Stardew Valley is a farming sim released in 2016, with a massive revival in 2020. Since then, it has made a name for itself as a speedgame and regularly is listed as one of the top ran games on SRC. The most iconic run is Community Center Restoration, which showcases everything the game has to offer. Multiplayer allows for each element to be clearly showcased and provides safety nets that are otherwise absent in single player runs.
Submitting both categories as co-op with theValiantSun (remote)
Status: Pending 2P Glitchless Seeded Community Center Restoration
02:10:00
Status: Pending 2P Glitchless Community Center Restoration
03:10:00
PC
Terpretor
Stardew Valley
In this run, ATSL, Lichatton, Joetg, and Terpretor run to the bottom of the mines together using an older version of Stardew Valley to help explode our way to the bottom. This submission is our WR run for multiplayer Glitchless Mines120 run.
Status: Pending 4P Glitchless Mines120
00:45:00
PC
Monado
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: TTYD has changed a lot since its last showing at a GDQ. And our objective for this category is to obtain the Ultra Boots/Hammer, All Paper Curses, & Upgrade All Partners to Ultra Rank, along with beating the game. Upgrading our Partners is now made simpler since we can duplicate Shine Sprites, and skip around a lot of the slower Shines. That paired with being able to fly with a trick called Super Jumping, this run is filled with a lots of sequence breaking and Chapter hopping!
Status: Pending Max Upgrades
04:18:00
Nintendo GameCube
Mageius
Robotech The Macross Saga
It's based off the old seires Robotech. Look it's a fun little run with lots of interesting tech. Everything from exp routing, precise movement, lag management, death abuse and more. It's hard to describe the run as a whole but I'm submitting Max as the character because he's probably the most exciting option to watch considering starting with low health and having to survive and the bosses are hell
Status: Pending Any% New game (Max)
00:42:00
Gameboy Advance
MASH
Omega Boost
3D shoot em up for the PS1 made by Polyphony Digital the devs of the Gran Turismo series, the only non racing game they ever made. It plays extremely well and with very responsive controls and frame rate.
Each of the Zones has a target boss to take out and our health between stages carries over, so we want to stay healthy and keep our self in shape for later levels as things get more difficult. The run will be done deathless, and we do have limited lives before is Game Over which we will not see
Status: Pending Normal
0:45:00
PlayStation 2
Joshimuz
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The most popular PS2 game ever made, super popular run, has had a ton of community work done to it over the past 10 years to the point of crazy optimisation and glitches.
Status: Pending Any% (No 3rd-party FPS caps)
4:20:00
PC
teddyras
Pizza Tower
This is honestly the best feeling game to speedrun in the past couple years, cause it rewards you for going fast and the skill ceiling is nuts. I keep pb'ing by a lot every time I run this, that ceiling is way up there with a skill floor that's also pretty low. Viewers get a cool visual experience from both the speedruns having the funny italian man skedaddle through the level, but also from all the cool art everywhere, even the in the backgrounds, and really funky jams (too funky even)
Status: Pending Any%
01:25:00
PC
LogicPQ
I Wanna Be the Guy Remastered
This speedrun is nostalgic for many who played I Wanna Be the Guy back in 2007. Remastered offers several new skips and tricks that weren't possible in the original. The coolest part is the game is basically completely movement based with tons of precision platforming. The Vic Viper category is a very unique take on the speedrun as well with several unique skips compared to normal Any%.
Status: Pending Any%
00:25:00
Status: Pending Any% Vic Viper
00:16:00
PC
Madtaz64
Sonic Battle
An underrated Isometric fighting game and one of the Sonic's finest spinoffs, the game features a varied combat system with multiple special attack combinations, and a great story to boot. The newest member of this game, Emerl, is a fully customizable fighter that can use any of the rest of the casts' moves plus some even better ones too! The categories I'm submitting fully utilize the large library of moves available at Emerl's disposal to make easy work of enemies. Also as a potential bidwar.
Status: Pending Cream Story (Upgraded Emerl)
00:30:00
Status: Pending Rouge Story (Upgraded Emerl)
00:30:00
Status: Pending Knuckles Story (Upgraded Emerl)
00:30:00
Game Boy Interface
Darksol188
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Kirby and the Forgotten Land's the first 3D mainline title in the series, and has already set a name for itself in speedruns. Movement works well, and there's a few neat tricks that can save even more time. All Treasure Roads is a run where we complete all of the Treasure Road stages- smaller, challenge oriented stages- in a single collective attempt and shows off just about everything the game has to offer.
