Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Shattered Crystal

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal are 2014 games and were based off the Sonic Boom TV cartoon. Rise of Lyric and Shattered Crystal are about Sonic and his team trying to stop Lyric from destroying the world. These Sonic games were even more successful than Sonic 006. Both games horribly failed.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Rise of Lyric was criticized for it‘s unresponsive controls, bad story, camera system, game breaking glitches, awful dialogue and character development. This game has the lowest Metacritic score on any Sonic game. Reviewers such as GameSpot, Game Informer, IGN, and The Independent all criticized the game for the exact same reasons (though IGN did praise the game for its multiplayer). GameCentral claimed the game was the worst game of 2014. Former Sega of America producer Stephen Frost has commented why the game failed as they didn't understand why the original games were so good, such as getting rid of Sonic's speed, and them adding to many features into the game. Some Sonic fans say that Rise of Lyric is the worst Sonic game of all time, even comparing it to Sonic 006.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
Shattered Crystal was received better than Rise of Lyric, but was still criticized for it’s awful gameplay, terrible dialogue, bad story, and repetitive gameplay. Destructoid made a scathing review saying that the game is even worse than Rise of Lyric. IGN called it a "slog that will never find its footing".

Sales
On May 11, 2015, Sega announced that both of the games sold about 520,000 copies, making them the lowest selling games in the franchise, while the sales on Rise of Lyric almost made Big Red Button go bankrupt.