Sonic Adventure DX combines six character adventures with the Chao Garden, where you can raise Chao and have them compete. It costs $3.71 at Fanatical; weigh that against your budget and interest in this classic adventure. The Steam PC version has full controller support. A rating of 92%% across 15,852 reviews offers another reference point, but the central question is whether its characters and stories appeal to you.At Fanatical, $3.71 can be compared with the Steam price of $7.99, while six character adventures and the Chao Garden define the experience.
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92%Steam Reviews15.9K reviews
Released: Mar 4, 2011
Platformer · Great Soundtrack · 3D Platformer · Adventure · Classic
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Past 36 months · Updated daily
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01About Sonic Adventure DX
Six characters set off on their own adventures as Sonic and his friends race to stop Dr. Eggman from unleashing an ancient evil with the seven Chaos Emeralds.On Steam PC, 92%% of player reviews are positive, across 15,852 reviews.The game was released on March 4, 2011.The interface languages include English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
NotableSuper Thunder Blade™ · Sonic The Hedgehog · Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Composer
Jun Senoue
Developer
SEGA
Publisher
SEGA
Steam player reviews
92%positiveVery Positive15,852 Steam reviews
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$1.602023-08-23 · 22gameBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-11-11
02Before you buy
Six character adventures
The Steam PC game features six playable characters, each with a distinct adventure and story.
Chao Garden and controller
Raise and nurture a Chao in the Chao Garden, then compete against other Chao. Full controller support is listed.
Interface languages
Steam PC interface languages listed are English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
03Frequently asked questions
What is the story about?
Sonic and his friends try to stop Dr. Eggman after an ancient evil is released from the Master Emerald.
Which characters can I play?
There are six playable characters, including Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy, each with a unique adventure and story.
Is there a minigame beyond the adventures?
Yes. The Chao Garden lets you raise a Chao and compete against other Chao.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviews
Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
When I was young, I remember one day I was playing with my lego, my dad came home with a gift for me. It was a disc version of Sonic Adventure DX. I had only played Sonic The Hedgehog on my Sega Mega Drive. I was so excited to play this I immediately installed it on our family computer. I had many fun hours playing this game. But on one cold raining day, I woke up ready to play some more, for I was almost finshed. But as I walked into the office, I saw the disc smashed to pieces on the floor. I ran to my dad in tears. We never found out how it broke. For many weeks I would cry myself to sleep. My dad tryed to find anothe copy. But ever time he went to the shops, it would end in failure. Many years passed and I now play other games to hide my sadness. But as I'm browsing the steam store, I see a game called "Sonic Adventure DX" It was like Jesus himself kissed me on the face. I then bought the game and my childhood was brought back from the dead. This game was my childhood and when it broke, it took my childhood. I feel like a happy little kid again.Show moreShow less
7.7 hours at review309 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
This review is not condemning Sonic Adventure as a bad game, it is calling out this port for being terrible. So, please, do not downvote this just because it's a negative review!
Since most people already have their opinions of Sonic Adventure I feel it is unneeded to talk about much of the gameplay and instead will only talk about the port.
The Good
It's Sonic Adventure on a modern system.
The game's keys are fully rebindable on both keyboard and controller.
The Bad
The game seems to pull the textures and controls from the Dreamcast version and not the Gamecube version. (Gamecube is the DX version.)
There is no proper widescreen support, you must always play in 4:3 and if you set it higher the game will still be in 4:3, but will have borders. (The update from awhile ago made it so that the borders are no longer on the top and bottom of the game screen, but they are still on the sides.)
The game's mission mode is currently bugged and you cannot read the mission hints from the mission screen, this means you are required to use an external resource for the missions.
In Tail's airplane minigame the crosshair for the game doesn't scale properly with the screen size so you have to set your resolution lower to be more successful at that minigame.
As stated before the camera controls seem like they're from the Dreamcast version; however, they attempt to include some of the second analouge stick controls from the DX version. This often means you just end up fighting the camera if you attempt to rotate it.
This one might be some personal bias, but it feels like there are more invisible walls in this version than the DX version.
The unlockable Game Gear games, that the Gamecube version had, are removed from this version.
Summary
I advise people to not purchase the Steam version and instead get a copy of Gamecube's Sonic Adventure DX and run it through Dolphin using the options to improve the graphics, this will actually play better than this port.
If you can't pull that off look for the 2003 Sonic Adventure PC port as it is actually a much better port than this! If you cannot find that version here is a guide on how to mod this version to be the older one: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=299808681
I've rewritten this review as of 1/15/2016 to change the formatting into a list, the same general ideas are still there.Show moreShow less
27.9 hours at review195 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DOWNLOAD THE SADX MOD INSTALLER WITH PKR'S DREAMCAST CONVERSION AND LIGHTING FIXES ETC. IT IS A SIN TO PLAY THE STEAM PORT ALONEShow moreShow less
11.1 hours at review133 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Steam's Sonic Adventure is not only DX (what is a problem by itself), but the worst version of DX ever made. There's a whole guide named The Ultimate Guide to Sonic Adventure DX Sins, which lists all the numerous downgrades and removed content. Every single area has downgrades worth a 1000-2500 word essay. It's no wonder I got a negative impression of the game, as this is the first version I played. The amount of cons heavily outweighs the pros.
If you don't feel like going through the guide right now, I can try and sum it up. Despite calling itself Deluxe version, SADX messed up and even removed a lot of stuff. Think that's already reason enough not to play DX? It's even worse on this port. Many lighting effects and animations got even more disarranged, not to mention rendering issues. Some rooms don't even have any lighting effects anymore. If you still want to buy and play this version, I recommend you at least install BetterSADX and opt for Complete Dreamcast Experience. The guide I mentioned could help you with that too.Show moreShow less
6.3 hours at review71 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
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9,264.4 hours at review110 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
It took me 5 years to beat this game because of that stupid fat ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ purple cat. And I WISH I was joking...Show moreShow less
37 hours at review68 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
...for the retro gamers.
The game got released in 2003, and the original on Dreamcast in 1999. So consider this game old.
Now it all depends of your age, if you are between 12-17 years old, I don't recommend you this unless as said on the title, if you are a retro gamer because your first game on a console was Call of Duty MW2 and when Sonic got released you were 3 years old so it explains the criticisms of the other useless reviews.
The game itself was a huge revolution and was one of the best Dreamcast games. And as every Sonic game, the camera is annoying, the voice acting and the motion capture are not the best points of it but, does a glitched camera and a bad voice acting ruins the game ? If it was bad acting in GTA I would consider.
Despite that, the game is pretty fun, various missions and mini games are available to extend the time of play though the game is quite short (3 hours to end the main Sonic story, but you have 7 chars stories, each is different and more or less shorter. With that you can do trials, 3 per level with each char + mini games and 60 missions throughout the main maps using all characters).
Finally, a 360 controller is highly recommended, or try to use x360e. But if you can buy this game you can buy a controller.
- This game is definitely one of the best games I ever played in my entire life. I can play it over and over remembering that when I played this game for the first time, I was 11 years old. I'm now 21. :DShow moreShow less
8.5 hours at review106 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
GET THE SADX PATCH BEFORE YOU PLAY THIS
A terrible, lazy port job makes a once decent game now really ugly due to tons of ugly textures. This version of sonic adventure 1 takes a dump on the game's legacy aesthetically. Please get the "better SADX" mod if you want to get this.Show moreShow less
5 hours at review67 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Only played it a small bit... It was good.Show moreShow less
216.9 hours at review103 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
The hardest enemy in the game is the cameraShow moreShow less
4.2 hours at review57 people found this helpful
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.