Status: Pending All Treasure Roads
01:30:00
Nintendo Switch
Mageius
Robotech: The Macross Saga Hd Edition
HD version of the game. When the Devs made an HD version the fact they increased the game's res resulted making it a lot harder. Now enemies stay on screen longer, have a lot more things to avoid yet gave us some new tech. Exp routing, precise movement, death abuse are still used. But now we can use that increase res to our benefit as well.
Status: Pending New Game (Roy)
00:48:00
Nintendo Switch
Bubzia
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Breath of the Wild is a great game for blindfolded speedruns. It offers a variety of normalized movement options, which can be combined to very clever setups that help us traverse the massive world, beating shrines and utilizing glitches in similar speeds to visual speedruns! The run concludes with an epic bossfight against Ganon! Great Plateau contains the first 4 shrines with the goal of obtaining the glider as fast as possible! Can be done solo or in a race with CrystalSaver!
Status: Pending any% Blindfolded
01:35:00
Status: Pending Great Plateau Blindfolded
00:40:00
Nintendo Switch
trojandude
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
I don't know about you, but don't you want to see a husband & wife go at it while managing one controller? Well, Cutieroo & I have a speedrun challenge to showcase for you! Not only will we be figuring out how to navigate a randomizer seed, but we will now have to coordinate with each other on the same controller & try not to lose our collective minds. There will be many "go rights" & "go lefts" while we try to go straight ahead to the end of the game in this 2p1c Ori rando challenge!
Status: Pending 2p1c Randomizer
01:30:00
PC
RoadkillRevenge
Stonefly
Stonefly is a unique and stylish indie platformer where you guide a tiny mech across a big world, compete over resources with insects, and make friends along the way. The gameplay is fun to play and to watch, with paced-out action, a touch of RNG/improvisation, and an awesome soundtrack.
Any% involves completing the main story. It requires tight management of resources and optimized movement.
Offered as a solo run and/or as a race with Ozmourn.
Status: Pending Any%
1:00:00
PC
emeraldaly
Ghost of Tsushima
How to take a sprawling, multi-hour tale of samurai justice down to just a snack-sized speedrun? By focusing on the best parts -- the one-on-one deathmatches, the duels!
A patch rolled out with the "Directors Cut" of the game allowed for infinite replay of almost all duels and open world activities. We've structured a "Duel Rush" category with various variables, and it is a great deal of fun to run. Submissions suggested with DLC and Lethal difficulty as potential incentives.
Status: Pending Duel Rush (Easy, No DLC)
00:18:00
Status: Pending Duel Rush (Easy, DLC)
00:21:00
Status: Pending Duel Rush (Lethal, No DLC)
00:25:00
Status: Pending Duel Rush (Lethal, DLC)
00:26:00
PlayStation 5
aciidz
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead has a LOT in common with its sequel when it comes to the random/unique nature of every run, and the same insanely skillful movement tech that L4D2 is known for.
Original Campaigns runs through the iconic four campaigns released with the game in late 2008. It is played on the release patch which has some additional glitches/tech that resemble the janky nature of other Source Engine games from the era, which we use to our advantage over the course of the run.
Status: Pending Original Campaigns Solo - No Speedglitch
00:50:00
PC
Darksol188
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Always a bit of a crowd favorite, Nightmare in Dreamland offers a lot to the table in each of its showings. For my submissions, I want to show some of the other angles to running this game, and show a side that usually isn't in a marathon. As such, these runs are generally miscellaneous runs or part of the game's category extensions, with No Copy Abilities having us run through the game without abilities at all, and the Solo Ability runs instead having us use one ability throughout the run.
Status: Pending Solo Ability - Throw
00:55:00
Status: Pending Solo Ability - Spark
00:50:00
Status: Pending Solo Ability - Beam
00:55:00
Status: Pending No Copy Abilities
00:55:00
Wii U
emeraldaly
Tomb Raider: Underworld
This game never got a direct sequel, but the narrative threads left hanging loose at the conclusion actually were addressed. The only issue is they were addressed in DLC episodes few players ever saw! So let's fix that, by having one or even both (since they work together to tell one story) of the DLC's on the big stage. Beneath the Ashes is shorter, more linear, and more easily digested, but Lara's Shadow has a literal "go fast" button, so both are great speed games!
