SONIC PICO PARK Full Character Roster: Every Playable Sonic Character
Which Sonic characters you can play as in SONIC PICO PARK, including Shadow, Cream, Big, Silver and Blaze from the roster, plus Tails' flight, Knuckles' glide and Amy, and how generic PICO CAT slots fill out an eight-player team.
Who are all the playable characters in SONIC PICO PARK, including Shadow?
The publisher's own page confirms Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, and names PICO CAT as racing alongside them (official game site). Whether Shadow, Cream, Big, Silver and Blaze are playable rests on a third-party encyclopedia entry rather than the publisher's own page, so treat that part as an attributed report rather than a confirmed roster.
Who is confirmed by the publisher?
The official site describes PICO CAT, the PICO PARK mascot, racing through the world of PICO PARK with Sonic and his friends, including Tails, Knuckles and Amy (picoparkgame.com). The four Sonic characters named there were also the playable four in hands-on previews. In a Summer Game Fest preview, Game Informer reported that "so far, only Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy are playable from the Sonic universe."
Is Shadow playable?
The publisher's page names only Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, so Shadow does not appear in that official character line-up. A Sonic Pico Park entry on Wikipedia lists player characters as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog, Cream the Rabbit, Big the Cat, Silver the Hedgehog and Blaze the Cat. That is a third-party encyclopedia claim and is not matched by the publisher page, which only names Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy. Before release, Kotaku asked Sega about Shadow and was told there would be more information in the coming months — neither a yes nor a no at the time.
What does each character bring to the team?
Abilities differ by character, and the team's options change with who is on the roster.
- Spin Dash: the official Steam description says every playable character can use Sonic's iconic Spin Dash (Steam).
- Sonic and Amy: per Game Informer, the pair have a simple moveset of running, jumping and spin dashing.
- Knuckles: glides, according to Kotaku.
- Tails: flies and can carry teammates; in one Polygon hands-on, the whole squad clung to Tails while he ferried them across a chasm. Game Informer likewise notes he can carry teammates.
What fills the other slots in an eight-player game?
Generic characters, per hands-on reporting. The game supports 2 to 8 players locally or online (Steam), and Game Informer reported that with four Sonic characters in the preview build, the remaining four slots "would be filled in by generic characters." That was a hands-on report from June 2026. The roster of the released version is not something this page can spell out beyond the publisher names above.
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