- SAGE2018 - Stegon's ranking -

Posted in September 7, 2018

Don't you know what I'm talking about? SAGE is an online event for developers of fangames (games created by fans) of the Sonic series, both finished and incomplete ones (demos), but there are also a few other videogame and non-gaming brands, such as Mario, Crash, Shantae and others. For more information, click here and for all the SAGE games you can find and download them by clicking here!

All the games you will see in the ranking have been chosen according to my liking, so do not take my words as absolute truth and do not think it is a review of each game, otherwise the whole text would be a papyrus. All of them were randomly sorted, so I won't be able to tell which one of them is better than the other. Are excluded:

* Mods (e.g. mods to expand Sonic Mania)
* Games that don't have their own identity to differentiate themselves from others
* Games so buggy as to make it difficult to continue the game
* Games with below mediocrity speaking of level design, graphics, music and / or playability

- Sonic series -

👉 Sonic 3: Angel Island Revisised 👈

Perfect porting of Sonic 3 & Knuckles with in addition the modification of the graphics effects and the change of the version between Japanese and International.

👉 Sonic Z-treme 👈

New fangame for the Sega Saturn inspired by the canceled Sonic X-treme.

👉 Sonic: Project S 👈

In this game you have to follow the rhythm of Sonic's historical music by pressing the buttons while looking at the screen. Available for PC and Android.

👉 Sonic Advance Revamped 👈

Remake and re-imagination of Sonic Advance, with extra characters, new levels, music never used in the original, 16:9 support, etc.

👉 Sonic: Cosmic Eternity 👈

An example of what a great Sonic game could look like taking Sonic Adventure in full style.

👉 Petit Hedgehog 👈

Excellent fangame with a minimal graphic style and that in terms of music and sound effects refers to Sonic Advance.

👉 SonicNEXT 👈

Do you know the disastrous Sonic 2006? This is a project for the revival of that game for PC, with bug fixes and more.

👉 Sonic Regress 👈

An excellent fangame that tries to follow the functionality of the 16-bit era.

👉 Sonic Islands 👈

One of many examples of what a great Sonic game would look like if it were in 3D.

👉 Sonic Chaos (remake) 👈

Excellent remake and reinterpretation of Sonic Chaos, putting the style of Sonic Mania as a sauce and pepper, both graphically and musically.

👉 Sonic & Tails 👈

An excellent full Sonic 2 and Sonic CD style fangame, with new zones.

👉 Sonic All-Stars 👈

It is a fusion of the various gameplay of the various Sonic chapters, both classic and modern, all with full Sonic Advance style graphics and with many characters and playable levels.

👉 Sonic and the Mayhem Master 👈

It is an RPG-type fangame drawing inspiration from Mother / Earthbound and the Sonic Storybook series.

👉 Amount the Others 👈

It's a Sonic 1 Hack ROM... it's with a playable zone that's a giant Pepsi Product Placement!

👉 Sonic the Hackable 👈

Sonic 1 Hack ROM which is mainly based on the design of the levels, inspired by Sonic 4.

👉 Sonic Limitless 👈

Fangame that harks back to the 2D Sonic Modern gameplay, from Sonic Unleashed to Forces.

👉 Sonic Battle For Station Square 👈

Have you ever played Spongebob Battle For Bikini Bottom? Here, the fangame takes much inspiration from it.

👉 Sonic Pursuit 👈

Fangame in which of what could happen after Sonic Mania.

👉 Sonic Explorer 👈

What's missing in a 3D Sonic game? The excellent control and in fact this fangame can prove it.

👉 Sonic Liquid Survival 👈

A 3D fangame inspired by the style of Sonic Adventure with many playable characters.

👉 Sonic Metal Adventure 👈

A 2D fangame that combines the elements of Sonic Rush and Sonic Adventure.

👉 Sonic & Knuckles: Key Hunters 👈

Fangame that combines the idea of Sonic Labyrinth (finding the keys) and the stages of looking for the pieces of the Master Emerald and finding the lost Chao of Sonic Adventure and 2.

- non-Sonic series -

👉 Polyroll 👈

A great retro style game that takes inspiration from Sonic's gameplay.

👉 Super Mario Flashback 👈

Do you know Sonic Mania? Here, this can be considered a Mario Mania and playing it you will certainly understand why.

👉 Crash N Tense 👈

It is a Crash Bandicoot but in 2D and with hand-drawn graphics (or better said with pixels), drawing inspiration from Crash games for GBA.

👉 Cosmic Boll 👈

A game that fully recalls the Dragon Ball games for GBA.

👉 Grand Dad Mania Revised 👈

I don't think he needs comments, you should certainly know Grand Dad if you have frequented the world of memes a lot.

👉 Lumiva 👈

An original and excellent platformer game inspired by Sonic's gameplay.

👉 Kirby Dream Land Plus 👈

Unfortunately it is not a Hack ROM, but it adds new elements that were not in the original.

👉 Shantae & Asha 👈

It is an action platformer that hosts some RPG, Puzzle and Adventure elements and with playable levels and characters from the saga of Shantae and Sonic.

👉 PETRICHOR 👈

Game that takes inspiration from the shoot-em-ups and run-n-guns games of the 80s and 90s, with lots of exploration.

👉 Dream Dasher 👈

Do you want a cute game and without violence? Here it is! An original hand-drawn platformer that follows a bit the Sonic gameplay style.

👉 Kirby Gamble Galaxy Stories 👈

It's a Kirby fangame... generic but fun to play.

👉 Kyle & Lucy 👈

It is a game that takes inspiration from level design, gameplay and characters from Sonic games. Very fun and original.