All you have to worry about in Runners is making sure youre jumping at the right time. That it. That the entire crux of your interaction with the game. There are power-ups you can use that will turn you into a golden drill hopping through the ground like a dolphin through water, or a purple UFO as it destroys everything in its path, but as best we can tell after several hours of play, we cant find an option to choose when they actually deploy — either you pick it up in a level and use it immediately, or you buy one before hopping into a level and it activates automatically right when you start. But beyond those power-ups, you are jumping, or not jumping, and that as far as your sense of player agency goes in Sonic Runners. And thats great.
All you have to worry about in Runners is making sure youre jumping at the right time. That it. That the entire crux of your interaction with the game. There are power-ups you can use that will turn you into a golden drill hopping through the ground like a dolphin through water, or a purple UFO as it destroys everything in its path, but as best we can tell after several hours of play, we cant find an option to choose when they actually deploy — either you pick it up in a level and use it immediately, or you buy one before hopping into a level and it activates automatically right when you start. But beyond those power-ups, you are jumping, or not jumping, and that as far as your sense of player agency goes in Sonic Runners. And thats great.