Shadow Generations

Shadow Generations is a 2024 platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It is the second Sonic the Hedgehog game to feature Shadow as the protagonist, following Shadow the Hedgehog (2005). Its story runs parallel to Sonic Generations (2011), and sees Shadow travel through time as he faces his arch-nemesis Black Doom. Like Sonic Generations, the levels and bosses are drawn from previous Sonic games; it also includes levels and game mechanics from games released after Sonic Generations. Shadow Generations is not available as a standalone game, instead being bundled with a remaster of Sonic Generations in Sonic X Shadow Generations. It was released on October 25, 2024, for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows to generally favorable reviews. The game has been a commercial success, selling two million copies by January 2025. It was released as a Nintendo Switch 2 launch game on June 5, 2025.