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Runner Game Name Run Description Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Game Console Status Comment
Nitrofski


WARP A 2.5D top-down platforming puzzle game where the player controls a likeable Orange alien attempting to escape a research facility. Along the way, the player collects new powers, unlocking more of the facility and enabling numerous sequence breaks and routing opportunities.
In any%, we collect just enough to enable us to escape with exploits. Video timestamps: 03:50, 05:30, 08:00, 13:20
In 100%, we collect every grub and destroy every film canister. Video timestamps: all movement after 34:55
Status: Decline
100%
1:00:00
PC Backup Game
AstrasEvolution


Undertale Yellow Undertale Yellow is a fan-made prequel to Undertale that exists as a game that wears its inspiration on it's shoulder. From the colorful cast of characters to the fantastic musical score, Yellow is the perfect love letter to the indie darling its built upon. Now let's try snapping the game in half! Through the power of the game's version of the Punch Card, we can skip entire portions of the game with ease while creating a breakneck pace that makes even Undertale blush. Status: Decline
Neutral
1:05:00
Status: Decline
Justice
1:13:00
PC Backup Runner
happybythree


Turnip Boy Robs a Bank Two days after the events of Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, our favorite lovable root vegetable returns to ~turnip~ the heat in a roguelike heist for the ages!

In classic speedrun tradition, Any% involves beating the game as quickly as possible, and Playstyle A is the "easy mode" of the game's two options.

This run really shines in marathon settings, combining the charm of its predecessor with high-skill gameplay and lots of options for backup strats if RNG tries to get the better of us!
Status: Decline
Any% (Playstyle A) Race w/ Eldritch Wolfie
00:45:00
PC
Rastats


TrackMania Sunrise TrackMania Sunrise is the second installment of the TrackMania arcade racing game series. It introduces the Puzzle mode where you need to complete tracks in the editor with a selected amount and types of blocks, and then drive a fast time on the resulting track. There's also the Stunts mode with a dedicated system for various stunts and a lot of halfpipes and other ramps to jump from.
Any% requires silver medal on all tracks and gold medal on at least 3 tracks.
Status: Decline
Puzzle (Any%)
00:25:00
PC Online Run. Category Upgrade to Puzzle 100%
KyoshiCadre


Undertale Yellow The long awaited fan-made prequel to Undertale led by MasterSword is here. A labor of love for one of the best indie games ever created, with a soundtrack that'll knock your socks off, with boss fights that will have you glued to the screen. This run blows the game out of the water. We take advantage of an oversight with the game's storage mechanic to gain movement during cutscenes, skipping bosses, clipping through walls, all to get us to the finish line. It's challenging, but rewarding! Status: Decline
Neutral
1:05:00
Status: Decline
Justice
1:13:00
PC Category upgrade incentive to All Golden Items
SableDragonRook


The Last Guardian The Last Guardian run requires constant skilled management of a lovable AI to solve environmental puzzles while performing skips, glitches, and optimized movement. You will love Trico by the end or your imaginary money back. The beauty of this run comes from the runner's need to control a highly complex, temperamental, and highly variable (and entertaining!) AI well. From the same people who made Shadow of the Colossus/ICO.
Snuggle% is at speedrun.com/team_ico_games?h=tlg-snuggle&x=vdoevl6k
Status: Decline
Any%
03:27:00
PS4/PS5 Backup Game
Shoujo


Super "Sonic Saves the World" World Super "Sonic Saves the World" World is a Super Mario World hack created by Maddy Thorson. It features 21 completely unique and custom levels that show off incredibly difficult tricks and amazing custom mechanics. Additionally, Maddy worked very hard to give each level its own charm, providing a humorous and satisfying experience to players and viewers alike.

The any% category skips "Celeste (2018)" and the second half of the final castle, bringing down the estimate by about 20 minutes.
Status: Decline
Any%
01:25:00
Status: Decline
100%
01:45:00
SNES
Jaxler


Stuart Little 2 aka Stuart Little and the Secret Rings aka "we have Super Mario 64 at home". This is a PS1 collectathon with hilariously bad voice lines, horrid vehicle sections, and way more speedtech than a game like this deserves to have. With both Any% and 100% being showcased at GDQ Hotfix's Awfully Silly and Do All The Things (respectively), this game is a certified meme-fiesta and would make a great addition to SGDQ's Silly Block. Status: Decline
100%
1:00:00
PS1 Silly Games Done Quick
LifeL1ke


Star Wars: The Force Unleashed This is the PC/X360/PS3 version, which is distinct from the PS2/Wii/Switch version, the DS version, and the iOS/Ngage version.

Any%:
1. Darth Vader hops like a bunny to kidnap a child.
2. ??? skips 90% of the game.
3. Grown up child attacks Death Star and kills Vader.
4. Profit.

No Mission Skips:
An action-platformer with some RPG elements, the route abuses in game mechanics to bypass some platforming puzzles (good example at 17:02 in the NMS video))
Status: Decline
No Mission Skips
1:12:00
PC
Rubberduckyassassin


Spyro 2: Season of Flame There has been an abduction of the Dragon Realm's fireflies at the hands of a mysterious (Ripto) foe, causing the dragons to lose their ability to breathe fire. With help from his friends and a man with a GameCube controller, Spyro must recover fireflies and uncover the culprit behind the theft (Ripto). In this fast-paced 2.5D platformer will be pulling off all kinds of tight jumps, turns, and tricks.in the vast assortment of stages this game has to offer. Status: Decline
All Fireflies
01:00:00
Status: Decline
No Fire Breath
00:32:00
Gameboy Player
PimpUigi


Sonic CD Restored Sonic CD Restored is a fan-remaster that I developed. It restores the glitchless Sega CD version's speedrun routes back into the game for a faster more accurate gameplay experience. Sonic CD is the fastest Classic Sonic game, so I've always wanted to show that Glitchless Sonic can keep pace with Glitched or Tails categories. CD has never been ran glitchless with Sonic at GDQ. I've been speedrunning CD since 2008. I have the Any% WR of 10:47.32 and it would be an honor to be the one to run it. Status: Decline
Sonic - Beat The Game
00:25:00
PC Backup Game
XevenstevensX


Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (2002) Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is a PS2 3d platformer that is know for Sly's sneaky and stealthy missions to retrieve the pages that were stolen from the Thievius Raccoonus, a book that was passed down from generations sharing family secrets. The speedrun breaks this game wide open with extreme launches, precise platforming, load abuses, and even world skips! In the longer categories we unlock abilities which really showcases what Sly is capable of with some insane movement tech. Status: Decline
All Vaults
1:15:00
Status: Decline
100%
1:55:00
Status: Decline
Coinless 100%
2:35:00
BCPS3 Backup Game
Zic3


Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Sly Cooper Thieves in Time is a game shadowed by its PS2 predecessors, but is no less a fantastic speedrun. Sly 4 introduces the ability to play as Sly's ancestors each with their own special ability leading to some really cool movement. Between tricks like Paraclimbing, or circle boosting, its a game that always feels fresh and exciting to play and watch. Status: Decline
Episode 4 Any%
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Episode 3 Any%
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Episode 2 Any%
01:00:00
PS3
Stelmo98


Sonic Project 06 As a from-the-ground-up fan reimagining of Sonic 06 in the Unity Engine, Project 06 not only reinnovates Sonic 06 into one of the best 3D Sonic experiences, but also masters the beloved Sonic Adventure Formula by taking ideas and mechanics from many games across the franchise. There is also a dash of completely new ideas thrown in to make the game stand out from the rest. Status: Decline
All Stories Any%
01:20:00
PC Character bidwar between Silver, Shadow, and Sonic
Nave357


Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves The final of the original Sly Cooper trilogy by Sucker Punch, Sly 3 keeps the sneaky thieving action fun and entertaining. Maintaining the episodic format and gadgets to keep movement tech interesting and fun, recent rule changes in the community allows these additional gadgets to be used in individual episode runs to keep the speedruns even shorter and faster. Full game is just as entertaining with the fun dialogue and story lines. Plus, this game has pirates, who doesn't love pirates? Status: Decline
All Hazard Room Challenges
01:35:00
Status: Decline
Episode 5
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Any%
06:15:00
Playstation 3
tbcr


Rise of the Triad Rise of the Triad is a game that's limit pushing of the Wolfenstein 3D engine allows for ludicrous (heh) gameplay both in a casual and speedrunning aspect. For instance, in the run alone we have Random Powerup and boss manipulation, proper rocket jumping, potential godmode jumping and even sometimes admirable restraint(don't worry, this makes sense in action).

I have grouped the DOS and recent Ludicrous Edition in the same submission as the route is essentially the same minus some minor things.
Status: Decline
Dark War - MSDOS
00:50:00
PC Backup Game
DeathTropes


Silent Hill Silent Hill is a 1999 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami. The first installment in the video game series Silent Hill, the game was released exclusively for the PlayStation. Silent Hill uses a third-person view, with real-time rendering of 3D environments. Status: Decline
New Game Easy
00:55:00
Playstation 2
Mitchriz


Sekiro GOTY for 2019 and almost beat ER in a bid-war, this Shinobi game is a very fast paced "souls-like" game. Quick movement in all 3 dimensions using the grappling hook and parry-based back-and-forth combat. The Any% run literally swims through the game, while the Hitless route uses no glitches, and requires extreme combat precision (but is surprisingly consistent). Or by simply banning the "airswim" glitch, the entire route gets changed, and includes many glitches not shown at GDQ before. Status: Decline
Any%
00:27:00
Status: Decline
Shura No Airswim
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Randomizer
2:00:00
PC
marathonman


Ratchet & Clank Ratchet & Clank is an early fan favorite for the Playstation 2 with a focus on weapons and gadgets, and an emphasis on exploration. Known for vibrant visuals and creative combat, the game would go on to launch a beloved franchises and one of Playstation's most iconic mascots. As a speedrun, this is all paired with a technical, high octane movement system with numerous options for maneuvering around each area making for a very exciting watch. Status: Decline
Any% All Missions
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
Status: Decline
NG+
00:23:00
Playstation 3
Amyrlinn


PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!
Status: Decline
6p Most DLC Vehicles
0:30:00
PC Co-op with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, Biglaw, enbee, and Enigma Requiem
AngelicKnight


PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!
Status: Decline
6p Most DLC Vehicles
00:30:00
PC Co-op with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, Biglaw, enbee, and Enigma Requiem
Acadiel


Powerwash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!
Status: Decline
6P Most DLC Vehicles
00:30:00
PC Co-op with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, Biglaw, enbee, and Enigma Requiem
Enigma Requiem


PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!
Status: Decline
6 Players, Most DLC Vehicles
00:30:00
PC Co-op with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, Biglaw, enbee, and Enigma Requiem
Biglaw


PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!
Status: Decline
Most DLC Vehicles 6P Co-Op
00:30:00
PC Co-op with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, Biglaw, enbee, and Enigma Requiem
enbee


PowerWash Simulator Co-op submission with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, enbee, Biglaw, and Enigma.

Powerwash Sim has gotten a bunch of new DLC, and who better to show it off than this professional six-player team? We'll blast through this run just like we blast all the dirt off, going through either the Spongebob DLC or "most" of the DLC vehicles (the Warhammer 40k DLC is simply too long to be included). Plenty of satisfying dings and powerwasher sounds await!
Status: Decline
6P Most DLC Vehicles
00:30:00
PC Co-op with Acadiel, amyrlinn, AngelicKnight, Biglaw, enbee, and Enigma Requiem
ThomasPatrickWX


Pokémon Violet Scarlet and Violet versions are now fully open-world games. Effectively, the entire game is one big Wild Area. The speedrun will take advantage of having access to basically any Pokemon or any items we want before blitzing and completely all of our objectives.

Treasure Hunt is the category that completes all 3 of our companions' storylines.

The Teal Mask is the completion of the first DLC area where we will ignore the main game and go straight there.
Status: Decline
Treasure Hunt
4:05:00
Nintendo Switch
ptminsker


Outer Wilds Outer Wilds is a heavily movement based speedrun with very open ended routing options and reliance and cycle based timing.

The shipless 100% speedrun is one of the most difficult categories in the game, and a favorite among casual players. It features tons of difficult movement and tricks, cool routing, and some of the more unique gameplay that this game has to offer.
Status: Decline
100% Base+DLC Shipless
1:45:00
PC
limy


Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 NASB2 is one of the new notable platform fighters featuring a full cast of classic and new Nickelodeon characters. It has lots of tech like slime cancelling and wavedashing in a rougelite gameplay loop. In the run, I build high damage or movement and make my way through the 3 main areas of the game to beat the final boss.

The characters in the bidwar are El Tigre, Danny Phantom, Garfield, Korra, Angry Beavers, Squidward, Jenny, and Donatello. If wanted, I can also just pick 1 to run with.
Status: Decline
Campaign (New Game+)
0:27:00
PC
Joester98


Pac-Man World Last seen way back at SGDQ 2019, the Pac has returned and is zigzagging harder than ever. Any% still features multiple game-breaking skips combined with constant high-speed movement and precise platforming. 100% builds on these big skips and includes dozens more to avoid a lot of intended backtracking. Sprinkle in some classic and cleverly routed 2D maze action, where we abuse some Japanese version-specific cheese to breeze through, and the smiling yellow ball is sure to amaze once again! Status: Decline
100%
01:25:00
PlayStation 2 Backup Game
Slyton


My Friendly Neighborhood An Indie Horror Game made by 2 brothers that gives you the feeling of playing Resident Evil, Poppy Playtime, and Garten of Banban all at the same time! MFN is the perfect start or end to the horror block and with resource management, precise aiming, and near frame perfect tricks.

Since the games release last summer, every catagory has evolved immensely. Any% skips 50% of the game, NMG requiring every shot to matter, and CEO% being the 100% route of the game. You'll love it in the Neighorhood!
Status: Decline
Any%
0:19:00
Status: Decline
No Major Glitches
0:31:00
PC
Shockwve


Minecraft Dungeons We all love randomizers right? Well the Tower is Minecraft Dungeons is a weekly set random run that can be done for loot! Each week has a random amount of rooms and gear at each floor that must be used to clear the run.



Since the Tower resets on Sundays, a blind run of this can be done at the event without any prior knowledge.



Minecraft Dungeons is a Dungeon Crawler like Diablo game that sees no classes but instead has you use random artifacts as your abilities.
Status: Decline
Normal Tower
00:30:00
PC Difficulty Upgrade
Burnt_Bowser


Middle-Earth Shadow of War Shadow of War features 3 distinct characters and stories that all utilize the nemesis system's unique enemy generation to create memorable moments between runs. Each category demands on the fly decision making and adaptability, allowing for suspenseful moments and fast combat exploits, amidst the free roam world movement options. Status: Decline
Blade of Galadriel 100%
1:30:00
Status: Decline
Desolation of Mordor Any%
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Any%
3:30:00
PC
Blackbeltginganinja


Mirror's Edge Mirror's Edge is THE first-person parkour platformer, shaping every subsequent game in the genre. And it's also a flashy speedrun - saving minutes with OOB skips, using momentum to get up to freeway speeds, and a mini-encyclopedia of techniques to explain on commentary. Alternatively, Glitchless and Inbounds provide a more "intended" experience, while still dazzling audiences with slick parkour style. After 10 years of running this game, I'd love to bring Mirror's Edge back to the big stage. Status: Decline
Inbounds
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Glitchless
00:53:00
PC
NickRPGreen


Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater MGS3 takes stealth to the 1960s jungle! Thanks to the Master Collection, we finally have a smooth PC version of a game that had been unavailable for some time. European Extreme difficulty ups the ante with the hardest bosses, little room for error, and the Game Over If Discovered mechanic, meaning we can't get spotted. But adding onto the difficulty even further is the All Kerotans run, which requires shooting a cheeky hidden Kerotan Frog in almost every room, requiring new routes and tactics. Status: Decline
Any% - European Extreme
01:25:00
PC Backup Game
monkeysmb


Metroid Fusion Metroid Fusion is filled with heavily refined movement and boss fight strategies. Any% really pushes the game in terms of solid resource management and survival skills while plowing forwards through the game. 100%, on the other hand, really pushes the game's movement to the limit with precise speed booster techniques and other tricks to create a very movement intensive run. Status: Decline
Any%
1:20:00
Gameboy Player
LaserTrap_


Mario Kart DS I'm submitting as a backup in case Abel is unable to run. Please prioritize their run over mine regardless of being online or onsite.

Additionally, All Staff Ghosts No Repeat Karts is a category that explores all of the different kart controls in the game, showing off the good, the bad and the ugly. 32 different karts are used in the run and must beat one selected staff ghost, which can make mistakes more punishing than usual.
Status: Decline
All Staff Ghosts, No Repeat Karts
01:15:00
DS Backup Runner
Abel


Mario Kart DS Mario Kart DS is where lightweights reign supreme! All 32 tracks are played in order with CPU difficulty set to hard. The category is a one-try tour of every track showing off snaking, PRB, several OoB skips and Blue Shell Dodging. 300cc speed class and All Custom Tracks categories also submitted.

All Missions incorporates a big chunk of the tech seen in 32 Tracks; the twist being you have to drive through gates, destroy item boxes, collect coins and even beat bosses amongst other objectives.
Status: Decline
All Missions
00:45:00
Status: Decline
All Custom Tracks
02:00:00
Status: Decline
32 Tracks (300cc)
00:45:00
Nintendo DS Online Run
bramhallthefifth


Live A Live Live A Live is a 2022 remake of a 1994 anthology RPG for the Super Famicom by Squaresoft. This version is the first time the game has made it overseas in almost 30 years. You can play in seven different scenarios that take place at different points throughout history, with an additional two unlockable at the end. Combat is grid-based and places heavy emphasis on good positioning and each chapter has aunique gameplay mechanic in addition to the combat. Status: Decline
Single Story: Middle Ages
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% Good Ending
04:00:00
PC
IllegallySam


Levelhead Levelhead is an indie 2D platformer maker game whose main unique gameplay feature is the package, which is an object that is not only required to beat every level, but it is also used for both basic platforming and advanced tech. Speedruns involve playing through the game's campaign, and feature varying amounts of the 93 levels featured based on the category. Ranging from playing only 62 levels in Any% to getting nearly 5000 collectibles in 100%, each category has something unique to offer. Status: Decline
100%
01:50:00
Status: Decline
All Training Stages (New Game)
01:15:00
Status: Decline
All Training Stages (Any%)
01:03:00
Xbox Series X
Asuka424


Leaf Blower Man: This Game Blows! You are a humble leaf blower person, fighting evil robots, cleaning up the Moon, conversing with Mayor of World, stopping the Leaf King from leading a leaf revolution, battling the Developer and his descent into Capitalism, and occasionally doing your job of cleaning up leaves.

LBM has a hilarious amount of speed tech that's shown in this quick run, and NG+ with Ads is the best category to show the bulk of everything. The ads are the secondary plot of the game and feature the developer himself.
Status: Decline
Fresh File, With Ads
00:25:00
Status: Decline
Fresh File, Ad-Free
00:20:00
PC Silly Games Done Quick
Pearstrike


Kirby Air Ride Submitting Air Ride All Tracks as a race with 1Davidj. It's been 8 years since this category was shown off at a GDQ. Since then we've incorporated a lot of little optimizations which make the run look even faster and more hectic. Go with David for just a solo run.

Top Ride All Tracks is a run that's all about movement. It's more like a traditional kart racer run with tight routes and lines. We also take advantage of the non-random item drops to speed up. This run could be a fun bonus incentive.
Status: Decline
Top Ride All Tracks
00:07:00
Nintendo Wii Race between 1davidj and Pearstrike
JSR_


Ken Griffey, Jr. Presents Major League Baseball He's back!
Peanut Butter, the Shiba Inu, is bringing an all-new controller to SGDQ... & this year, he's joining the event LIVE and IN-PERSON (In doge?)!
PB will play Ken Griffey on SNES, complete with customizable player names (great for dono incentives and fun laughs!), As a bonus, I'll be heading a campaign to get The Kid himself, Ken Griffey Jr., to join the run in-person (no promises on this)
There is no more patriotic way to celebrate July 4th than watching a doge play America's Pastime!
Status: Decline
Lose A Game
0:30:00
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
ninten866


Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix The Gold Crown Speedrun is doing all the best content in kh2. It has all worlds, all superbosses, and the post game dungeon, all on the hardest difficulty. It will be a first for GDQ as the optional content hasn't been shown off yet, and this run really deep dives into all the great combat in the game. Both any% and gold crown skip all the gummi missions and credits removing most of the downtime. Any% has had a ton of new things added to the run and would be great to show off the PC version. Status: Decline
Beginner Any% (PC Modded)
02:30:00
Status: Decline
Critical Gold Crown (PC Modded NMS)
4:40:00
PC Category upgrade incentive to LVL 1
360Chrism


Kaizo Mario Galaxy It's not the Super Mario Galaxy you remember!
Kaizo Mario Galaxy is a mod that alters the layout all the levels and makes Stars more difficult and some straight up unfair.
I would like to compile a showcase of some of Kaizo Mario Galaxy's most impressive and difficult Stars for the GDQ audience!
This showcase can be various lengths as I can always fit more stars into it.

Played on WiiU
Status: Decline
Showcase
02:00:00
Status: Decline
Showcase
01:30:00
Nintendo Wii U
Zic3


Gunbrella A gun mixed with an umbrella?! Gunbrella is an indie game that delivers celeste-like satisfying movement and some really fun skips using sawblades to gain a hilarious amount of speed. Run, jump, and skip through walls in this 2D shooter/platformer!

Submitting as a solo run or a race with Ozmourn!
Status: Decline
Any% Race w/ Ozmourn
01:05:00
PC Backup Runner
GaussMkII


Gravity Circuit Gravity Circuit is a fast paced platformer heavily influenced by titles like Megaman X. Controls and movement are smooth and exciting to watch. It is very marathon safe as even deaths only take you back to a checkpoint, there are no game overs. There won't be any cutscenes.

If accepted there is also a category for Dog% to save the best boys Amadeus and Yuki. They are not seen in the run otherwise. Would make a solid incentive for after the main run.
Status: Decline
Dog%
00:10:00
PC
Ozmourn


Gunbrella Gunbrella is a gritty noir action adventure game where the player's weapon and movement method is a gun that's also an umbrella.

Any% has major glitches such as skipping over half the game by abusing uncapped backwards speed to clip through doors and move through typically blocked screens. This run spotlights amazing fluid movement and combat with high octane boss fights, quick kills, manipulations, and sequence breaking, being highly engaging for audiences.

Offered solo OR as a race w/ Zic3
Status: Decline
All Hearts
1:28:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Race)
1:05:00
PC
MrMightyMouse


Grand Poo World 3 The long anticipated sequel to GPW2, Grand Poo World 3 is a masterpiece of an SMW game, with some of the most fun platforming combined with creative custom gimmicks, a great soundtrack, and a new Overworld that can be navigated by airship! The run even has some RNG sections that runners have learned to manipulate! All Exits is every level in the game and the fullest way to feature the game, any% is the minimum levels needed, All Bosses is a nice medium, shorter, but gets to play all the bosses Status: Decline
All Bosses
01:25:00
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
danejerus


Fashion Police Squad I doubt I need to really introduce this one. You all remember AGDQ 2023, right? Realistically, I know NG+ has the best shot but 100% would show off almost the whole game and there will be PLENTY of time for memes (the secrets in each level). Status: Decline
100%
1:35:00
Status: Decline
NG+
00:33:00
PC Backup Game
Cane


Frogger: He's Back! It's Frogger, except in 3D, and there's new biomes, and those biomes are surprisingly more fun than playing in the street and getting hit by cars. Status: Decline
All Gold Frogs
00:36:00
PS2 Backup Game
DanTheVP


Enter the Gungeon Proposed are 3 races between DantheVP and RadRingtail.

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down, roguelite bullet-hell game with a robust speedrun following. Each run is unique and runners must clear rooms, battle bosses, solve RNG layouts and improvise to proceed quickly. Viewers both familiar and not will enjoy the showcase of skill required to defeat the game's challenges.

These runs utilize the Gunslinger character, Turbo Mode and Rainbow Mode, to present the game in an RTA and race-friendly way.
Status: Decline
Rainbow Turbo Blessing Any% Race
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Rainbow Turbo Any% (No AWP) Race
00:25:00
PC
RadRingtail


Enter the Gungeon Proposed are 3 races between DantheVP and RadRingtail.

Enter the Gungeon is a top-down, roguelite bullet-hell game with a robust speedrun following. Each run is unique and runners must clear rooms, battle bosses, solve RNG layouts and improvise to proceed quickly. Viewers both familiar and not will enjoy the showcase of skill required to defeat the game's challenges.

These runs utilize the Gunslinger character, Turbo Mode and Rainbow Mode, to present the game in an RTA and race-friendly way.
Status: Decline
Rainbow Turbo Blessing Any% Race
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Rainbow Turbo Any% (No AWP) Race
00:25:00
PC
ZELLLOOO


Doom 64 (2020) Doomguy hasn't had enough beating demons over the head with a chainsaw at GDQs so let's dive into Hell one more time, 64's unique map design with its modifications to the Doom engine makes for a very intense set of fights on Watch Me Die difficulty and many core Doom speedrunning mechanics still apply such as linedef skipping triggers and efficient straferunning. No Watch Me Die category has been run since 2014 and any would favorably follow up on last AGDQ's action-packed PC runs. Status: Decline
Lost Levels - Watch Me Die-Max
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Lost Levels - Watch Me Die-Speed
00:25:00
Status: Decline
Watch Me Die-Max
01:45:00
PC
DECosmic


Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition Devil May Cry 5 has changed significantly since its last showing at AGDQ2020. Along with the release of Special Edition featuring turbo mode, which increases the overall speed of the game by 20%, there are new strats across the game, including new skips with summoner mage V that allow us to clip out of bounds and skip entire missions. In the Legendary Dark Knight category, enemy waves become akin to that of a Dynasty Warriors game, changing up the dynamic and route of the game significantly. Status: Decline
NG Nero/Dante/V Legendary Dark Knight
02:10:00
Playstation 5 Backup Game
SeaAverage


City Bus Driver Simulator City Bus Driver Simulator is a silly little mobile port (probably?) where you simply drive a bus around to pick up and drop off passengers before parking the bus at the end of your route. What isn't so simple is avoiding the rest of the vehicles on the road that have no desire whatsoever to avoid a collision with you. If that isn't silly enough for you, we also can do the levels in any order want want, picking the random level order by rolling a D10 before each level

Races with BystanderTim
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Any% - Random Level Order
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Any% Race - Random Level Order
00:30:00
PC Silly Games Done Quick. Race between BystanderTim and SeaAverage.
BystanderTim


City Bus Driver Simulator (Silly Games Done Quick Submission)

City Bus Driver Simulator is a silly little mobile port where you drive a bus around to pick up and drop off passengers. What isn't so simple is avoiding the rest of the vehicles on the road that have no desire whatsoever to avoid hitting you.

Any% completes all 10 levels in order

Random Level Order rolls a D10 and dictates the order that we complete the levels in.

Submitting solo, or as a race with SeaAverage
Status: Decline
Any% - Random Level Order
00:30:00
PC Silly Games Done Quick. Race between BystanderTim and SeaAverage.
LivelyRaccoon


Chameleon Twist A platformer where you play as a chameleon, using your tongue to twist on poles through obstacles. It's good early 3d platformer fun, with some glitches along with creative applications of the tongue to blitz through the game. Any% goes only to the 4 required levels whereas all levels and 100% go to all 6, 100% collecting all the crowns. Status: Decline
100%
00:35:00
Status: Decline
any%
00:15:00
N64 Backup Game
TempestMask1000


Castlevania Legends As the final Game Boy game of the Castlevania series, Legends intended to be the entry that marked the first Belmont crucial to the clan's history, plus the only known playable female Belmont protagonist of the franchise, Sonia Belmont. While Koji Igarashi deemed the game non-canon, it still holds a candle in the hearts of enough fans. And the gameplay itself is solid enough! Featuring supernatural whip action, chicken from candles, and much more, witness this forgotten tale of Castlevania! Status: Decline
100% (Standard Mode)
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Light Mode)
00:35:00
Switch
Dr4gonBlitz


Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Symphony of the Night has a variety of competitive and interesting speedrun categories. I am submitting Reverse Boss Order as it is a never before seen category for the marathon and showcases the entirety of the game's castle and bosses while using unique glitches along the way. And I am also submitting Any% as it can be played either normally or in luck mode to add an additional challenge as well have the potential to showcase a new faster route. Status: Decline
Alucard Any%
00:18:00
Xbox 360 Backup Game
suavepeanut


Alan Wake 2 Is Alan Wake a good writer? (No) Does Saga Anderson have magic powers? (Yes) Can we please get Casey some coffee? (Probably not)

Alan Wake 2 is the highly-anticipated survival horror sequel to Remedy's 2010 Alan Wake. The Any% run offers a good look at some really interesting OOB skips in Alan's campaign that can't be found in Glitchless, which was recently featured by TaintedTali at ESA Winter: https://tinyurl.com/aw2-speedrun.
Status: Decline
Any% New Game
02:50:00
PlayStation 5
Dynomation


Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore Its the new game based heavily on the original Zelda CDi games (Faces of Evil/Wand of Gamelon), featuring voice actors from the original games.This is a very new game coming out in Feb 2024, and the small community of runners has been routing hard since. Its a simple platformer with some pretty tight jumps (2-3 frames) and control, and some tricky mechanics to move and kill enemies and bosses faster. You also get a brief second of some of the characters before we skip the cutscenes. Status: Decline
100% casual difficulty
00:43:00
PC Silly Games Done Quick
bramhallthefifth


Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore Arzette is an interactive animated side-scrolling adventure inspired by the Zelda games for CD-i, complete with painted landscapes, vibrant spritework and fully animated 2D cutscenes. Speedruns are heavy on item management, platforming and enemy control. Status: Decline
Cutscene% (Casual)
01:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Casual) + Cutscenes
00:37:00
PC Backup Runner
Bobbeigh


Mega Man 9 The initial revival of classic 2D/8-Bit style Mega Man! Much like other classic MM titles, you’ll face off against 8 robot masters leading up to the Dr. Wily gauntlet. Strict platforming, resource management, and boss strategies are key to taking them down in just over thirty minutes! Will we be assuming the role of traditional Blue Bomber, or the Red Blur in Mega Man vs Proto Man?
Status: Decline
Any% (Proto Man)
00:34:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Mega Man)
00:36:00
PC
TempestMask1000


Gunstar Heroes A legendary game like Gunstar Heroes has had its place in GDQ history since the days of the classic years of the event. While Treasure's inaugural release has seen several runners, my submission for the game is through the 3D Classics port done by M2 for Nintendo 3DS. Presenting extra modes for extra ways to replay the game, the most notable is Gunslinger, which grants the player more freedom on the fly! Let's see this classic run and gun have its lesser-known mode a chance in the spotlight! Status: Decline
Any% (Easy)
00:37:00
Status: Decline
Any% Gunslinger (Easy)
00:35:00
3DS
TempestMask1000


Blaster Master Zero It's been six or so years since Blaster Master Zero saw its first action at GDQ, but only a fraction of the experience was on display. Since then, the game received two sequels from Inti Creates and Sunsoft to round out the "Jason Saga." As such, I think it's only fair that Jason himself gets some time to shine. Let's bring back this sequel to the JP Famicom game to blast some mutants alongside that of the US game! I'm submitting solo and co-op with SoaringSloth (or davidtki if applicable). Status: Decline
Unlimited Mode (Best Ending)
01:50:00
Status: Decline
Unlimited Mode (Any%)
00:16:00
Status: Decline
Jason Any% Co-op
00:57:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
Kosmic


Super Mario Bros. Randomizer The Super Mario Bros. randomizer generates completely new levels we've never seen before. SMB1 is usually a very solved game, but let's prove our skills by sight reading and reacting to everything on the fly!

There are many great possible donation incentives for this, like a bid war for which custom powerup will be included, and a showcase of the BRUTAL difficulty setting after the initial run.
Status: Decline
20 Levels
00:25:00
NES
Allegro


Star Fox Command A strategic take on the Star Fox formula. This run consists of quickly drawing out flight paths to intercept enemies and shoot them down in all-range mode, with an end goal of eliminating all enemies and bases in each mission. Each mission is unique with differing strategies in intercepting enemies on a set path or ones reliant on RNG spawns. Did I mention there is a boss that is a giant enemy crab? Status: Decline
Emperor Anglar (NG Any%)
00:40:00
Nintendo 3DS
BulbasaurRepresent


Plants vs Zombies All Puzzles is an action-packed and intense run, requiring in-depth knowledge of the levels and quick thinking to make fast decisions with very little breathing room, and even involves playing as the zombies!

The runner needs to analyse the randomly generated layout for each level while simultaneously executing their in-the-moment plan at a breakneck pace.

This run is an exhilarating, short showcase of decision-making, mechanical ability, in-depth knowledge of the game, and adaptation to RNG.
Status: Decline
All Puzzles
00:13:00
PC
MechanicalSnail


Solar Ash Solar Ash is the 2nd game from indie studio Heart Machine, creators of Hyper Light Drifter. Solar Ash inherits their fast-paced neon aesthetic, this time in a gorgeous 3D sci-fi platformer. This run has a focus on fluid movement, maintaining ludicrous speed gained by stacking boosts, and exploiting the game's 3D gravity fields. This will be a True Ending Restricted race with the top 2 controller runners, Talo and Mechanical_Snail, featuring some newer routing and tricks never shown at GDQ! Status: Decline
True Ending (Restricted) 2-Player Race
01:15:00
Status: Decline
True Ending (Restricted) 2-Player Relay
01:15:00
PC
PARTY MAN X


Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 THPS2 is a perfect sequel, taking what was good about its predecessor and improving upon it. Among other things, the game adds more goals in each level (including cash collectibles), and in this run we're going to complete all of them! All goals & golds serves as a de facto 100% category, where we fully complete the game as one skater. This category has seen a lot of activity over the last year, with the world record improving by a bit over a minute, so now's the time for this game to shine. Status: Decline
All Goals & Golds
00:14:00
PC
BeamQueenSol


Kirby Fighters 2 Kirby Fighters 2 continues asking the question of "What if Kirby was a platform fighter" by adding a proper Story Mode where Kirby and a buddy storm an ever larger tower with rougelite elements. The climbs offer some rougelite elements, and the run sports some strats and abilities not often seen elsewhere in the series, be it cutting through with Sword, smashing our way through with Hammer, or Chapter 5 where Fighter gets one of its biggest chances to shine as Kirby snowballs his way to the top. Status: Decline
Story Mode
02:15:00
Nintendo Switch
Talo


Solar Ash Solar Ash is the 2nd game from indie studio Heart Machine, creators of Hyper Light Drifter. Solar Ash inherits their fast-paced neon aesthetic, this time in a gorgeous 3D sci-fi platformer. This run has a focus on fluid movement, maintaining ludicrous speed gained by stacking boosts, and exploiting the game's 3D gravity fields. This will be a True Ending Restricted race between the top 2 controller runners, Talo and Mechanical_Snail, featuring some newer routing and tricks never shown at GDQ! Status: Decline
True Ending (Restricted) 2 Player Race
01:15:00
Status: Decline
True Ending (Restricted) 2 Player Relay
01:15:00
PC
BeamQueenSol


Kirby: Squeak Squad Kirby had his cake stolen and he's decided to speed through and make it Dream Land's problem. The run sports Wheel Kirby in one of its best forms in the series, letting Kirby speed through the stages and practically fly through them too. The inventory management with Kirby's stomach gets used constantly throughout as well, allowing us to carry other abilities for other strats along the way, including invincible candy in the only time the series has let us carry it around! Status: Decline
Any%
00:50:00
Wii U
SinDarkFatez


Scooby-Doo! Unmasked Scooby-Doo! Unmasked is a action adventure platform game where Scooby and the Mystery Gang must stop the creepy costumed characters, unmask the truth and prove Jed's innocence.
All Levels showcases many sequence breaks throughout the 3 Unique Worlds while using fast movement, precise tricks, collecting both clues and mubber to solve the mystery.
Status: Decline
All Levels
00:45:00
Nintendo Wii
dragonz


Wii Fit U Wii Fit U really has the best of both worlds: super tight and precise execution, and some of the most gimmicky controllers you can find in a speedgame.

