Deals. Red Star Rings on the other hand are used for other purchases such as instantly unlocking and purchasing Victory Chests, refreshing an Event Mission, purchasing additional Rings, etc. However, there exists certain optional things in the game that would require real-life currency to purchase such as the Tails Vault.

Upon reaching Tier 4, players can also enter into a seasonal ranking, which can grant them a Special chest at the end of month. Every season typically lasts for a month, with players obtaining Trophies until then (after reaching Tier 8, any trophies earned at the point will be converted into Prestige points). Trophies and Prestige points serve as the main leaderboard that ranks all current players regionally, worldwide, and the entire history of the game.

## Runners

*Main article: Runners*

Runners are the main playable characters that players are able to select to compete in races. Every Runner is unique in regards to their base stats alongside their own Item lineup (barring Metal Sonic, some Items in the game are shared across the cast by default). Each Runner is also split into different rarieties, determining how fast and expensive a character is to unlock and upgrade. Between Common, Rare, Super Rare, Special, & Challenger types, there is currently **61** playable characters as of **Game Version 4.20.0**.

## Tracks

**Main article: Tracks**

Tracks serves as the playable stages in the game. Although there are share some identical design themes, each one has their own unique layout and contains numerous obstacles that the players must transverse, being ranked into Easy, Medium, Hard, and Reverse.

## Chests

*Main article: Chests*

Chests acts as one the main way to unlock the playable Runners in the game. By default, players can win a Victory Chest whenever they complete a race (albeit there's a limit to how many one can obtain daily), with the amount of cards varying by the finish placement. There also exists Chests that contain Rarity-specific cards as well as ones that contain specific-Runners.