Status: Pending Lara's Shadow
00:40:00
Status: Pending Beneath the Ashes
00:20:00
Xbox Series X
Madtaz64
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
It's Smash! The runs I submitted run thru the many DLC Spirit Boards that you can play after buying the DLC fighters that accompany them. The Spirits mechanic is really deep and interesting to showcase how they aid you during the run, and the spirit battles are varied and a really cool representation of each spirit the battle represents.
I put in 1 run in the bid war but I can do any, and the Fighter Pass 1 NG run is all 5 of the Spirit Boards from the first pass back to back from a fresh file.
Status: Pending DLC Spirit Boards: Fighter Pass 1 NG
00:45:00
Status: Pending Single DLC Spirit Board NG Bid War (11 Choices)
00:20:00
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Enel
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
The newest game in the Xenoblade Chronicles franchise! While a long speedrun, it shows off the combat of the game incredibly well and is interesting to watch and explain throughout. There's also interesting movement and plenty of downtime for donation reading!
Status: Pending any% Easy No DLC
6:10:00
Nintendo Switch
CutierooSR
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
I don't know about you, but don't you want to see a husband & wife go at it while managing one controller? Well, Trojandude & I have a speedrun challenge to showcase for you! Not only will we be figuring out how to navigate a randomizer seed, but we will now have to coordinate with each other on the same controller & try not to lose our collective minds. There will be many "go rights" & "go lefts" while we try to go straight ahead to the end of the game in this 2p1c Ori rando challenge!
Amazing Mirror's a game with a very freeform speedrun, as we're tasked to get each shard of the mirror from the game's bosses and most can be tackled in any order if you know how to reach them. Unlike most runs, this one also adds the stipulation of using only one ability throughout the run to add more challenges- especially at the end of the game by really testing how well one knows boss patterns.
Status: Pending Solo Ability - Beam
01:00:00
Wii U
Wolsk
I Wanna Micromedley
Micromedley is the perfect fusion between 'WarioWare' and 'I Wanna Be The Guy,' and it plays very differently from nearly every fangame. Each stage is uniquely themed with an immense variety of challenges and bosses, with the final boss being the perfect climax to everything. The run primarily consists of on-the-fly routing but has several skips and exploits scattered throughout; throw in its bangin' music and flashy visuals, and this run becomes enticing to play and enthralling to watch.
Status: Pending Any%
00:45:00
PC
CutierooSR
The Last Campfire
This is a cute and cozy speedrun where you travel as an Ember and solve puzzles to save other Embers during your journey. There are some cool collision glitches and OoB movement to help us save the Embers faster! The visuals are very beautiful and the puzzles are a lot of fun to watch.
Status: Pending Any%
01:20:00
PC
LogicPQ
Crash Bash
Did you grow up playing Mario Party with your parents and siblings? Did you grow up playing the original Crash Bandicoot and wish there was a party game to anticipate? Look no further! The game we all wanted for Christmas back in 2000 has arrived! With Crash Bash, you can take on the challenging adventure mode by yourself or even with a friend as you go up against opponents to collect enough trophies, gems and crystals to face off against the 4 bosses standing in your way!
Status: Pending 2 Player Any% (No Memory Manipulation)
01:45:00
Playstation 2
Ozmourn
Manifold Garden
Manifold Garden is an abstract first person puzzle platformer that will leave you in awe. With everything being infinite in every direction and the ability to change gravity at will. You're going through a speedrun that is hectic with glitches and skips that are rapid and consistent throughout the entire run.
Reverse Tree Order is like All God Cubes except a little more interesting in that you play the game backwards and start by planting the God Cubes from the final area to the beginning.
Status: Pending Reverse Tree Order
00:35:00
Status: Pending All God Cubes
00:30:00
PC
ItzEliteMN
Crash Bash
Did you grow up playing Mario Party with your parents and siblings? Did you grow up playing the original Crash Bandicoot and wish there was a party game to anticipate? Look no further! The game we all wanted for Christmas back in 2000 has arrived! With Crash Bash, you can take on the challenging adventure mode by yourself or even with a friend as you go up against opponents to collect enough trophies, gems and crystals to face off against the 4 bosses standing in your way!
Status: Pending 2 Player Any% No Memory Manipulation
1:45:00
Playstation 2
Darksol188
Kirby's Dream Land 2
Kirby's Dream Land 2 kicks off a story arc of sorts for a few games, and also introduces abilities into portable entries for the first time. It also introduces three animal friends to help Kirby out. This run gets to show off more when it comes to both, collecting several rainbow drops in the process and trying to bring a better ending by taking out Dark Matter at its apparent source.
