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- Cheapest right now
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- 52 offers · 20 stores
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Sonic X Shadow Generations is in the September Humble Choice. The monthly bundle costs $14.99, stays up from September 1 to October 6, and hands over eight Steam keys at once. Frostpunk 2 is one of them; six more games fill out the rest of the selection.
Fine news if you wanted both. Worth a second look if you only came for the hedgehog, because the PC version is selling on its own for €7.73 right now, and we have never seen it that low.
What $14.99 gets you this month
Humble Choice is a subscription rather than a shop, so the small print is worth spelling out. You pay for September, the eight keys land in your account and they stay there. Skip October and nobody takes them back. The $14.99 is the figure Humble publishes, in dollars, so that is how we are quoting it here; what your bank ends up charging depends on your card and the day.
Two of the eight names carry the bundle on their own: SEGA's Sonic and Shadow double bill, and Frostpunk 2.
€7.73 is a record low on our page
We take one reading a day from the PC page, and we have 127 of them going back to April 28. In all that time the floor never slipped under €8.99. It sat frozen at €10.79 from August 12 to August 19, fell to €8.99 on August 25, and stayed put until yesterday. This morning the cheapest offer asks €7.73 at Eneba, a plain Steam key with a Global region and no strings attached. Lowest figure this page has ever shown us.
Steam's own store still wants €49.99 for it. Between those two numbers sit 54 live offers spread across 21 stores, and the priciest of them asks €73.74 for exactly the same game. That gap is the whole reason to check before you pay.
We cannot tell you why the floor broke today. We can tell you it broke on the same day the bundle went live.
Today's full list, price order and all, sits on the buy Sonic X Shadow Generations key page.
Three of the ten cheapest offers are Steam accounts
Cheap and cheap are not the same product here. Sort the PC page by price and three of the first ten are not selling you a key at all, they are selling access to a Steam account: Difmark at €8.99, Kinguin at €10.91 and G2A at €11.42. You get the username and password of a profile somebody else set up, and you play from there. The game never reaches your own library, the achievements are not on your profile, and if the original owner takes the account back or Valve closes it, the money is gone with it.
One other label matters. Kinguin's €11.80 offer is a key locked to the United States, which will not activate on a European account. The rest of the top ten are ordinary keys: Gamivo at €8.48 for Europe, G2A at €9.77 for Europe, Difmark Digital Keys at €9.81, K4G at €10.04 and Lootbar at €13.58, those last three with no region limit.
Bundle or single copy: run the sums
Honest version. If Sonic X Shadow Generations is the only title on that list you would actually install, €7.73 beats $14.99 by a wide margin and you skip signing up for a subscription you would then have to remember to cancel. If Frostpunk 2 has been sitting on your wishlist since it came out, the maths flips over: two games you already wanted for $14.99 is hard to argue with, and the other six ride along.
So count how many of the eight you would genuinely play. That number decides it.
Consoles have not moved the same way
The discounting is happening on PC, and the other platforms make that obvious.
| Platform | From | Stores |
|---|---|---|
| PC | €7.73 | 21 |
| Xbox One | €8.59 | 9 |
| PS5 | €17.49 | 4 |
| Nintendo Switch | €19.00 | 5 |
| Nintendo Switch 2 | €24.99 | 8 |
| PS4 | €25.65 | 4 |
Xbox is the only one keeping close to PC. PlayStation and Nintendo run at two or three times the PC floor, and the newest Switch 2 edition has barely been touched. We follow Sonic X Shadow Generations on Xbox One and Sonic X Shadow Generations on Switch 2 on their own pages.
As for the game itself, Sonic Team developed it and SEGA published it on October 25. On Steam it holds an Overwhelmingly Positive verdict: 11,620 positive reviews out of 12,104, a ratio that does not come around often.
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