This category has me completing all beginner difficulties of the non-autoscroller games as quickly as possible, which involves precise body movements that can really have you working up a sweat by the end of it.

No cheating either! I have to control the games as intended, which means it's all up to my balance to keep myself from falling over.
Status: Decline
All Beginner Categories (Intentional)
00:25:00
Wii U
BeamQueenSol


Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land Nightmare in Dream Land's the game to introduce alternate character modes to the series, starting with one that lets players control Meta Knight. With different physics, speed and only his sword to fight with, Meta Knight manages to do things a good bit faster than Kirby can and can even 100% the game thanks to his sword working on every puzzle in the game. It's a harder run overall, but a very satisfying one to both perform and watch. Status: Decline
Meta Knightmare 100%
00:38:00
Wii U
BeamQueenSol


Kirby Star Allies "Guest Stars ???? Star Allies Go!" is a side mode from Star Allies that lets you play a shortened version of the main campaign as any given enemy or dream friend, with most of the latter sporting unique parts based on their original games! They all also offer different strats to move around and fight, from Adeleine's drawings and paint to Gooey and the Dream Land 2 friends taking after their respective abilities, to Daroach dashing around and using the Squeaks to his advantage. Status: Decline
Guest Stars - Adeleine & Ribbon
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Guest Stars - Gooey
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Guest Stars - Rick & Kine & Coo
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Guest Stars - Daroach
00:50:00
Nintendo Switch
juh0


Remothered: Tormented Fathers "Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame." Real Steam description of the game.
BUT...it's a spinoff to its spiritual successor, Clock Tower. Playing as a lady who tries to uncover a mystery of a missing girl, her mission is to get in, intrude a bunch of people in the house and escape before any one of them find and kill her. You can clipping an old man to a door and skating around the house by standing still!
Status: Decline
100%
00:40:00
Status: Decline
any%
00:38:00
PC
yoshipro


Cloning Clyde Silly platformer with cloning mechanics to have multiple players on the screen and some animal/human/object hybrids that change how you platform. Charming I think yea Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
PC
Ppotdot1


Mario Tennis (GBC) Take on the role of a new student at Tennis Academy in this Mario sports RPG title! A comfy yet action packed run with tense matches (and some walls). The legendary tennis player Mario is waiting... Who will rise up the ranks to challenge him? Status: Decline
Any% Singles
2:00:00
Game Boy Color
Ppotdot1


Mega Man Day in the Limelight 2 In this fanmade reimagining of MM3, Dr. Wily has unleashed a virus that incapacitates Mega Man while throwing the world into chaos. Dr. Light reprograms some of Dr. Wily's old robots that are immune to the virus, thus the robot masters from MM2 get their day in the limelight! Featuring redesigned stages and boss fights, Quick Man and friends take on Dr. Wily's schemes to save the day in this fast and fun take on the Mega Man franchise. Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
PC
Nanoferret


Rain World The Monk is a peaceful, but weak character that allows you to move through the world with relative ease. Though easier among the base game slugcats, Monk still must dodge and sneak past hard to kill enemies to achieve their goal of enlightenment and finding lost family. They will climb to the top of the world to meet the dying god/supercomputer Five Pebbles, before digging into the darkest depths where memory and sound rule to follow their missing sibling's footsteps and reach the void sea. Status: Decline
Monk Pebbles%
00:45:00
PC
FFR Pro 21


Pokemon Puzzle League Pokemon Puzzle League is a puzzle game on the N64 where you swap blocks horizontally to make horizontal or vertical matches and chains of 3 or more of the same color. The goal of the 1P Stadium mode is to make combos and chains to send garbage blocks to your AI opponent to try to top their stack off and force them to run out of stop time and lose. Status: Decline
1P Stadium (Easy - Hard, 2P1C)
00:35:00
Status: Decline
1P Stadium (Hard, 2P1C)
00:15:00
Status: Decline
1P Stadium (Easy - Super Hard) Race
01:30:00
Status: Decline
1P Stadium (Super Hard) Race
00:40:00
WiiVC
Distro


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Want to see a stealth game done fast?

Splinter Cell is a stealth game but the speedrun has its very own interpretation of the word 'stealth', which allows for a very entertaining watching experience for people who are familiar with the series and even those who are not.

In this speedrun you will see a lot of AI manipulation, precise movement, a bit of out of bounds, some skips, and maybe even a bit of stealth?

Note: German is slightly faster but I would run it in English at GDQ.
Status: Decline
any%
01:00:00
PC
zolaa


Grand Theft Auto: Tightened Thrice Tightened Thrice is a Kaizo Mod for GTA III. It aims to play with speedrunners' habits and muscle memory. Almost all content of the game has been "tightened" - from regular missions to collectables. All Off-Road Missions aims to beat all offroad missions (collecting checkpoints in gimmicky vehicles) from a clean Any% save breaking out of the first mission and then completing all (4) off-road missions throughout the three islands - one by one. Status: Decline
All Off-Road Missions
00:25:00
PC
Distro


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow Pandora Tomorrow is the second game in the Splinter Cell series.

Pandora Tomorrow is the fastest Splinter Cell main series speedrun thanks to some big skips. Some of those skips are quite new. Besides some cool skips you will see a lot of fast equipment management and a lot of quick shots in this speedrun.

Since this is a stealth game, we make sure to hide bodies by exploiting a quicksave/quickload glitch, which bypasses the body checks.

Status: Decline
any%
00:45:00
PC
Distro


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction The most broken main series Splinter Cell speedrun!
In this game, super spy Sam Fisher shows off all his years of experience by clipping through walls by either rolling through them or taking cover through them. Fisher is a very busy man so he skips cutscenes related to his daughter by going out of bounds and upwarping into a checkpoint. And that is already the very first thing happening in the run!
Visually impressive skips just keep happening back to back in parts of this speedrun.
Status: Decline
any%
01:00:00
PC
Distro


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist This Splinter Cell speedrun has a lot of run and gunning but also some visually impressive skips.
Grenade clipping through walls, going out of bounds and hitting checkpoints from there, and using sticky cameras to drop into places where you are not supposed to be. You can also run on water at one point!
Blacklist offers a nice and fun speedrun for people who love both action and glitches/skips.
Status: Decline
any% (All Campaign Missions)
01:00:00
PC
FawkesRocks


Sonic CD Restored Sonic CD Restored is a fan remaster of the 2011 version of Sonic CD, bringing route restorations from the 1993 release and dozens of new features, including new characters like Amy! Beat The Game is like Any% NMG, lacking glitches yet having that sonic speed you'd expect. Amy is a custom character featuring a double jump. This run exemplifies that even the "easy" Amy run can still be highly entertaining, as has been seen with its success at other events like Hotfix or NYNPB by NoGA
Status: Decline
Beat the Game (Amy)
00:30:00
PC
Hebegoin


DOOM (SNES) DOOM for the SNES is a port of the DOS classic for the 16-bit home console. The run is rather silly, being one of the worst home ports, yet there are plenty of precise strategies needing good timing, forethought, and practiced movement due to the lack of circle strafing and high amount of input delay. The full game is played on the easiest difficulty in order to keep the framerate as high as it can be, despite this, it is still a very difficult and intense run, while being a technical marvel. Status: Decline
Episode 1-3 (ITYTD)
00:25:00
SNES
Hebegoin


Super Monkey Ball 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 is a classic speed game, involving precise movement, pause buffer strategies, and quick reactionary changes on the fly. The run is a visual showcase, and very easy to understand, and has a reputation for being fun to watch, silly, and very engaging. Story Mode All Levels is exactly what it sounds like, every level of the Story Mode of the game. Status: Decline
Story Mode All Levels
00:45:00
Gamecube
hamatet


SPLATTERHOUSE Splatterhouse is a retro action game where you perform a variety of operations using a limited number of buttons: up, down, left, right, jump, and attack buttons, and use the power of Terror-mask to rescue Rick's girlfriend Jennifer. I will use fastest techniques to defeat even difficult bosses. Status: Decline
Windows PC any%
00:15:00
PC
Gehis514


Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus All Keys is a category in which you must collect the key at the end of every level before beating Clockwerk at the end of the game. This allows for a good demonstration of every level and what tricks can be done to get to the end of them in a variety of fun ways. A majority of the levels are brief and easy to follow, so there will hardly ever be a dull moment Status: Decline
All Keys
01:07:00
Playstation 3
ripchip_


Star Wars: Dark Forces Dark Forces is a fast pace fps game and the All Secrets category showcases a combination of high speed, explosive boosting. careful routing, and unique exploits not normally found in any%. This category showcases more of the level of depth of the games level design and is high octane from start to finish. The Force Engine port also allows the run a little more marathon safety with its features. Status: Decline
All Secrets (TFE)
00:38:00
PC
ripchip_


Rise of the Triad: Ludcrious Edition Rise of the Triad is a wild game filled with dangerous obstacles, a ton of enemies, and a wide assortment of weapons and power ups like being able to turn into a dog. The run involves a lot of on the fly decision making and improvising due to enemy rng, but in its current state is faster than ever and has a lot of level shortcuts and boss strats. As someone who has run this for years I know a variety of strats and how to handle most anything the game the throws at you. Status: Decline
Any% Dark War
00:48:00
PC
hamatet


Snake's Revenge It is a sequel to Metal Gear (NES version) and the work that led to the creation of Metal Gear 2 (MSX version). This is a highly difficult game that combines two-dimensional action and side-scrolling action, and you must advance without being spotted by enemies. Status: Decline
any%
00:50:00
PC
hamatet


DEATH STRANDING This is a strand game with the theme of "connection" released in 2019 by Kojima Productions, led by director Kojima, famous for "Metal Gear Solid." The main character, Sam, is set in the North American continent, which has been destroyed by the great disaster known as Death Stranding, and through delivery, he connects separated and isolated places and people's hearts. Status: Decline
any%
04:45:00
PC
000aj


Pokémon Trading Card Game This run includes a lot of fast menuing, AI manipulation, quick thinking and adapting to RNG, as well as catchy music. While the game follows a formula very similar to main-line Pokémon games in collecting 8 badges and battling an Elite Four, the openness of the game allows for a good amount of freedom in routing. This variance in routing makes races more interesting by showing off the difference in routes between runners.
A race would be done together with pinecone606 and Toronite
Status: Decline
any% Glitchless race
1:05:00
Status: Decline
any% Glitchless
1:05:00
Nintendo Switch Virtual Console
hamatet


SPLATTERHOUSE(2010) This is a reboot version of Splatterhouse, which was released in the arcade version in 1988. The game has evolved from a 2D side-scrolling action to a 3D polygonal action, complementing the story and elements of the three classic versions. Status: Decline
any%
02:55:00
PS3
tridenttail


Diddy Kong Racing While 100% has been shown a handful of times at GDQ, its more challenging counterpart, Adventure 2 100%, has never been shown. All the tracks are mirrored making for a brain-bending experience, the CPUs are much more aggressive, and the coin challenges are frankly rude. Since the last 100% showcase, there have also been a few slight optimizations that have been implemented. If DKR is fortunate to make the cut, I can guarantee a fun, exciting, and novel showcase. Status: Decline
Adventure 2 100%
01:50:00
Nintendo 64
Eternal Red Gamer


Cookie Cutter A new metroidvania with amazing art style, animations, and action. This is an awesome new indie game that does not get a lot of attention and the world needs to see how fun this game is. Status: Decline
Any%
01:30:00
PC
Maxylobes


Army of Two A title that stood tall among many popular 3rd person shooters on the 7th gen consoles. Since picking this game up, I have implemented new strategies involving AI manipulation, checkpoint exploits, and two new skips in missions 3 and 5, which are the first out of bounds skips in the game's history. It's a very engaging run, with silly AI shenanigans, fun ragdoll physics, and comedic 2000's dialogue that has either aged like fine wine, or like milk. All aboard the Xbox 360 Nostalgia Express. Status: Decline
Any% NG+
1:45:00
Xbox One
FFR Pro 21


Pokemon Puzzle Challenge It's been 10 years since Pokemon Puzzle Challenge last appeared at SGDQ 2014. Since then, the community has expanded greatly and players have gotten exceptionally better at the series. Challenge mode is where the AI is represented by a health meter and you have to do combos and chains to try to deplete it. Just like in the real Pokemon game, once you get your opponent's Pokemon down to 0 HP, you win. Status: Decline
Challenge (Intense)
00:25:00
Status: Decline
Challenge (Easy - Intense)
00:55:00
GBC
Mechalink


The Running Man The Running Man for Amiga is a treat of Amiga-style licensed gaming, including voice acted iconic lines from Richard Dawson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The game itself is fairly difficult, with nonsense dogs showing up, and a minigame between levels for health restoration. A marathon run would best be served by having backups, and since Virtual Machines for Amiga are rock solid, it's easy to get a full memory savestate. Status: Decline
Any%
00:25:00
Amiga
Mechalink


Golgo-13: Top Secret Episode Golgo-13: TSE is a classic ambitious NES game with kuso roots, starting with a door maze, rough translations, bad checkpointing, numerous play modes, high difficulty, and an undocumented continue system that only gives you 52 continues! As a speedrun it's mostly by the numbers as long as you execute well, but mistakes can vary from not costly to extremely depending on what checkpoint you're on, and managing that is part of the play. Status: Decline
Any%
01:10:00
NES
Mechalink


Golgo-13: The Mafat Conspiracy The lesser known, but technically superior, Golgo-13 game on NES, it takes some more recognizable elements from other NES games to create a less ideosyncratic main game, but continues pushing boundaries with a rad racer segment, sniping with wind, escape sequences, more 3D mazing, and Tecmo Theater style story. Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
NES
Sweenerdog


Diddy Kong Racing Diddy Kong Racing is an absolute classic. It is both a beloved favorite amongst fans of the N64 era, and a brilliant speed game that is stuffed to brim with interesting tech, glitches, and a wide variety of categories that offer fun and interesting challenges. The DKR Community recently added tons of these new categories, and we're hoping to show them off in this year's GDQ! From Adventure Mode, to Magic Cheat Codes and Glitchless runs, we've got it all. Status: Decline
All Trophy Races Magic Codes
0:26:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses
00:11:00
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
2:00:00
Status: Decline
T.T. Amulet
00:32:00
Nintendo 64
Mechalink


Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style Shaolin Style (or Taste the Pain) is a game with a strange history, and a strange existence. It has a custom controller, it involves the Wu-Tang Clan's 'kung-fu-sonas', it's bloody, it can use the PSX multitap for 4 player 3D fighting, and it has an extremely high difficulty for its story mode. This makes it so that I only have 2 chars I can reliably beat the game with!

36 Chambers is the 100% category, involving getting all 36 per-character achievements in one sitting/run.
Status: Decline
36 Chambers - Method Man
00:22:00
Status: Decline
Any% - Method Man
00:12:00
Status: Decline
Any% - Masta Killa
00:12:00
Status: Decline
36 Chambers - Masta Killa
00:18:00
PS2
Hinamega


EASTWARD One day, John, a miner who lives underground, meets Sam deep in a cave. This is an action RPG with a downward view, where Sam adventures to see the view on the ground that he saw one day. Walk through walls, through doors, and through the sky to save the world.

Start at NewGame, timer starts when the HP of the last boss is reduced to 0. All bugs are tolerated.
Status: Decline
Any% FGS
03:05:00
PC
SeraVenza


Fable: The Lost Chapters As featured in Flame Fatales 2023, the Fable TLC 100% speedrun and its expansive checklist of quests to complete, unique items and legendary weapons to loot, mystical sentient doors with pocket dimensions to plunder, among other things are looking to make a return this SGDQ in a showcase of clever routing and intimate game knowledge that makes you come for the early-mid 2000s nostalgia and stay for all the ways the run will (probably) subvert your expectations over the course of 3 hours! Status: Decline
100%
3:05:00
PC
Cubsrule21


Sunset Overdrive A combination of Jet Set Radio Future and Call of Duty: Zombies, Sunset Overdrive is a 3rd person shooter where you try to survive a mutant apocalypse caused by an energy drink. Try to survive and find your way out of Sunset City, while combating the evil Fizzco Corp. hell-bent on covering everything to save their stock prices! A mostly glitchless experience shows a high degree of combat and movement skill, while hilarity abounds as a non-existent fourth wall leads to shenanigans and fun! Status: Decline
any% Classic
3:25:00
PC
Kuro*


Sonic and the Secret Rings Fated into obscurity due to heavily focused motion control scheme on sideways Wiimote and devious autorunning level design, Secret Rings is an oft forgotten entry in the Sonic series.

HOWEVER, it's a spectacle to see played at top level. Most people have never seen the slick execution of this speedrun. The Arabian Nights setting is gorgeous and accompanied with a banger soundtrack.

Incentive to trigger the 9 secret Big the Cat cameos present within Any% (performed in submission video).
Status: Decline
Any%
01:45:00
Wii
Kuro*


Flushed Away We saw A Bug's Life in AGDQ 2024, so it's only natural to follow it up with another licensed game of an animated children's movie and see a rat's life after getting flushed down the toilet in Flushed Away!

With a surprisingly deep level of technical skill, this speedrun takes advantage of everything: frame perfect tricks, out of bounds, death warps, developer exits, sequence breaks, and all the clean movement one can expect from some rats to put a stop to The Amphibian Dawn in record time!
Status: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
GameCube
LP3Cinema


El Paso Elsewhere You play as James Savage an ex-pill addict in a Max Payne style shooter, who is trying to stop his ex-girlfriend Draculae from destroying the world. All set in a motel in El Paso Texas that slowly turns into anything but a motel. The category consists of beating all 50 levels as fast possible, by any means necessary. Glitches and skips are plentiful in this fast paced exhilarating run! Status: Decline
Any %
01:40:00
PC
Furyful Fawful


Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe. Status: Decline
4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign
4:00:00
PC
JosephJoestar316


Winback: Covert Operations Terrorists known as the Crying Lions have taken over an underground facility in control of the GULF satellite superweapon. Its up to Jean-Luc Cougar and his allies in SCAT to save the day.
Newer skips were found that skip key sections of the game including an elevator skip going from stage 25 to 30 made possible with the rocket launcher glitch.
This also includes an out of bounds glitch that I found recently for easier access to load into the final stage 31.
Status: Decline
Easy any%
01:00:00
Nintendo Switch
Sunbrojade


Overcooked 2! Have you ever wanted to play Overcooked 2! but didnt want to wait for that pesky forced timer to end but you hit 3 stars minutes ago? Look no further than Overcooked 2! modded. Using a mod created by Toasterparty you can now dictate when the level can end by hitting a certain number of points (stars) in the level. Trio of chef's Sunbrojade, PeaceEgg and RUBIEHART are ready to stop the unbread for good. Status: Decline
Any% Modded (Trios)
01:40:00
PC
Tonkotsu


Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam is the only game in the series that can be beaten within an hour.
The key is the Instant Battle Glitch (IBG), which allows us to finish any battle instantly under certain conditions.
No IBG, on the other hand, is a more strategic category with thrilling boss fights.
Since the walls in this game are paper thin, we are able to clip through them to skip the majority of the cutscenes as well.
Status: Decline
Any% No IBG
01:55:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
3DS
vanni_van


Neutopia II Remember what I said in my other submission about GDQ fans loving classic Zelda games? Same thing applies here to Neutopia II, but this game takes it up a notch over its predecessor in several ways: more fluid combat, a much larger array of weapons, and even diagonal movement! In contrast to the run of the first Neutopia, boss RNG in this game can be downright horrendous, so if you want the viewers to see a runner get trolled super hard, then I suggest that you put this game on the schedule. Status: Decline
100%
01:20:00
TurboGrafx-16
Mitchriz


Kannagi Usagi Kannagi Usagi is a free-to-play game that is heavily inspired by Sekiro, with nearly identical deflects and dodge-counters. The entire game is a boss rush of 8 unique bosses with interesting movesets. While casually it isn't that much of a challenge compared to others in the Souls/Sekiro genre, the speedrun requires very fast reactions and precise inputs to get optimal damage, because you can often squeeze in an attack between the enemy's with just a single frame to spare. Status: Decline
All Targets
00:15:00
PC
JosephJoestar316


Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid 3 has come a long way over 20 years from being released on the PS2 in 2004, remastered for the PS3 in 2011, and revitalized for modern gen consoles last fall as part of the Master Collection.
I will be running MGS3 on the PS5 as it has the fastest loads and runs at a steady 60 fps. This will also be ran on the highest difficulty European Extreme on a NG+ attempting the FoxHound rank requiring 0 kills, alerts, continues, and life med recovery.
Status: Decline
European Extreme NG+
01:10:00
PS5
Blackbeltginganinja


Bee Movie Game I'll level with you: Bee Movie Game is a silly run. It is not "cool" or "lit" or "pollen-jock approved." It's a bunch of mini-games loosely connecting a series of missions. The missions themselves are surprisingly neat - lots of flailing your camera around, and even a few OOB skips. The mini-games are mostly a meme. I've always been a theatre guy (I've been in a few dozen local productions) so I've spiced up these sections in marathon with a bit of theatricality. The vibes are sweet like honey! Status: Decline
Any%
02:20:00
PC
irukan


ane-san This belt-scroll action game is set in Japan in a slightly earlier era and tells the story of a young girl who sets out on the same evil path to find her missing sister.
Notable features of the game include background music that would make Japanese people go crazy if they heard it, and a game balance that allows the player to fall down after taking only two damage in the early stages of the game.
Status: Decline
Any%(Mesen)
00:17:00
Status: Decline
Any%(TG-16)
00:19:00
TG-16
Blackbeltginganinja


Disneyland Adventures Some speedruns (including other ones I've submitted) are known for being intense and flashy - other speedruns are known for being just plain wholesome. Disneyland Adventures is firmly the latter. It's basically a Disneyland walking sim. There's ample opportunity to goof around, explain the (surprisingly intricate) details of the route, and throw around Disney trivia. All Autographs is the dominate category in this game - meaning we'll meet every single Disneyland mascot! Status: Decline
All Autographs
01:20:00
PC
Nitrofski


Spyro: Year of the Dragon A 3D platformer collect-athon from the late PS1 era.
As the third game of its trilogy, this game builds onto the mechanics of its predecessors and adds onto it with a plethora of minigames and a handful of new controllable characters.
117% is the full completion category: collect every egg and gem in the game to reach the secret second ending. The run features many platforming tricks and exploits.
Notable video timestamps: 00:12:45, 00:17:08, 00:54:10, 1:47:40, 2:05:45, 2:20:00 (monkey controls)
Status: Decline
117%
3:00:00
PlayStation
CZR


Super Mario 64 16 Star Drum v Blindfolded Race (CZR v Bubzia)
A race with a unique challenge on both ends. We have a similar time, a minute handicap would make for an even race! I suggest a best out of 3.
Status: Decline
16 Star Drum v Blindfolded Race
01:20:00
Nintendo 64
irukan


Anodyne A story of a slightly strange world. But you won't find one of those things in this RTA. The goal is the same, but the glitches between Classic and Remaster are different and make for a different kind of fun. Status: Decline
Any% (Classic&Remaster)
00:13:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Remaster)
00:06:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Classic)
00:05:00
PC
irukan


a tiny Sticker Tale Very cute world puzzle game. A donkey that uses stickers to control not only objects, but also people and even the weather, goes in search of his father as fast as possible!
In All Stickers you will not find your father, but you can see all the stickers.
Status: Decline
All Stickers
00:26:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:09:00
PC
Pearstrike


Kirby Air Ride Submitting 5 Hot Dogs as a race with BlueKandy. The new route focuses on staying in the main city, breaking the star pole and then resetting the game to reload the star pole and initial items that spawn in the city when you start the game. This makes the run consistent while still random and exciting. This route also showcases good city trial movement and strats like the star pole bomb jump. Status: Decline
5 Hot Dogs% (Race)
00:20:00
Nintendo Wii
Mitchriz


Amok Runner This game has a very storied history as a speedrun game. It suddenly burst into popularity through Moist Critikal's first speedrun bounty, bringing hundreds of runners. By the end, the inconsistent launches left a sour taste in many runners mouths, so a restricted category was created that bans those inconsistent launches. It is a very comfy and consistent run, with very fun and silly voice lines throughout. Status: Decline
Any% Restricted
00:35:00
PC
Darkwing Duck


The Goonies II Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such GDQ speedruns as Rygar: The Road to Four-note Dungeon and Kid Icarus: From annoying kid to less annoying kid.

Goonies II is a platforming and menuing game with fun and understandable glitches to exploit to beat the game faster. Probably the best game in the NES library that's tied to a movie reference (at least in my opinion). This would be the no OoB category. Game has never been featured at GDQ NOT in race format.
Status: Decline
any% No OoB
00:19:00
NES
FailedUplink


The Quarry The Quarry is a horror werewolf adventure smash full of QTEs and speed walking. It's got everything from Ted Raimi to Detective Pikachu's Son. Rough Night is the best category because you have to make sure everyone lives. Status: Decline
Rough Night
05:45:00
PC
Darkwing Duck


Clu Clu Land Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such short GDQ runs as Super Dodge Ball: Balls Thrown Quick and River City Ransom: Balls Kicked Quick.

Clu Clu Land is an original NES black box games, the original library of the console. It's an arcade style game that does not have a true ending like many early games. 2 top cats submitted The first is one loop. The game has sever colored stages followed by a bonus stage and then loops. Second is all stages. Each stage has 4 patterns.
Status: Decline
1 loop
00:07:00
Status: Decline
All possible stages
00:16:00
NES
RbdJellyfish


LittleBigPlanet 2 (Submitting with FireThieff.) LBP2 is a physics-based puzzle platformer with a focus on playfulness and creativity. The run is a mix of high skill movement utilizing gadgets to cooperatively boost and elevate one another, as well as some large interesting sequence breaks. While the game infamously has a few long autoscrollers, a few recent discoveries have led to most of them being completely skipped in creative ways, making for a much improved run since it last appeared in a GDQ marathon. Status: Decline
Co-op NG+ 2 players
01:30:00
Playstation 3
Gnydsmelt


Dead Beacon Dead Beacon is an comfy indie survival horror game released by solo-dev Seliani. You are shipwrecked and wake up on a mysterious island!

The game consist of you collectin a bunch of keys, fighting monters/paintings, bad doggos + some boss fights.

This category features a nice glitch where you can break the puzzle room in a funny way!

Game is very similar to Nightmare of Decay.
Status: Decline
Any% Journey
00:21:00
PC
Azurillkirby


Shadow the Hedgehog An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The category Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions goes through 3 of the many routes possible in the game, each doing only dark, normal, and hero, respectively. This shows a wide variety of missions available in the game.

Relay with dreamsyntax (Dark), Azurillkirby (Normal), and BlazinZzetti (Hero).
Status: Decline
Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions Glitchless Relay
01:20:00
Nintendo Wii
Gnydsmelt


Nightmare of Decay Nightmare of Decay is a horror game that released in May of 2022. The game is an homage to classic horror games such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill + a spice of Amnesia.

It's a game that does not take itself too seriously but it's still a great game!

We try to avoid as many zombies as possible by juking and pray that the rng is kind enough to give the cultists bad aim.

The game also features the bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (!)

Any% Hard is really intense!
Status: Decline
Any% Hard
00:16:00
PC
Gnydsmelt


Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchike is Part II of (currently 4 total episodes)

It's a standalone game where you play a character that is traveling on the road late at night. Stuff happens and everything goes wrong!

The run consists of you to go out of bounds with your car, drink a bunch of cola to get immense speed + you have to hold your breath (don't speak) during a certain section in the game - if you don't = you lose!

It's a great short and comfy little speedrun horror game!
Status: Decline
Survival Any%
00:14:00
PC
BlazinZzetti


Shadow the Hedgehog An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The category Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions goes through 3 of the many routes possible in the game, each doing only dark, normal, and hero, respectively. This shows a wide variety of missions available in the game.

Relay with dreamsyntax (Dark), Azurillkirby (Normal), and BlazinZzetti (Hero)
Status: Decline
Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions Glitchless Relay
1:20:00
Wii
Savac


Sonic Adventure 2: Battle All Stories is hardly recognizable as a category since it was last shown at AGDQ 2015. With two top players at the helm it's time to hear Live and Learn on the main stage again!

This run is a showcase of everything that makes this game great and allows us to show off many never before seen strats to the GDQ Audience. Dawn will be doing Hero Story, Savac will be doing Dark, and we will tag team the Last Story portion.

Submitting with DawnSR.
Status: Decline
All Stories Relay
1:35:00
PC
Andrea Ritsu


Jurassic: The Hunted Jurassic: The Hunted is a game with a b-movie action take on the dinosaur FPS genre. It's generally considered a pretty lousy game, but makes for a pretty fun run, especially if one enjoys dinosaurs and pointing out the various inaccuracies in how they're depicted - which we personally *love* to do.

The submitted category video is the WR that we claimed in June 2021.
Status: Decline
any%
01:10:00
PlayStation 3
Gnydsmelt


Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) Yes. The game of ALL time! On PSTRIPLE!

Yes, I am submitting the worst version of the game (PS3) which has horrible loading times, more glitches and jankiness that spice up the run.

In Shadow's story we play as the cool hedgehog Shadow that no one can stop! We go out of bounds, glitch through doors, buy a bunch of stuff to simply GO FAST.

It's Sonic, it's good. It's Shadow but still Sonic. YES
Status: Decline
Shadow's Story
00:59:00
PC
organMike


Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress! Ultima II is the era-spanning sequel to the first Ultima game, programmed by Richard Garriott. It's a royal mess of a game, with cryptic, obtuse clues, dead-ends, bad mechanics, weird RNG, and endless grind.
The story: Minax the Enchantress, angry at the loss of her mentor and lover Mondain in the first Ultima game, messes with time magic and attacks Earth, meddling in the course of history and setting off a nuclear apocalypse in the near future, and we're tasked to stop her.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PC via DOSBox
organMike


Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness Ultima is a forty-year-old RPG that takes us to all corners of Sosaria and even into deep space! Originally assembled in 1981 by Richard Garriott, a.k.a. Lord British, remade for MS-DOS in 1986 (the version submitted), the game combines top-down RPG elements with first-person dungeon crawl and real-time space battle in a truly epic contest against ancient evil.
One of the pioneers of computer role-playing games and the origin of a long-running series that includes one of the first MMORPGs ever.
Status: Decline
All Quests, All Aliens
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PC via DOSBox
organMike


Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is where the Ultima series really comes into its own, and familiar features of the series going forward - namely the philosophy of the Eight Virtues and the existence of the Avatar - become established.
More even than the previous trilogy, Ultima IV is open-world, with a massive quest across a huge world with multiple goals that can be accomplished in many different directions. There's no Big Bad to conquer at the end, only the evil within your own soul.
Status: Decline
Task Randomizer 100%
02:30:00
Status: Decline
Paragon 100% No Major Glitches
01:20:00
Status: Decline
Any% No Major Glitches
01:10:00
PC via DOSBox
organMike


The Bard's Tale Trilogy (2018) A 1980s Roster RPG, with updated graphics and mechanics, a party of up-to-seven player-created characters roam about in first-person view trying to solve the world's problems. The party roams the beseiged city of Skara Brae to break the spell of the evil wizard Mangar. We then go to free the Six Cities on the Plains from Lagoth Zanta by rebuilding the Sceptre. Finally we return to the ruins of Skara Brae and travel through time and space to challenge the Mad God Tarjan and save all of reality!
Status: Decline
Tales of the Unknown Any% Legacy Mode
01:30:00
Status: Decline
Any% Full Trilogy
04:15:00
Status: Decline
Tales of the Unknown Any% Modern Mode
1:10:00
PC
hotpoppah


Dead Rising 2 The All Missions category for Dead Rising 2 is a longer category where all survivors are rescued and all bosses are defeated. NG+ is a much more relaxed version because it runs on a save file that is already level maxed, limiting the opportunity for game overs and generally running at a much faster pace than the NG category. NG+ also has access to skips that NG can't utilize. There are also two sections involving Poker that are very RNG heavy, but is always a crowd pleaser nonetheless. Status: Decline
NG+ All Missions
3:30:00
Windows
dreamsyntax


Shadow the Hedgehog An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The category Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions goes through 3 of the many routes possible in the game, each doing only dark, normal, and hero, respectively. This shows a wide variety of missions available in the game.

Relay with dreamsyntax (Dark), Azurillkirby (Normal), and BlazinZzetti (Hero)
Status: Decline
Only Dark/Normal/Hero Missions Glitchless Relay
01:20:00
Nintendo Wii
Will-E


DAEMON X MACHINA DAEMON X MACHINA is third person mech shooter.
In this game, players board a robot called Arsenal and fight. Players can choose and take equipment from enemy meck that beaten. Therefore, in order to proceed advantageously in the second half, you must acquire the necessary equipment in the first half.
in 2024,Suddenly, glitches that are useful for speedrunning are being pioneered, and the community is thriving.
Status: Decline
Any% -PC
2:30:00
PC
Master Roxas


Sonic Frontiers Sonic Frontiers was shown last year and it was any%. So what if we did EVERYTHING instead and basically 100%d the game? Getting all the trackable in-game gold medals that Update 2 added. That means collecting every single memory token, defeating every guardian, doing every cyberspace level completely, and more! This run is full of nonstop movement perfected collectible routing showing the full experience of Sonic Frontiers in its entirety! A great run for an overnight segment! Status: Decline
All Gold Medals
6:30:00
Playstation 5/Xbox Series X/PC
Peace Egg


Pac-Land Pac-Land is a deceptively mean platformer. Don't let the adorable graphics and catchy music fool you! It practically requires turbo controls that make movement less consistent, and combined with enemy placement RNG that pops up very suddenly, good instinct, execution, and trust in what Pac-Man will do is needed for a solid time. Every run is full of wonderfully tense moments.
I would love to race this alongside FlannelKat, Alys Rujasu, and davidtki.
Status: Decline
8 Trips (The Whole Dang Game)
00:32:00
TG-16
SpacebarS


Toy Commander A Classic SEGA Dreamcast game, where players complete unique missions by controlling toys (usually in the form of vehicles). Missions can be anything from: boiling eggs, exploding pianos, defeating godzilla, crazy trains, aliens, pirates & many more. Unlock new bosses & areas themed around the various household areas using toy soldiers, pencils, erasers, tacks, tricks, clips, glitches & even deodorant to take down the final boss Huggy Bear, and become the Toy Commander! Status: Decline
100%
01:30:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
Dreamcast
SpacebarS


Lethal Company In this popular co-op horror game, we are contracted workers for the Company! Our job is to collect scrap from abandoned moons to meet the Company's profit quota (Or else). We can use the cash we earn to travel to new moons with higher risks and rewards!

