Key Takeaways
- Pre-registrations for Sonic Rumble are open, offering rewards like skins and 5,000 rings.
- The game has no official release date, but is anticipated for the 2024/2025 winter season.
- Sega aims to increase hype for Sonic Rumble with pre-registration rewards.
Pre-registrations for Sonic Rumble have officially opened up, giving players a chance to get ready for the release of the 32-player mobile and PC battle royal game. Additionally, several pre-registration rewards for Sonic Rumble have been revealed, offering players skins and other goodies.
The upcoming multiplayer game, which has drawn some comparisons to Fall Guys, doesn’t have an official release date yet, but it’s expected to make its debut sometime during the 2024/2025 winter season, and some resources are using February 28, 2025 as a placeholder. Sonic, his friends, and even some of his enemies will be battling it out in the game, which is one of the first projects between Sega and Rovio, the developer behind the Angry Birds games, after the former acquired the latter in August 2023.
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The official Sega website is spreading the news of the pre-registration campaign, along with a newly released trailer on the publisher’s official YouTube channel. While fans have already praised Sonic Rumble for not including controversial gacha mechanics, the announcement on the website is trying to bump up pre-release hype for the game to an even greater level by offering rewards to anyone who gets in during the pre-registration period. Sonic Rumble will be available through Google Play, the App Store, and Steam, and the website includes links that will allow fans to pre-register on any of those platforms.
Sonic Rumble Pre-Registration Rewards Revealed
- 5,000 Rings
- Happy Chao Sticker
- Crystal Chao Buddy
- Garnet Knuckles Skin
- Movie Sonic Skin
Sega is offering players five different rewards for pre-registering for the game, but how many rewards players actually end up receiving depends on the number of global pre-registrations, pre-orders, and wishlistings that happen during the campaign period. The first reward of 5,000 rings will be unlocked once the game registers 200,000 pre-registered players across all platforms. Four additional rewards – a Happy Chao Sticker, a Crystal Chao Buddy, a crystalline Garnet Knuckles Skin, and a skin of Sonic based on the Sonic the Hedgehog movies – also appear on the website, though Sega isn’t letting fans know just how many global pre-registrations will be required to unlock each of them. The website states that all rewards will be rewarded to players after the game’s global launch,
A hands-on preview of Sonic Rumble from June found an earlier build of the game to be a fun version of chaotic and easygoing. While it’s not clear when fans will get their hands on the battle royal game, one hint in the official website’s fine print indicates it may be before the end of the year, as “Movie Sonic will be obtainable for all users that have downloaded and played Sonic Rumble between the release of the game and 12/31/2025 (PDT).”
Ready Set Rumble!
Have a blast with friends and family alike in chaotic survival battles! Sonic Rumble is the first multiplayer party game in the iconic game series, with up to 32 players battling it out! Who will be the world’s top Rumbler?!
■■ Explore a world full of charming stages and exciting game modes! ■■
Experience a vast array of stages with different themes and ways to play!
Rumble is packed with different gameplay styles, including Run, where players race for the top spot, Survival, where players compete to stay in the game, Ring Battle, where players duke and dodge it out for the most rings, and lots more! Matches are short, so anyone can pick it up and play in their spare time.
■■ Play with friends and family alike! ■■
Form a squad of 4 players and work together to take on other squads around the world!
■■ All your favorite Sonic characters are here! ■■
Play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Shadow, Dr. Eggman, and other Sonic-series favorites!
Customize your characters to your heart’s content with a variety of character skins, animations, effects, and more!
■■ Game Setting ■■
Players control a character from the Sonic series as they enter a toy world created by the villainous Dr. Eggman, making their way through treacherous obstacle courses and dangerous arenas!
■■ Loads of music brings the world of Sonic Rumble to life! ■■
Sonic Rumble features sprightly audio for those with a need for speed!
Keep an ear out for iconic tunes from the Sonic series as well!