Status: Pending Best Ending
00:55:00
Wii
quadraaceps
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
The Xenoblade series has been gaining massive traction lately, largely due to the success of this game, which was nominated for Game of the Year in 2022.
Despite being less than a year old, the any% run has developed quickly into an extremely consistent category that places heavy emphasis on execution.
Between the complex strategies and the incredible lore, there will never be a shortage of entertaining commentary throughout the run.
Mio's hairstyle also makes for a great donation incentive!
Status: Pending Any% - Easy
6:00:00
Nintendo Switch
LilAggy
Elden Ring
After having already been showcased as a traditional speedrun at GDQ, it's time to show some of the more creative and unique speedrun-adjacent content Elden Ring has to offer! Bingos and Randomizers are fantastic twists on the speedrun formula that still emphasize speed while also testing on-the-fly routing and deep game knowledge.
Submitting Lockout Bingo as a race vs. star0chris.
Submitting Randomizer as either a solo showcase or as a race vs. star0chris.
Status: Pending Item & Enemy Randomizer
3:30:00
Status: Pending Lockout Bingo
2:00:00
PC
Ozmourn
Stonefly
Stonefly is an amazing indie game involving a girl named Annika on a trip to recover her father's stolen mech, with the help of many friends she meets. This speedrun is full of reacting on the fly to the RNG and enemy behavior that the game gives you, and is filled with resource management and on the fly adaptability. Combine that with the cozy feel of the game and it turn into an absolutely amazing run to play and to view!
Offered as both a solo run and/or a race with RoadkillRevenge.
Status: Pending Any%
01:00:00
PC
zmoneytrain
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
Fallen Order is a very interesting run and has evolved a lot since Pnash ran the any% category for AGDQ 2021. PS5 has become the fastest platform due to a exclusive glitch that speeds up cutscenes. Lots of fun tech and glitches to show off
Status: Pending Any% unrestricted
01:10:00
PS5
Mitchriz
Elden Ring
You know this game. GOTY 2022, massive world and difficult bosses. But in these categories, we will make quick work of the bosses that took most players hundreds of attempts. From the glitchless run that destroys the game in around an hour, to the completely unrestricted run that skips everything and gets to the credits in just 10 minutes, there's no better speed game out there to show off to every gamer just how awesome speedruns can be.
Status: Pending Any% Unrestricted
00:15:00
Status: Pending Any% Glitchless
1:20:00
PC
Ozmourn
Omno
Omno is a wonderful indie game about the story of a creature named Omno who is trying to find his way back home with the help of a friend.
In this speedrun we have a myriad of skips and glitches to make this run the most interesting it can be, and with the abilities that the game continues to give you, you have such a wide range of movement options as the run progresses that allows you to do cool glitches and bigger skips. A hidden gem of a speedrun that will be a sight to see for audiences.
Status: Pending Any%
00:36:00
PC
star0chris
Elden Ring
After having already been showcased as a traditional speedrun at GDQ, it's time to show some of the more creative and unique speedrun-adjacent content Elden Ring has to offer! Bingos and Randomizers are fantastic twists on the speedrun formula that still emphasize speed while also testing on-the-fly routing and deep game knowledge.
Submitting Lockout Bingo as a race vs. LilAggy
Submitting Randomizer as either a solo showcase or as a race vs. LilAggy (race preferred).
Status: Pending Bingo Lockout Race vs LilAggy
2:00:00
Status: Pending Randomizer Race
3:30:00
PC
scaz
Lost Kingdoms
The forgotten gem from the FROM SOFTWARE catalogue: Lost Kingdoms is a deckbuilding ARPG with insane difficulty and wild out of bounds glitches. The Lost Kingdoms community has been hard at work for years finding new ways to beat this brutal gamecube RPG through efficient routing and an ever growing list of out of bounds strats.
Status: Pending any%
00:55:00
Nintendo Gamecube
LilAggy
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
2 Players 1 Controller Sekiro! With the way combat is balanced between attacking and deflecting, Sekiro lends itself surprisingly well to being run in this way. One player handles offense, the other handles defense.
Ape Out is a beat 'em up with randomly generated levels every time you play. Quick reaction and good improvisation is essential, as well as everyone's best friend, RNG. The music, gameplay, and always being on your toes combine together to create an amazing speed game, as well as new enemies and mechanics being introduced in each level.
Along with incredible improvisation, we have minor glitches and abuses that we take advantage of in Warpless.
Offered as a race w/ Boden & DevilSquirrel.