Our goal in this Speedrun is to meet 6 quotas as fast as possible using various glitches such as ship clip, item drop tech, & apparatus clip (This is a Co-op submission with SpacebarS and ThundaSurge)
Status: Decline
6 Quota 2 Employees Glitched
00:55:00
PC
Bobbeigh


Castlevania: Symphony of the Night The glass cannon Belmont takes center stage in this All Bosses performance! Richter is an additional playable character that can perform a myriad of abilities, including the powerful Item Crash reminiscent of classic ‘Vania titles! Strength and speed come at a cost as his defenses are paper-thin, leaving VERY LITTLE room for error! Nearly nonstop action performed on an arcade-style controller, the Snack Box Micro! Status: Decline
All Bosses (Richter)
00:30:00
Xbox Series S
Pcol


QT This game is a cute parody of the horror game released on PS4 called PT that was a showcase of a potential new Silent Hill game that ended up getting canceled. In QT, there are 3 different levels full of different cute and colorful characters and tons of different things to interact with. I will be going through each of the levels as fast as possible and collecting all of the in game achievements aside from the ones that are glitched. Status: Decline
Full Game - All Achievements
00:30:00
PC
Bobbeigh


Castlevania: Rondo of Blood In an instance where whip-wielders can’t get it done, it’s time to call in the magical girl! Maria VERY QUICKLY rolls through her competition with the help of her animal friends and the hefty Guardian Knickle ability! Classic ‘Vania with a cute twist, also full of play forming and glitches like walking on water! Precise platforming and execution made possible with the arcade-style controller, the Snack Box Micro! Status: Decline
Maria Only
00:18:00
PS4
NachoTheAdventurer


Sonic Heroes A 3D Action Platforming game where we control 3 characters at the same time! Using Speed Formation to Blast through the levels, Fly formation to get higher and Power formation to destroy all the enemies
We're gonna be playing as Team Sonic, alongside Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to complete all the stages as fast as possible
On the PC version we have exclusive tech, known as the wall bounces and the famous, Ultra Glide where we can skip huge chunks of the level
Status: Decline
Team Sonic (Unrestricted)
01:05:00
PC
SCXCR


Yoshi's Safari Yoshi's Safari is a joyful SuperScope-fueled romp through Jewelry Land where Mario blasts everything that moves. Uses an extra controller to save a bit of time pathing through stages. Run involves using gates to shorten levels, a fair bit of RNG, and a lot of precision shooting, as well as a particular level order to maximize weapon power and defeat mini-bosses faster.

Note: Possible incentive demonstrated during the video.
Status: Decline
Any% Hard Mode
00:46:00
SNES
NachoTheAdventurer


Battleblock Theater 2D Platformer game with cats, you and your friends arrived to a weird island with cats and took over the best of the friends, Hatty, you must recuse him, but the cats got you captive as well, complete the stages by collecting 3 gems in every stage or find the secret exit.
Gonna be playing the Any% No Level Skips (Weaponless) category
Complete all the main levels without skipping any of them, and don't use weapons, not using them doesn't mean we have to play intended
Status: Decline
Any% No Level Skips (Weaponless)
01:55:00
PC
Mods4Ever


Deus Ex Randomizer Deus Ex is a game all about emergent gameplay, giving you many viable approaches to different situations. The Randomizer cranks this to 11! It takes everything and shuffles it all around to make it like a new game every time but with the same great story. The goal is to increase the replayability and strategy. In the Hard Glitchless speedrun, you have to really think on your feet to get out of tough situations sometimes, and every run is different! Status: Decline
Hard Glitchless
2:30:00
PC
FocusSight


Mega Man X7 Mega Man X7 is largely considered the black sheep of the MMX series, yet in spite of its 2D/3D hybrid style, speedruns of the game still have the same movement-focused speedrun style that a lot of the other titles maintain. New Game is a fair bit more tactical than its NG+ counterpart, since we use just Zero and Axl for the entirety of the run, have to collect certain Reploids for chip parts, and need to pay attention to a lower, more susceptible health bar.

Race w/ Ppotdot1 & peterafro OR solo
Status: Decline
Any% (NG)
01:04:00
PC
OboeMasterOzzy


Splatoon 3 Side Order Instead of precisely navigating a series of obstacle courses with a meticulously crafted route, Splatoon 3's new DLC campaign opts for an intensive race up 30 different layers of the Order Spire.

Each floor offers 3 random levels for the player to choose from, all ranging in different challenges and rewards, creating a nerve racking speedrun that tests the player's Splatoon skills, wits and quick thinking.

No two runs are the same and every run is a different experience.


Status: Decline
Any%
1:10:00
Nintendo Switch
Nick Astalos


Sly Cooper And The Thievius Raccoonus Sly Cooper is a 2001 PS2 platformer game. For any%, we have to defeat Clockwerk by first getting through 5 worlds. Worlds 1, 2, and 4 have skips to go straight to the world boss. World 3 doesn't have a skip and requires completing 3 optimized minigames, and 3 platforming levels with skips. The World 5 levels are accessed linearly with more skips and optimization. I've been running this for about 9 months and would be honored to show the world how cool this popular cult classic can be speedran! Status: Decline
any%
00:50:00
PS3 (Backwards Compatible)
hh4hooch


Whirl Tour Over the course of the run you play through 6 races and 7 maps in a "Tony Hawk Pro-Skater"-like game where the two players ride on scooters instead of skate boards. It plays much like THPS, each level has a set number of objectives, however each is paired with two bosses and a race.

The game has not been featured in GDQ but its predecessor "Razor Freestyle Scooter" has been. This game is more polished and more eccentric. Its a fun quick run with a humorous story.

My Co-Op partner is @bbforky
Status: Decline
Any% Co-op
00:23:00
Nintendo Gamecube
Fabby


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for the Bonus Tracks segment.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.
Status: Decline
200cc 96 Tracks No Items
03:00:00
Nintendo Switch
SpacebarS


Sonic Adventure DX An ancient evil lurking within the Master Emerald has been unleashed from its slumber by the devious Dr. Eggman and is on the verge of becoming the ultimate monster using the 7 Chaos Emeralds. As Knuckles, we must use a series of glitches, clips & tricks to obtain all the pieces of the master emerald & put a stop to Chaos! Status: Decline
Knuckle's Story
00:15:00
PC
daspharaoh


Final Fantasy XIII-2 Final Fantasy meets Pokémon in this fast paced JRPG. As Serah and Noel we will cross time and space not to save the world, but to save the future. To assist them, we will capture several monsters, one of which is both the strongest monster in the game and also extremely cute.
In this category we are aiming to beat the game as fast as possible, utilizing a mod that changes the drop rate of two of the monsters we will capture to 100%, in order to make it more marathon friendly.
Status: Decline
Any% Drop Mod
2:45:00
PC
LinkaMeister


Super Metroid: Ascent This is a romhack of Super Metroid. It is one of the best hacks out there. It has a completely new map divided into 3 zones. There are custom tiles, palettes and music that makes the hack visually and musically different and amazing. There are also some new items added. At the end of every zone is a point of no return. The 100% speedrun is fast paced filled with amazing tricks and great movement. This hack compared to Super Metroid vanilla is a completely different experience and not the same. Status: Decline
100%
01:12:00
SNES
daspharaoh


Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII The final entry in the series, in this game we must save as many souls as we can before the world ends in 13 days, to usher them into the new world created by the God of Light, Bhunivelze, which we are totally not going to kill by the end of the game.
Submitting as a bidwar between the completionist category, which completes all the games sidequests and the two superbosses in Hard Mode, and as a New Game Randomizer for extra Chaos.
Status: Decline
Randomizer
6:30:00
Status: Decline
NG+ DASH
6:30:00
PC
LinkaMeister


Gods Originally an old Atari ST and Amiga game ported to the SNES. This version plays in 60hz and is also sped up. The story is about the gods looking for someone who can take back the citadel from the guardians and whoever does that gets one wish. The main character's wish is to live among the gods and the gods hope that he can't do it. In this run we are going to prove the gods wrong. Status: Decline
Any% (SNES)
00:24:00
SNES
LinkaMeister


Metroid: Spooky Mission 2 This is a Metroid: Zero Mission romhack and is the sequel to the bad ending of the fir Spooky Mission romhack. This hack is made multiple people. This hack is huge. Everything looks completely different and music is also new. There are even some new bosses added into the hack that look pretty familiar. Status: Decline
100%
01:35:00
GBA
daspharaoh


Sonic and the Secret Rings Sonic with RPG elements, in this game you need to unlock levels to progress. Therefore, if you have to do certain stages, you have to load a save, and if you have to load a save, you can load any save, including one with a level 99 Sonic, all the speed passives unlocked and a need to go fast that cannot be matched anywhere else in the franchise. Status: Decline
All "Go for the Goal" stages
00:25:00
Nintendo Wii
Torsinn


Lonely Mountains: Downhill Casually this is a chill game where you go biking in the mountains, but it becomes a hard speedrun where every tree, every rock, every bridge can kill you. And it has some cool tricks abusing the checkpoints mechanics! The category consists on beating the 16 original tracks with everything already unlocked. Just like in submission video we can have an incentive to make it a 20 tracks speedrun. Status: Decline
16 Tracks NG+
00:32:00
PC
JTaddles


Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Diploma is a co-op run where the objective is to get all 150 Pokémon in each Let's Go game, and obtain the Diploma. Each player has their own route and catches to take care of, while planning trades and some catches with the other player.
For the controller swap, we will switch controllers and play the other person's game/route based on a TBD donation milestone (every $1k, $5k, or $10K donated).
Status: Decline
Diploma (Co-op controller swap)
05:15:00
Nintendo Switch
daspharaoh


Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness One of the few Pokémon games where your starter is an Eevee, we will have the option of finishing the game with a Gen 3 eeveelution and a Hoenn Pokémon, or completing a bunch of puzzles centered around several battle strategies and tricks, where RNG reigns supreme. Status: Decline
Battle CD RTA
3:00:00
Status: Decline
Any% Starter Bidwar
5:45:00
Nintendo Gamecube
Tayman


Pokemon Puzzle League Pokemon Puzzle League is a match three puzzle game where we battle through opponents from the Pokemon anime. Very fast-paced, high-skill run. Joint submission between FFRPro21 and myself. For the two player one controller catagories, we do not have a specific video of this, but we are both top-tier runners of the game, and have practiced together in person at previous GDQs. Videos for the 2P1C submissions are of my personal hard run time. Easy-Super Hard video is FFRPro's run. Status: Decline
1P Stadium (Easy-Super Hard Race)
01:30:00
Status: Decline
Two Players One Controller (Easy-Hard Mode)
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Two Players One Controller (Hard Mode)
00:15:00
Status: Decline
1P Stadium (Super Hard Race)
00:40:00
Nintendo 64
Ppotdot1


Mega Man X7 This Mega Man differentiates itself from others in the series with both 2d and 3d segments, the ability to swap between two characters at any time during stages, and the introduction of a new protagonist, Axl! New Game uses Zero and Axl with tense platforming and health management and is the more difficult of the two categories, while New Game Plus utilizes X's and Zero's unique strengths to mow through Red Alert and their mysterious "Professor".

Would be happy to race with Focus or Peterafro.
Status: Decline
Any% New Game Plus
1:00:00
Status: Decline
Any% New Game
1:04:00
PC (Steam)
Kosmic


Multiple Classic Mario Games The Super Marihour Challenge is an awesome example of a multi-game run. It shows the true power of speedrunners, as we beat 6 very popular Mario games, in just 1 hour. Status: Decline
Super Marihour
01:05:00
NES / SNES / N64
Kirthar


Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (or Donald in Maui Mallard, as it was marketed in Europe) was first released on Genesis. The PC port is essentially a polished version of the Genesis game, and is a bit different when it comes to level design and gameplay compared to the SNES version which came later. It's an action platformer which has its fair share of clips, zips, and other skips, along with questionable hitboxes and jankiness in general. Status: Decline
Any% (Normal/Hard)
00:22:00
PC
DirectorMusic


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow is a bit lesser-known sibling of the first game, in which you see Sam Fisher return, and save the world in a groundbreaking pace (under an hour!) As you follow Sam's adventures, you will see level-skipping out-of-bounds, T-posing enemies, spectacular shooting action and, of course, a sprinkle of AI manipulation. Don't blink and you won't miss it! Status: Decline
Any%
00:48:00
PC
SawaYoshi


Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a 2D indie metroidvania game from 2017, where the Knight explores Hallownest in a journey to defeat the Infection.
True Ending obtains the Void Heart and eradicates the root of the Infection, whether it be glitchless stylish action on an earlier patch, the latest patch, or with mind-boggling game-breaking glitches. 112% collects everything in the game and beats a final boss rush in the Pantheon of Hallownest. No matter what gets accepted, Hollow Knight will never disappoint.
Status: Decline
112% All Pantheon Bosses No Major Glitches
3:55:00
Status: Decline
True Ending No Main Menu Storage
0:40:00
Status: Decline
True Ending 1.4+ NMG
1:25:00
Status: Decline
True Ending No Major Glitches
1:25:00
PC
SawaYoshi


Hollow Knight 2P1C speedruns are all the rage recently - why not change the pace with 1 keyboard and HALF a player?

Hollow Knight is a 2D indie metroidvania game from 2017, where the Knight explores Hallownest in a journey to defeat the Infection.
What you've never seen is a speedrun of this game with only one hand. Of course, boss fights and movement are much, much more complex with five less fingers to work with, and a new route must be built to accomodate for the use of only 5 fingers (and one palm).
Status: Decline
One Hand Any%
0:55:00
PC
Zeikier


Star Renegades Star Renegades is a Tactical RPG (The R stands for "roguelite!") about managing the loot drops you get and manipulating turn order to your advantage. The run offers on-the-fly adapting and snappy mechanical efficiency.

For this category, we start a fresh save file and defeat all the main Officer enemies as well as the mercenary factions on our way to the final boss of the first loop. A slightly chaotic but thrilling romp!
Status: Decline
New Save File - All Officers
02:00:00
PC
SawaYoshi


Salt and Sanctuary Roll dodging, skill trees, extreme difficulty - Salt and Sanctuary has everything to be called a soulslike game. Combined with the unique perspective and blistering combat that only a 2D action game can deliver, this game and run will knock everyone's socks off, including the runner's own.
Any% NMG is the most popular category in speedrunning, and restricts the use of most glitches to provide the most true-to-the-genre action gameplay that Salt and Sanctuary is known for.
Status: Decline
Any% No Major Glitches
0:25:00
PC
ThomasPatrickWX


Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is the first Pokemon game to be released for Nintendo Switch with catching mechanics that are familiar to those who've played Pokemon GO.

Any% NMS requires the player to obtain 50 different Pokemon to complete. This makes each attempt unique with some on-the-fly routing decisions.

Diploma is a 2-player Catch 'em All, where we will local trade with each other to complete the PokeDex. Submitting Diploma as a co-op with JokerSleeps
Status: Decline
Diploma
5:15:00
Status: Decline
Any% No Mount Skips
3:10:00
Nintendo Switch
randalleatscheese


Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Diploma is a co-op run where the objective is to get all 150 Pokemon in each Let's Go game, and obtain the Diploma. Each player has their own route and catches to take care of, while planning trades and some catches with the other player. For the controller swap, we will switch controllers and play the other player's game/route based on a TBD donation milestone (every $1k, $5k, or $10k donated) Status: Decline
Diploma (Co-op controller swap)
5:15:00
Nintendo Switch
Zeikier


Rolling Thunder 3 Rolling Thunder 3 is a side-scrolling cover shooter from the dark recesses of the Genesis library. We carefully select the right weapons for each level and manipulate enemy behavior to control our path to victory.

All Bosses takes us through the normal game and its vehicle levels, while Any% takes us through the bonus stages. The run is tight, precise, and a nice bite-sized burst of retro energy!
Status: Decline
All Bosses
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:15:00
Sega Genesis
pinecone606


Pokémon Trading Card Game This beloved Pokemon spinoff is a challenging and dynamic speedrun. The fast interface and minimal cutscenes keep the run focused on the action. High variance in possible duel outcomes requires runners to quickly adapt to unique situations on-the-fly. Interesting exploits to manipulate RNG and abuse save mechanics allow for high-skill, on-the-fly timesaves. Traditionally run using the Charmander deck, developments of alternate routes have made all 3 starter decks viable for a speedrun. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless Race (All 3 Starting Decks)
01:05:00
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless (Bulbasaur & Friends)
01:05:00
Nintendo Switch (NSO VC)
Tibs


Super Mario Galaxy Time starts on "Play this File" and ends after the grand star in Galaxy Reactor. Over the past few years, a surge of new skips were made possible through 2P player mode, allowing you to perform double jump by velcroing two sets of joycons together. Recently, a theoretical 8-year old skip in Good Egg 2 was proven to be possible via crystal floating, a very precise strat that allows you to flip gravity fields. These new skips and strats would make for an entertaining and thrilling run. Status: Decline
Any% Luigi 1 Player, 2 Controllers
2:20:00
Nintendo Switch
ThomasPatrickWX


Pokémon Sword/Shield Sword & Shield is the first Pokemon game to feature an open world area known as the "Wild Area", which was then expanded to both DLC areas. A variety of different Pokemon can be caught here which has opened up countless opportunities to decide which is best to use for the speedruns.

Any% is just the beating the base game, although the routes are different depending on if you play Sword or Shield.

Tower of Two Fists completes just the first DLC area, though you visit both in the route.
Status: Decline
Tower of Two Fists [Get Urshifu]
1:35:00
Status: Decline
Any%
4:20:00
Nintendo Switch
NallyQ


Dead Rising 4 Frank West is back at it again, this time in modern day Willamette. Maybe Frank's changed a little bit, but the zombies sure haven't.
Dead Rising 4 is a festive addition to the Dead Rising series. It features combat mechanic skips, specific skill tree builds, and a little bit of off-roading in the snowy fields of the city. We use a little bit of money routing to obtain specific weapons and bulldoze our way through the main story missions.
Status: Decline
Story Mode NG
2:00:00
PC
DirectorMusic


Freedom Fighters The world is under attack by a scary military force, but it is up to you to stop the invaders and do it in such a time, that it takes longer to eat your meal at a fast food joint than this speedy adventure! Watch as Chris, a freedom fighter, goes full bravado and speedruns through the streets of New York, and saves the world with his superb jumping skills. Oh, and you can teleport around the world via the sewers! Don't try that! Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
PC
NallyQ


Rat Cage A Little Nightmares-like puzzle platformer where you play as a rat who chooses to be a menace by breaking into a building solely to break back out. This run features a few platforming skips and a new blind section where you platform through the darkness. Status: Decline
Any%
00:18:00
PC
Iceblue


Super Mario RPG Remake This long-awaited HD remake of the beloved SNES classic makes for an entirely different (and faster!) speedrun than its counterpart, in no small part due to the addition of several new battle mechanics, as well as quicker and more fluid animations. An incredibly accessible and fun, yet challenging speedgame that not only keeps all of the original's charm but breathes new life into the Mario RPG genre!

Can be offered as a coop run or a race!
Status: Decline
Normal RTA
02:45:00
Nintendo Switch
JankPickle


LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (GBA) Submitting as a race with LaserTrap_
This is an isometric version of the PC game with all sorts of strange clips, it's a charming kind of bad game. It has a bunch of mechanics not seen in other lego games, deaths are more punishing, speed powerups, and a meter for special abilities. Almost every boss has a cheese strat
Status: Decline
All Episodes
00:47:00
Game Boy Player
MachWing


Pokemon Sapphire In this category we run through the Pokemon Sapphire story using a new route used in WR runs, that now includes an Abra! This run is filled with exciting execution and fights, as we run through the game with the Mudkip Line before swapping to Kyogre to help us finish off the run Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
2:15:00
Gamecube
Ppotdot1


Wizards and Warriors 3: Kuros: Visions of Power The third installment of Wizards & Warriors on the NES has the knight Kuros return right where he left off, chasing down the evil wizard Malkil to the town of Piedup. There he becomes a thief and breaks into people's homes, promises to marry three princesses (and a dragon?) for their jewelry, and finally levitates menacingly at the burger king to make him explode. Just a normal day for a knight, right?

Would be happy to race this with Terrex or other submitters.
Status: Decline
any%
00:25:00
NES
MachWing


Pokemon Leafgreen In this run we get through the game using a glitch just discovered last year, the first of its kind in Leafgreen, in order to glitch into the Hall of Fame and beat the game half an hour earlier than intended, using some rarely seen pokemon in a speedrun along the way. Status: Decline
Any% Glitched
1:35:00
Gamecube
Froob


Attack on Titan The original Attack on Titan (named A.O.T in Europe due to legalities) a 3D action game with spiderman-esque movement.

The run covers up until the end of Season 1 of the anime with the Female Titan fight. This run requires optimal use of replenishing gas and blade mechanics, good use of character skills and optimal aiming at Titan body parts.

There is a lot of speedtech such as a 10 minute boss fight skip whilst avoiding a softlock and skipping multiple parts of different missions
Status: Decline
Any% (Female Titan)
01:40:00
PC
JankPickle


LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (PC) The PC version of Lego Star Wars from 2005 features the prequel trilogy. Featuring 1P2C movement, interesting out of bounds movement, and flying yoda. Recently lag abuse was unbanned so i'll be implementing new strats. Status: Decline
any%
01:08:00
PC
brassbeat


Peggle Deluxe Peggle Deluxe is a game about shooting balls in a pachinko board. After last year's successful showing, I have opted to submit a few challenging categories: NG+ is a faster paced version of adventure mode where we get to use the strongest strats on every level. Extreme Grand Master is the game's 100% category, requiring us to beat all of the challenges and full clear all the levels. Thankfully, we can do a bit of task overlapping to ease the workload a bit. Status: Decline
NG+ race w/ HeliosWx
0:55:00
Status: Decline
Extreme Grand Master
4:45:00
PC
Porkchop44


AEW Fight Forever Silly wrestling game. Category involves completing all scenarios in the Road to Elite story mode. Time starts when character is selected, time stops upon "All scenarios completed" message. Game involves utilizing rules and story mechanics or progress quickly, as well as min maxing matches for quick finishes to progress a silly story mode that covers all majors PPVs. Game has a lot of potential for silly stage antics and bits. Status: Decline
Road to Elite Easy%
0:45:00
PC
LinkaMeister


Junkoid This is a romhack of the original Metroid. This one completely makes the whole game different. Everything looks new and fresh. The bosses and enemies look different. Even the main character looks different and is called Junko. The story is that Junko is afflicted by perpetual nightmares and is determined to defeat the manifestations of her dreams, the serpent trickster Asmodeus. Status: Decline
100%
00:36:00
NES
GaryJGames


Pokemon: Infinite Fusions Pokemon: Infinite Fusions has hit the internet by storm as THE most infamous Pokemon fangame. With over 200,000 unique fusions, options for speedruns are truly limitless. Each runner has honed their own routes and have continued to optimize and grow, so it would be an honor for us to represent the Pokemon Fangame community on the big stage.

Submitting Both Solo run and Races for Any% and Any% Alt main, along with "Beat Gold" which runs through both Kanto and Johto.
Status: Decline
Any% 5.0
1:25:00
Status: Decline
Beat Gold 5.0
1:55:00
Status: Decline
Any% 5.0 vs. 5.1 Race
1:25:00
Status: Decline
Alt Main Any% Solo/Race
1:20:00
PC
LinkaMeister


Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue The story of this game is that either Hello Kitty or Bad Badtz-Maru is saving Sanrio from the evil block army that's invading. Going through each stage defeating blocks and cylinders. It's a cutesy game. Status: Decline
Any% (Bad Badtz-Maru)
00:37:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Hello Kitty)
00:37:00
GameCube
JSR_


Parappa the Rapper (Submitted as all cutscenes, as well as any%. The cutscenes are as iconic as the raps, and despite the added time, would make this run get a lot more hype).

Boy, I would love to be able to get on stage at SGDQ and rap like my life depends on it. And I could do so with now-iconic and fun rap songs sang by the wonderful characters of this cult classic PS1 title.

But how could I possibly do this on the big stage? I'll be all nervous...
I KNOW!
I GOTTA BELIEVE!
Status: Decline
Any%
0:25:00
Status: Decline
Any% All Cutscenes
0:45:00
Sony PlayStation 1
DanTheVP


Terra Nil Explore the world of Terra Nil as this run transforms wastelands into thriving ecosystems. This top down builder is a unique take on the genre and the speedrun offers an equally unique experience.

Through 4 stages we unlock tech, create diverse biomes, and establish habits for various species. To top it off, we extract everything and leave the thriving paradise.

The speedrun takes this cozy builder and turns it into a fast pace RTS game and it's progression is easy to follow for new viewers.
Status: Decline
Any%, Standard
00:38:00
PC
AstrasEvolution


Deltarune Deltarune is the next step in Toby Fox's legacy of creations! While the game is only partially complete, the first chapter of the game has stood as the most competitive section the game has to offer! Between tight encounter skips and engaging boss fights, there is no shortage of fun to be had in Chapter 1! Between the fast paced gameplay and fantastic musical score, the Ch1 run is a short but sweet run for anyone to enjoy! Status: Decline
Chapter 1 All Bosses
00:33:00
Status: Decline
Chapter 1 Any%
00:28:00
PC
GaryJGames


Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity Code Lyoko is a cult-classic cartoon from the early 2000s. Remember that weird show with the big foreheads about fighting in cyber space? Yeah, that's Code Lyoko. QFI is a 3D platformer riddled with wacky glitches and satisfying movement. Wanna clip through walls? Wanna float through midair out of nowhere? You ever wanna just go over any wall in your way? Wanna learn to moonwalk??? Yeah, we got that and then some. This game means a lot to me and I would love to show off the game I love so much. Status: Decline
Any%
1:25:00
Status: Decline
100%
2:00:00
Nintendo Wii
podgy713


Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix KH2FM is an action JRPG focused on fight optimization. As we gain more tools in the form of magic, summons, drive forms, and abilities, the fights get increasingly more complex, which makes for a spectacle for both the runner and the viewer.
Since my showcase in Hotfix, we have added more route changes that I would love to show off on the big stage.
The goal of Any% is to complete the game as quickly as possible doing only required worlds. Willing do it this as a race.
Status: Decline
Any% Beginner
2:26:00
PC
bradderfield


Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters Power Fighters is the sequel arcade Fighter/Boss Rush Mega Man: The Power Battle.

The All Bosses Category will showcase all three of the different routes back to back, fighting every Robot Master, Castle Boss, and Wily Machine. Each route has different bosses, different weapons, and different strategies to finish each fight quickly. The game is heavily reliant on RNG regarding Boss Pattern, power ups, and recovery items.
Status: Decline
Solo - All Bosses
00:25:00
PC
mashy


The Legend of Zelda: Oracles Randomizer Oracles randomizer has seen a lot of improvements over the last few months with additions of linked items and the ability to customize how many essences are required to beat the game. This also allows for more variation in routes than doing all dungeons. Ages has more focus on puzzles and time travel mechanics, while Seasons has a larger focus on combat and changing the seasons. Both games will use shuffled dungeon entrances and Seasons will included shuffled Subrosia portals. Status: Decline
Seasons (5 Essence)
1:50:00
Status: Decline
Ages (5 Essence)
1:50:00
Gamecube (GBI)
JCR


Super Paper Mario Super Paper Mario Any% might be 4 hours, but it is a very entertaining watch. We can gain infinite height, clip through any wall in the game, open doors early and so much more. While we can't skip entire chapters, we can skip massive portions of multiple levels, as well as skip collecting certain pixls. With our community continuing to grow, this game's passionate fan base would love to see Super Paper Mario make it's first appearance at GDQ! Status: Decline
Any%
04:05:00
Wii U
selcouthmind


The Sims 4 The Sims 4 contains a secret aspiration: Grilled Cheese. To complete this aspiration, we'll be making a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, talking to everyone we see about grilled cheese sandwiches, summoning the Grim Reaper, and travelling to space. Confused about those last two things? That's alright! Just embrace the grilled cheese! Status: Decline
Aspiration Grilled Cheese (With Expansions)
00:12:00
PC
GaryJGames


Splat the Blob! Splat the Blob is a courageous blob set on an adventure! Oh, and he kinda can fly??? But only when he really sets his mind to it. Quite the quirky game ready for Silly Block, this game is a must-add to the marathon.

"Yeeeaah..*claps* woOOOoo"
Status: Decline
Any%
0:10:00
PC
ThePackle


Tony Hawk's Project 8 THP8 was previously shown at AGDQ 2020. 100% is, arguably, the most difficult category in the entire THPS franchise. The objective is to complete over 100 goals on sick, get all 283 gaps, all 36 spot tokens, and complete all pro challenges. It is a grueling, difficult ~2.5 hr+ long speedrun featuring a lot of tech, movement options, crazy cheeses, and even crazier tricks. This takes the Rank 1 speedrun shown on Game Masters to the maximum. Status: Decline
100%
2:45:00
Xbox 360
FI3RY


Devil May Cry DMC requires a good combination of Movement and Combat Skills, is a relatively short run, and we have found quite a few new strats/route changes to make DMC much faster in all categories in the last few months. Any%'s big change is Early Vortex at Mission 6, making Mission 6-11 much faster now. Both Categories now have better buy routes, more vortexing even past m11, minor timesaves for bosses, optimal movement, consistent combat, and a lil bit of new tech. Status: Decline
All Collectibles
01:07:00
Status: Decline
All Collectibles Race
01:07:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:42:00
Status: Decline
Any% Race
00:43:00
PC(Solo)/Xbox One(Race)
Jaxler


The Spongebob Squarepants Movie This is a 3D platformer-collectathon from the same team that made Battle for Bikini Bottom. Every glitch in this game's toolkit is either flashy or hilarious to watch. Bash boosting, reverse slide jumps, lag buffer token warps, and the new Rub a Dub skip are incredibly precise and impressive to watch, while guitar gliding, invisible crate proxies, and memory corruption are goofy to watch live and let us break the game in ridiculous ways. Happy to do this solo or as a race w/ BubbleBass. Status: Decline
No Pause Storage
1:15:00
Xbox
GaryJGames


The Way Remastered The Way Remastered is a 2D Exploration Platformer with a compelling story and great puzzle-platforming gameplay. However our amazing community has cracked this game wide open. Hovering through walls, fazing through floors and manipulating time and space just to save our wife on a never-explored planet. Any% is full of fast paced platforming and glitches right from the start, with never a dull moment, but plenty of wackiness to go around. Status: Decline
Any%
0:55:00
Nintendo Switch
JSR_


EarthBound PK Scramble is a dynamic randomizer taking the JRPG community by storm! Lylovir & I will be in full Jeff & Ness cosplay.
This item rando has 3 win conditions, which can lead to comeback victories and surprise twists! In addition, we'll be playing "Snake Tag", a dangerous variant where we'll be forever stalked by an angry snek who wipes our party if we're caught!
You can read more about the flags & format here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ogsItkM84wbeCk9NUyesS7yVUR_jxkTRRBAVBs8JSA/edit?u
Status: Decline
"PK Scramble" 2 player race vs Lylovir
1:10:00
Status: Decline
"PK Scramble" + Snake Tag 2 player race vs Lylovir
1:35:00
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Lylovir


EarthBound PK Scramble is a dynamic randomizer taking the JRPG community by storm! JSR_ & I will be in full Ness & Jeff cosplay.
This item rando has 3 win conditions, which can lead to comeback victories and surprise twists! In addition, we'll be playing "Snake Tag", a dangerous variant where we'll be forever stalked by an angry snek who wipes our party if we're caught!
You can read more about the flags & format here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ogsItkM84wbeCk9NUyesS7yVUR_jxkTRRBAVBs8JSA
Status: Decline
"PK Scramble" 2-Player Race vs. JSR_
1:10:00
Status: Decline
"PK Scramble" + Snake Tag 2-Player Race vs. JSR_
1:35:00
SNES
Torsinn


Rayman 2: The Great Escape This speedrun changed a lot since Glackum showcased it at AGDQ2019! We still use NOMOVIES cheatcode to skip cutscenes, but now we have even more unique, very usual glitches, including a huge skip to save about 10min. For a marathon, it has a great balance between action packed levels and a few slow gameplay sections to read donations. Status: Decline
Any%
1:07:00
PC
TurtleRun


Pit People Pit People is a zany turn-based tactics game from The Behemoth.
The speedrun is a rollercoaster ride of different battles, maps, and events that the runner must react to and strategize around on the fly. RNG controls almost everything in this game, from the overworld to who your units attack to how many enemies are on each map. It takes a lot of quick thinking and clever strategies to control the chaos while still hitting each map's end goal.
Any% is 15 maps and 7 chapters of silly, chaotic fun.
Status: Decline
Any%
1:17:00
PC
FFR Pro 21


Magical Drop VI Magical Drop VI is the latest entry into the main series of games released 11 years after the 5th game. Story mode takes you on an adventure through Magical Land where the leader World has let the vast land fall into chaos, and so you the player must help World find a co-leader to rule over Magical Land along side her. There are multiple different paths that you can take, each path having a different ending that you'll get to see. Status: Decline
Story (Hard, Wheel of Fortune - Moon Path)
00:21:00
Status: Decline
Story (Hard, Wheel of Fortune - Sun Path)
00:22:00
Status: Decline
Story (Hard, Hanged Man Path)
00:18:00
Status: Decline
Story (Hard, Black Pierrot Path)
00:20:00
Nintendo Switch
blackheartwings


Stardew Valley A farming sim Stardew Valley is a unique speedgame with appeal for both casual and challenge runners; the 1.6 update has again put Stardew in the forefront of indie gaming. These runs use older versions of the game, but they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

4P Mines120 Relay and 4P Seeded Community Center Restoration will be run by atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings (me), Terpretor, and theValiantSun

2P Fishtank Vanilla will be run by hyperionskies and blackheartwings (me)
Status: Decline
2P Fishtank% Vanilla
01:45:00
Status: Decline
4P Seeded Community Center Restoration
01:40:00
Status: Decline
4P Mines120 Relay
01:30:00
PC
360Chrism


Pokemon Red/Blue Randomizer With Archipelago you turn this Randomizer into a Multiworld Rando! Pokemon, Moves and EVERY item including Key Items and Badges are fully randomized. Whenever 1 player picks up an item it can be an item from any of the 2 players!
The goal is to work together and figure out the fastest route with the items given and beat both Red's and Blue's Champion after obtaining 8 Badges each.

Co-op with Shenanagans
Status: Decline
Archipelago
02:15:00
PC
JSR_


Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon Gee... it sure is boring around here! Well, it's time to change that! JSR is GUARANTEED to get laughs and donos alike, with this wonderful top-level speedrun of this game.
Dismissed often due to its' cheesy cutscenes (which we will watch every second of!), this game is more 'so bad, it's good', and the music will have chat dancing throughout the run! If you think you've seen this game before, you ain't seen nothin' yet!
Status: Decline
All Cutscenes
1:00:00
Philips CD-i
GaryJGames


Spectrobes: Origins Okay, this one is a long shot, and I doubt this game would ever get into a GDQ, but dang do I love this game. Spectrobes was Disney's attempt to mimic the creature-collecting formula of pokemon and, through all 3 games, they succeeded pretty well. Doomed to the graveyard shift I may, but I'd love to show off this run full of tight battles. Status: Decline
Any%
5:30:00
Nintendo Wii
StahlbolzenSC2


Mega Man X1-3 Trifecta Playing MMX1-3 100% back to back.

100% means collecting all upgrades, items and secret techs for all three games.
Status: Decline
100% Trifecta
2:20:00
SNES
Claris


Sonic Mania Plus Not shown off in over 5 years, Encore Mode has had many major changes since its original showing. New tricks include several new boss skips, level wraps, death cancels that break collision, and controlling yourself on the pause menu. All Emeralds differentiates the run even more, with Super forms allowing for even more skips while also showing the significantly harder Encore special stages completed far faster than intended. Status: Decline
Encore Mode All Emeralds
00:45:00
PC
Pearstrike


Pokemon Pinball Petit This is the Pokemon Channel version of the Pokemon Pinball game that came out on the Pokemon Mini system. In this 100% category we complete all 10 levels with Diglett and only 9 with Pikachu because you can only play level 10 with Diglett. We will be playing most of the levels twice but they are completely different based on which characters you use. We use setups to get the pokeball in the hole on the first or second hit. We also manipulate the spawns to avoid obstacles. Fun little run. Status: Decline
Quest Mode 100%
00:11:00
Nintendo Wii
Lilac Vrt Olligoci


Chiki's Chase Chiki's Chase is a fast paced endless runner roguelike where you are one of four cute creatures with unique abilities! All of the terrain, shops, and items are all randomly generated, so I have to be able to route on the fly, on top of quick thinking which provides excitement!

