Back then, my only real dive into Sonic fangames were little Flash games on whatever sites I could find them on. But after a while, I wanted to do a deeper dive into the world of 3D SONIC FANGAMES, and through my searching I found an interesting fangame called Sonic World Release 9.


(Pictured: Sonic World Release 10.)

It instantly became young me's favorite. It had so many playable characters! Like this... weird purple kangaroo thing with a gun (Fang), a female Knuckles wearing armor (Shade), and... what is this thing? (Heavy & Bomb). Point being, this game was my introduction to many Sonic characters since back then I didn't know a thing about Sonic even though I liked it so much.

In short, Sonic World is the ultimate version of a series of BlitzSonic fangames using the Blitz3D engine by multiple creators ever since 2001. Sonic World itself as a game is very rough around the edges but it makes up for it in the crazy amount of content in has, from characters that you can set as a duo or Heroes-style teams, to stages and missions, boss and rival battles, special stages and super forms, Chao Garden, menu themes from other Sonic games. And most important of all... MOD SUPPORT!!!


(Pictured: the unrestrained power of fan content.)

As I've said, it has its flaws. Common complaint is that characters often have too many moves that makes it hard for them to truly feel distinct from each other, although some characters still have unique gimmicks of their own. But overall Sonic World works best when seen as what it truly is, a Sonic toybox.

Tikal & Chaos in Lost World? Sure! Team Hooligan in Wave Ocean? Fo' sho! Tiara Boobowski from the unreleased Sonic X-treme and Honey the Cat as playable characters? YES!!!


(Pictured: Sonic World DX.)

But that's the ORIGINAL Sonic World. Recently, there has been a project to sort of "remaster" Sonic World, Sonic World DX. It doesn't nearly has much content as the original Sonic World releases but the gameplay is much more refined, and I failed to mention Sonic World's kind of shoddy character animations that DX completely knocks it out of the park with. This game is seriously one spit and shine away from feeling like an actual official Sonic game.

With all that said, I really do highly reccomend either Sonic World if you're looking for an overload of Sonic content, or Sonic World DX for less content but tighter gameplay. Both of which can be found in the Sonic World website.

I could seriously write about this game for days, and I actually really want to once I learn to code my own site, I have a lot to talk about this game. But for now, if you're interested in learning more about the history of this whole BlitzSonic thing and how we got to Sonic World DX, along with some behind-the-scenes, one of the team members of Sonic World DX made a 2-hour documentary on all the history you'll need to know.



Fangames are a beautiful thing. Just saying. 

*grabs popcorn* Alright time to sit down and watch this.

Fangame looks cool!

Sonic World And Sonic World DX are AMAZING! I beat both!

They both look really cool! I'll have to check them out!

there's nothing better than a 2 hour long Sonic video! I love how in depth this is and how much footage there is of older versions of the games and even some of the mods ppl made, it's things like this that show just how much creativity there is within the Sonic Fandom and what a great community this is to be a part of

as I mentioned before, I wasn't very much into the Sonic fan game scene so getting to have a look back into projects like these is such a treat and I'm pretty jealous I never got to experience smth like this at the time, especially w/ Blitz Sonic Heroes- I would've been playing this non-stop

not that the lack of nostalgia takes away from all of it's work though, seeing Sonic World DX now and the journey it's been through over the years has me totally falling in love w/ this game!

I still play the original from time to time. It's my top favorite go-to Sonic fangame.

I also have Sonic World DX, but still need time to play through it properly.

SWDX DOESN'T WORK ON MY COMPUTER NO MORE!