
This is done well for the most part, as the game never feels incomplete, but it would be nice to have quicker access to some content like the other characters. This makes it more accessible, but requires that you pay for some of the better content or play many hours on the more generic levels. Like many iOS games, Sonic Dash is free to play with in-app purchases. This all works to create a very fun, very fast game that is not as punishing as games like Temple Run 2 and allows you to accumulate rewards early and often, instead of at the highest levels. You collect rings that allow you to stay alive whenever you get hit, as with the classic Sonic games and if you get hit with zero rings you'll lose. Sonic runs across platform stages, moves by swiping the screen, but can kill enemies by rolling at them or dashing through them with the dash power up that is available every few hundred meters.

Sonic Dash borrows a lot of ideas from other endless runners like Temple Run, but it is also relatively unique.

This endless runner takes everything that makes other endless runners so popular, integrates a fair number of fun Sonic tropes, and hits blend to create a fun runner that looks and feels like Sonic the Hedgehog in just about every way-a lot more so than many other recent outings. Sonic Dash was developed by Sega's internal mobile studio Hardlight.Sonic Dash marries the world's fastest hedgehog with a mobile game setup that he seems perfectly matched for. It may be popular, but Sonic Dash is still nowhere near Angry Birds or Temple Run, both of which have exceeded 1 billion downloads to date. Sega has not provided any details, however, regarding the profitability of Sonic Dash. Being a free-to-play game, Sonic Dash relies on microtransactions to make money.

Sonic Dash is available now as a free download across iTunes, Google Play, and Windows Phone. With over 100 million downloads, Sonic Dash becomes the most downloaded Sonic game in history. For example, Sonic has run 1.1 billion miles in-game, players have collected 850 billion gold rings, and have spent a cumulative 14,000 years playing the game. To mark the milestone, Sega has released a new infographic that covers some massive statistics about the game. Released two years ago in March 2013, Sega's endless runner Sonic Dash, based on the company's iconic series Sonic the Hedgehog, has now reached 100 million downloads.