This was a surprise hit at the last event, with good engagement in a bid war between all the characters, or a Hat Bid for All Characters.
Status: Decline
All Characters
00:46:00
Status: Decline
7500m Run
00:21:00
iOS
Faust4712


Shinobi Legions The Good: The last entry in SEGA’s Shinobi Series of the 90’s, this game culminates every great aspect of the Shinobi games that came before it.

The Bad: Trying to experiment with the ever growing “MoCap” style of video games, the game shows why this style maybe wasn’t the best the industry had to offer.

The Ugly: Some of the best cutscenes you will ever see, with a great Ninja B-Movie plot, delivered in mid 90’s glorious FMV stylings.

Submitting for silly block because of the cutscenes.
Status: Decline
Any% Cutscenes
00:50:00
Sega Saturn
StahlbolzenSC2


Rockman World 1-5 Playing all the megaman gameboy releases back to back.
Every game is played under any% rules.
Status: Decline
any%
2:55:00
Super Gameboy2
Char_bunny


Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS Mario mechanics gone mad - each level highlights something different, including every flying powerup, springs in all directions, koopa clown cars, and more. Includes classic throwback levels as well as absolute chaos, making for a fun and varied run. Did very well at Flame Fatales 2021, raising nearly 2K on just the save/kill Yoshi incentive on day 1 :) Would be a dream to show this off at the event <3 Video description includes highlight timestamps. Status: Decline
Super Mario Challenge - Any%
01:58:00
New Nintendo 3DS
StahlbolzenSC2


Rockman World 4 Rockman World 4 is the 4th release for the gameboy.

In this game you fight 4 robotmasters from MM4 and 4 from MM5.

Just like in every Rockman World game, this one has its unique "megaman killer" named Ballade
Status: Decline
any%
0:55:00
Supergameboy 2
Brossentia


Aliens: Alien 2 Before Final Fantasy, Square made a game based on Aliens? And the NES version was never released?! And it's actually GOOD?!?

The game's a fairly standard platformer, but since it was never finished, it has some amazing glitches, specifically with clips and zips. Many of these tricks can end with death, especially the zips - do them wrong, and you get stuck above the ceiling, and death is the only way out. Lots of risky moves with huge time saves.
Status: Decline
any%
00:12:00
NES
Faust4712


The Punisher A gritty beat ‘em up port of the 90’s arcade game by Capcom. The Punisher, is by no means…an easy game. The notoriety of this game is still felt by players.There are a lot of stacking enemy strats as well as weapon rng manipulation strats to help alleviate the constant damage sponge enemies the game throws at us. We will be running as Nick Fury due to faster/more powerful attacks to take down Kingpin. Run starts at 5:00min mark. Status: Decline
Any% Hard
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Any% Normal
00:40:00
SEGA Genesis
micromads


Sea of Thieves In this speedrun, our goal is to attempt to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from demise!
This 'Tall Tale' run requires us to navigate our way to him using platform skips, sword lunges that propel you through the air with great speed, combat with malicious ocean creatures and shoot ourselves our of cannons.

In this co-op speedrun, SquareMeylix and I split the tasks to get to the goal as fast as possible as one crew.

Co-op submission with SquareMeylix
Status: Decline
A Pirate's Life any%
00:40:00
PC
StahlbolzenSC2


Rockman World 5 This is the 5th and final release of the Rockman World series for the gameboy.

Unlike the other 4, this game does not have a mix of robotmasters from NES games. Instead you have a complete unique set of robots and stage themes.

This game also has a complete story which get told in cutscenes throughout the game.

RW5 is also one of only a few games that got the SGB enhancement. This means every stage has its own set of colors.
Status: Decline
any%
0:55:00
Supergameboy 2
AnAnonymousSource


LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga This game has received heightened attention recently thanks to a Summoning Salt video that highlighted the game's uniquely intricate 1 player 2 controller strats and variety of skips. Free Play is the faster-paced and more broken counterpart to the any% category featured in that video. With no cutscenes (meaning no copyrighted music!), faster movement, and free play-exclusive tech, this run breaks the game completely open and flies through all 36 levels in just over an hour. Status: Decline
Free Play
01:13:00
PC
micromads


Sea of Thieves A sweat-inducing speedrun guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
In this run you must navigate the flood tunnels of Captain Flameheart's lair, traverse all three passages and the final gauntlet filled to the brim with pits of lava, spikes and sawblade booby traps.
Sword lunges which convert weapon momentum into a long distance jump, platform skips, and firebomb trickshots are all used to traverse this run quickly.

Race against SquareMeylix
Status: Decline
Heart of Fire Gauntlet
00:20:00
PC
Shenanagans


Pokemon Emerald Randomizer This randomizer not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random!
The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, elite 4 members, & finish on champion. I will be playing cooperatively w/ 360Chrism, adef, & Keizaron, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.
Status: Decline
Map Randomizer Co-op
2:00:00
Gamecube (Game Boy Player)
Brossentia


Escape: The Curse of the Temple This board game was MADE to speedrun - with a strict 10-minute time limit, players have to explore a randomly generated temple, collect the treasures, and deal with hectic curses, all to escape the temple before the time runs out. Players all play at the same time, but luckily, we have the skilled Cartridgeblowers to commentate.

The runners are Baidol, dowolf, Ritzblues, and myself.

The longer categories add more rules for each game round, so if we have the four-round category, expect CHAOS.
Status: Decline
Four Rounds
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Five Rounds
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Two Rounds`
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Three Rounds
00:40:00
Tabletop
CG Footloose


Bionicle Heroes Any% speedrun of Bionicle Heroes. Status: Decline
Any%
3:10:00
PC
Sathdresh


Bokosuka Wars This title is pretty awful even for Awful Block. I would like to challenge GDQ to a race of Bokosuka Wars! There's 180 enemy units between you and your kingdom and every encounter is essentially a coin toss. Bokosuka Wars is considered a Japanese classic and highly regarded but you'll see why this this is being submitted for Awful Block as a race between a GDQ staff member or as a solo run. Status: Decline
Any%
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Any% race
00:20:00
NES
Awesome Lars Man


Catherine: Full Body Catherine: Full Body is a quirky, fast-paced puzzle game by Atlus wherein you control our hero Vincent Brooks as he stacks blocks to climb his way out of his nightmares.
The “Remix” includes the addition of Tetris-style blocks to add visual and technical differences to the run.

The Rin route adds new endgame levels and a new romantic choice for our hero.
Status: Decline
Rin Route
01:40:00
Status: Decline
Arrange/Remix Classic ending
01:20:00
Nintendo Switch
DanTheEnigma


Onimusha: Warlords Onimusha is a Capcom game originally released early in the PS2's lifespan and plays closer Resident Evil (tank controls) with more of an emphasis on action rather than horror. Normal Mode is the default game difficulty, and thus is the mode everyone is familiar with if they've played this game. Status: Decline
Normal Mode - Any%
01:20:00
PC
SinDarkFatez


Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a indie action-adventure platforming video game inspired by the Jet Set Radio series.
The main goal of All Graffiti is to unlock the Old Head character which will showcase a run full of tight graffiti routing during Score and Crew battles and a lot of zips to traverse through the 5 boroughs of New Amsterdam.
All Polo Pictures is a category extension where we find and take pictures of the fun and loveable Polo.
Status: Decline
All Polo Pictures
00:30:00
Status: Decline
All Graffiti
02:10:00
PC
Rayquaza911


Alwa's Awakening NES Classic metroidvania NES Homebrew of the PC version from 2017. Adds extra areas and boss fights. A high quality NES game that would certainly outclass many older games if released back in the day. Gameplay wise it's a simple platformer and there are some puzzle elements added. The music is also incredible. Other Alwa games have been featured before, this is the only one left.

This category shows most of the game, using assist mode to respawn in the same screen if a death is taken.
Status: Decline
Any% - Glitchless
00:37:00
NES
Shenanagans


Pokemon Blue + Red Randomizer With Archipelago you turn this Randomizer into a Multiworld Rando! Pokemon, Moves and EVERY item including Key Items and Badges are fully randomized. Whenever 1 player picks up an item it can be an item from any of the 2 players!
The goal is to work together and figure out the fastest route with the items given and beat both Red's and Blue's Champion after obtaining 8 Badges each.

Co-op with 360Chrism
Status: Decline
Archipelago Coop Any%
2:15:00
PC
aliceatwonderlandgames


Corpse Party This game is a classic horror staple. It's been a cult classic in both Japan and the US for decades and has been remastered or ported more times than I can count. It's an RPG that involves optimized routing, spooky jump scares and some really silly glitches with textboxes and cutscenes. It also has one of the rare instances of queer representation in the early 2000s, which is always a major bonus! Status: Decline
Any% All Chapters
00:45:00
PC
dowolf


Escape: The Curse of the Temple In Escape, we play as adventurers trapped in a tomb collapsing around us. Our only hope is to explore through the randomly generated temple, place gems on the pedestals we find within, and then make it out before the gong gongs. With the expansions, we further add treasures and curses and more that help and hinder us along the way. Each game takes <10 minutes; the estimate includes explanations.

Submitting as coop with Brossentia, Baidol, and Ritzblues, and with Cartridgeblowers as commentary.
Status: Decline
Five Rounds
01:00:00
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Four Rounds
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Three Rounds
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Two Rounds
00:30:00
Tabletop
Skybilz


The Adventures of Cookie and Cream Cookie & Cream is a cute cooperative puzzle-platformer by From Software where players are (mostly) locked to their respective sides of the screen, and obstacles encountered can be solved through teamwork. The speedrun attempts to subvert that as often as possible, leaving players to fend for themselves in a race to the finish line to complete each level using tricky jumps and sequence breaks. The run is filled with varied levels full of fun gimmicks that are sure to keep the run interesting. Status: Decline
any% Coop with authorblues
01:10:00
Playstation 2
swordsmankirby


Dandy & Randy DX Dandy and Randy is an indie game inspired by SNES top-down adventure games, especially Goof Troop. The hookshot item, which is picked up around halfway through the run, enables several useful glitches. The co-op run takes full advantage of this item to skip certain tedious boss fights in the run. Co-op with Bbforky. Status: Decline
Co-op (Normal)
00:28:00
PC
SatoriEarth


Shadow of the Tomb Raider The most recent entry in the TR franchise, Shadow's No Major Glitches route features an an action filled run with strategic combat, plenty of platforming skips, as well as several large OOB skips that are all achieved without glitches. That's right we use intended game mechanics of jumps and scrambles in unintended ways to scale the environment and get outside the playable area skipping entire sections and chapters of the game

large skips occur @ 39:28, 44:54, 1:25:45, 1:27:04, 1:35:54, 1:47:56
Status: Decline
NMG
02:10:00
Playstation 5
Sathdresh


Jurassic Park Jurassic Park for the Game Boy is a fun speedrun to showcase. The movement is fluid and intuitive. The combat can be a bit wonky but there's awesome despawn techniques used throughout the run that makes up for that. Plus, the world can finally know what happens after you encounter the T-Rex! This would work great as part of a Jurassic Park block or alone. Status: Decline
Any%
00:38:00
Game Boy
JKNEF7


Battletoads & Double Dragon SNES Battletoads & Double Dragon SNES is a remake of the NES classic game of the same name. It features side scrolling gameplay, and a level similar to the classic arcade game Asteroids. Status: Decline
Any%
00:20:00
Super Nintendo
ChurchnSarge


The Grinch It's a collect-a-thon based on the 2001 movie. Status: Decline
any%
0:45:00
PC
arkthunder_


Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate MH3U is a hunting action game released in 2011.
Starting from new data, Speedrun is a single player mode until you defeat the last boss "Ceadeus".
Speedrun features: Normally, in order to defeat a monster, you need to spend time creating weapons. However, in this speedrun, you use ACE. By loading data that is not originally a weapon as a weapon, the player defeats monsters one after another in a very unique way.
The route is even more optimized than the run shown at RTA in Japan Winter 2023.
Status: Decline
Ceadeus: Any%
02:00:00
Nintendo 3DS
authorblues


The Adventures of Cookie & Cream Cookie & Cream is a cute cooperative puzzle-platformer by From Software where players are (mostly) locked to their respective sides of the screen, and obstacles encountered can be solved through teamwork. The speedrun attempts to subvert that as often as possible, leaving players to fend for themselves in a race to the finish line to complete each level using tricky jumps and sequence breaks. The run is filled with varied levels full of fun gimmicks that are sure to keep the run interesting. Status: Decline
Any% Coop with Skybilz
01:10:00
PS2
SatoriEarth


Shadow of the Tomb Raider Shadow featured the most complex and intricate tombs out of the survivor TR trilogy. In this run we take on ALL 16 of them in one go (7 DLC tombs, 9 main game) featuring some crafty platforming, some unintended skips, and even some combat in one. This run really shows why Lara is a seasoned Tomb Raider. Status: Decline
All optional tombs
01:35:00
Playstation 5
Mantodea


Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando Ratchet and Clank: Going commando is the sequel game that changed the series forever and the speedrun takes all these changes and snaps them in half. With some mind blowing tech and just enough in bounds gameplay to keep things understandable Ratchet 2 is a treat to watch Status: Decline
PBSPI (100%)
3:20:00
Status: Decline
All platinum bolts
1:10:00
Playstation 2
SatoriEarth


Rise of the Tomb Raider A short trippy (quite literally) DLC for Rise of the Tomb Raider, Baba Yaga features some of the trademark platforming skips of the survivor trilogy as well as demonstrates the brokenly OP combat of the poison arrows Status: Decline
Baba Yaga - Glitchless, Console
00:23:00
Playstation 5
Sathdresh


Majou Densetsu II: Daimashikyou Galious Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious has been the inspiration for some extremely big franchises and numerous fan games since its release. Castlevania 2, Goonies 2, La Mulana have all credited this game with their design choices. The platforming can be brutal as the speedrun relies on some very clever damage boosting. There are very marathon safe additions to this route to allow for minimal time loss and quick completions Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
NES
eddaket


Nexomon Nexomon is a monster collecting RPG with a ton of great potential. Ventra% is a run that encompasses the first 'Act' of the game, and would allow us to showcase much of what the game has to offer. The run involves handling an interesting and fast paced battle system, and has all the goodies of other RPG runs like balancing risk and decision making. This game is a hidden gem within the genre, and would make for a great showcase! Status: Decline
Ventra%
01:25:00
PC
Baidol


Escape: The Curse of the Temple Does the possibility of hearing twenty dice being rolled constantly and simultaneously fill you with excitement? This game is for you! With a strict 10-minute time limit, the players must explore and escape a randomly generated temple by working together to offer gems, cleanse curses, and keep each other alive. Each run can be customized with a number expansions to spice things up.

This is a 4-player coop run with myself, brossentia, dowolf, and Ritzblues with Cartridgeblowers on commentary.
Status: Decline
Two Rounds
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Three Rounds
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Four Rounds
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Five Rounds
01:00:00
Tabletop
Bathinjan


Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot A sure-fire crowd pleaser! This edge-of-your-seat run showcases the heart-pounding thrill of the Trunks Warrior of Hope DLC; Experience heartbreak, intense battles, and a mandatory fishing game as the future's mysterious hero races against time to save the Earth from its impending fate, struggling to keep hope alive. Status: Decline
Trunks WoH DLC (No SS)
1:15:00
PC
CZR


Super Mario 64 Beating Super Mario 64 on real hardware by using only drum controls!

I have done a 16 Star drum% Run at AGDQ24!
Status: Decline
70 Star Drum%
01:30:00
N64
Bathinjan


Lethal Company "Make sure you return from the lobby and get ready to stand up and point as essential assets Bathinjan and NicholeGoodnight collect quotas for the Company in this great speedrun promising math, mirth, and maybe a few honkin' horns!" Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless 2 Employee 3 Quota
0:30:00
PC
eddaket


Donkey Kong 64 Imagine the collectathon with the most collectibles. Then imagine those collectibles, moves, Keys, and Kongs being randomized together. Add on top of that one of the most robust hint systems that allows for intense logic and puzzle solving and you have the masterpiece that is Donkey Kong 64 Randomizer! Status: Decline
Item Randomizer
02:15:00
Nintendo 64
aliceatwonderlandgames


Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus A classic 3D platformer from the PS2 era, this game needs no proper introduction. Instead I'll talk about how amazing coinless 100% is. The run is a labor of love from the entire community and continues to evolve over the past 2 years at an alarming rate. It's almost as low of a time as normal 100%, but involves many cool glitches and tricks that make the run a unique run and an edge of your seat watch the entire time. This is the year! Coindo is getting in! Status: Decline
Coinless 100%
2:30:00
Status: Decline
All Vaults
1:20:00
Status: Decline
All Keys
1:10:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
PS3
emeraldaly


Mulaka You've seen this run before, even on the channel at Flame Fatales, Hotfix, and a previous Backup selection for SGDQ 2021. But I still hope and wish there will someday, and someday soon, be a place for it in the indie block. It has everything going for it, most ofall really cool glitches even a brand new viewer can enjoy. Let's find (hopefully a good deal less than) 32 minutes to let this hidden gem shine! Submission run is freshly performed to demonstrate continued proficiency with the game. Status: Decline
any%
00:32:00
PC
Glitchedd


Kingdom Hearts The original, non-Final Mix release of Kingdom Hearts, only ever released on PS2. Never before seen in a major marathon, it features totally different game balance and AI to its Final Mix counterpart, resulting in run that makes heavy use of extremely powerful Limit attacks, on-the-fly routing and adaptation. The all-new Cutscene Remover allows the game to be showcased without the usual unskippable cutscenes bogging down the pace, and makes for a much smoother, action packed viewer experience. Status: Decline
Any% Normal (Cutscene Remover)
3:05:00
PlayStation 2
Terpretor


Stardew Valley The farming simulation game that is sweeping the internet, Stardew Valley makes for a unique speedgame that delights both casual and challenge runners alike. With the 1.6 update, the game is once again in the forefront of indie gaming. While both of these runs feature older versions of the game, they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

Submitting both categories with atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings, Terpretor, theValiantSun
Status: Decline
4P Seeded Community Center Restoration
01:40:00
Status: Decline
4P Mines120 Relay
01:30:00
PC
Rastats


Geometry Dash Geometry Dash is a side-scrolling music platforming game known for its simplistic but addictive gameplay where you goal is to finish levels by avoiding all obstacles. One input is needed to play the regular sidescrolling levels, the game offering several gamemodes.
The 2.2 update from December 2023 introduced platformer levels with 3 inputs (left-right-jump) and a more complete level editor that led the community to build insane levels, with some of them reproducing other well known games.
Status: Decline
Community Levels Showcase
00:50:00
PC
dowolf


Korokoro Post Nin Korokoro Post Nin is a game that truly embodies the spirit of "The enemy gate is down." Or rather, "The enemy mailbox is down." The game almost feels like a 2D Monkey Ball; the only thing we can control is the rotation of the game world. However, we don't just fall through the world; if we hit a slope, we zip straight down, blasting through enemies on the way. Keeping the angle just right as you wind your way through levels is the best.



Submitting as a race with Ritzblues and Caneofpacci.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PSX
Spirialis


Celeste Monika's D-Sides are the most-downloaded Celeste custom map pack with the exception of community-wide collabs, featuring more difficult maps themed after Celeste's base-game maps. The map pack culminates in Final Goodbye - a sprawling map more difficult and longer than the rest of the pack combined. This map is loosely based on Farewell, but includes a summit section calling back to every other chapter, as well as creative new ideas such as a blind checkpoint and a puzzle checkpoint. Status: Decline
Monika's D-Sides: Final Goodbye
02:00:00
PC
peaches


Blast Corps Rare's vehicular action/collectathon about blowing up every building in the way of a runaway nuclear carrier, back on some radars after a Switch re-release just last month. The any% run hits the credits by clearing all the carrier paths and finding all the hidden scientists, showcasing lots of tight maneuvering with a variety of vehicles and featuring a few visually interesting OOB clips that cut out chunks of traversal -- leaving just the action. Open to racing! Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
Nintendo 64
Glitchedd


Dark Cloud A cult classic PlayStation Exclusive, Dark Cloud is a dungeon crawling rogue like RPG with city-building elements. The goal of Any% is to collect the required items to build the item shop within the first 7 floors of the first dungeon. In the shop, I execute a complex menu overflow glitch to re-write code in the game to warp to the credits. Enemy and item spawns, key drops for progression, and dungeon map generation are all random, demanding immense game knowledge and adaptation from the player. Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
PlayStation 2
BystanderTim


Super Buff HD It’s the year 20202020. Buff dudes have turned on society. It’s our job to stop them!

This indie boomer shooter looks like it was pulled straight out of a doodle for a comic book, and comes with insanely satisfying movement and combat, let alone for a game this silly. We’ll rocket jump, double jump, dash, and…skate ON enemies? to complete these 17 levels and defeat the buff dudes.

Submitting solo or as a race with ZZRules21

Incentive to watch intro and outro cutscenes, covered in submission
Status: Decline
Any%
00:25:00
PC
adef


Elden Ring Randomizer With all 165 bosses shuffled & every item pickup randomized, this rando creates a new & very difficult run every single time.
No two runs use the same build, given the randomized items, so you must get creative, quickly building a character that can take on any situation.
These settings guarantee key items quickly, meaning less time scouring for items in the open world, focusing the run more on the plethora of difficult random fights. Actual SGDQ seed would be vetted by another player.
Status: Decline
any%
02:40:00
PC
Dashey10


WarioWare: Smooth Moves WarioWare Smooth Moves is the fifth game in the micro games series. What makes this one different from the rest is has... MOTION CONTROLS! What's worse, it's EARLY WII MOTION CONTROLS!!! Any% consists of soft resetting between cutscenes to achieve optimal timing, knowing when to lose on purpose, and the most important thing every speedrunner enjoys, RNG! Let's dust off the Wii Console and show off some Smooth Moves like it's the mid 2000's! Status: Decline
Any%
00:51:00
Nintendo Wii
Ace Delusional


The Outlast Trials Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed.
All Main Trials will go through each location in the game, showcase the main story along with it; while All Trials will add on the MK-Challenges.
This is a duo run with Demoxide.
Status: Decline
Program Genesis - All Main Trials
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Program Genesis - All Trials
02:00:00
PC
Sathdresh


Murder House Murder House places you in the shoes of Emma, a newly minted intern at the local news agency. You and your team are reporting on the slayings of the notorious serial killer the Easter Ripper. As soon as you arrive things start to seem a bit out of place. This run has some fun movement tech and options that can be enabled for donation incentives. Status: Decline
Any% No Guns
00:23:00
Status: Decline
100%
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:18:00
PC
Bluekandy


Kirby Air Ride In KAR, City Trial is the FFA mode governed by RNG on an open map. It has a checklist of static goals to achieve in both the city itself and complementary stadium games. The run requires 4 controllers, with some strategies needing 2-3 controllers in use simultaneously.

Thus, reactive routing and optimization leads to every attempt of City Trial Any% being uniquely improvised in unlocking the credits at 100/120 checkboxes. This goal is completable within 30 minutes of the estimate at 3 std dev.
Status: Decline
5 Hot Dogs Race w/ Pearstrike
00:20:00
Status: Decline
City Trial Any%
01:20:00
Nintendo Wii
Sabuline Horizon


Siege of Avalon: Anthology Siege of Avalon is an Action RPG from the early 2000s with a heavy focus on story. This is the first time the game has ever been submitted to any marathon as far as I'm aware. The run is pretty consistent, with multiple types of autosaves along with many backup strats, and the route is full of both major skips and minor optimizations. Status: Decline
any%
00:50:00
PC
peaches


Armored Core: Project Phantasma Third person mech shooter on the PS1 with lots of crunchy polygonal explosions and a bangin soundtrack. The run has seen several mech build, level route, and sequence break optimizations since PMCTrilogy's awesome run from AGDQ '23 just after AC6 was announced -- with AC6's continued popularity post-launch it could pair well to show viewers how the series has evolved. Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
PS2 (FDS)
pro_hybrid


Kirby's Return to Dreamland: Deluxe Kirby's Return to Dreamland: Deluxe is a 2023 remake of the 2011 classic, which has not been featured at a GDQ since 2013. This remake introduces some changes to movement mechanics, more ability roulette mixing, and two new abilities in Sand and Mecha, each of which has their own uses in the speedrun. The 100% category involves getting all Collectibles and beating the Ability Challenges, and this run showcases just how diverse and interesting the routing can be for Modern Kirby games! Status: Decline
100% Restriced (1P and No Amiibo)
3:00:00
Nintendo Switch (Digital)
Helix


Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in SMB2 This is a mod of SMB2 that acts as a port of Deluxe for GCN/Wii, allowing greater accessibility & use of the GCN controller, leading to the highest optimization Deluxe has ever seen! These stages have had many developments since this mod's release, including unique & impressive pause strats that are nearly impossible to perform originally.

Ultimate is one of the most prestigious categories in the Monkey Ball series, featuring almost every level from SMB1 & 2, plus some exclusives!
Status: Decline
Ultimate
01:20:00
Wii
McHooper


Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex The Wrath of Cortex is unique amongst the Crash games as it is the only 6th-generation "classic" Crash game, and thus heavily borrows its gameplay formula from the previous two mainline games; Crash 2, and especially Crash 3. TWoC offers unique tricks and movement not seen in the previous two games which helps in collecting the game's main items -- crystals and gems. The game also features a variety of unique vehicles which add a layer of spectacle and skill to the run. Status: Decline
106%
2:45:00
PlayStation 2
seldomseenkid


WHAT THE GOLF? WHAT THE GOLF? is a comedy golf game made by and for people who don't like golf. Both the main campaign and free DLC episodes are fast-paced runs marked with navigating obstacle courses to complete holes, each one requiring a combination of precise shots and clever strategies, ending with a witty one-liner. The Among Golf episode is full of levels inspired by the hit social deduction game Among Us. Status: Decline
Among Golf - any%
00:10:00
PC
McHooper


Pepsiman Pepsiman is a fast-paced auto-runner game that heavily emphasizes raw skill, memorization and humorous deaths. Any% features a plethora of tricks and fast reactions in order to keep the speed going while avoiding the main collectible of the game for even more time save. It's also the fastest category, and is over before you know it. There's also a donation incentive to play any% while watching all the cutscenes, as they're quite hilarious to watch in a marathon. Status: Decline
Any%
00:22:00
PlayStation 2
Dashey10


Sayonara Wild Hearts Sayonara Wild Hearts is a pop rhythm Album Arcade game. We play as a heartbroken woman that fights with anger and depression who comes out at the end. The game has a cult following with the LGBT community for it's visuals and theme.

In All Gold Ranks, we are going to beat all 23 levels in the highest rank possible in New Game.

High Score Demonstration is playing All Levels in Album Arcade, which totals up all your points at the end of the run. We are aiming for at least 1,250,000 points.
Status: Decline
High Score Demonstration
00:46:00
Status: Decline
All Gold Ranks
00:46:00
PC
Demoxide


The Outlast Trials Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed.
All Main Trials will go through each location in the game, showcase the main story along with it, while All Trials will add on the MK-Challenges.
This is a duo run with AceDelusional.
Status: Decline
Program Genesis - All Trials
02:00:00
Status: Decline
Program Genesis - All Main Trials
01:00:00
PC
RamboRachel


Planet of the Apes This is a GDQ debut speedrun, with never before seen skips and techniques by the current world record holder. Despite the dated graphics and controls, each level is it's own bite-sized run, all of which are linked together into a unique story based on the original books and movies from the 1960s. We will see new and familiar faces from the already established lore, and we'll be able to theorize about how this story plays a part in the timeline, as well as the upcoming movie release this summer! Status: Decline
Any%
01:50:00
PS1
CountGooby


Shaqfecta Welcome to the Shaqfecta, where we play three Shaq Fu games back to back. It's all the Shaq Fu you never wanted and more. Status: Decline
Story Mode Easy
00:30:00
SNES, Genesis, Gameboy
McHooper


McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure MTLA is a fun and friendly game about Ronald McDonald's quest to find a mysterious treasure hinted by a piece of map he finds. The game features colorful graphics, fun and bouncy music and has surprisingly optimized gameplay for not having too much in technical movement. Not much else to say other than it's short, it's fun, it's for everyone! Status: Decline
Beginner
00:22:00
Sega Genesis
seldomseenkid


NCAA Football 2005 Previously seen on the Awfully Silly Hotfix show, this entry in EA Sports' annual licensed college football series is eyeing a spot on speedrunning's biggest stage. Saving time in this run involves running around aimlessly while avoiding opponents at all costs and, believe it or not, not skipping cutscenes when they appear, as the game clock runs while they play but the play clock doesn't. These seemingly counterintuitive strategies would make this game right at home in an awful/silly block. Status: Decline
Exhibition 1-Player
00:28:00
Wii
Glitchedd


Hunter x Hunter: Ryumyaku no Saidan An all original story based in the world of the Hunter x Hunter anime. HxH is a top-down action adventure RPG with a great soundtrack and charming early PS2 aesthetic. We play as Killua with Gon as our ally as we try to stop Zegin, an evil examiner from the Hunter exams, from summoning the Dragon Vein, an infinite source of aura and power. This game has intriguing mechanics, such as gaining stats based on attacks landed in combat, and controlling two characters at once with each analog stick. Status: Decline
Any%
00:38:00
PlayStation 2
pro_hybrid


Kirby's Return to Dreamland Kirby's Return to Dreamland hasn't been seen at a GDQ since 2013 and a LOT has changed in eleven years. Multiplayer strategies are now allowed and 2 to 4 controllers can be used at once to complete levels faster. Wing Zips were discovered and can be used to skip certain sections or puzzles. And boss battles with 4-player strategies are lightning fast! All of this has pushed the World Record down by 24 minutes, and this run will show just how far RTDL has developed as a speedrun during this time. Status: Decline
100% 2P+
2:45:00
Nintendo Wii U (Digital)
RbdJellyfish


LittleBigPlanet (Submitting with tasryse) LittleBigPlanet is a platformer with simple gameplay yet an incredibly high skill ceiling, with physics-based movement tech and interesting sequence breaks. The any% no-overlord route being devoid of RNG yet full of risk-reward tradeoffs, combined with the fact that tasryse and I are two of the top runners in the game, should make for a really exciting and competitive race! Status: Decline
any% no-overlord race
00:55:00
Playstation 3
Dashey10


Pepsiman I scream Pepsi, you scream Pepsi, we all scream for PEPSIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!! The most influential mascot from the 90's has their own video game and they're making a special trip to the Sony PlayStation!

Any% will focus on getting to the end of each stage as fast as possible, which includes showing off new glitches.

Cutscenes% is the same as Any% except this time we will be watching some silly FMV cutscenes from our favorite celebrity, Mike Butters!
Status: Decline
Cutscenes%
00:28:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:24:00
PlayStation 2
LRock617


The Simpsons Arcade Game Having last been featured at SGDQ 2020, aka the first online GDQ, this classic brawler deserves to be featured for the first time in-person since AGDQ 2016. The run is upheld by the golden standard of "Japanese Version = Good" and I will once again be offering a character bid war as donation incentive. Bidders can choose for their favorite of Marge, Homer, Bart, and Lisa, as all 4 characters play fundamentally the same and won't change the run in any way. WOO-HOO!! Status: Decline
Any% Normal
00:20:00
Playstation 3
seldomseenkid


Project + This popular mod of Super Smash Bros. Brawl boasts expressive movement, quick decision-making, and a variety of single player and co-op modes beyond fighting your friends. Speedruns of the event modes demand precise execution, adapting to/mitigating RNG, and, in co-op events, concise communication from both runners throughout. A combination of flashy strategies and frequent random items make for a dynamic viewing experience and one of the most entertaining fighting game speedruns you'll find. Status: Decline
All Solo Events
00:35:00
Status: Decline
All Co-Op Events (w/ Helix)
00:20:00
Wii
TheKingsPride


Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Prepare to save Hyrule with the power of Hope, Light, and this Bird I just found in this alternate timeline prequel to Breath of the Wild. This run is a fast paced, action-packed, dynamic rollercoaster ride through 20 missions using 7 different iconic Zelda characters. This incredible Zelda Warriors title has never been shown off at a GDQ, meaning we're well overdue to complete the trilogy and show the speedrunning world how Princess Zelda can save the world while riding a motorcycle. Status: Decline
Any% NG+ No Divine Beasts
2:25:00
Nintendo Switch
Cane


KoroKoro Post Nin The original space, mail delivery game.

Solo or Race w/ Ritzblues783 & Dowolf
Status: Decline
Any%
00:27:00
NTSC-J PS2
zzrules21


MLB Power Pros 2008 When you think “sports video game” what is the first genre to come to your head? If you thought “Cutesy Dating/Life Sim” then you’d be correct!
Japan’s beloved baseball series made a short appearance in the US, in 2007 and 2008, and with it brought its staple Success mode
Join the Green Apples AA team and work your way to the MLB impressing the scouts (and the ladies) on your path to the pros.
Status: Decline
Success Mode Fielder
00:25:00
Wii
SquareMeylix


Sea of Thieves In this run you must navigate and swim through the flooded under-ocean tunnels through the ever-loved NPC Captain Flameheart's lair, traversing all three passages and the final gauntlet filled to the brim with pits of lava, spikes, and sawblades booby traps.
The ever-difficult sword lunge mechanic of Sea of Thieves converts the weapon into momentum-based movement to aid in trick shotting over long distance jumps.
Race against MicroMads
Status: Decline
Heart of Fire Gauntlet
00:20:00
PC
Beckski93


Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft The old classic game that we all know and love has had a glow-up. Lara is still up to her old tricks though. The glitched run features some fascinating skips that allow us to skip through large portions of levels in style. We can do most of the same tricks from the original just with new setups, plus some new ones.

Glitchless is a feat of endurance as death awaits around every corner if Lara isn't careful. Platforming sequences are intense and there are some cool tricks to show off as well.
Status: Decline
Tomb Raider I Glitchless Any%
01:45:00
Status: Decline
Tomb Raider I Glitched Any%
01:15:00
PC
plywood


Zone of the Enders High Speed Robot Action, in our solar system? It's more likely than you think!

Join Leo Stenbuck, a frightened teenager turned mecha pilot, as he slashes, dashes and blasts his way out of his war torn space colony. Featuring combat that requires improvisation and twitch adjustment, this brawler has sci-fi style.