Status: Pending Warpless
00:35:00
PC
parkenharbor
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
2 Players 1 Controller Sekiro! With the way combat is balanced between attacking and deflecting, Sekiro lends itself surprisingly well to being run in this way. One player handles offense, the other handles defense.
As the second of two Mega Man games released for arcades back then and available as unlockable content through the Mega Man Anniversary Collection, Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters presents a fun, boss rush style of play through a Mega Man 7 graphic style. Though a world record speedrun can be relatively short in length, its variety and flexibility makes it very marathon safe. I'm submitting to play through the modern PC release and also as a race with Bradderfield.
Status: Pending Solo (Any Story)
00:10:00
Status: Pending Solo (All Stories)
00:32:00
PC
Katie4
Sonic Frontiers
It turns out that Sonic (the fastest thing alive) can move very fast in an open world. You can launch yourself anytime across the map, cyloop bosses to death, and get a fishing license. Wow! Isn't that exciting?
Status: Pending Any% (No DLC)
01:12:00
PC
Madtaz64
Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe
Everyone's favorite apple salesman is back! Magolor Epilogue is one of the new modes included in this fine remake, and while you start off weak you can upgrade all your skills so that by the end of the game you can surge through anything, literally! In addition you can send giant bombs, beams, and even black holes to the bosses that stand in your way! The category I'm submitting goes through all of the levels with pretty much all of the skills maxed out, including an extra secret level!
Status: Pending Magolor Epilogue: All Stages NG+
01:05:00
Nintendo Switch
Ozmourn
Blanc
Blanc is an aesthetic game about unexpected friendships in which a wolf cub and a fawn cooperate to find their way back home to their families. This run is all about optimizing our movement and solving puzzles as quickly as possible. while relying on a second player to keep everything seamless. This is a lovely, relaxing game, and a run that is easy to follow along with while still being interesting and engaging for audiences!
Co-op run with happybythree.
Status: Pending Any% 2-Players
00:50:00
PC
scaz
Risk of Rain
Risk of Rain is one of the definitive Roguelikes in the genre and an extremely high speed, high octane speedrun that will have you on the edge of your seat. This sub 10 minute speedrun has it all, instant death around every corner, movement speed faster than the eye can see, and crazy out of bounds strats that warp us all over the map. Don't blink or you just might miss the whole thing!
Status: Pending any%
00:12:00
Status: Pending any% Monsoon
00:20:00
PC
scaz
MO:Astray
A puzzle platformer hidden gem, MO:Astray is a beautiful story of a cute little slime named MO and his journey to survive in a chaotic post apocalyptic hellscape. Filled with action, intense bossfights, and great puzzles, MO:Astray is sure to surprise everyone.
Status: Pending any%
02:30:00
PC
TempestMask1000
Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
As the second game launched by indie dev, Colorgrave and clearly inspired by the Game Boy Color's aesthetic, Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils is a super fun platformer where you play as a former performer, Belle in the same world as Prodigal. Acrobatic and accompanied by her bell companion, Chime, the gameplay allows you to zoom and fly by the seat of your pants. And there are multiple ways to beat the game's story too! Leap, soar, and bash your foes to submission to save Belle's date!
Status: Pending Any%
00:18:00
Status: Pending Any% No Cactus
00:32:00
Status: Pending Any% Cannonless
01:05:00
PC
Madtaz64
Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town
Enjoy the nice peaceful life of the farm, and do things like take care of the farm, grow crops, get married, teleport down floors in a mine, zip across a giant lake, travel through time multiple times to gift the guy of your dreams on all of his birthdays. You know, the normal farm stuff.
Status: Pending Kai Marriage
02:00:00
Wii U VC
Nambo
Super Monkey Ball: Launch!
Super Monkey Ball Launch! is a recently-released Super Monkey Ball custom game. The 20 Master levels are made up of super long and difficult obstacle courses involving tight movement on animated obstacles. Sometimes this means keeping balance during a minute-long sprint atop animated platforms, while other times this means soaring over the entire stage in a crazy momentum-based sequence break, leading to a very thrill-dense run. (This category is still new and developing as of submitting)
Status: Pending Master
0:30:00
Nintendo Wii
Bathinjan
Yume Nikki
An RPG-Maker legend and beloved cult classic, audiences will love this run as it will showcase the bizarre, striking and stunning world of Kikiyama's Yume Nikki; we utilize several challenging speed glitches to navigate the Nexus of our protagonist's bizarre dream world to collect all 24 effects at a truly lightning pace.