In Any%, we rush out of the colony, but in 100% we save our fellow colonists and collect all special weapons. 100% allows for interesting strategies due to weapon collection!
Status: Decline
Any% Very Hard
00:28:00
Status: Decline
100% Easy
00:33:00
Status: Decline
Any% Easy
00:23:00
Xbox Series X
Slayur


Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are aciidz, RsKiller, and Uncultivated. Status: Decline
Main Campaigns Co-op
00:50:00
PC
Keeanolookalike


Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age The newest installment of the mainline Dragon Quest games. Set in the land of Erdrea, our hero sets out on a quest to learn of his past and save the world from an evil that has fell across the land. Unlike older titles, this run has a higher focus on movement and strategy, along with a few neat glitches, to speed through the game. Status: Decline
Any%
4:30:00
PC
SquareMeylix


Sea of Thieves In this speedrun, our goal is to attempt to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from demise!
This 'Tall Tale' run requires us to navigate our way to him using platform skips, sword lunges that propel you through the air with great speed, combat with malicious ocean creatures and shoot ourselves our of cannons.
In this co-op speedrun, Micromads and I split the tasks to get to the goal as fast as possible as one crew.
Co-op submission with Micromads
Status: Decline
A Pirate's Life any%
00:40:00
PC
SushiKishi


Live A Live Remake If you're going to showcase a longer turn-based RPG in a marathon, it needs more than just good gameplay. It better be pretty to watch and have a soundtrack to match to keep people watching. You'll never do better than the HD-2D stylings of Live A Live, backed with a gorgeous soundtrack scored by the incomporable Yoko Shiumomura. With over a half-dozen distinct settings to explore, there's something for fans of all genres, and technical combat strategies pair plenty of substance with form. Status: Decline
Good Ending
04:45:00
Nintendo Switch
Helix


Super Monkey Ball Deluxe Deluxe is sort of the odd one out when it comes to the original Monkey Ball games, but make no mistake- its speedruns are still extremely entertaining. My submitted category is unique in that only half of the given stages must be completed, making it a very fast-paced category where routing is also extremely important. Also of note: I am a former WR holder of my submitted category, recently taking down an 8-year old record. Status: Decline
Story Mode Any%
0:28:00
Xbox
Plyd


Sports Story Since it's release in 2022, Sports Story has become one of the most broken speedruns ever. While even banning the games most powerful glitch, we show off countless different strategies to completely blow this game open. We also use an unintended glitch to be able to control 3 players all at the same time using 3 different controllers to save up to 10 minutes compared to the 1 controller category. Status: Decline
Any% No File Flip (2+ Controllers)
1:02:00
Nintendo Switch
Cane


I.Q Final This run aims to achieve the Final ending as quickly as possible. This is done by scoring an I.Q of 500 and then game overing to skip to the Tecktonics phase. Once there, you must survive a series of the largest, and hardest puzzles in the game to transcend to a new plane of existence. Status: Decline
Final Ending (Any%)
00:25:00
NTSC-J PS2
seldomseenkid


Saints Row: The Third Grand Theft Auto but sillier. The street-gang-turned-media conglomerate Third Street Saints take their hijinks to the city of Steelport. In this DLC side story, The Trouble with Clones, they help their biggest fan stop a clone of their late friend from terrorizing the city using the power of music, love, a bee gun, and a superpower-granting energy drink. Status: Decline
The Trouble with Clones (DLC)
1:05:00
Nintendo Switch
plywood


Steel Battalion 33 buttons, 5 switches, 3 pedals, 2 joysticks, and 1 speedrunner. This mecha simulator takes the word 'controller' to an absurd level. Operating the table-sized controls is a sight to see; not to mention the intense mecha combat in game!

The mechanical complexity of the game lends itself to interesting strategies of AI manipulation, avoiding rolling over in the massive vertical tank, and proper management of ammo, fuel and health.

Also, you can grab cows with a dedicated crane button. MOO!
Status: Decline
Campaign 2080 NG+
00:44:00
Status: Decline
Campaign 2080 NG
00:55:00
Xbox
Raelcun


Chrono Cross: radical dreamers edition Chrono Cross is the "sequel" to Chrono Trigger. It is a vast jRPG that features the same enemy dodging mechanics as the prior game. With a lot of bosses, not a lot of downtime, and fast forward adding difficulty to the run, this has been a popular run on many other marathons including rpg limit break. Status: Decline
Fast forward good ending
4:10:00
PC
Helix


Super Monkey Ball 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 is the most popular game in the franchise, but Story Mode 999 Bananas Any% is almost never seen, and is secretly one of the coolest categories in the game. Use of the stage skip glitch is allowed- we even duplicate a stage in world 3 (which is only useful in this category)- but we must also max out the banana counter at 999. This results in a very fast-paced, strat-dense run, with impressive banana collection and sometimes on-the-fly routing! Status: Decline
Story Mode 999 Bananas Any%
00:33:00
Wii
plywood


Metal Gear Acid 2 The legendary Solid Snake is a man of many talents - stealth, espionage, and he plays a MEAN game of cards! In this tactical card-based RPG, we set up an RNG manipulation that eventually ends partway into the speedrun. This means we must rely on our wits to complete the game!

Luckily for us, NG+ offers the best cards in the game, allowing for efficient movement and boss fights. Watch as Solid Snake and his partner Venus sneak their way by playing cards of soldiers in their underwear!
Status: Decline
Any% NG+
01:23:00
PSP
plywood


Metal Gear Solid Mobile The power of late 2000s mobile phones is on full display! An interesting blend of Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2, Mobile is one of the fastest games in the series. This is thanks to an exciting glitch I discovered! Snake turns into a zombie to avoid the hard work of backtracking for a missile launcher...you know, just another average day for a secret agent.

Watch as we avoid hand cramps on a Nokia N95 and save the world yet again from Metal Gear!
Status: Decline
Any% NG
00:24:00
N-Gage
CarcinogenSDA


Alone in the Dark (1991) Alone in the Dark gained recognition by the Guinness Book of World Records as the very first survival horror game. Resident Evil coined the genre, but AitD invented it.

My route is a Glitchless No Damage route. While there are a few skips that make the run around a minute faster, I want to show that a solid consistency route can still be very strong. There's a lot of small actions to describe that go at a breathless pace. Quite literally.

I'll donate $50 for every hit I end up taking.
Status: Decline
any% Glitchless No Damage attempt
00:20:00
PC (DOSBox)
TheShadedMaster


Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Yooka and Laylee are back for another crack at the Impossible Lair! This wacky duo thought they had too much help last time for SGDQ2022, so they're back for a death-defying run! Any%, or the Golden Run, requires perfect movement through a gauntlet of sawblades and pits. But avoiding damage shouldn't get in the way of blistering speed tricks. After all, the less time in the Lair means less time to get hit. Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PC
Toronite


Pokémon Trading Card Game It's Pokémon but as a children's trading card game! This wonderful throwback has had new life over the past year as a high-paced speedrunning game has been optimized thanks to its fast interface, RNG manipulation, exploitation of AI behavior and evolution of a runner's ability to make split-second decisions in order to achieve victory! With 3 viable starting deck options, every run is a mystery with plenty of action all throughout!
If accepted as a race, it would be with Pinecone606 and 000aj.
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless Race (All 3 Starting Decks)
01:05:00
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless (Bulbasaur & Friends)
01:05:00
Nintendo Switch (NSO VC)
aliceatwonderlandgames


Gal Gun This game has been famous and very infamous in the gaming scene for a while now. It is a rail shooter that satirizes the harem genre of anime and games. It does so with ridiculous plots, jokes and situations that are everywhere through this unique and chaotic shooter using hearts as ammunition. We have to make it to the end of the day to confess our love to our one true partner! I put a lot of work into routing and taking the world record sweep for this game and would love to enjoy it with y'all Status: Decline
Aoi Ending
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Shinobu Ending
00:53:00
Status: Decline
Sisters Ending
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Maya Ending
00:50:00
PC
aliceatwonderlandgames


Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom Who doesn't want to watch this mesmerizingly gorgeous bullet hell? This is one of the most important Touhou games from the golden era of releases with beautiful patterns, fantastic music, and incredible difficulty to keep audiences on the edge of their seat the whole time. Not only is this very hard, it must be done in a single clear without using a continue. The speedrun aspect adds dancing right on the edge of our lives to replenish bombs and clear fights fast. Status: Decline
Hard 1CC
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Normal 1CC
00:30:00
PC
2dos


Donkey Kong 64 Randomizer I made this mod :)

DK64 except moves/items/kongs/etc are randomized amongst each other! Quality of life settings such as tag anywhere are added for a seamless experience and much faster gameplay than the vanilla game.
Status: Decline
Standard Randomizer Settings
01:45:00
Wii U VC
Proto_Sonic


Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers A very quick and easy game to run, the player will maneuver through player select screens, spam light attacks to "spin to win" with the Black Ranger, and hopefully pull of the hidden super move to take boss health down to less than 50% in the any percent run. In any%, the level can be taken down to level 1, where most bosses will not attack or will be predictable. Status: Decline
any%
00:07:00
SEGA Genesis
Helix


Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania Banana Mania was a hit at AGDQ 2022, but only SMB2 stages were shown.

SMB1 stages are a different style, more simple in concept, but often harder in execution, with thin bridges and timing-based obstacles.

DX Mode plays only stages exclusive to SMB Deluxe, which are unique and rarely seen.

All Special Modes plays the 5 modes unique to Banana Mania, all with their own spin on the usual gameplay!
Status: Decline
SMB1 Marathon
00:32:00
Status: Decline
DX Mode
00:22:00
Status: Decline
All Special Modes
01:00:00
PC
Proto_Sonic


Sonic Origins In anniversary mode of Sonic Origins, runners can pick their character of choice to go through each game in a 16:9 aspect ratio. This run will have Knuckles go through Sonic 1 with the spindash and glide equipped. Using Knuckles will have players skip certain areas, while also having Knuckles going to areas that are accessible to him. Status: Decline
Knuckles Beat the Game
00:32:00
Nintendo Switch
Verallix


Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2 The almost-an-mmorpg known for ludicrous rare drop rates and immense time requirements for hitting max level reduced to a simple goal: clear the first difficulty with a new character.

Glitchless HUcast gets to run through the game relatively unimpeded by the wealth of RNG that the game will throw at you. Focusing mostly on simple and direct ways to introduce the local (hostile) wildlife to whatever weapons the game was kind enough to give you.
Status: Decline
Episode 1 Glitchless (HUcast)
2:20:00
Gamecube
MegaPatches


Aggelos Aggelos is a Wonderboy inspired metroidvania with a lot of fun platforming and cool powerups that allow for interesting movement tech. The speedrun has not been seen at a GDQ and Any% Glitchless is a good category to show what the game has to offer.
Possible commentator: "Glan"
Status: Decline
any% glitchless
1:25:00
PC
casualspeedrun


SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs SOCOM is a stealth shooter simulator survival horror permadeath randomizer puzzle game, with some wicked platforming too.
Remembered fondly by early 2000s gamers for being Counterstrike on console, SOCOM's single player campaign boasts a dynamic speedrun rich with non-stop action and some really funny looking glitches.
Ex: climbing up ledges while crouching sends you somersaulting at lightspeed through walls, mountains, everything until you arrive at a set location in the level.
Status: Decline
100%
01:45:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:58:00
PlayStation 2
aliceatwonderlandgames


Rule of Rose This game is an infamously rare love story to queer trauma through a horror lens. We play as Jennifer analyzing her trauma she experienced as a kid now as an adult. It's Silent Hill-esque story telling and combat mixed with storybook inspired storytelling, gorgeous music and visuals and sapphic representation throughout. It's all tied together with a neat little bow of atmospheric horror and dark themes that make it a wonderful watch through and through. Status: Decline
Any% True Ending
2:45:00
PS2
MrPupG


Choujin Sentai Jetman Fun fast pace game the some of them haven't heard of and it's a JP power ranger Status: Decline
Any%
00:15:00
NES
Proto_Sonic


Power Rangers Zeo- Full Tilt Pinball Is it awful? Is it silly? Maybe it's pinball! The Power Rangers did have a pinball game that came out on the PlayStation. This run will be on Easy Mode, which will end the game against Prince Sprocket. The runner will need to play some pinball to get megazord pieces, fight monsters from the Machine Empire, and save the world, one country at a time. The screen will shake when the board is tilted and against Prince Sprocket, so a motion sickness warning is necessary. Status: Decline
Easy Mode
00:35:00
PlayStation
Helix


Project + This mod of Super Smash Bros. Brawl drastically changes the game's movement and makes it significantly faster-paced and more satisfying to master. Bawl's event mode still exists in this mod, and makes for unique, exciting runs that require quick decision making! I can play the solo events, the co-op events by myself (with 2 controllers), or the co-op events with seldomseenkid. Status: Decline
All Co-op Events (w/ seldomseenkid)
00:20:00
Status: Decline
All Co-op Events (1P2C)
00:25:00
Status: Decline
All Events
00:35:00
Wii
SoaringSloth


Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is the third entry in the series, and offers a different take to the average 3D platformer! Following a mission based structure, Any% revolves around rushing all the late game parts early so we can blitz through the majority of the game. With over 30 custom vehicles used throughout the run, each mission showcases how the player can break L.O.G.'s many challenges. Status: Decline
Any%
1:45:00
Xbox Series X
Ritzblues


Escape: The Curse of the Temple *GONG* ESCAPE!

Escape is a tabletop game where players use rapid-fire dice rolling to break a curse and escape a collapsing temple, all in under 10 minutes. Players use dice to explore, move, break curses, free friends, place gems, find treasures, and eventually escape from the temple.

Submitting as coop with dowolf, Brossentia, and Baidol.

Estimates includes time for rules explanations between rounds.
Status: Decline
Five Rounds
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Four Rounds
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Three Rounds
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Two Rounds
00:30:00
Tabletop
MetalGlennSolid


UnMetal Jesse Fox isn't an assassin, in fact he isn't even military. Yet, after being wrongfully arrested and in spectacular fashion he manages to take on an entire army of Mikes, helicopters, nuclear subs and... *checks notes* a giant sewer monster? In Any% Easy Jesse shows how even the lower difficulty of a game can be not only a cool showcase but also shows how optimization and skill makes lower difficulties their own special challenge. Status: Decline
Any% Easy
0:50:00
PC
Bbforky


Dandy & Randy DX Dandy and Randy is an indie game inspired by SNES top-down adventure games, especially Goof Troop. The hookshot item, which is picked up around halfway through the run, enables several useful glitches. The co-op run takes full advantage of this item to skip certain tedious boss fights in the run. Co-op with swordsmankirby. Status: Decline
Co-op Normal
00:28:00
PC
Proto_Sonic


Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue In the any% run of PR:LR, the code ULTIMATE can be used to unlock the Titanium Ranger to use in this easy mode run of the game. To save the Earth from the evils of Queen Bansheera and her minions, the Titanium Ranger must go through various stages, avoid a fair of battlings, stun lock bosses, and collect items and save citizens. The Titanium Ranger is used for his high strength and defense, as well as his special move which clears the screen of enemies. Status: Decline
any% easy
00:30:00
PlayStation
Proto_Sonic


Power Rangers Time Force In this run, the runner will not collect any artifacts within the level. The runner will use the Red Ranger to run across time and space to preserve time, defeat Ransik and his underlings, while also learning special moves, such as the ground thump and tornado spin. These moves are extremely useful in boss fights to lower the health of bosses in a quick manner. Zord battles come in a variety of modes (Red, Blue, and Shadow). Status: Decline
any%
00:45:00
PlayStation
Starwin


Blue Stinger Blue Stinger is an action/adventure/survival horror game for the Dreamcast. This game centers around main protagonists Eliot, and Dogs as they try to survive the horrors of Dinosaur Island. The run is the standard survival horror affair with its menuing optimization, precise movement, and item management. The game shares a lot the original Resident Evil's charm with its goofy dialogue, over exaggerated body movement, and overtop music making it an entertaining experience for everyone. Status: Decline
New Game
02:30:00
Dreamcast
auraace


Sonic Heroes Sonic Heroes is a speedgame jam packed with fluid movement and entertaining skips.

Team Sonic is the main category and contains the fastest movement and some of the most broken skips the series has to offer.

Would be bid war between LTS (No Major Glitches) and unrestricted or an LTS run with an incentive to upgrade to unrestricted
Status: Decline
Team Sonic LTS
1:05:00
Status: Decline
Team Sonic Unresticted
01:00:00
Xbox 360
okNia_


PlateUp! PlateUp! is a rogue-like kitchen simulator. Every day, you are given items or cards to expand your shop, equipment, or menu. But be warned: if even a single customer is left unattended, your entire shop is shut down. Can you keep the restaurant open for the 15 days necessary to franchise? Or will a single Yelp review cause everything to come crashing down? Status: Decline
Any% - Set Seed, Coffee, Solo
00:20:00
PC
Ritzblues


Korokoro Post Nin Shinbun! Korokoro Post Nin is what you get when you mix Paper Boy, Sonic the Hedgehog Special Stages, and anime tropes together. This PS1 gem offers a unique "twist" on arcade platformers.

Tight execution is crucial for avoiding hostile vending machines, watermelons, wolf men, and death orbs.

Submitting as solo or a race against dowolf and CaneofPacci
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
Playstation
Bbforky


Whirl Tour Whirl Tour is a Tony Hawk inspired scooter game where you must free your bandmates by completing various objectives in 8 total levels. The objectives have a wide range of score-based challenges, race levels, and even some boss fights. The co-op run saves several minutes since objectives only need to be completed by a single person, making for unique routes for both. Race levels make use of unique speed mechanics on slopes that can indefinitely increase when a manual persists. Co-op with hh4hooch Status: Decline
Any% Co-op
00:23:00
Gamecube
Bbforky


Dumpy & Bumpy Dumpy and Bumpy is an indie game that consists of 80 puzzle rooms in quick succession. With two players, not only can most solutions be parallelized, but unintended strats arise from the fact that only one player needs to survive each room, and the mechanic where players are able to throw each other. Co-op with swordsmankirby Status: Decline
Co-op
0:25:00
PC
Ritzblues


Tarzan VR Tarzan save Jane from "Bad Men". Tarzan go fast by swinging from vines, ignoring captured apes, eating strange vision quest flower, playing Minecraft, summoning Unity animal assets, and clipping out of jungle. Tarzan ⚾PLAY BALL! ⚾PLAY BALL! ⚾PLAY BALL! Tarzan game's most recent update - "better graphics" and "worse gameplay". Gorilla Tag popular VR Game, so now Tarzan have play too, but only while swimming. Vine physics make Tarzan feel like George of the Jungle. Status: Decline
Any%
00:25:00
Quest 2
Ritzblues


Cactus Cowboy Land VR YEEE HAW! 🌵🤠 Cactus Cowboy's here for a "root"in' tootin rescue mission! Developed during the early COVID lockdown, Cactus Cowboy Land VR (Corona Quarantine Edition) is the first of a series of free FPS VR games on SideQuest. This first entry of the series places a heavy emphasis on precision platforming in its design. The speedrun utilizes several out-of-bounds movements, trigger dodging, and floor clipping to save time, skip entire segments, and even boss fights. Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
Quest 2
Umari0


Super Mario World It's been 10 years since the last time Lunar Dragon was showcased at SGDQ by the legendary Suidt. I'm down to come back from the dead to show off how sick and optimized this category and the game is now. I'll be all drugged up on gamer juice (prescribed medication) while attempting to show off the peak of what's possible, providing radically entertaining commentary with my excellent co-commentator rezephae (she doesn't know that she's been enlisted yet). 1 in a million shot let's do it bryonato Status: Decline
Lunar Dragon
1:40:00
SNES
infinitemystery


Prison City Prison city is a retro platformer inspired by powerblade, shatterhand and other games. Hal Bruzer is called out of retirement by the chief to stop what's going on in the mega prison. Hal uses chakrams(spinning blades) which can be powered up via symbols and grenades against enemies while looking for a contact that has a keycard to reach the warden's lair. Hal also can slide jump as well. One of the warden's to defeat is based loosely on pong(ex 4:49 - 5:20). Status: Decline
normal mode (easy) any%
00:45:00
nintendo switch
SoaringSloth


Pizza Tower Despite being showcased last SGDQ, Pizza Tower recently got a major update and now features the Noise (Floor 3's boss) as a playable character! His moveset drastically differs from Peppino's and changes the way how every stage is played. Any% showcases how we can abuse his broken kit throughout the speedrun you've come to love.

(Submitting as a race with Jade)
Status: Decline
Noise Any% No Major Glitches
1:25:00
PC
CosmykTheDolfyn


Shin Samurai Jazz This is an incredibly fast paced, diet-kaizo 2D platformer made by a solo dev. The music always gets great reactions in marathons as well. Movement is very quick and visually impressive as we use air dashes and double jumps to glide around spikes and waves of enemies quickly.
This is also a great silly block addition, part of the story is fooling a government worker by putting a hamburger in a different restaurant's bag so that they give us the keys to a shopping mall to kill the yokai inside.
Status: Decline
Beat The Game
00:30:00
PC
swordsmankirby


Dumpy & Bumpy Dumpy and Bumpy is an indie game that consists of 80 puzzle rooms in quick succession. With two players, not only can most solutions be parallelized, but unintended strats arise from the fact that only one player needs to survive each room, and the mechanic where players are able to throw each other. Co-op with Bbforky. Status: Decline
Co-op
00:25:00
PC
limy


Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Movement+ is a movement system mod for BRC that completely redoes the movement and speed in the game. Many of the speed caps are raised or removed, there's new tech, and even new skips and routes through stages. The downside of this mod, however, is that the walls can no longer be clipped through with zips like vanilla, but there are alternatives everywhere. Any% is a completely different run now, and All Collectibles is a showcase of weird routes and strats exclusive to it! Status: Decline
Co-Op Blackout Bingo (w/ shovelclaws)
0:25:00
Status: Decline
Movement+ All Collectibles
1:35:00
Status: Decline
Movement+ Any%
0:47:00
PC
CosmykTheDolfyn


Comit The Astrodian Play as an asteroid that looks like a flying poo with a jet pack as we pinball our way around levels with our overpowered air dash. Gaze upon the wonders of bosses that are bouncing circles, circles with spikes, circles with fists, circles with boots and blocked out circles. We also go out of bounds quite a bit.
Silly game submission, if that wasn't clear.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PC
Ritzblues


Super Back to the Future II Great Scott! The best Back to the Future console game... done quick! This silly Japan-only platformer speedrun features ice physics, lag reduction, and auto-scroller skips that make for an impressive spectacle! Watch Marty hoverboard through iconic Hill Valley future, alternate present, and past while battling iconic foes, such as cops with huge guns, drunken acrobats, Ryu cosplayers, and demon balloons! Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
Super Famicom
JSR_


Mission: Impossible Your mission, if you choose to accept this run, is to help Secret Agent JSR_ infiltrate SGDQ with this exciting run full of tough platforming, intense shootouts, and fun gadgetry! This sleeper game is a great speedrun, with tons of memeable moments and some tough sections, all of which are (relatively) marathon safe! Status: Decline
N64 Possible%
1:10:00
Nintendo 64
AeonFrodo


Xenoblade Chronicles 3 ~ Future Redeemed The DLC campaign of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 taking place thousands of years before the main game. This game is a massive love letter to the Xenoblade Chronicles series, with some nods to XenoSaga and Gears. There's unintentional skips on some forced battles, cool fight strategies taking advantage of the Unity Combo system and a food buff to avoid a tedious level up grind, making the party endgame ready halfway through the game. Status: Decline
Any% Easy
1:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% Normal
2:00:00
Nintendo Switch
Dmt_Goobz


Super Monkey Ball 2. Super Monkey Ball 2 is a game in which a monkey in a ball, rolls around various obstacle courses in order to go through a goal. The game is well known for its visually impressive trick shots, as well as its difficult and precise movement. (Examples: 4-9, 7-9, 4-6)

In the Story Mode All Levels category (SMAL), there is heavy use of a technique called "pause buffering". This strategy allows for the completion of tas-like strategies in real-time. Examples include stages 1-10, 9-6, and 2-8.
Status: Decline
Story Mode All Levels
00:35:00
Nintendo Wii
spikevegeta


Chrono Cross Co-op Relay with Zic3 and Eddaket.

A beloved PS1 classic never seen in a mainline GDQ is reborn with the Radical Dreamers Edition, bringing additions like autosaves and updated visuals. There's always something to be looking out for, adapting on the fly to enemy attacks, managing stamina and counting enemy turns. And with CC's unique ability to flee from any fight, there's marathon safety to the run.

Estimate is a time that the three of us agree we can realistically complete the run.
Status: Decline
any% Good Ending Co-op Relay
06:30:00
PC
infinitemystery


bonk 3: bonks big adventure Bonk, our favorite hard headed caveboy is back to once again stop King Drool the Third who has stolen half of the moon. Bonk covers great distance when spinning while in mid air. Bonk consumes food for health and to become temporarily invincible. New this time around are red/blue candies that shrink and enlarge bonk(ex 2:30 and 31:01). Be careful though bonk, many enemies have used the candies as well. Status: Decline
any%
00:40:00
pc engine/tg-16
CosmykTheDolfyn


Super Puyo Puyo Tsuu Remix This is a Puyo Puyo speedrun that I have been practicing for nearly 10 years and have thousands of attempts and hours in. This mode is unique as compared to other Puyo speedruns as it is always 5 color, making chains harder, always on the hardest difficulty and the speed increases between each level for 33 levels straight. This causes the drop speed to glitch out and holding down slows the pieces instead. The speed gets that intense, and I have 1CC'ed this under 30 minutes. Higher estimate. Status: Decline
Rally Mode
00:40:00
Super Famicom
AstroTheLast


Embr Embr is a firefighting indie game where you work together under an independent firefighting company to do tasks such as saving people, salvaging items, or even destroying buildings yourself. In Any% Co-Op Unlocked Equipment, we team up with all equipment already unlocked in order to speed through the game as quick as possible. With items like the jetpack hose, grappling hook, and axe dash there is a lot of fun movement and a lot of room to get creative. Status: Decline
Any% Co-op Unlocked Equipment
00:35:00
PC
Darkwing Duck


Gyruss Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such classic GDQ speedruns as StarTropics: Th Unnecessary Capital Letter and Spelunker: Yes, He Does Die That Fast.

Gyruss is a classic arcade shoot 'em up that is unique from it's contemporary games like Defender and Galaga in that it's neither horizontal or vertical. It's cylindrical. Proves a unique perspective on the shooter genre. This NES version is probably the cleanest and contains a definite ending.
Status: Decline
any%
00:29:00
NES
BIGHONKINBURGER


Old School RuneScape With over 100k Consistent players, OSRS is a rerelease of the original 2004 MMO, and now updated to maintain it's "Old School" Aesthetic. This dives into two medium length quests, Dragon Slayer and Beneath Cursed Sands. Dragon Slayer is an icon classic quest, filled with mid aughts jank. Beneath Cursed Sands is a more modern quest, focused on combat and resource management (and jank) Status: Decline
Beneath Cursed Sands
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Dragon Slayer
00:21:00
PC
CosmykTheDolfyn


The Next Penelope: Race To Oddyseus An incredibly flashy top down racer that is nails-bitingly difficult. To beat this game, we have to gain powerups from various worlds Mega-Man style. While racing, using boosts drains our health just like in F-Zero, while in the SHMUP boss fights shooting our guns also drains our health. As a result, being a bad aim or getting hit results in a quick death. I have played this game in many marathons over the years and have practiced the commentary to be able to deliver despite the technicality. Status: Decline
Any%
00:28:00
PC
CosmykTheDolfyn


Mountain Taxi Driver Is bad shovelware. Status: Decline
Beat The Game
00:12:00
PC
spikevegeta


Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze One of the greatest 2D platformers of all time is back after celebrating it's 10 year anniversary this year! A perfect vibe for SGDQ, this time we'd showcase it's best category, All Stages, where we take down (you guessed it) ALL of the stages, including the infamous and incredibly difficult K stages where death is around every corner. Luckily, I've played this game a lot, so death SHOULDN'T be around every corner, and left behind will be gorgeous platforming and one of the greatest OST's ever. Status: Decline
Original Mode, All Stages
02:40:00
Nintendo Switch
BIGHONKINBURGER


Baby Coyote An indie game on steam, strung together with brittle code that's easy to manipulate, Baby Coyote kicks ass. It's a fun romp in MSPaint, and manages to adapt as a speed game as the developer started solving skips and problems that allow runners to break early levels. No worries! There's still tons of breaks. Full game is th whole game, Soft Lock goes to a natural end point where the game generally becomes unbeatable. Both runs share a VoD since the routes are identical Status: Decline
Soft Lock%
00:25:00
Status: Decline
full game%
00:30:00
PC
AeonFrodo


Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories The followup to Kingdom Hearts that uses a card game-like combat system as its main mechanic. Riku's Story uses pre-built decks to defeat bosses which change each world, sometimes the decks are amazing while some are completely horrible. With the variety of decks and bosses, this requires the player to have an understanding of how they work and how to pilot them optimally. Fights throughout the game require mastery of both of Riku's forms, as they have access to different types of attacks. Status: Decline
Riku's Story
1:30:00
Game Boy Player
AstroTheLast


Stardew Valley Stardew Valley is a farming sim where you move into your Grandpa's old farmhouse in Pelican Town, a small village. In Mines 50 Glitchless, it's a mad dash to get to floor 50 of the mines as quick as you can. It has a lot of hitting rocks, killing enemies, and a TON of luck. For the NDE runs, all glitches are allowed except for Dialogue Expansion, which creates a mix of a run where you use glitches and normal strategies in tandem. Each run has the goal of completing part of the community center. Status: Decline
Vault NDE
00:10:00
Status: Decline
Boiler Room NDE
00:15:00
Status: Decline
Crafts Room NDE
00:15:00
Status: Decline
Mines 50
00:35:00
PC
Slurpeeninja


MegaMan Unlimited MegaMan Unlimited is an excellent Mega Man fan game! The game is very challenging with long stages and difficult checkpoints. The Any% Buster Only run strives to overcome these challenges while making it through the game using only the Mega Buster for as much of the game as is possible! I would be playing on the 1.1.0SR version. Status: Decline
Any%, Buster Only
01:15:00
PC
BubbleBass


The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie This is a 3D platformer-collectathon from the same team that made Battle for Bikini Bottom. Every glitch in this game's toolkit is either flashy or hilarious to watch. Bash boosting, reverse slide jumps, lag buffer token warps, and the new Rub a Dub skip are incredibly precise and impressive to watch, while guitar gliding, invisible crate proxies, and memory corruption are goofy to watch live and let us break the game in ridiculous ways. Race w/ Jaxler Status: Decline
No Pause Storage Race
01:15:00
Xbox 360
Dmt_Goobz


Super Monkey Ball Gaiden Super Monkey Ball Gaiden is a fangame off of the game called "Super Monkey Ball 2" The game is a significant increase in difficulty from its original release. The fangame is also well known for its long-style gauntlet stages such as 2-10, 9-7, and 10-10, leading to either fast and difficult movement optimizations or long and flashy skips.

This run would do well with having Namb0's Gaiden master run go along as a bonus incentive.
Status: Decline
Super Monkey Ball Gaiden
00:40:00
Nintendo Wii
Cypherin


The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin Hey true believers! Spider-Man takes on the Kingpin & members of his infamous rogues gallery to save New York and his love! Never appearing at a GDQ event before, this run utilizes some optimized web swinging & boss quick kills to get through a game well known for its difficulty on the Sega Genesis. Status: Decline
Normal Warpless (Gen/MD)
00:12:00
Sega Genesis
Slurpeeninja


Mega Man 10 As with Mega Man 9, Mega Man 10 sought to revitalize the series by tapping into it's 8-bit roots! However, unlike 9, 10 added improvements by way of being able to quick switch weapons at any time, thus creating new strategies and opportunities for Mega Man to go fast! Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
Wii
JaredWeakStrike


Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix 1 Hour Challenge is a KH2FM Randomizer category where the goal is to get the highest amount of points in 1 hour loadless time. Players gain points from killing bosses and picking up important checks. This run showcases many things such as Boss/Enemy randomizer, where superbosses can appear outside of their home arenas. Showcases of this run are demonstrated at at 20:42 (DoubleADewi), 27:51 (JaredWeakstrike), 31:47 (JaredWeakstrike), and 1:00:42 (DoubleADewi). Status: Decline
Randomizer 1 Hour Challenge
1:10:00
PC
Seawalker777


Star Trucker Star Trucker finished near the top of Steam NextFest. If you like big rigs and space, you will probably like big rigs hauling...cargo IN space. Demo% takes the player through the main mechanics of the game. Four deliveries take you through different systems all while learning to not lose power, gravity, heat, and even oxygen. Avoid the space junk or patch your hull from damage. Not just a behind the wheel sim. Make sure to put your space suit on for those space walks! Status: Decline
Demo%
00:58:00
PC
OHMACS


Hrot A zany and high speed indie boomer shooter set in the Czech republic. Extremely strange and charming and even educational; the run features plenty of FPS speedrunning staples like rocket jumps and wall clips and features evil gymnastics equipment and newts from outer space. It's really a fun and crazy run. Status: Decline
Any% (all episodes)
1:00:00
Status: Decline
Any% (All Episodes)
1:00:00
PC
DoubleADewi


Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix Submitting as a race with JaredWeakStrike

1 Hour Challenge is a special category where the goal is to get the highest amount of points in 1 hour loadless time. Players gain points from killing bosses and picking up important checks. This run showcases many things such as Boss/Enemy randomizer, where superbosses can appear outside of their home arenas. Showcases of this run are demonstrated at at 20:42 (DoubleADewi), 27:51 (JaredWeakstrike), 31:47 (JaredWeakstrike), and 1:00:42 (DoubleADewi).
Status: Decline
Randomizer 1 Hour Challenge
1:10:00
PC
infinitemystery


Mega Man 4 voyage: blue version A megaman rom hack that quite a bit different from the original game. Features different stage layouts, gimmicks (0:43), original soundtrack, new ai patterns (ex: 1:38) and newer uses for some weapons (ex. 6:33, 15:20) once obtained from the robot masters. While Dr. Cossack isn't around, there are plenty of other robots to keep us busy(lots of familiar faces and some surprises). Status: Decline
any%
01:05:00
NES
AeonFrodo


Fire Emblem: Three Houses Three Houses is one of the stronger entries in the Fire Emblem series, featuring many different routes with different storylines. This DLC campaign follows the secret 4th house, the Ashen Wolves house. The run overcomes the limited access to characters, classes and abilities using incredible strategies and taking advantage of the new classes the students of the Ashen Wolves house have. This run also makes nearly the entire cast have their moment to shine. Status: Decline
Cindered Shadows/Ashen Wolves
0:35:00
Nintendo Switch
melmelmel1997


Stardew Valley Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home? It won’t be easy. Ever since Joja Corporation came to town, the old ways of life have all but disappeared. With a little dedication, you might just be the one to restore Stardew Valley to greatness! Status: Decline
Restoration % - Co-Op with Pr1nc3ssshortcake
03:20:00
Status: Decline
Marriage % Harvey - Race with Pr1nc3ssshortcake
01:30:00
Status: Decline
Marriage % Penny
01:05:00
PC
BigBeaz


Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones Comedy and carnage ensues as two bros beat down baddies with a barrage of blows in this classic beat em up focused on sibling savagery as we set out to save Marion midst a mass of merciless maniacs!

This is a co-op run with Cypherin
Status: Decline
Any% 2 Player A
00:27:00
NES
Cypherin


Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones Comedy and carnage ensues as two bros beat down baddies with a barrage of blows in this classic beat em up, focused on sibling savagery as we set out to save Marion midst a mass of merciless maniacs!

This is a co-op run with BigBeaz.
Status: Decline
Any% 2-Player A
00:27:00
NES
Mageius


Chō Jikū Yōsai Macross (PS2) Do you remember love?
The game is based off the Macross anime franchise. Has a lot aerial combat using our transforming Valkyrie in order to help protect the world, fight for the future and of course it wouldn't be Macross without love. The run involves a lot of optimization and improvisation for combat. Franchise is finally coming to the West later this year and has a brand new game that's getting localized worldwide for the first time as well.
Status: Decline
Both Storylines
02:25:00
Status: Decline
ARMD storyline
01:05:00
Status: Decline
Prometheus storyline
01:30:00
Playstation 2
Dmt_Goobz


Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in SMB2 Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in SMB2 Is a fan game designed to be a port of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe onto a Nintendo Wii. This game allows for more precise controls and is much more accessible than the original game.

In the category Ultimate All levels Pauseless, A collection of 300 stages will be played, without the use of "pause strats". This limitation makes for incredibly interesting strategies such as stages Advanced Extra 11, Expert Extra 9, and Advanced 43.
Status: Decline
Ultimate All Levels Pauseless
1:30:00
Nintendo Wii
SushiKishi


Too Fast RPG Are you a speedrun marathon games committee member? Do you love RPGs, but know they take up too much time on the schedule to accept more of your favorite genre? Then this is the game for you! In a world with a need for speed, the Queen is stuck moving at a mere human's pace! It's up to our supersonic party of heroes to defeat the Evil Dark Lord in a short and sweet adventure that's anything but ordinary.

100% must continue from Any%, hence the single VOD submission where Any% ends at 12:40.
Status: Decline
100%
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:15:00
PC
SushiKishi


Invaligate Your Aid! Some games are hard. Some games intentionally make it hard for you to even play with their offbeat controls, like QWOP or Getting Over It.

Some games actively don't want to be played.

Rei and Fazey's story really isn't any of your business, but should you try to help, you'll be forced to deal with the game force-quitting itself, timed computer shutdowns, one or two entirely different games on TOP of Invaligate Your Aid, and plenty more. Runner's discretion is advised.
Status: Decline
Main Story
00:15:00
Status: Decline
All Endings
00:17:00
PC
AeonFrodo


Code Lyoko (DS) Based off the French animated TV show, this game follows through select episodes from Seasons 1 and 2, and the 1st episode of Season 3. The game switches between the main screens, one for Earth and one for Lyoko. While Earth sections have funny movement tech, The latter is where most of the action happens, as the Lyoko Warriors can glitch through barriers, skip parts of levels and despawn enemies, all of this achieved without a dedicated jump button. Status: Decline
Any%
2:15:00
New Nintendo 2DS
SushiKishi


The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening While the remake provides a unique and modern twist on a beloved entry in the series, pushing the rewind button beyond even the Game Boy Color remake all the way back to the original allows for huge variety of glitches, wrong warps, and out-of-bounds play. Every item will be grabbed from its original location, but getting there will involve Screen Warps, Super Jumps, and at least one bomb-related glitch as is required for Zelda speedruns. A three-heart challenge incentive ramps up the challenge! Status: Decline
100% Reverse Boss Order
01:00:00
GameCube via GBI
Kusomushi_Buxter


Battletoads & Double Dragon It is a 2D side-scrolling action game released in 1993. (Developed by Rare, known for the Super Donkey Kong series, etc.) This RTA pursues how to quickly and stylishly SMASH enemies that appear one after another, with high-quality BGM/SE created by David Wise and creative and humorous production throughout. It has a lively finish that is very worth watching and listening to. Although it is a little-known work, it is without a doubt the highest level of perfection in retro games, so I would be ha Status: Decline
any% Toad
00:30:00
NES
Mageius


Wing of Darkness A short but hidden gem of a game. This 3D mech combat style game tells the story of Klara and her friend Erika. Lot's of fast-paced combat, quick dodging using optimal loadouts boosting, enemy despawning, death defying battles and more. You'll be wishing for more as you enjoy everything the game has to offer. If you like mech style games you'll probably enjoy everything that's used in this one. Status: Decline
Any% (Paradoxical)
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Any% NMG (Paradoxical)
01:10:00
Nintendo Switch
shox


StarCraft The StarCraft Terran campaign has the player work with Jim Raynor to assist, and later oppose, the Terran Dominion. While this is the first campaign in all of StarCraft, it does not lead to an easy run as missions 5-10 are all very hard in the speed run setting with 8 and 9 being some of the most multitask intensive missions in all campaigns. Note that mission 3 is hard-coded to take about 20 minutes - this time can be filled with some creativity if desired. Status: Decline
Terran Campaign Any%
01:05:00
PC
Shockwve


Epistory: Typing Chronicles An isometric typing game involving a high level of typing skill to execute. This run involves taking combos into places that seemingly weren't meant to in order to bypass all side content to complete the game.

Some sections require typing speeds faster than 80 WPM.
Status: Decline
Any% Adaptive
00:55:00
PC
Iceplug


Alias Alias the video game based off of the show from 2002 of the same name.
In this run:
"""""""Stealth""""""" (exactly four of those are air quotes)
Rolling and jumping up stairs because the main character climbs stairs too articulately otherwise.
Jumping final boss in dark alleyway in the penultimate stage to reconfigure her AI
Wireless DNA download!
Rolling on the floor in an S-pattern to despawn cinematic.
Killing dudes with mindcontrol lasers.
Backup saves incase vital cinematics don't load
Status: Decline
PC
01:40:00
PC
Mageius


Robotech The Macross Saga HD Edition Based on part 1 of Robotech. It's got lot of action across 10 missions in this side scroller Shmup. The game has some RPG elements as well as managing movement health, damage abuse exp routing and more. Come relive the first part of the old show and have fun with this very exciting run. Since GDQ HOTFIX run I've that is to do something interesting, beat the game 1 handed on a switch joy-con for thechallenge of it. So you just got to see a Shmup beaten with 1 hand. Status: Decline
New Game (Rick 1 handed)
00:43:00
Status: Decline
New Game (Rick)
00:42:00
Status: Decline
New Game (Roy 1 handed)
00:43:00
Status: Decline
New Game (Roy)
00:42:00
Nintendo Switch
Slurpeeninja


Trauma Center: Second Opinion Ridiculous anime surgery done fast!
Patient ate too many Doritos!? No problem!
There's a bomb that needs defusal at your medical conference?? Got it covered!
Something swimming around in there? We'll laser it out before lunch break!
Status: Decline
Any%, Normal
01:35:00
Wii
quo


New Pokémon Snap Are you looking for a run with technical depth in routing point requirments for progression? Or maybe the coziest run you've ever witnessed, filled to the brim with personality and adorable Pokémon? Both these things can coexist, and create the any% run for New Snap, where you travel through 21 vibrant courses filled with Pokémon, with the need to collect pictures to score points for further game progression. It really is a run that has a little something for everyone Status: Decline
any%
2:50:00
Nintendo Switch
casualspeedrun


Fallout Anthology The intrinsically bugged out and broken nature of the Fallout series begs the question: is a 'glitchless' speedrun of the Fallout Anthology even possible? The answer is a semi-firm maybe.
The Fallout Anthology was last seen in a legendary showcase at AGDQ 2020, but the Fallout games are yet to be shown in their glitchless forms at a GDQ main event. With rumors of a new Fallout game on the way, the time is just right to see Anthology run once more before the Fallout family gets even bigger.
Status: Decline
Glitchless (Main Series)
04:10:00
PC
aciidz


Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 co-op requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are RsKiller, Slayur, and Uncultivated. Status: Decline
Main Campaigns Co-op
00:50:00
PC
melmelmel1997


Phasmophobia Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to Mel (melmelmel1997) and I to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at our disposal in order to gather as much evidence as we can. Status: Decline
Any% Small Maps (Professional) w/ pr1nc3ssshortcak
00:45:00
PC
Mageius


MACROSS Shooting Insight The lastest Macross franchise game and the 1st ever to be released worldwide. It's a hybrid Shmup with vertical, side scrolling and top down 360° levels. The amazing music of the franchise takes center stage in this game as the game is a celebration over 40 years of the franchise's history. Basically it's finally coming to the west you'll see all the skills of a shmup run on display here while enjoying some great music from throughout the various series of the franchise. Status: Decline
Shin (Normal DLC)
01:05:00
Status: Decline
Shin (Normal no DLC)
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Shin (Nard no DLC)
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Shin (Nard DLC)
01:06:00
Nintendo Switch
TempestMask1000


Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils This spectacular indie platformer by Colorgrave harkens back to the days of the Game Boy Color and games just like it. Featuring an acrobatic heroine formerly from a traveling troupe, as well as her bunny girl scythe-carrying rival, there's many ways to play this epic game that features quite a bit of extra content to keep the adventure going. While this has seen recent action through Frost Fatales, I wish to showcase what has yet to be seen on the GDQ channel. Status: Decline
Any% Cannonless (Belle Mode)
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Bonnie Mode)
00:13:00
Status: Decline
Any% No Cactus (Bonnie Mode)
00:25:00
Status: Decline
Any% Cannonless (Bonnie Mode)
00:45:00
PC
casualspeedrun


Siren Siren is the brainchild born of the Silent Hill dev team's desire for a more challenging and 'pure' horror experience; a game that resembles your standard Silent Hill survival horror sandwich, complete with wildly unhinged characters and even aliens, but with the crusts cut off and doused in five-alarm hot sauce. We also slice diagonal as you get more sandwich that way. Status: Decline
Any%
01:05:00
PlayStation 3
HeliosWx_


Peggle Deluxe Peggle Deluxe is a charming Pachinko-styled PopCap game originally made for scoring points, boasting some wild and unique speedrun categories.

NG+ lets you select your own powerups for a strong, fast-paced full game playthrough. Scott% utilizes a built-in cheat code to play the game at 4x speed for a blazing fast full game run. Any% was successfully showcased at SGDQ 2023 as the game's frontline category, now featuring new strategies and a faster baseline time after a year of improvement.
Status: Decline
2-Player NG+ Race w/ brassbeat
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Scott%
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
Tonkotsu


Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Donkey Kong Country 2 is a great 2D platformer with some cool tricks.
Any% BARRALAX is hard mode Any% without DK barrels, where "BARRALAX" is the name of an in-game cheat code.
Any% No Team-up does not allow the use of team-up mechanics of the game, which makes some wrong warps and skips unavailable.
Both runs show off a lot of unique movements and tricks not usually shown in the other categories of DKC2.
Status: Decline
Any% No Team-up
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% BARRALAX
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
SNES
TempestMask1000


Dragonball Evolution As SGDQ is known for its block of silliness, what's funnier than showcasing a game people more than likely didn't know existed for the most part? Dragonball Evolution is the final Budokai game on PSP. It hosted characters from the universally panned live-action film and was released before its source did, oddly deviating in small ways. It's not a traditional speed game. But, aside from being finishable in under 30 minutes, it is part of what saved Dragon Ball. Thank you, Akira Toriyama. Status: Decline
Any% Story
00:25:00
PSP
SushiKishi


8-color Star Guardians+ This indie RPG is a parody of the Super Sentai/Power Ranger genre featuring an all-female, all-queer cast of protagonists. The retro-style presentation us backed with an excellent soundtrack, making for a fun viewer experience even for those who might otherwise pass on watching turn-based RPGs. Each guardian has her own set of distinct, unique abilities, requiring you to use your toolkit expertly with little room for errors and wasted turns, as getting off-schedule can be very dangerous. Status: Decline
Story Mode
01:00:00
PC
HeliosWx_


Peggle Extreme Peggle Extreme is a short, official spin-off of the popular Pachinko-styled PopCap Peggle series, themed to Valve titles Half-Life: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal.

The Extreme Grand Master (EGM) run is this game's 100% category, requiring all challenges to be beaten alongside full clearing every level. With only 10 levels and 5 challenges though, this run showcases the 100% playstyle of Peggle speedrunning in a compact runtime--making for a great race setting!
Status: Decline
2-Player EGM Race w/ Britsha
00:35:00
PC
Uncultivated


Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 co-op requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are aciidz, RsKiller, and Slayur. Status: Decline
Main Campaigns Co-op
00:50:00
PC
puwexil


The Final Fantasy Legend The first entry in Square's SaGa series (the first 3 games of which had their English releases renamed to Final Fantasy Legend to boost sales). This short & sweet RPG run eschews the broken Saw insta-death skill and showcases other aspects of the game's unconventional battle/advancement systems, using a variety of party builds & strategies for fast boss fights with minimal grinding/farming. Status: Decline
Any% No Saw Skill
1:20:00
SNES (SGB2)
Distro


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent This game offers a healthy mix of action, minigames, and glitches/skips.
NSA super spy Sam Fisher infiltrates a terrorist organization named John Brown's Army (JBA) as a double agent where he has to make difficult choices that gain or lose him trust with the NSA or the JBA. However, how morally sound are Fisher's decisions when his sole goal is to go fast?

V1 is the PC/Xbox 360/PS3 version of the game, which is very different from V2 (GCN, Wii, Xbox, PS2).

Status: Decline
any% v1
01:25:00
PC
britsha


Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition This is a 100% speedrun for Peggle: WoW Edition, the WoW-themed spin-off in Peggle, a game series where you shoot balls into pachinko-inspired levels.

In Any%, the only goal is to clear the 25 oranges on each level, however, the 100% category requires runners to fully clear all boards, achieve set scores on every level, and beat 10 tough challenges. A great showcase of various strategies and playstyles.

This was done as a 1v1 race between me and PoetryStud, with SatanHerself on commentary.
Status: Decline
100% Maximum 2-Person Race
1:00:00
PC
Mageius


Robotech The Macross Saga This is the GBA game based off of the first part of the Robotech franchise. It's a side scrolling shooter that's basically a short but interesting run. Lag reduction, experience routing, health management and a lot more. It's a shorter run but pretty constant for a speedrun. Each character has their own unique stats which effects how each plays Bid war for character choice as well. Status: Decline
Any% New Game Miriya (Power armor)
00:36:00
Status: Decline
Any% New Game Max
00:36:00
Status: Decline
Any% New Game Roy
00:36:00
Status: Decline
Any% New Game Rick
00:36:00
Gameboy Advance
giygasblues


qomp What if you play Pong and you were the ball and you left the room with two paddles. With lo-fi beats. That's qomp. Super chill vibes. Super cool game. Status: Decline
100%
00:37:00
PC
giygasblues


Neo Contra Super safe run with co-op. This Contra is actually cool and has a talking dog for one of the bosses. And Jaguar slices the planet in half. All canon. Status: Decline
Ng+ co-op
00:14:00
PS2
britsha


Peggle Extreme Peggle Extreme is a short official spin-off of the Pachinko-inspired game series, Peggle, containing 10 levels themed around the Valve titles Half-Life, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. The charm and quirkiness of this fun crossover could make for a good candidate for silly block.

The 100% (Extreme Grand Master) run of this game requires runners to fully clear boards on all levels, as well as beat 5 challenges. This a great way to showcase Peggle's harder playstyles in a nice, bite-sized run.
Status: Decline
100% (EGM) 2-Player Race (w/ HeliosWx)
00:35:00
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: Decline
Cream Story (Upgraded Emerl)
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Rouge Story (Upgraded Emerl)
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Knuckles Story (Upgraded Emerl)
00:30:00
Game Boy Interface
Mr.Keating


Kung Fu Panda (Wii) Its MOVIE NIGHT!

The new KFP movie just launched, but what if you can't get out of the house to see it? What if you wanna catch up on the story before seeing the real deal? Have I got the game for you. Kung Fu Panda (Wii) follows the story of the original movie...with significantly worse visuals and voice acting. But you get what you pay for.
Shashabooey!
Follow Po as he clips through mountains and abandons countless innocent civilians on his quest to become Dragon Warrior.
SkadoosH!
Status: Decline
Any%
1:28:00
WiiU
giygasblues


Slime-san Slime-san is the game the devs, Fabriz, made before Demon Turf. It's a single-screen platformer featuring the titular Slime-san. It's a super cute game and each set of rooms features a new mechanic. BK is a standalone DLC that is more digestible than the 1+ hour run and has a cute submarine. Status: Decline
BK_any%
00:36:00
PC
freeland


Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the second of the NES trilogy, offering an open-area game with different routes and categories. I will be submitting the Any%, Any% Glitchless, and Any% No Wrong Warp Routes for the event. All the categories will be submitted separately but could also serve as a donation incentive to upgrade the run to Any%. Status: Decline
Any% No Wrong Warp
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
NES
Ozmourn


Lightmatter Lightmatter is a unique, Portal-inspired puzzle platformer with a twist as the player escapes an abandoned science facility... touching the shadows will kill you. Any% NMG highlights a huge array of skips in nearly every level, as well as minor glitches allowed in this category. This run is a highly optimized, keep-you-on-your-toes run that shows constant strats that skip over entire puzzles and abuse game mechanics and props in incredible ways that allow for a fun run to watch and perform. Status: Decline
Any% NMG
00:50:00
PC
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 fil
Status: Decline
DLC Spirit Boards: Fighter Pass 1 NG
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Single DLC Spirit Board NG Bid War (11 Choices)
00:20:00
Nintendo Switch
Madtaz64


Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World Monster World IV, a previously Japanese only Genesis game, finally released internationally about 10 years ago. This is the remake of that game remade in full 2.5D, with improved movement and Quality of Life additions, and a remixed soundtrack! In this category you access a secret merchant right after the first dungeon that lets you buy the most powerful gear in the game, allowing you to one shot most enemies, kill bosses within minutes, and tank most hits with ease! Status: Decline
Beat the Game
01:30:00
Nintendo Switch
scooterulez


Starlink: Battle For Atlas Starlink came out during the late "Toys-2-Life" craze and my runs use the toys that came with it. The goal of the game is to defeat a galactic warlord, while the gameplay is space dogfights and base building. So far I am the only dedicated runner in America, while Canadian runner FireFoXz runs it a couple of times for their country's version of AGDQ(NoResetSpeedrun). This game also can be done in co-op, as there is a lot more time saves with sequence breaks and damage output, solo is rough. Status: Decline
any% Deluxe Solo
02:10:00
Playstation 4
selcouthmind


Slime Rancher Slime Rancher is a cute and colorful indie exploration adventure game. This run uses a widely accepted mod to make the game multiplayer. Glitchless still allows for several interesting physics-based skips, while 2P speeds up some of the slower parts of the run by dividing up tasks and taking advantage of features of the mod.

Submitted as co-op run with Ozmourn.
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless 2P
00:20:00
PC
Cloudmark


Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Fatal Frame 2 a return of the pinnacle of horror. A unique horror game combining first and third person perspectives. The camera play sets the series apart and provides a truly distinctive experience. This run combines extremely efficient movement and a true understanding of the camera combat. All while facing unique ghosts and trying to overcome the ritual in the Lost Village. This survival horror title itself apart from more popular franchises with its distinct rural Japanese location.
Status: Decline
NG Any%
01:45:00
Playstation 3
Obiyo


Diddy Kong Racing Diddy Kong Racing is the perfect racing game speedrun, very fast pace, good balance of glitch vs tech, little downtime, frame perfect tricks, banger ost, very nostalgic to alot of people and very different than the casual experience.

While Any% showcases some trick unique to the category to beat it really fast, 100% is able to dive into what the game has to offer and what makes it special to speedrun.
Status: Decline
Any%
0:47:00
Status: Decline
100%
1:50:00
Nintendo 64
Cloudmark


White Day: A Labyrinth Named School White Day is a unique Korean horror dating sim! In this run we will be bringing together the best of both genres. There will be a showcase of tight movement and complete understanding of enemy and ghost behaviors. We do this all while trying to woo one of the main heroines!One side will show all the optional ghosts and more lore into the haunting of the school, or we can see taking advantage of the punishing ai! Come watch as we brave the horrors of this haunted school all for the sake of love! Status: Decline
NG+ Any%
00:35:00
Status: Decline
100% Ghosts
00:55:00
PC
Froob


Granblue Fantasy: Relink Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a 3D action RPG based on the hyper popular franchise of the same name. It includes a whole bunch of fan favourite characters in a brand new storyline

Granblue Fantasy: Relinks speedrun makes use of multiple characters to go fast in it's early game, but a lot of use of Vaseraga for hyper damage and super fast movement. A lot of the run is about implimenting correct combat strategies to make sure we don't see extra boss phases and optimal fighting.
Status: Decline
Any%
03:30:00
PC
Obiyo


Diddy Kong Racing Randomizer The same good old DKR except this time, loading zones, balloons, amount of laps, vehicles, normal vs mirrior mode are completly random! On top of that, there is random magic codes which affect different aspect of gameplay which will be randomly applied on a track by track basis. Couple that with glitches being enabled in logic it creates a fantastic showcase of pure speed and glitches while listening to the masterpiece that is the DKR ost.

This is a submission for a race vs sweenerdog
Status: Decline
100%
02:05:00
Nintendo 64
Froob


Grief Syndrome Grief Syndrome is an indie doujin 2D action platformer based on the Madoka Magica anime series. It features multiple playable characters all with their own combat and movement tech (or lack thereof for the faster character!)

All Characters is a run showcasing every single character and their strengths whilst also showing off the games only OoB that leads to a quick death and an optional Superboss

Any% Character bidwar would be a 6 character bidwar for whose Any% campaign I run at the event.
Status: Decline
Any% Character Bidwar
00:36:00
Status: Decline
All Characters%
00:32:00
PC
WaifuRuns


Resident Evil 4 ULTIMATE RANDOMIZER is a mod that swaps out the players inventory, every enemy in the game, some bosses, and the merchants wears, creating a truly unique experience. In addition it also randomizes the player character in every room, hunk, krauser, wesker, and ada all with their own special abilities and drawbacks. Pure chaos allowing for a unique showcase of mod exclusive speedrun skips and strategies.

No Merchant is brutally difficult. A true showcase of skill made consistent by new strategies
Status: Decline
New Game Professional
01:35:00
Status: Decline
No Merchant Professional
01:55:00
Status: Decline
Ultimate Randomizer
02:45:00
Status: Decline
Krauser%
01:25:00
PC
kasayev


Yooka-Laylee Yooka-Laylee is the spiritual successor for the Banjo games. It's a 3d platformer where we grab pagies inside the levels in order to reach the final boss, the pagies being similar to the jiggies in Banjo. It features all the good speedrun stuff like sequence breaking glitches, a lot of movement options, a snake wearing shorts, and Vendi.
For 100 pagies, we aim to grab the fastest 100 pagies available in order to open the elevator that goes to the final boss.
Status: Decline
100%
04:10:00
Status: Decline
100 Pagies
02:10:00
PC
Froob


Deadly Premonition Clear as a crisp spring morning! It's the cult classic 3rd person action adventure zombie(?) shooter - Deadly Premonition featuring the worlds most charismatic protaganist Francis York Morgan!

Join a run of bewilderment with multiple bits of speedtech including smoking to get people to pick us up instead of walking, running away from the ghost of a dead murder victim to teleport, zipping up stairs in our car and the GIANT skip Chapter 12 Out of Bounds tech!
Status: Decline
Any% [Console]
03:15:00
Nintendo Switch
frozenspade


Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge This is a Point and Click game where you must Lie, Cheat, Steal and otherwise Pirate your way through this Classic Adventure. As a speedrun it features all the classics of good speedgames: movement tech, skips, tricks, glitches, execution and a dash of RNG to keep it interesting. During AGDQ 2024, fellow speedrunner thewoofs had a Bid War to run either Monkey Island 1 OR Monkey Island 2. Monkey Island 1 ended up winning, so it seems like a great time to show off Monkey Island 2 this event. Status: Decline
any% (ScummVM)
00:34:00
PC (ScummVM)
dowolf


SNOLF Robo Blast 2 Imagine 3D sonic, but with golf controls! Sonic Robo Blast 2 is an absolutely brilliant Sonic fangame made in the Doom engine, with stupendous 3D level design that's just perfect to turn into an 18-hole golf course. Features constant switching between pixel-perfect shots into windows three hundred yards away and frantic rapid-fire snolfs at a bunnyhopping boss. Carefully planned shots over lava alternating with panicky rushed shots when we fall in the lava anyways. And a bit of drowning music 2. Status: Decline
Any%
01:15:00
PC
GTAce


Extra Mario Bros. This is an incredible ROM hack of the original Super Mario Bros., heavily inspired by the classic Metroid games. It features level design very similar to Metroid and also custom powerups that you need to collect in order to progress through the game. You're suppose to explore the world and collect keys to unlock the final boss, but the speedrun skips all of this with the help of glitches unique to this hack. Both the hack and the run are awesome, and I hope more people get to see it. Status: Decline
Any%
00:10:00
NES
dowolf


Snolf 3 & Knolf Imagine classic Sonic, but with golf controls. Now imagine *hyper* Sonic, but with golf controls. Because that is what we have here in this game: the classic Snolf experience we all know and love, but with the added bonus of being able to air dash. This added level of control massively opens up our options, allowing us to smoothly transition from shot to dash to shots so fast, you'd almost think we're playing a normal game. No Coordinate Warp is the main category, but Coordinate Warps are silly. Status: Decline
Any% No Coordinate Warp
1:35:00
Status: Decline
Any%
1:10:00
Genesis Mini
Lady Mel


Skator Gator 3D Skator Gator 3D is a short, cartoony platformer about a gator trying to retrieve the stolen deed to his swamp. This game has been ran at previous GDQ events, and is a notable hit with at least the Frame Fatales speedrunning community. Even since Frost Fatales, new tech has been introduced and the run has been changed slightly. Plus, the devs have added a delightful easter egg for runners. Makes a nice fit for a quick hit game with cozy, feel-good vibes. Status: Decline
any% Race
00:15:00
Status: Decline
any%
00:15:00
PC
AdeptCS


Splatoon 3: Side Order Side Order is the byproduct of mixing classic elements of Nintendo's movement shooter franchise, Splatoon, with typical roguelite gameplay. Early community discoveries found ways to turn the game structure on its head though easily manipulatable RNG, which created highly optimized and extremely consistent runs. The result is a high-powered, fast-paced showcase showing the fullest potential of the charger kit. Status: Decline
NG+ (Marie's Palette)
00:30:00
Nintendo Switch
MrPupG


Kamen no Ninja: Akakage Not many knows this game but it start to be known slowly that I ran this from Best of NES marathon. IT's a fun game and interesting thing that is similar to Puss the boot and Puss the boots skin off the Akakage game. Status: Decline
Any%
00:12:00
NES
WaifuRuns


Devil May Cry Trilogy The entire PS2 Devil May Cry catalogue in under 3 hours. This showcases 3 completely but equally fantastic speedruns chronicling the mechanical progression of one of gaming's greatest series. From the economic routing of dmc1, to the high risk high reward of dmc2, and finally the epic display of pure apm in dmc3. Something for everyone and all under 3 hours including game swapping and set up time. Status: Decline
Trilogy
03:00:00
PC
WaifuRuns


Devil May Cry 2 The only DMC game never before showcased at a GDQ...
is actually a pretty sick speedrun.

DMC2 turns the audiences expectation on its head exploiting tons of mechanics that regular players would never even know about, everything from manipulations to get up to 10X currency, to even an unlimited godlike power that can only be unlocked by having low health. The entire run is an edge of your seat experience where the player can die at any moment, but in exchange does massive damage.
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
Allegro


The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary A multiplayer-centric take on Zelda....played by one player? In this version of the GBA classic, a single player mode was added and provides a unique take on the intended multiplayer experience. With randomized dungeon layouts as well....who knows what can happen? Status: Decline
Any% DSi Solo
00:30:00
Nintendo 3DS
WaifuRuns


Devil May Cry 3 The greatest action game ever made, back again now with its first out of bounds skip, and even more high input mayhem. The run has gone down over 10 minutes since its last showing.

CAKE
Collect All Kill Everything -
In this new category we see everything DMC3 has to offer, opting to collect every item in the game and kill every boss, including the boss rush at the end of the game. A true showcase of everything in the best action game ever made.
Status: Decline
Any%
1:10:00
Status: Decline
CAKE
01:40:00
PC
shovelclaws


Sephonie Sephonie is a parkour platformer and arcade puzzler about a team of researchers exploring an island. Using ONYX, they're tasked with saving the world from NULL, the island's diseased core.
Using its fluid platforming, Sephonie features many massive skips. While a curve-ball, mastering the Link puzzles (and hoping for good RNG) lets us speed through them. This game is an obscure gem that will link ;] with the GDQ audience!
Any%: 1:12, 5:27, 15:09-19:19, 21:04, 33:57-37:27
All Species: 22:28-39:13
Status: Decline
Any%
0:47:00
Status: Decline
All Species
1:05:00
PC
WaifuRuns


Devil May Cry The progenitor of action games is back with all new categories, strategies, and ideas. We have everything you could possibly want, brutal difficulty, 100% completion, and even restricted runs.

No Items is a new category that shows just how much skill expression the game has to offer when you don't cheese it, creating a much more relatable and enjoyable viewing experience than a normal any% speedrun. DMD is just hard. AC shows the entire game.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% No Items
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Dante Must Die
01:15:00
Status: Decline
Normal All Collectables
01:10:00
PC
DoubleADewi


Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix Boss Hunter is a special category using the randomizer for kh2fm. With randomized bosses you must adapt to bosses in arenas different to their home as well as their health being different. Fighting Sephiroth in Land of Dragons can be quite the change. Attached is a GDQ Hotfix run of the same category. Check out 1:04:02 for an insane fight of Terra/Lingering Will in Barbossa's arena! Status: Decline
Randomizer Boss Hunter
2:25:00
PC
dowolf


The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero Trails from Zero, which is either the fourth, seventh, or gazillionth game in the series (don't think about it), starts with our newly minted team of cops being tasked to clean out the sewers. This is beneath us, so we immediately clip out of bounds, gain over forty levels in one fight, and take out the mafia, sending us straight to the final chapter. It's a route so blisteringly fast that the final boss won't know that hits him.

Submitting as backup to ChampionBeef.
Status: Decline
Any% Turbo
00:45:00
PC
Gelly


The Talos Principle II The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle-adventure video game developed by Croteam as a sequel to The Talos Principle (2014). With glitches abound, this category takes advantage of a glitch-lite version of any%, where photomode and launching is banned and the game is dependent on a lot more parkour, items, and the like to skip as much as possible. From using single cubes to skip eight puzzles to building bridges on the same frame we swap them to skip four, there's a wide variety to keep the run compell Status: Decline
NPNL
1:30:00
PC
a_variety_pack


BioShock Infinite At GDQ events, BioShock Infinite has typically been shown off in its PC format, utilizing the game's frame advantages and gear potential to perform extra tricks. Not only, however, does the One-Handed category give a good reason to perform the run on the hitherto unseen console version (with variations on classic skips), but it completes the game only with the use of one hand, a significant challenge run. Status: Decline
One-Handed
2:20:00
Nintendo Switch
Obiyo


Donkey Kong 64 item randomizer is the standard settings used for races in the community. It shuffles every collectible's location with the pool of items that are included. The randomizer also features tons of QoL improvemet such as tag anywhere, faster boss, shorter/removed cutscene and so much more. The goal is to collect every move needed to be able to reach K Rool and defeat him!



The NSAK variant (No Style All Keys) Has a few differences, the main one being the win condition: acquire all keys!
Status: Decline
Item Randomizer: NSAK
2:05:00
Status: Decline
Item Randomizer
1:50:00
Nintendo 64 (Emulator)
vanni_van


Neutopia GDQ fans love classic Zelda games, right? Of course they do. Neutopia is very similar to the original Legend of Zelda, only this has the awesome processing power of the TurboGrafx-16! This means vibrant enemy sprites and a soundtrack that will have you bobbing your head. The run itself is highlighted by boss RNG manipulation, as well as navigating numerous sections of the game in complete darkness. A crowd-pleaser to the last. Status: Decline
100%
01:00:00
TurboGrafx-16
Mitchriz


Lies of P Lies of P is a masterpiece of a Souls-like experience, telling a dark and twisted version of the Pinocchio story and having brutally precise and demanding boss fights. The Any% Glitchless WR has been shortened by about 10 minutes recently due to a new update to the game introducing a new weapon. The weapon is very flashy and relies on perfectly countering enemy attacks. There has been an intense back-and-forth battle for the WR recently, and it will continue to drop in the coming weeks. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
1:50:00
PC
Tonkotsu


Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Mario & Luigi: Dream Team features tons of out of bounds clips and other weird glitches, allowing you to skip pretty much everything past the one hour mark.
The Driftwood Shore Skip found in 2021 and some optimization we added last year to a boss fight have lowered the record significantly. With scary fights near the end and tons of softlock potentials that we must avoid, this run is quite tense and exciting.
Status: Decline
Any%
03:20:00
3DS
Blackbeltginganinja


Bugsnax Bugsnax captivated audiences from the moment the first trailer launched - a weird, charming game about capturing cute lil' guys (and also friendship). The Any% speedrun does very little of that, with a huge easy-to-understand platforming skip that brings you right to the end. Alternatively, No Major Glitches forbids this skip, and lets the audience enjoy more of the wacky cast and the Bugsnax-catching shenanigans. Status: Decline
No Major Glitches
01:15:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:19:00
PC
Mitchriz


Elden Ring GOTY 2022 with the DLC releasing right before SGDQ, you don't need me to sing the game's praises, but I will anyway. A vast expansive world and challenging combat that makes the exploration feel all the more rewarding when you find a good piece of equipment. However, in Any% we're flying on our horse and warping our way to the end of the game, then using the "chainsaw" glitch to kill bosses in record time. If possible, I would love to find a way to add some donation incentive within the DLC. Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
PC
cinderkit5


Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus Sly 1 is a great platformer that's been showcased before. The any% category has changed and new game breaking skips have been discovered since the last time it was shown at a mainstage GDQ, 4 years ago. I'd love the opportunity to show off this game and category. I will timestamp below a few of the exciting and difficult tricks for your viewing pleasure.

17:31 - fish skip
29:46 - sly goes flying!
30:55 - new world 4 skip

Thanks for your consideration.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:41:00
PS3
Mellowrino


Barbie: Explorer Barbie Explorer as a game is a funny mix between Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider. The silliness of it definitely makes up for the lack of high quality assets as Barbie commenting throughout the game is hilarious on it's own already.
As far as I know the game hasn't been shown in a GDQ event yet and since it gained some traction on YouTube as well it would fit as a "oh I remember this silly game" type in contrast to the more serious in tone ones!
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
FireThieff


LittleBigPlanet 2 (Submitting with RbdJellyfish.) LBP2 is a physics-based puzzle platformer with a focus on playfulness and creativity. The run is a mix of high skill movement utilizing gadgets to cooperatively boost and elevate one another, as well as some large interesting sequence breaks. While the game infamously has a few long autoscrollers, a few recent discoveries have led to most of them being completely skipped in creative ways, making for a much improved run since it last appeared in a GDQ marathon. Status: Decline
Co-op NG+ 2 players
01:30:00
PlayStation 3
dijonketchup


Fire 'n Ice Fire 'n Ice (or Solomon's Key 2 if you're from Japan/Europe) is a delightful puzzle platformer that tasks novice wizard Dana with using ice magic to defeat the flames of the evil wizard Druidle. This run plays through all 10 worlds, solving more and more complicated puzzles with blazing speed. The sheer ability to solve such mind bending puzzles so fast is generally a treat for the audience, even if they're not familiar with the game. Status: Decline
any%
01:25:00
Nintendo Switch
Gnydsmelt


Lake Haven Lake Haven is an "modern" old school 3rd person horror game with tank controls.

The run is short and sweet and has a very comfy but eerie vibe.

It has a Silent Hill-esque vibe about it that I love.

Cool game.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:12:00
PC
organMike


Ultima III: Exodus Ultima III: Exodus sends us back to Sosaria to deal with the unholy spawn of Mondain and Minax, the demonic Exodus, whose castle appeared on a mysterious island of fire and heralded the approach of waves of evil monsters to threaten the land.
The Stranger who defeated the other great evils is back, and for the first time, they're not alone. Four Companions will delve the dungeons, mark themselves, find strange exotic equipment, and wield powerful magics to defeat the evil Exodus in his lair!
Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
PC via DOSBox
RsKiller


Left 4 Dead 2 L4D2 co-op requires skill, coordination, creativity, and improvisation. The game has a variety of campaigns, and difficulty levels, offering a lot of replay value and potential for different strategies. The Main Campaigns category features the 5 campaigns that launched with the game on release and has all of the original skips & tricks from 2009. The other runners are aciidz, Slayur, and Uncultivated. Status: Decline
Main Campaigns Co-op
00:50:00
PC
coyne


Helldivers 2 This is a video I made a couple weeks after launch that I intended to be informative and also entertaining..! It's a tight run-time with PiP edits trying to cram too much info into a short time haha. There is time early in the run where a glitch is set up by entering, exiting, and re-entering the tutorial; there is an opening cutscene, unskippable; no other downtime. If chosen, I will develop performances for this run that lean more comedic or more informative that appreciate the time. Status: Decline
Tutorial No-OoB
00:06:00
PC
Iceblue


The Legend of Zelda With the successful Legend of Zelda run at AGDQ, I thought to myself, what if we played the game, but in a very charming and silly way?

Introducing - The Legend of Zelda with a twist! Instead of traditional controls, Link has to explore Hyrule while ROLLING. You heard me. This game features the use of the gyro controls of the Switch Pro Controller to fully control Link as he rolls through Hyrule collecting the 8 Triforce pieces to defeat Gannon and save Princess Zelda.

Silly block submission!
Status: Decline
Tilt & Tumble any%
00:37:00
Status: Decline
Tilt & Tumble 100%
00:45:00
PC
tasrhys


LittleBigPlanet (Submitting with RBDJellyfish) LittleBigPlanet is a platformer with simple gameplay yet an incredibly high skill ceiling, with physics-based movement tech and interesting sequence breaks. The any% no-overlord route being devoid of RNG yet full of risk-reward tradeoffs, combined with the fact that RBDJellyfish and I are two of the top runners in the game, should make for a really exciting and competitive race! Status: Decline
any% no-overlord race
00:55:00
Playstation 3
Pr1nc3ssShortcake


Stardew Valley We've inherited our grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, we set out to begin our new life. Can we learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home? Me and my speedrunning best friend, Mel, are here to find out! Status: Decline
Restoration%
3:20:00
Status: Decline
Marriage% Race
1:30:00
PC
Pr1nc3ssShortcake


Phasmophobia Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to Mel (melmelmel1997) and I to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at our disposal in order to gather as much evidence as we can. Status: Decline
any% small maps (professional)
00:45:00
PC
tasrhys


LittleBigPlanet LittleBigPlanet is a platformer with simple gameplay yet an incredibly high skill ceiling, with physics-based movement tech and interesting sequence breaks. The all levels category being devoid of RNG yet full of risk-reward tradeoffs. All levels in the game are completed, including minigames/side levels. Status: Decline
all levels
01:20:00
Playstation 3
Tonkotsu


Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mario vs. Donkey Kong for the Nintendo Switch is a remake of the GBA game with the same name featuring the new worlds.
This run is full of tight jumps to skip puzzles/make it to fast cycles.
1 Player Co-op, a.k.a. 1P2C, is an even more challenging category, where Mario and Toad assist each other for various shortcuts that are undoable in a solo (casual/classic) mode.
Submitting as a potential race.
Status: Decline
Any%+ Classic
02:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% 1 Player Co-op
01:20:00
Status: Decline
Any% Classic
01:20:00
Nintendo Switch
britsha


Peggle Nights Peggle Nights is the follow up to Peggle Deluxe, a PopCap game where you shoot balls into pachinko-inspired boards. The goal of Peggle Any% is to clear the 25 orange pegs on each board, with board layouts staying consistent but the peg colours being randomised, requiring a lot of quick thinking and adaptive strategy.

Nights ups the difficulty of its predecessor Deluxe with it's own new 60 levels of even more challenging boards, making for a very exciting run to see completed.
Status: Decline
Any%
1:07:00
PC
casualspeedrun


Manny's My experience at Manny's was incredible! I had the Manny nugget combo meal with a diet Dr. Manny, and I can't wait to come back and try the Triple Manny Burger! Convenient location, perfect for the silly block.
Staff went above and beyond.
Status: Decline
All Endings
00:19:00
PC
freeland


Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse has four unique character routes, but for this marathon I'm submitting just the Trevor Only route. It's been about 7 years since this route was showcased (SGDQ 2017), so there are some new skips and optimizations found that have improved the time well into the 28:XX range. Status: Decline
Trevor Only
00:35:00
NES
freeland


Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Randomizer A fun randomizer of Simon's Quest that adds quality of life fixes to the original game. The rando also has different game modes, presets, and patches that creates a unique playing experience each time around. For this submission I will be playing a seed under the Standard Preset, including the custom text option. Status: Decline
Standard Preset
01:05:00
NES
Ozmourn


Slime Rancher Slime Rancher is a cute and colorful indie exploration adventure game. This run uses a widely accepted mod to make the game multiplayer. Glitchless still allows for several interesting physics-based skips, while in 2P we speed up some of the slower parts of the run by dividing up tasks and taking advantage of features of the multiplayer mod, such as speeding up cycles for plort and fruit production or abusing functionally infinite stamina.

Submitted as co-op run with selcouthmind.
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless 2P
00:20:00
PC
casualspeedrun


Atama Atama is a fast paced first person horror game that sees the defenseless player character taking careful and precise pathing to run from and dodge giant floating heads in an abandoned village in the remote countryside of Japan. We collect all 8 coins to unlock the 'real' heirloom and complete the good ending, breaking the curse and freeing the village. Status: Decline
All Coins
00:19:00
PC
Ozmourn


Stonefly Stonefly is an amazing indie game involving a girl named Annika on a trip to recover her father's stolen mech where she discovers many friends to help her with her journey. This run is full of reacting on the fly to the RNG and enemy behavior that the game gives you, and is filled with a several major skips that avoid long enemy encounters, as well as glitches and bugs we take advantage of to skip sequences and dupe resources. This run is engaging for runners and audiences alike! Status: Decline
Any%
1:00:00
PC
Shemp


Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Remastered U2 any% is a blast to watch because this game's movement tech is so goofy. A lot of the run is watching Nate slide up into the air, air walk across huge gaps, zipping across invisible bridges, blowing yourself up to get out of an airwalk, etc.
This game is also a great game for donation incentives! It's pretty common for people to donate towards a costume they want for the run during each marathon it's showcased.
Status: Decline
Any%
02:20:00
PlayStation 4
Shemp


Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage The goal for Spyro 2 is to collect all 14 Talismans at the end of each level for the first 2 Homeworlds. At the last homeworld, you're intended to collect Orbs to get into the final boss.
For the run, I will be utilizing a bug known as the 'Double Jump' which will allow us to showcase all types of different routes for collecting gems and reaching the end of each level! Once we get to the end, I will be showcasing multiple out-of-bounds tricks to get into the very last section to beat the boss!
Status: Decline
14 Talisman
00:40:00
PlayStation 2
Shemp


Spyro: Year of the Dragon With Spyro 3, this run will involve us running all around every level to collect 100 dragon eggs so we can enter the final boss! This category is a lot of fun to watch because there is constant movement through every single section. There will also be plenty of times for donations to be read out since we'll be blasting through a few long stretches of level! Status: Decline
100 Egg
01:20:00
PlayStation 2
eddaket


Pokémon Scarlet/Violet Scarlet/Violet was shown off last year with the Victory Road story line, but there are 3 other stories to see as well! Path of Legends follows the Legendary Titan story, where we blitz through the five Titans in under an hour. Starfall Street shows off the Team Star story, where we assemble a team of Pokemon to assault the evil team bases in the Star Barrage mechanic that was introduced. The Teal Mask is the new DLC story, where we travel to a new region and see the story that unfolds there Status: Decline
The Teal Mask
01:55:00
Status: Decline
Starfall Street
01:40:00
Status: Decline
Path of Legends
01:05:00
Nintendo Switch
Crisisaurus


Pokémon Scarlet Pokémon Scarlet is the most recent Pokémon game in the series, and recently the DLC added a new story divided into two parts.

Part 1 is the Teal Mask, where we head to Kitakami on a school trip, meet 2 interesting siblings, befriend a legendary pokemon and battle 3 powerful legendary Pokémon.

Part 2 is the Indigo Disk, where we head to Blueberry Academy to tackle a new elite 4 and become champion of the School. This part is entirely double fights, giving a new challenge to the game.
Status: Decline
Indigo Disk (Segment)
2:15:00
Status: Decline
Teal Mask
1:55:00
Nintendo Switch
eddaket


Pokémon Sword/Shield Tower of Two Fists is a category that involves beating the main Isle of Armor DLC story line, and has two potential endings: one where you fulfill the main goal and get the Legendary Pokemon Urshifu, and one where you... don't

The run can be done either as a bidwar, or incentive extension and either way you take it, is a great show of one of the shorter and more beginner friendly Pokemon categories, with some really interesting twists and turns along the way
Status: Decline
Tower of Two Fists (Don't Get Urshifu)
01:25:00
Status: Decline
Tower of Two Fists (Get Urshifu)
01:35:00
Nintendo Switch
BlazinZzetti


Amazing Island Save an island from demons using randomly generated Pokemon to complete Mario Party style minigames.

This is a rather straight forward game with fun music and silly designs. Each minigame has it's own strategies to keep the run going fast. There is a slight amount of down time as well, so it can be a good game for getting donations read and pushing to get incentives or bonus games met.
Status: Decline
Any%
1:30:00
Wii
roromaniac8


Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix Randomizer (Battleships Welcome to the first ever iteration of battleships in the Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix randomizer!

A bunch of bosses, progression events, and collectibles are arranged in a grid with random ships placed on the board. The objective is to sink all of the ships! This grid comes with autotracking and will eventually be available for everyone to try!

The run is played on critical difficulty with all of the superbosses included, so the seeds have potential to get crazy!


Status: Decline
KH2FM Rando Battleships (Sink all Ships)
2:15:00
PC
JokerSleeps


Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is the first Pokémon game to be released for Nintendo Switch with catching mechanics that are familiar to those who've played Pokémon GO.

All Obtainable Pokémon is a Catch 'em All category where we obtain all the possible Pokémon (135) in a single game. This category let's us shows off the entire region of Kanto.

Diploma is a 2-player Catch 'em All, where we will local trade with each other to complete the PokéDex. Submitting Diploma as a co-op with ThomasPatrickWX
Status: Decline
All Obtainable Pokémon
05:45:00
Status: Decline
Diploma
05:15:00
Nintendo Switch
ThomasPatrickWX


Pokémon Legends Arceus Legends Arceus is a Pokemon game unlike any we've ever seen. It takes place completely in the over-world including the battling and catching. In order to progress the game, you need to complete a variety of PokeDex research tasks which includes catching multiple Pokemon, feeding them, seeing specific moves, evolving them, and more! Unlike the All Lords category, Any% will go through the endgame where we have to fight both the legendary Dialga and Palkia. Status: Decline
Any%
4:05:00
Nintendo Switch
DirectorMusic


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Everybody's favorite Splinter Cell game, Chaos Theory takes Sam around the world to save it from destruction, once again in a breathtaking pace. Watch as Sam performs precise tricks, uses clever AI manipulation, explores interesting surroundings and, most importantly, does all that in about an hour! Oh, and of course, this game features an amazing sense of humor. Something like calling this run a "fast and funny-ous" type of thing. Status: Decline
Any% (No Alarms)
01:10:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
NallyQ


Dead Rising 3 Come join Nick and Dick's adventures through the city of Los Perdidos! This run features not only level grinding through creating combo weapons to mow down zombies but also set roles for each co-op character. While one co-op partner is starting a mission, the other can route out experience on the way to said mission, and by sticking to roles we can manipulate boss fights to our advantage.
Submitting as a co-op run with Ecdycis.
Status: Decline
TimeSkip NG Co-op Ending S
1:50:00
PC
PetresInc


Plants Vs. Zombies "PvZ is a uniquely rapid-fire, Real-Time-Strategy RUSH of a tower defense speedrun thanks to a critical mechanic: The 50% rule- that dictates that once half of the HP of a wave of enemies is defeated, the next wave spawns INSTANTLY. Runs of PvZ involve efficiently gathering resources, multitasking killing zombies quickly while not getting overrun by the accelerated spawns. Any% notably has a plant unlocking system which is easy to follow for viewers as the run steadily increases in complexity. Status: Decline
100%
08:00:00
Status: Decline
NG+ Shopless
05:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
03:30:00
PC
GTAce


All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. This game is a very interesting piece of both Nintendo and Mario history. This is essentially an official ROM hack of SMB, featuring modified levels from both that and the Lost Levels. It features some unique characters and enemies as well, as this was developed as a collaboration with a Japanese radio show. This game has never been shown off on the GDQ stage, and most people pry have never seen or heard of this Mario game before.

Submitting All Stages as a donation incentive. Adds 16 levels.
Status: Decline
All Stages
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Warpless
00:25:00
FDS
Allegro


Sonic Adventure DX Big the Cat is back! And now there is more than just catching the frog this time. In this run, we will be catching fish of all shapes and sizes and will be obtaining every unique emblem to the big purple cat himself. This run also includes a unique death abuse glitch that only Big can take advantage of and will be a huge centerpiece of the run.
Also submitting Big's Story as a nice appetizer-sized run or as a run that can be upgraded to Big Emblems
Status: Decline
Big's Story
0:08:00
Status: Decline
Big Emblems
00:28:00
PC
DawnSR


Sonic Adventure 2: Battle All Stories is hardly recognizable as a category since it was last shown at AGDQ 2015. With two top players at the helm it's time to hear Live and Learn on the main stage again!

This run is a showcase of everything that makes this game great and allows us to show off many never before seen strats to the GDQ Audience. Dawn will be doing Hero Story, Savac will be doing Dark, and we will tag team the Last Story portion.

Submitting with Savac.
Status: Decline
All Stories Relay
1:35:00
PC
lungfish3000


Super Mario World Over the years, the Kaizo SMW community has crafted some of the most difficult boss fights ever seen in gaming. Between a precise bullet hell long thought to be impossible, fire and hammers flying around with no rhyme or reason, and lightning raining down without end, each of these boss fights have taken the best of players dozens of hours to beat once. Now, they can each be beaten in under 10 minutes, consistently, on a whim.
Submitting as a co-op showcase with tjb0607 and MarkAlarm.
Status: Decline
Custom Boss Showcase
0:30:00
Super Nintendo
Nichole Goodnight


Phasmophobia Ghosts, ORBS, and RNG - Oh My! Tag along with Bathinjan and me as we race through Nightmare difficulty in the game, trying to correctly guess the ghost types using only two pieces of evidence. This run incorporates our sluethiest speedrunning tactics to sort out the ghost type. An exciting, engaging, and entertaining run to watch for those who love all things horror! Status: Decline
Small Maps Any% Nightmare Duo
01:00:00
PC
Nichole Goodnight


Haven Haven is a charming game about a couple in love on the run from their home planet and its' dystopian society. Full of movement tech and precision, this game is a joy to play, listen to, and watch.

Come on a journey with me as we adventure on Source and try to navigate our way through the story of Yu and Kay.
Status: Decline
Any% Good Ending
00:55:00
PC
Zic3


Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition Co-op Relay with SpikeVegeta and Eddaket.

A beloved PS1 classic never seen in a mainline GDQ is reborn with the Radical Dreamers Edition, bringing additions like autosaves and updated visuals. There's always something to be looking out for, adapting on the fly to enemy attacks, managing stamina and counting enemy turns. And with CC's unique ability to flee from any fight, there's marathon safety to the run.

Estimate is a time that the three of us agree we can realistically complete the run.
Status: Decline
Any% Co-op Relay
06:30:00
PC
Bathinjan


Phasmophobia Ghosts, ORBS, and RNG - Oh My! Tag along with me and NicholeGoodnight as we race through Nightmare difficulty, trying to correctly guess the ghost types using only two pieces of evidence. This run incorporates our sluethiest speedrunning tactics to sort out the ghost type. An exciting, engaging, and entertaining run to watch for those who love all things horror! Status: Decline
Small Maps Any% Nightmare Duo
1:00:00
PC
davidtki


Blaster Master 2 This is without a doubt the best Blaster Master game on Genesis. Status: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
Genesis
Bathinjan


Yume Nikki An RPG-maker legend and cult classic, this run will showcase the bizarre and stunning world of Kikiyama's Yume Nikki as we utilize challenging speed glitches to navigate the Nexus and grab all 24 effects at a truly lightning pace. Status: Decline
Any% JP & Steam
0:20:00
PC
srd_27


Hearthstone: League of Explorers One of the classic PvE modes in Hearthstone, a very memorable single-player adventure that was released back in 2015 when Hearthstone was still very popular.

The Heroic mode is a mode that was intended to be very difficult, but it will be made consistent and fast with very creative and unique strategies. There will be a lot of fun moments for Hearthstone fans to share among the Hearthstone community.
Status: Decline
Heroic
01:00:00
PC
dreaded_


Hello Kitty Roller Rescue Block-O always dreamt of conquering the universe, but his attempts always ended in failure, and was mocked by others in his galaxy. With Earth as his next target, he sets the goal of turning Earth into a perfect cube. How boring life would be if everything, including ourselves, were turned into blocks! Kitty! It's time to pick up your magic wand, save your friends, and drive the clumsy Block Battalion away from Earth! Status: Decline
Any%
00:37:00
Gamecube
Toneko


Hundred Fires: The Rising of Red Star Episodes 1-3 Hundred Fire is an action, stealth and infiltration game that takes key elements from Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and 3 and adding its own twist. The story revolves around Montenegro losing his family only to be scouted by a ghostly JFK to infiltrate an enemy base to take out the Japanese Developer. The run itself is skill and reaction based with at least one Out of Bounds trick that is done intentionally while avoid or taking out enemies. Sadly I skip the long ladder climb that has its own song. Status: Decline
Any% Trilogy%
00:45:00
PC
koma


Halo 4 Halo 4 is a FPS game released in 2012 and had a showing in this marathon in 2016. The category that’s being submitted is the on the legendary difficulty, which is the hardest difficulty without any modifiers. Makes the run a one mistake and you die because of the amount of things that you have to keep in mind. From the difficult Skips,combat,movement and more. This run is a must watch for any fans of fps and oob fans. Will be ran on PC which makes kbm and more precision possible than controller. Status: Decline
Legendary Fullgame
1:25:00
PC
Bathinjan


Yuppie Psycho First day on the job got you down? Signed your work contract without reading it? Promoted to Employee of the Month by a horse? Join us for the strange and bizarre world of Yuppie Psycho as we dodge murderous employees, make eccentric friends in strange places, and try to get fired as fast as possible - y'know, perfectly normal corporate job things. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless (Executive Edition)
1:20:00
PC
Utsu


Solar Ash Solar Ash is a 3D movement platformer developed by Heart Machine. The main gameplay loop of this run consists of skating movement, as well as fighting enormous bosses. The main strats that will be seen is a triple jump, the ability to launch ourselves at high speed, and minor out of bounds clipping. The 100% category as well includes the need to complete 3 NPC side quests, and collect several voidrunner caches, which drastically alter the routes taken in comparison to an Any% run. Status: Decline
100% Restricted
01:30:00
PC
Nichole Goodnight


Lethal Company It’s time to be a great asset as Bathinjan and Nichole ASSURE to make quick work of The Company’s quotas with minimal exposure to heat-seeking turrets.

Probably.

Lethal Company is a fast paced speedrun with on the fly routing, air horns, and math! What more could you want!
Status: Decline
2 players 3 quota
00:30:00
PC
Mkwiifreak


Pico Park PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting 2P with Stripe, 3P adds Danny, 4P adds erupt, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 8 Player
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 4 Player
00:28:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 3 Player
00:26:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 2 Player
00:26:00
PC
Pessilist


Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix HD Gaining no experience in a rpg on the hardest difficulty is advantageous for keyblade wielders Terra, Ventus, and Aqua. Watch Terra use boss and ability behavior in creative ways to survive (see Bid 8:20), use your friends as your power as Ventus (see Bid 1:34:05), or be an OP magic ballerina as Aqua (see Bid 1:58:43). Can have character bid wars or secret bosses as incentives. Or, watch Ven beat the game without needing to open the menu (so no new commands/weapons) on the easiest difficulty. Status: Decline
Ventus No Menu Any%
01:10:00
Status: Decline
Aqua Critical/Level 1 Any%
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Critical/Level 1 Any% Character Bid War
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Critical/Level 1 All Stories
03:05:00
PS5
bramhallthefifth


Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Ys VIII is a beloved 3D action RPG that is absolutely silly with glitches. With out-of-bounds tricks, instant boss kills, infinite jumps and much more, speedruns are a sight to behold and will be a completely new viewing experience to anyone who played through the game casually. Status: Decline
All Story Bosses
01:40:00
PC
tapioca


Yakuza 3 Yakuza's beach episode. Honestly comfy as hell (hell is comfy) with a very clever route that collects items and sells them across the entire game to fuel Kiryu's ambitions of becoming the greatest casino cheater of all time. Every last yen, bullet, and bat swing is accounted for. I will show the world that Yakuza 3 is Good, Actually. Status: Decline
any%
02:10:00
PS4
PoetryStud


Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition This is a 100% speedrun for Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition, the WoW-themed spin-off in the Peggle series.

The run involves fully clearing and ace-scoring all 10 levels in the game, and then completing all 10 of the challenges as well.

The run has quite a few difficult challenges, so there can be a bit of variance, and it challenges runners to use a variety of playstyles.

This was done as a 2-player race between myself and Britsha.
Status: Decline
100% (Maximum) 2-player Race
01:00:00
PC
bdonp


Blender Bros This game has that dog in it. No really, Blender is the name of the dog. Before the age of "skibidi rizzlers" there were true real 2D platformers. There was also Blender Bros. With a mix of platforming, difficult boss fighting, and racing(?), Blender Bros is certainly one of the games of all time Status: Decline
Any%
00:28:00
PC (Steam)
Sevadra


Celeste Strawberry Jam is a gigantic Celeste Custom Level pack worked on over the course of several years by hundreds of members of the community. The Beginner Lobby was run at AGDQ2024, and showcased many fast and clever ways to clear the easiest levels in the pack. In the Intermediate Lobby, the difficulty constraints are stepped up a notch, but there are still plenty of creative ways for Madeline to navigate and break the unique courses put forward by the community! Status: Decline
Strawberry Jam Intermediate Lobby
1:00:00
PC
sharkhat87


Alien: Isolation In All Missions CC + FPS, we get to see one of the only categories for this game with extensive OOB skips, and it is the fastest All Missions run. CC stands for crouch clipping, and FPS in the name refers to using low FPS to allow us to hover mid-air and clip through thicker walls. Status: Decline
All Missions CC + FPS
01:45:00
PC
PoetryStud


Peggle Nights This run is a NG+ race for Peggle Nights, the direct sequel to Peggle Deluxe.

NG+ involves beating the game in a full run, except on a completed save file, where you already have access to the entire roster of characters and their powers, meaning you can always use the best master.

This is generally the quickest full-game run of the game, and this submission was done as a race.
Status: Decline
NG+ 2-Player Race
01:12:00
PC
sharkhat87


The Evil Within This game has completely transformed in the past few years with a new glitch that allows us to launch Sebastian into the air extremely quickly. Expect many OOB sequence breaks and tricks, with a good amount of combat mixed in. Status: Decline
NG+ (Casual)
02:35:00
PC
sharkhat87


The Callisto Protocol In The Callisto Protocol, Jacob will hover, launch, and blast his way through Black Iron Prison, with a good variety of glitches and OOB tricks. Many quality-of-life improvements, including cutscene skips, have cut out a significant amount of downtime from this run. Status: Decline
Any%
01:35:00
PC
Pearstrike


Ribbit King This run would work well in a silly Japanese game block. All Courses takes us through 20 different frolf levels over 5 different worlds. There are 4 different spawns per hole which requires the runners to know 100 different strats/routes and to be able to instantly react to their spawns. This aspect adds RNG to the run while maintaining the execution and knowledge needed to run this game at a high level. We also have set items per world and knowing when to use them adds to the runs difficulty. Status: Decline
All Courses
00:21:00
Nintendo Wii
Pessilist


Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered Getting launched at mach speeds across NYC using PS5 share features (see NG+ 10:35), webbing through walls into a lack of material matter (see NG+ 4:52), beating bosses in a couple hits, and having literally invincible friends in insta-fail stealth scenarios (see NG+ 1:17:30) can all be seen in this full story run through Spidy's rogues gallery where landlords are a bigger threat than the laws of physics. Hit incentives for ultimate difficulty or don't play on NG+ for thugs to start disagreeing. Status: Decline
Any% Ultimate Difficulty
03:35:00
Status: Decline
Any%
03:25:00
Status: Decline
NG+ Ultimate Difficulty
03:12:00
Status: Decline
NG+
03:00:00
PS5
tapioca


Yakuza 2 An intense run from start to finish. 18 years later and sega still cant top this one tbqh Status: Decline
any%
02:15:00
PS3
sharkhat87


Dead Space 2 Hardcore is Dead Space 2’s hardest difficulty, and besides harder enemies and less resources, it features no checkpoints and 3 saves. This significantly alters our route through the game and allows us to show off unique tricks and skips. Many new glitches have been found since this game was featured at AGDQ 2022. Status: Decline
Any% (Hardcore)
01:30:00
PC
SatanHerself


Peggle Nights Peggle Nights is a pachinko-inspired PopCap classic looking for a first-ever main GDQ run. Consistent maps but random peg colors mean improvisation-heavy gameplay that leads to many nail-biting, satisfying and hype moments. Nights is very hard and going fast takes skill!

Any% includes every level and master power. NG+ allows the player to use any power, and Random Master Only randomizes the power each level! Submitting Any% (could be backup for Britsha) and RMO solo and NG+ race with PoetryStud
Status: Decline
RMO
01:25:00
Status: Decline
NG+ 2-player race
01:12:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:19:00
PC
Pearstrike


Beyblade: Super Tournament Battle Definitely a Silly GDQ submission. This is a Beyblade game where you knock the opponent out of the stadium and make your way through the tournament bracket. We do this by building up the meter and then using a super move to knock the CPU out of the opening in the arena. Getting these outs comes down to precise timing. The run has some cool strats like early outs and consistent setups for building up the meter. Status: Decline
Any%
00:17:00
Nintendo Wii
Pessilist


Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth In a side quest that is nothing like Pokemon, Ichiban becomes the very best by using tickets to recruit random men who attack with elemental affiliations to battle for him in 6v6 turn based matches. Watch the runner deal with rng draws to determine the team of sujimon that can defeat the Discreet Four, summon crayfish allies, and collect four gym badges on our way to becoming a sujimon master, if enemies 20 levels above us because we weren't supposed to do side stuff this early don't stop us. Status: Decline
Sujimon Master
03:00:00
PC
Gondor


FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.



I will be running with happybythree, blondkayvon and jaypeg_exe! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.
Status: Decline
any% 4 person co-op
00:55:00
PC
Ecdycis


Siren: Blood Curse Siren Blood Curse is the PS3 Remake of the original game and is best described as the Netflix version of Siren. The game is hilarious and uses a chapter system for its levels allowing us to breeze through.
Every chapter has you playing different characters using a variety of strats to immediately beat their levels by: Damage Abusing, AI Manipping, Launching a little girl 80 feet in the air and more!
We can have a donation incentive for the absolutely silly metal ending.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:50:00
PS3
Ecdycis


Lollipop Chainsaw A hack and slash zombie game that has you playing as a poppy cheerleader carrying around your boyfriends head as you chainsaw your enemies!
In addition to killing enemies as quickly as possible there are game breaking glitches allowing us to skip fights by going Out of Bounds. Some minor and others skipping entire levels.
Did I mention we get to FIGHT ZOMBIE ELVIS?
A perfect feature before the remake comes out.

We can mute in game music upon request
Status: Decline
New Game Any%
2:35:00
Status: Decline
New Game+ Any%
2:30:00
Xbox 360
Ecdycis


Dead Rising 3 After Dead Rising 1 and 2, 3 is the next step and this one really kicks it up a notch.
Zombies have infested Los Angeles so we trade our skateboard in for cars.
We play on the hardest difficulty to save 1 hour of time and really show how difficult the games bosses can be
TimeSkip is a mod that skips waiting on Normal mode and features the main story missions, this is Co-op with NallyQ
SUDR3ARHEEX+α is a silly DLC that turns Dead Rising into Sonic the Hedgehog... I'm not kidding
Status: Decline
SUDR3ARHEEX+α NG+
1:05:00
Status: Decline
TimeSkip New Game Co-op
1:50:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses Nightmare New Game
2:50:00
PC
Vysuals


Halo 3 On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This will be with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, MrSir. Status: Decline
Easy Co-op
1:15:00
PC
eddaket


Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers Edition Co-op Relay with SpikeVegeta and Zic3

A beloved PS1 classic never seen in a mainline GDQ is reborn with the Radical Dreamers Edition, bringing additions like autosaves and updated visuals. There's always something to be looking out for, adapting on the fly to enemy attacks, managing stamina and counting enemy turns. And with CC's unique ability to flee from any fight, there's marathon safety to the run.

Estimate is a time that the three of us agree we can realistically complete the run.
Status: Decline
Good Ending Co-op Relay
06:30:00
PC
Spilled OJ


Halo 3 On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This run would be done with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, and Mrsir71 Status: Decline
Easy Co-op
1:15:00
PC
MrSir71


Halo 3: MCC On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This will be with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, MrSir. Status: Decline
Easy Coop
1:15:00
PC
Ecdycis


The Tairyou Jigoku Imagine Alice in Wonderland but the rabbit stole your cellphone and hired an army of bugs, rats, and other vermin to ruin your day so you vow to stomp on them to death because it's the only answer to get back your phone addiction.
The Tairyou Jigoku is as silly as it sounds and is a hidden gem of the Simple 2000 series of Japanese exclusive games.
It would be a perfect Silly block submission.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
PS2
DomeRocked


Halo 3 On the surface Halo 3 is an FPS game, but for the speedrun it's really a game about physics and momentum. Using the Gravity Hammer and Deployable Covers to do tricks to traverse massive areas in seconds really makes this run feel like non-stop action. Even better is the Co-op speedrun allows us to try flashy risky tricks throughout while the other members do backups, making this run very marathon safe. This will be with Vysuals, Spilled OJ, Domerocked, MrSir. Status: Decline
Easy Co-op
01:15:00
PC
Ecdycis


Clock Tower 3 Imagine a Sailor Moon horror game where you are chased by the worlds goofiest stalkers who immediately ignite on fire if you throw water on them. Each chapter you decide you've had enough so you literally use an anime Spirit Bomb to send them to the shadow realm.
Clock Tower 3 is the perfect blend of horror and silly and will allow GDQ viewers to channel their energy to help defeat this games villains!
Status: Decline
Any%
1:25:00
PS2
Darkwing Duck


Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck, you may remember me from such pun filled GDQ runs as Rygar: Ry ask Rygar and EVO Search for Eden: Shark Ridin' Laser Sharks.

With that title, characters like Sir Cucumber and places like the Zucchini Mountains, the vegetable is set for wackiness and fun in this menu based puzzle adventure. Also...there's Percy the Persimmon. (boo!) This game is an experience, and marathon play will act toward the silliness, which is why the estimate is a bit longer than usual.
Status: Decline
any%
00:50:00
NES
gocubbies


Yu-gi-oh: Forbidden Memories! Runners try to help as by playing both the Pharoah of ancient times and Yugi Moto in modern day by defeating a vast array of characters by the only way they know how: DUELING! By using monster cards, magics, traps, equips and more we fight our way to the top and try to save the world from the scheming of the visier Heishin (not Jafar) and his minions, in part from the 15 cards they give us upon victory. Status: Decline
15-Card Randomizer
2:45:00
Playstation 1
shovelclaws


Bomb Rush Cyberfunk BRC features over 150 collectibles to get while sprayin' graffiti and dodging cops in the six boroughs of New Amsterdam.

With the Bingo Mod, we can turn BRC into a true open world, removing all story restrictions. Shuffling a board of 25 goals, bingo turns into an expressive routing challenge. Combined with the broken movement of both the vanilla game and Movement Plus, any goal becomes a unique challenge!

BRC bingo is a fantastic mini-showcase of the amazing modding scene behind this game!
Status: Decline
Co-op Blackout Bingo (w/ limy)
0:25:00
PC
starsmiley


OMORI OMORI is a psychological horror RPG that showcases a triangle-based battle system, hand-drawn art, an excellent OST, and tons of game-breaking glitches. From being able to skip entire cutscenes and areas of the game using tag-stepping and touchscreen glitches to being able to warp to the debug room to the end of the game in less than an hour, this game has it all. It will also likely make you cry. Status: Decline
Secret Ending (No Save Warp)
4:00:00
Status: Decline
Any% Unrestricted
1:00:00
PC
Darkwing Duck


Micro Machines Hi, I'm Darkwing Duck. You may remember me from such SNES GDQ runs as EVO: Search for Eden: Two colons in the Title and Tetris Attack: No, I didn't lose in Stage 1, YOU lost in Stage 1.

Micro Machines are a toy from the 80s and 90s made into a racing game! You play as these small vehicles in all sorts of real world courses, like the bedroom, kitchen table and the bathtub! There are 25 courses you play through.
Status: Decline
any%
01:15:00
SNES
DirectorMusic


Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Step inside the shoes of Sam Fisher, a special agent who's trying to save the world… in one hour! This run wrecks everything you know about stealth — flashy action gameplay, some out-of-bounds maneuvers and AI manipulation. Sam will keep you on your toes! Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
Epiphane


Satisfactory Satisfactory is an automation/factory building game set on the alien planet of MASSAGE-2(A-B)b that features highly optimized and chaotic factories alongside exploration and combat. An automation game does not follow the typical flow of many other speed games, so every single run is different and you will see a complex interplay of crazy factories, quick improvisation, and intense, high-speed recalculation over hours.

We've seen the first and second packages at GDQ, time for the third!
Status: Decline
3Package%
04:00:00
Status: Decline
2Package%
1:00:00
Status: Decline
Package%
00:20:00
PC
Kirthar


Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider A retro-style action platformer with similarities to the Shinobi games and some Mega Man-esque game mechanics. There's a lot of focus on fluid movement and good platforming while also optimally using the powers/weapons you get from the bosses at the end of every stage. Oh, and the soundtrack slaps all the way through. Status: Decline
Beat the Game
00:40:00
PC
gocubbies


Crash Bash Runners do their best to conquer the challenges in this Mario Party-inspired set of minigames. All the while trying their best to avoid failing and dealing with the tricky trophy gem and crystal challenges that can turn a run from good to bad in moments!

Run incentives:
Space Bash Crystal (No Movement)
N Ballism Crystal
Sky Balls Crystal
Pogo Padlock Crystal
Status: Decline
Any% (No MM)
2:30:00
Playstation 1
shovelclaws


Lil Gator Game Gator is back to strike cute into the hearts of all that oppose him in 100% - where we befriend all of the island's inhabitants and destroy all the monsters that have invaded!
100% is a free-flowing category about clean movement and traversing the island in post-game to clear out all of the enemies. Based on a modified All Friends route, we'll use shurikens, shield-surfing, and more! This category is one of my favorites to run, and has been a passion project of mine over the past year.
Status: Decline
All Friends
0:27:00
Status: Decline
100%
1:05:00
PC
monkeysmb


Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a goofy movie game that actually has quite the intricate movement. There are plenty of precise jumps and damage boosts, as well as cycle skips on many of the bosses. Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
Gameboy Player
Goofy


PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage. Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Nathan, Jiro, and Winbag. Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 8 Player
00:40:00
PC
monkeysmb


Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is a quirky and engaging platformer, filled with plenty of interesting tricks and silly movement. In the All Levels category, this is pushed even further, with plenty of unique strategies that are not seen in the any% run. Any% is a race to collect the fastest 25 emblems in the run while defeating the required bosses to reach the end. Status: Decline
Any%
1:12:00
Status: Decline
All Levels
2:50:00
Nintendo Wii
Headbob


Pokémon X/Y Welcome to Kalos! With the highly anticipated Pokémon Legends Z-A releasing next year, I think it makes sense to take it back to see where it all began: the land of mega evolution, red-haired villains and too many rivals! The Any% route for this game is quite intriguing, showcasing a whopping 4 different main Pokémon used in succession throughout the run - more than any other current main-series Pokémon run. I hope to be able to show this awesome run off! Status: Decline
Any%
4:00:00
Nintendo 3DS
ref0417


Slime morimori syogeki no sippodan Before rocket Slime. We present the first work of the Slime Morimori series, which has not yet been widely spread abroad. This game has been talked about from time to time overseas and is a speed run with 100% action elements. The slime collection is set at 72 slimes, and it will be a very smooth and clean piece of work. Status: Decline
Any%
1:40:00
GBA
monkeysmb


Super Monkey Ball 2 Super Monkey Ball 2 is a speedrunning marathon classic; it's visually impressive and an easy to understand run. The fastest strategies often require the use of pause buffering to achieve desired inputs, but this run bans the use of pauses to limit the player to only the movement of the monkey. This opens the door to different strategies, some of which are much more difficult than their paused counterparts. Status: Decline
Story Mode All Levels Pauseless
00:38:00
Nintendo Wii
ref0417


DK:jungle Climber There are no glitches in this game and it is a game that reflects your abilities well. It is one of the most difficult games in the Donkey Kong series, and it has an instant death system that takes damage, and I submit that it is a spectacular action game that requires fine movement precision. Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
DS
ref0417


mario&luigi:Dream Team The first hour of the game is dedicated to mashing and from the middle of the game, the game is played with glitches. It is as if the sky and the sea were the earth. In the last half of the game, you fight bosses, fight the last boss, and have a minimum number of battles. Let us show you the new Dream Team that has found the optimal route. Status: Decline
Any%
3:20:00
3DS
ref0417


mario&luigi:Partners In Time Glitches, blindfolded sections, and boss action are all required in this game.Speedrun is considered the hardest in the MaL series, but last year I found a route that was almost 10 minutes shorter and achieved Sub236 to Sub226 for me. I would like to present the results of that research here. Status: Decline
All Bosses
3:40:00
Status: Decline
Any%
02:40:00
DS
ref0417


Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime The game has only a few glitches, but aims at the ability to quickly calculate the damage and the shortest route to win. The 100Slime% category is for those who can save all slimes at 100% in this game. Status: Decline
100Slime
3:05:00
Status: Decline
Any%
2:10:00
DS
Drakodan


Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django Action-RPG that uniquely uses real solar energy to power ingame mechanics. Can't play outdoors, so a source of UV radiation is required to play this game on real hardware, such as a UV flashlight! Playing on a DS allows greater control of the solar level by physically moving the system as and when needed for variable levels. Having maxed sunlight is not intended to be consistently possible and makes certain mechanics/interactions such as dashing MUCH faster. Status: Decline
Any%
02:15:00
DS
Azurillkirby


Shadow the Hedgehog SX: Speedrunner's Cut An often overlooked game of the Adventure era of Sonic, Shadow the Hedgehog plays like a 3D Sonic, but with guns. Shadow is a very fluid speedgame where you have to balance speed with killing enemies.

The new SX mod, designed for speedrunning, has given more popularity to this speedgame, fixing the In-Game Timer and adding small conveniences without changing level design.

Neutral Glitchless is the most popular category of the game, with a great mix of different types of missions and levels.
Status: Decline
Neutral Glitchless
00:24:00
Nintendo Wii
allison8bit


Crossroad OS WELCOME... PREPARING SETUP
SETUP IS READING DATA...
SETUP IS INSTALLING OS
!INTERFERANCE DETECTED!
MANUAL OVERRIDE REQUIRED

Crossroad OS is a short and mysterious puzzle game set in a mysterious operating system. Join me as I playthrough the game, showcasing various puzzles at blazing speeds, and delve into the lore of this mysterious yet exciting indie title!

This run is being submit as either a solo run OR as a race with juh0, which includes a Legacy patch vs Current patch race!
Status: Decline
Any% Race vs juh0
00:18:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:15:00
PC
WaveWarrior


Pokémon Emerald Pokémon Emerald Any% Glitchless involves beating the game as fast as possible, without using any glitches like credits warps or item duplication, but allowing RNG manipulation. Emerald has fast paced and technical movement with the Mach Bike, and many complex fights. Through RNG manipulation, we even catch a full health legendary pokémon with a standard poké ball! Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
02:50:00
GameCube (Game Boy Player)
siddflippy


Hollow Knight Welcome to Spore Shroom Hollow Knight any%! In the last year, the any% category has seen a number of new reroutes and updates including collecting new relics and difficult skips. This run includes picking up a different charm for the final boss, plenty of fast movement, boss fights, and hard tricks that are a joy to practice, learn, and watch!
Huge shoutouts to the community for continuing to work on the game, especially the mods and all my dear friends - too many to list by name :)
Status: Decline
Any% 1.4.3.2+ NMG
00:45:00
PC
WaveWarrior


Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are remakes of the classic Red and Blue games for the more advanced Game Boy Advance hardware. Elite Four Round 2 is a category where we must not only beat the game, but also unlock and defeat the more powerful Elite Four at the end of the postgame. This requires completing the Sevii Island side quests and efficiently catching 60 unique pokémon to unlock the National Dex, something that requires complex decision making and on-the-fly routing. Status: Decline
Elite Four Round 2
03:50:00
GameCube (Game Boy Player)
Orcastraw


Multiplication Duck You are a duck. You do multiplication. Every movement you make is timed, and every problem you solve must be solved fast and to a T, or the game may KO you due to a timeout. Spikes, dogs, bugs, and other such foes all stand in the way of your math success, and increasingly esoteric platforming challenges for a children's learning game all culminate to create a bizarre and funny platformer. Status: Decline
Any%
00:15:00
Windows
ICED


Rain World: Downpour Saint is the pacifist Slugcat of the far future where the rain has turned to snow. Without the ability to properly defend yourself the run relies on Saints grapple ability to move quickly through the world. Their goal is to meet all of the Echos throughout the world. This allows them to gain the power of flight and an ascension attack. After killing the two gods of the region they leave to learn the mysteries of the void and ascension in Rubicon. This category features the end of the series Status: Decline
Saint - Story
1:15:00
PC
Space Coast Gaming


Sunset Riders Yeehaw! Sunset Riders is a beloved run 'n gun for the SNES, where the stakes are high and one hit means death and loss of powerups. The run focuses on quick levels and boss kills, requiring pixel-perfect damage distances from bosses, despawning enemy weapons, and careful timing. 2P difficulty and boss HP increase from the standard 1P difficulty. Jaek will play a pistol wielder , and spacecoastgaming will select his character based on donation.
See YT video description for run highlights.
Status: Decline
All Bosses % (Co-op) Normal OOBS
00:35:00
SNES
6kirigiri9


Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Take a journey with smeagol and gollum in their solo journey. Being the best game of 2023, it has a lot of fun features in the speedrun such as out of bounds movement, npc manipulation, level skips, and milk???
That being said, the run does include downtime for donations and commentary shenanigans, and an option at the end to save/kill a bird, possible incentive?
Status: Decline
Any%
03:10:00
PC PS5 Xbox
hatkirby


Manifold Garden Manifold Garden is a first person 3D puzzle game where you traverse MC Escher style architecture by changing your field of gravity (like a 3D version of VVVVVV) while solving puzzles involving moving cubes around. Falling is the fastest way to move, so we do a lot of it, which I believe makes the run feel fast paced and fun to watch.

The game has been shown a couple of times, but never with the No Wall Clip categories, which include more of the game and weirder, more varied tricks and glitches.
Status: Decline
All God Cubes (No Wall Clips)
00:39:00
Status: Decline
Any% Standard Ending (No Wall Clips)
00:23:00
PC
gymnast86


The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Tears of the Kingdom continues the Zelda speedrun fun of high-speed movement and wacky glitches in our effort to beat all of the dungeons. Viewers are treated to the unique experience of taking down Hyrule's biggest baddies using eight Master Swords, some janky Autobuild glitches, and enough Pocket Rockets to last a lifetime.

Put simply, the run is cool to watch and fun to perform.
Status: Decline
All Dungeons
3:00:00
Nintendo Switch
sharif


Who Shot Johnny Rock? By far the most accessible, and best looking, port of the famous FMV noir shooter. Shoot absolutely everything, including bombs, dynamite, safes, priceless art, and of course other people, in order to solve the mystery of which local small business owner shot Johnny Rock. The cutscenes are skippable, but why would we skip cutscenes this good? Ace is the harder of the two difficulties, it's less impressive than it sounds. Yes, I would be playing this on a DVD player with a DVD remote. Status: Decline
Ace Difficulty
00:30:00
DVD
NoHeadZedd


Snow Brothers How do you stay cool at SGDQ? Make lots of snowballs as fast as possible, and that's what will happen in the Snow Brothers NES speedrun.

A puzzle platformer similar to Bubble Bobble, but faster, this speedrun showcases a rare title and wildly optimized movement, throws, kicks, and jumps across all 50 stages.

Snow Brothers features catchy music and is ready for it's debut at SGDQ 2024!!!
Status: Decline
All stages 2 Players
00:20:00
Status: Decline
All Stages 1 Player
00:20:00
NES
NoHeadZedd


Snow Bros Jr Snow Bros Jr is ready for it's debut in the awful games block. This puzzle platformer showcases optimized routing and movements in this very janky and clunky game.

Frog with cannons - check
Birds - check
Troll with no legs? - check
Fight the sun as a snowman....yes please!

This game has a catchy little soundtrack and feels slow, which makes any mistake feel even worse!
Status: Decline
All Stages US
00:35:00
Gameboy
gymnast86


The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D No Wrong Warp and All Fairy Rewards show off the best of MM3D speedrunning (in my opinion). A lot of cool glitches and routing go into making these runs as fun as they are and either would be a great showcase that has never been seen on the GDQ stage. Status: Decline
All Fairy Rewards
2:30:00
Status: Decline
No Wrong Warp
1:50:00
Nintendo 3DS
enbyzee


Brink Co-op submission with j0kerr and RamboRachel

Brink is a 2010 team-based first-person shooter with teams fighting for control of the Ark, a series of floating islands hosting the remnants of humanity. As Ark Security we complete objectives in the missions while utilizing teamwork and constant communication in order to preserve order in the Ark. We will make use of all 4 available classes to repair, hack, heal, and destroy, all to keep the Ark safe from contact with the outside world.
Status: Decline
Any% Security Co-op
00:45:00
PC
Lizstar


Tall: Twins Tower Two cute animals build a tower to the sky. A mesmerizing, short but sweet run. Now with Elephant you can vote for for an incentive! Status: Decline
Normal
00:15:00
PS1
enbyzee


GYLT GYLT was originally released exclusively on the Google Stadia in 2019 but has since received a much wider release on most platforms in early 2023. It is a stealth horror game set in an alternate nightmare realm. Sally's cousin, Emily, has gone missing and it's up to Sally to find her. Roughly 5 minutes of time save has been found since my Frost Fatales 2024 run! Status: Decline
Any%
01:05:00
PC
DannyGG


PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage. Submitting 3P with stripe and Mkwiifreak, 4P adds erupt, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag. Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 3 Player
00:26:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 4 Player
00:28:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 8 Player
00:40:00
PC
tbcr


Spindizy Worlds This game shows the adventures of a ship named G.E.R.A.L.D as it attempts to map out and collect energy jewels from the 30 planets that make up the titular Spindizzy Worlds. While doing this, G.E.R.A.L.D will navigate a perilous isometric landscape, perform sick jumps, attempt to avoid the (adorable) alien lifeforms and solve puzzles in somewhat unusual ways.

The runs submitted pertain to the only home console release, the SNES/SFC version.
Status: Decline
All Clusters - Advanced
01:20:00
Status: Decline
Spindizzy - Advanced
01:05:00
Status: Decline
Easydizzy - Advanced
00:15:00
SNES/SFC
iid01


Pikmin 2 This AI action game was released by Nintendo in 2004 and is a sequel to the first Pikmin game. With the help of Pikmin, we will collect all 201 treasures. Random terrain of the caves, placement of the treasures, and spray lucks will greatly affect completion time. Please pray for good RNG in marathon. Status: Decline
All Treasures
04:00:00
Nintendo Gamecube
Derek_MK


Bionicle: Mata Nui Online Game A great follow-up to my Bionicle GBA run at AGDQ 2024, but now with more lore, more exciting cutscenes, and more Bionicle Nostalgia.

MNOG is a point-and-click-adventure Flash game that was available on the Bionicle website since the beginning of the franchise in 2001, and is potentially the single most iconic piece of Bionicle media. If any viewers are Bionicle fans, they will likely recognize this game.

Submitting as Any% with an incentive to upgrade to All Cutscenes - Video covers both
Status: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
Flash
Sayuri


Sonic Forces Last showcased at AGDQ 2019 via normal Any%, Sonic Forces speedrunning has seen optimizations never previously showcased! NG+ is a newer way to run the game without cutscenes to skip or equipment to unlock first. Everything is obtained from the start, meaning exclusive skips, faster bosses, and a faster run overall!

Any% No Rental is Any% with no Rental Avatars allowed, meaning level routing that takes advantage of the default Wispons the game starts you with, meaning every second saved counts.
Status: Decline
Any% No Rental
01:03:00
Status: Decline
NG+ Story Stages
00:53:00
PC
BluMagma7


Pokemon Sapphire The third generation of Pokemon games has seen significant speedrunning development over the past few months, including the split into Any% and Glitchless categories for FRLG and Ruby/Sapphire. The discovery of the Mail Glitch has completely changed the route to feature glitchy and new movement, along with a new main Pokemon! Unlike other glitched categories, this run does not feature any credits warps, so viewers get to enjoy the entirety of the game. Status: Decline
Any%
2:00:00
Game Boy Advance
Anankoz


Donkey Kong Country 3 Donkey Kong Country 3 for the GBA is an enhanced remake of the SNES classic featuring a full new world on top of the SNES version.

While the original is relatively glitch free, the GBA remake is packed with major glitches, especially in the new world Pacifica. Glitches include out of bound clips, a frame perfect zip and a frame perfect timestop mechanic that allows us to warp within levels. This and more makes DKC3 GBA a great showcase!

Submitting as a potential race with Tonkotsu.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
Game Boy Player
gymnast86


The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Ocarina of Time 3D 100% is my favorite speedrun category. Everything about it is cool. Wrong Warps? Check. Glitch that allows you to jump super high? Check. Fun movement glitches? Check. Cool routing? Check. Been shown at GDQ before? Che-Oh...Not Check.

Looks like we might have to fix that last one.
Status: Decline
100%
4:35:00
Nintendo 3DS
enbyzee


A Juggler's Tale Play as Abby, a puppet who's been forced to perform for the circus. Help her escape the circus and break free of the narrator's control! Abby's strings interact with the environment to allow for some neat puzzles while she traverses this absolutely gorgeous world. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
00:52:00
PC
tbcr


Marathon The 1st game in the original trilogy, this details the attack on the colony ship by the Pfhor and the attempts to fight back.

This game is the odd one out of the three as its more linear level design, different grenade physics, objective behaviors and (some) weapon behaviors make the strategies done and pacing differ from the other two games.

As it's celebrating it's 30th anniversary this year (along with ROTT), it only made sense to submit this (to be fair, was going to do this regardless).
Status: Decline
Kindergarten
00:35:00
PC
LeRemiii


Heave Ho Couch co-op run with Evandar.

Heave Ho is a party game developed in 2019 by Le Cartel studio.
You play as ball-shaped characters with 2 arms that you can control with a single joystick, and 2 hands that you can close using your controller bumpers.

The game is designed to be chaotic and hard to control, making it fun and impressive to master. Expect a lot of advanced strats tweaking the game's physics and taking advantage of the co-op mode.

Oh and btw farting is an actual speedrun tech.
Status: Decline
Coop (Normal Levels)
00:30:00
PC
Evandar


Heave Ho Couch co-op run with LeRemiii.

Heave Ho is a party game developed in 2019 by Le Cartel studio.
You play as ball-shaped characters with 2 arms that you can control with a single joystick, and 2 hands that you can close using your controller bumpers.

The game is designed to be chaotic and hard to control, making it fun and impressive to master. Expect a lot of advanced strats tweaking the game's physics and taking advantage of the coop mode.

Oh and btw farting is an actual speedrun tech.
Status: Decline
Coop (Normal Levels)
0:30:00
PC
legoerofeggos


Okami HD Okami is a beautiful PS2 adventure game that has had its visuals turn even more stunning in HD. It features the wolf goddess Amaterasu using her celestial brush that allows us to draw on the world - and perform some glitches.

The New Game Any% run skips much of the game with different platforming tricks and glitches, while the New Game All Brushes run paints a more complete picture, though much of the game is still skipped or done out of order.
Status: Decline
New Game All Brushes
3:10:00
Status: Decline
New Game Any%
2:00:00
Nintendo Switch
soulmass218


ABZÛ In ABZÛ, the player takes on the role of a diver in a vast ocean. As the game progresses, the diver unlocks new areas and pursues the secrets of the ocean's wildlife. ABZÛ features fluid freedom of underwater movement and spectacular visual set-pieces. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless Blue Suit
00:39:00
PS5
soulmass218


The Mooseman The Mooseman is a 2D side-scrolling adventure inspired by games like Limbo and Inside. Its story and aesthetic are based on the folklore of the indigenous Komi of Russia, as well as other Finno-Ugric peoples, and is an attempt at artistic reconstruction of their shared mythology. The Mooseman has never been featured at any speedrun event. Any% shows off optimizations and skips not seen in a casual playthrough. Status: Decline
Any%
00:38:00
PS5
juh0


Crossroad OS The Witness but HORROR!
Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Speed through corridors and do puzzles fast! Clippy makes an appearance to spook the gamers. Also HORSE!!!
I will be submitting 2 catagories. A solo any% and a race with allison8bit's Current patch to showcase both patches' speedrun potentials.
Status: Decline
any% Race (Legacy Patch vs Current Patch)
0:18:00
Status: Decline
any%
00:18:00
PC
Jakkals


Super Mario Bros. Wonder I completed world 1 in the fastest time possible whilst blindfolded Status: Decline
World 1 Blindfolded
00:30:00
Nintendo Switch
Jakkals


Mario Kart 64 i completed the fastest lap on each track on mario kart 64 blindfolded Status: Decline
All Tracks Flap Blindfolded
00:30:00
Nintendo Switch
soulmass218


Neon Beats Neon Beats is a rhythm platformer featuring simple, yet striking visuals and a thumping synth soundtrack. The music is synced with the action on the screen, making for a satisfying audiovisual experience. Any%+DLC shows off the full base game and all DLC levels. Status: Decline
Any%+DLC Glitchless
00:22:00
PC
Jakkals


Wii Sports i completed 9 holes of golf in the fastest time possible whilst blindfolded Status: Decline
9 Holes Golf Blindfolded
00:10:00
Wii
Bluekandy


Animal Crossing: City Folk The Golden Net category is simple in objective—unlock the golden net by catching one of every bug—but rich in strategy for an unassuming speedrunning game. From a new-game save: manipulating optimal dates and times, weather conditions, town layouts and features while maintaining a mental checklist of what bugs to catch as well as mastering catching strategies requires a unique and developed skillset in approaching every attempt. Submitting as a race with Drewpag. Status: Decline
Golden Net
02:35:00
Nintendo Wii
pqRachel


Pseudoregalia Pseudoregalia has had a new update since it got run last at GDQ. Depending on the category you collect abilities, upgrades, beat time trials, and then defeat the boss.
Of the categories I submitted, I feel like a 100% race would be the most fun because I think a few other runners also submitted that, and Pseudoregalia 100% hasn't been done at GDQ as far as I know.
I'm the current WR holder for All Abilities on the current patch but the other runners are much faster than me at 100%.
Status: Decline
100% Race
0:55:00
Status: Decline
All Abilities (No Out of Bounds)
0:25:00
Status: Decline
100% (No Out of Bounds)
0:55:00
PC
Bluekandy


Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour Toadstool Tour's All Birdie Badges run involves getting a birdie or better on every tournament hole of the main six courses. It is marathon-safe in that if you make a mistake and miss the birdie, you may save and continue to restart the hole from the tee. This loses a fair amount of time, so careful yet fast gameplay is necessary. Speedrunning this category is about deep memorization of each course and consistent quick improvisation with each shot, making every run of it uniquely difficult. Status: Decline
All Birdie Badges
01:05:00
Nintendo Wii
Bluekandy


Mario Golf: Super Rush Super Rush has 11 courses of various styles: traditional, obstacle-heavy, short-course, interconnected and fantasy. These can be done in any order and require a mastery of the available shot-making mechanics—as well as different characters' special shots—to weave through with accuracy and precision. There are iterative patterns for the shot's deviation, making the game nearly fully predictable after tons of practice; thus, a run with no mistakes is extremely difficult but entirely possible. Status: Decline
All Courses
01:25:00
Nintendo Switch
danejerus


Bartender Hustle Okay look. This game is a meme. It's barely a speedrun. We pour drinks and use an autoclicker to skip all of the dialogue. A lot of the run will be me and the couch making fun of the laughably bad cocktail recipes they included. Really, I'm only submitting this because DECosmic told me to. Yes, I'm calling him out by name. Why, Cosmic, do you make me do this? Status: Decline
Story Mode
1:25:00
PC
killingpepsi


Toree 2 Your ice cream has been stolen! Again!!
Playing as the Ramen Bowl named Tasty, you run much faster than the main character Toree, allowing you to traverse stages in more unique ways. This combined with a menu glitch to skip stage-end animations and a boss exploit to stack multiple attack cycles saves just over a minute over the whole run.
Through our journey through the games 9 levels, we learn the importance of sharing our ice cream with those who may need it the most.
Status: Decline
Any% Tasty
00:10:00
PC
zzrules21


Super Buff HD It’s the year 20202020. Buff dudes have turned on society. It’s our job to stop them
This indie boomer shooter looks like it was pulled straight out of a doodle for a comic book, and comes with insanely satisfying movement and combat, let alone for a game this silly. We’ll rocket jump, double jump, dash, and…skate ON enemies?? to complete these 17 levels and defeat the buff dudes
Submitting solo or as a race with BystanderTim
Incentive to watch intro and outro cutscenes, covered in submission
Status: Decline
Any%
00:25:00
PC
Ace Delusional


Rocket Racing From the developers of Rocket League comes Rocket Racing, a supersonic arcade racer that lets you drift, fly, and boost with your friends through an ever-growing selection of tracks.

In this run, we will play through all 10 Expert Tracks that are in the game. These are the hardest of them all and push the player to the limits.
Status: Decline
Expert Tracks
00:45:00
PC
Freefall


Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the DEEPBLUE Based off of popular anime series Love Live!, Yohane the Parhelion is a new 2D Metroidvania style platformer that follows the protagonist Yohane through a monster-infested dungeon to save her friends and escape.

This run includes tight movement, weapon crafting, item routing, powerup collecting, and much more. It has been optimized greatly over the past few months!
Status: Decline
Any%
00:50:00
PC
Freefall


Sonic Heroes Sonic Heroes is a 2003 platformer that has mind-blowing skips that allow it to beaten in ways never before seen by most of it's player base. On top of that, the speed and movement that it allows for is amazing to watch unfold.

In Team Rose we complete the game using Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, and Big the Cat! This is the fastest category the game has to offer.
Status: Decline
Team Rose
00:40:00
Nintendo Wii
LaurieDBunnykins


Hylics 2 Hylics 2 is a weird and wonderful turn-based RPG made by Mason Lindroth. The game features a very trippy and beautiful visual style as well as a fluid combat system with many things to keep track of. In the speedrun we push the game to its limits, from jumping in midair, to storing pause menus to skip cutscenes, to beating bosses wildly underpowered thanks to multiple strong status effects and gear pieces. All TVs is the game's collectathon category, showing off many sidequests and secret areas. Status: Decline
Any%
00:33:00
Status: Decline
All TVs
00:45:00
PC
marathonman


Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando is the second game in the Ratchet & Clank series and introduces many iconic gameplay traits to the series, including a unique weapon and health upgrading system, unlockable armor, space combat and more, building upon an already winning formula balancing exploration and combat.
Status: Decline
NG+
00:10:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
Status: Decline
NG+ No IMG
00:30:00
Playstation 2
marathonman


Ratchet: Deadlocked Ratchet: Deadlocked is the final Ratchet game released for the Playstation 2, and features a much darker and grittier tone than previous games. Deadlocked doubles down on the fast and frenetic arena combat seen in previous games and forgoes most of the exploration that defined the earlier games. As a speedrun, movement and speed are on full display with the charge boots and momemtum storage still being a dominant thread. Status: Decline
NG+ No LC
01:00:00
Playstation 3
LaurieDBunnykins


Purrgatory Purrgatory is a point and click adventure game about being dead. You're taken to Purrgatory, a place where nothing ever happens, but there are many cats! While there, you meet a colorful cast of characters who are also dead, and help them deal with some of the unresolved feelings from their time alive. The speedrun involves a lot of multitasking between multiple character quests in order to keep yourself always moving, without ever sacrificing the game's cozy and emotional vibe. Status: Decline
Save Everyone
00:20:00
PC
Sonicman2005


Double Dragon 4 The game takes place after the events of Double Dragon II: The Revenge with the Lee brothers spreading their martial art by establishing dojos. They are attacked by a new gang called the Renegades who teamed up with the Black Warriors to put an end to them finally. I will play as enemy Jake. Jake is like Max from streets of Rage 2, extremely powerful. He moves slow but dropkick like a truck.
Status: Decline
Jake Any %
00:35:00
Nintendo Switch
LaurieDBunnykins


OneShot: World Machine Edition OneShot: World Machine Edition is a remake of the PC game OneShot for modern consoles. This remake not only removes the original RPGMaker grid movement, but also creates a virtual desktop that incorporates the original game's illusions of messing with your PC. This creates a version of OneShot that's much easier to follow as a viewer without ruining what makes the run great. The run is a perfect showcase of why movement and menus matter a lot, solving the games many puzzles at breakneck speeds. Status: Decline
First Ending
00:30:00
Status: Decline
True Ending
01:00:00
Status: Decline
100%
01:05:00
Switch
Metroid Crime


Hot Dog Reporter Hot Dog Reporter (2023) is a short indie game about a hot dog in a hurry! It's a fast paced platformer with amazingly fluid movement and animation, and it has a dedicated speedrun mode.
In the Any% run, we jump, flip, bounce, and slide our way through the levels to collect all the hot dogs in the world! I'll be facing off against happybythree, which one of us will be the top dog?
Status: Decline
Any% - Best of 3 Race
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Any% - Race
00:08:00
PC
DECosmic


Vanquish Last showcased at SGDQ2021, Vanquish has undergone numerous optimizations in room clears and boss strats, which have evolved to account for swapping guns in and out based around fixed weapon spawns, resulting in various loadouts being used across the game, whereas before the w/DLC category stuck primarily to one loadout. The No DLC in its current form has never been shown at a GDQ, wherein we ditch the Anti-Armor Pistol in favor of primarily upgrading the Shotgun and the Rocket Launcher. Status: Decline
Any% Casual w/DLC
01:30:00
Status: Decline
Any% Casual No DLC
01:35:00
PC
happybythree


Hot Dog Reporter Hot Dog Reporter (2023) is a short indie game about a hot dog in a hurry! It's a fast paced platformer with amazingly fluid movement and animation, and it has a dedicated speedrun mode.

In the Any% run, we jump, flip, bounce, and slide our way through the levels to collect all the hot dogs in the world! I'll be facing off against Metroid Crime, which one of us will be the top dog?

(Because of the short length of the run, we could also offer a best of 3 race for a bit more drama!)
Status: Decline
Any% Best of 3 Race
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Any% Race
00:08:00
PC
shmumbler


Kwaidan ~ Azuma Manor Story ~ Kwaidan gives us a classic survival horror game with a cursed control scheme: Controlling the protagonist and an on-screen cursor simultaneously. While fighting the controls, we'll also be fighting hordes of randomly spawning yokai and solving myriad puzzles, with some light sequence breaking thanks to unrandomized solutions. Status: Decline
any%
00:35:00
PC
Sonicman2005


Streets of Rage 2: New Era When it comes to beat‘em ups, one of the golden standards is that of Streets of Rage 2. In New Era, we take a whole new spin on this classic. With new features and a “clone” mode where we utilize multiple “clones” of our sprite to take down a multitude of enemies. Examples of quick kills and optimal groupings are: Timestamps [13:07-13:37, 18:50-19:10, 23:50-24:05, 30:00-30:17 and 33:15-33:30], as seen on GDQ’s Juneteenth event. We will strive to beat this run in 45 minutes or less Status: Decline
Blaze Normal: Ninpo Kage Bunshin %
00:45:00
PC
Crak Atak


Valkie 64 Indie Zelda clone. Any% consists of going to the end without finishing all the side quests. The run consists of doing dungeons out of order and going to end without upgrades except for the armor. Anything can happen. Status: Decline
any%
00:50:00
PC
DarkTerrex


Mega Man 6 Mega Man 6 but this time I collect Beat the bird and the Energy Balancer. These small collections make several rooms gain new routes, some even regain OLD strats to make room for new ones later on in the stage! Only a couple minutes are added to the run from Any% to create this one, thereby giving a neat twist to the game while still maintaining a fast pace run. Status: Decline
100%
00:40:00
NES
Crak Atak


Where's Waldo 80k attempts. Incentive to play Great Waldo Search as well. Find Waldo fast and become Waldo. Status: Decline
any%
00:03:00
NES
Crak Atak


The Great Waldo Search The intro song is good. Its waldo, find waldo fast. Status: Decline
any%
00:01:00
NES
Crak Atak


Kama Bullet Heritage 2 Ahhh...OKAY Status: Decline
any%
00:05:00
PC
spagettd


Felix The Toy Felix The Toy is an indie game made by a solo developer and is handcrafted as a wonderful tribute to retro 3D Platformers of old. This game has no enemies or puzzles, just raw platforming and skillful jumps! Please consider this passion project of a game and give it the love it deserves! Status: Decline
Explorer Mode
01:25:00
Nintendo Switch
GBsaysHi


Disney's 102 Dalmatian: Puppies to the Rescue Cruella has captured all the Dalmatians and their parents, Dottie and Dipstick, set out to rescue their puppies, commanding Oddball and Domino to stay home. Instead the puppies set out to save their siblings, and their parents, who are captured along the way. Game is loosely based on the live-action Disney movie 102 Dalmatians. The run is full of crazy skips and out of bounds. Also we get to save lots of Puppies so that already makes it a great game. Status: Decline
All Puppies
00:50:00
Dreamcast
DECosmic


Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex A third-person shooter that follows the investigative journey of Motoko Kusanagi and Batou as they track down the source of micromachine rice that killed a suspect in the weapons black market. The Any% is an extravaganza of movement tricks and precise combat strats, such as ping-ponging yourself off three walls to bypass dealing with snipers or spawn-killing a helicopter. Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
Playstation 2
DECosmic


Resident Evil: Dead Aim Known in Japan by its infinitely cooler name, Biohazard Gun Survivor 4: Heroes Never Die, this RE spin-off title sees protagonists Bruce McGivern and Fong Ling (also known as "we have Leon and Ada at home") take on Morpheus D. Duvall, who is attempting to harness the power of the T+G virus. The run is a blend of third-person movement optimization and first-person gunplay. We also get to kill a boss with a railgun so that's pretty cool. Status: Decline
NG Easy
0:40:00
Playstation 2
DukeFireBird


Vegas Stakes Where else but Las Vegas can you turn 1 grand into a cool ten million?

Using a set of 256 RNG seeds, we can know what the dice will roll to reach this amount to first be able to enter the Laurel Palace, and then achieve the dream of getting 10 Million!

Good candidate for Silly block
Status: Decline
single segment
0:10:00
SNES
Zapplex


Brave New World 2 Brave New World 2 is a Super Mario World hack that showcases different glitches and quirks that can be performed in the original game in amazing creative setups, with great soundtrack and graphics.
Any% clears the game as fast as possible to get credits going through 13 levels.
Status: Decline
any%
00:25:00
Super Nintendo
DukeFireBird


Math Blaster: Episode 1 The Search for Spot A very fun educational game that helps us learn Math. The game does offer subtraction, multiplication, and division as well, but we will be focusing on the addition aspect for this run.

Has never been on the main stage, but has been showcased on 2 Hotfix shows, and also is a great candidate for the silly block
Status: Decline
addition%
0:15:00
SNES
DarkTerrex


Everhood Imagine this. You're walking down a path when suddenly you meet a frog playing a banjo (not Kermit). He tips his straw hat and plays a few notes. These sounds manifest into colorful beams of light that really... HURT. This frog is playing Guitar Hero while you, a wooden puppet (definitely not Geno), dodge and reflect every deadly note on the chart.

Everhood is an Undertale inspired adventure RPG with incredible tunes and psychedelic battles. Let's take a wild trip through eternity...
Status: Decline
True Ending Glitchless Expert
2:30:00
PC
adef


The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Randomizer No Logic means items can be anywhere, regardless of normal requirements. It requires immense game and glitch knowledge in order to reason your way out of seemingly impossible situations. The beauty of this category is that (as you'll see in my submission video) I have talented players who can vet seeds to be interesting and completable in whatever time frame is most beneficial to the marathon.

No Logic + All-Sanity is that, but cranked up to 11. Items can literally be in anything, anywhere.
Status: Decline
No Logic + All-Sanity
02:30:00
Status: Decline
No Logic
01:30:00
Wii VC
LeadOstrich


Donkey Kong Country Submitting as a race with Silent Wolf, Tylen0l, and V0oid.
This category hasn't been seen at GDQ since 2019 and has seen a number of major changes including the Forest Frenzy SFR, Snow Barrel Blast SJR, Mincers SJR, Perils Wrong Warp, Antics Blaster, and Croctopus Chase featuring Expresso, not to mention a plethora of smaller optimizations in movement.
Status: Decline
All Stages
00:36:00
SNES
selcouthmind


Dicey Dungeons Dicey Dungeons is a deck building, roguelike, dungeon crawler where humans have been turned into dice to play in Lady Luck's game show, "Dicey Dungeons". Little do they know that the game is rigged against them.

Backstage is the final boss.

Full Game is one of the few glitched categories that exist, using skips to unlock characters and the Backstage early and duplication tech to ensure optimal weapons for all episodes.

Warrior Showcase features 3 ILs across base game and the 2 DLCs.
Status: Decline
Full Game Any%
1:20:00
Status: Decline
Halloween Special, Warrior All Fights
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Warrior Showcase
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Backstage Any%
00:25:00
PC
EJ125


The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Any% No MSS is an excellent balance of game-breaking tricks and accessiblity, restricting the extremely physical and difficult tricks that sets regular Any% apart. This category bans Manual Superswim and Puppet Ganon skip, requiring the completion of the Outset Island Intro and fighting Puppet Ganon.



This category has seen some recent optimizations that have pushed this category down to its limits, such as the new Hole-in-One Quiver.



Submitting as a solo run or a race with minimini352
Status: Decline
Any% No MSS
1:30:00
Nintendo Wii
selcouthmind


Flufftopia Flufftopia is a clicker game set in a cute and colourful world where nothing bad ever happens ... right?

In Alternate Ending, Happy, our visitor host/guide, asks to talk to us about something important, triggering a sudden descent into the dark backend of the matrix controlling Flufftopia. Can we free Happy or will they be stuck forever?

Both silly and scary, there's something for everyone packed into this short run!
Status: Decline
Alternate Ending
00:10:00
PC
Biglaw


Enter The Matrix Operator, we need to Enter The Matrix, and do our part in the war against the machines. We're taking on agents, vampires, werewolves and more in this action packed run with more Powerade machines than you can count. Grenade jumps, inhuman reactions to dodge bullets, and a highway chase turned highway sprint makes this a tight run to watch and execute. Status: Decline
Niobe Any%
00:55:00
PC
WearingFin


G-Darius By manipulating the internal dynamic difficulty I can speed kill bosses, to do this I just have to keep my ship weak. With this in mind I take the hardest route in the game ending with the Great Thing, a giant mechanical weaponized space whale, showing that you can speedrun an autoscrolling shoot em up. I also turn off slowdown, a feature in the M2 port. Also, as seen in the video, we can talk about pokemon, dragon ball z, and also a bit of The Little Mermaid as we go under the sea. Status: Decline
Omicron V' (No Slowdown)
00:26:00
Nintendo Switch
LadyErianna


Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole Landstalker is an isometric platforming/adventure game for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Because of the isometric nature of the game, the platforming is tight but looks and feels amazing when it is performed. The JP version of the game is used because of the faster text speed as well as a glitch that allows you to pass through locked doors as long as you are in the enemy's hitbox, allowing for some big sequence breaks and skips. Extra safeties are taken in the run to ensure it's solid finish. Status: Decline
Any% JP No Death Statue Skip
01:55:00
Sega Genesis
doof_heinz


Pizza Tower Pizza Tower is an indie game influenced by the Wario Land series.Features high speed and exhilarating action.In this category,This is a category that uses glitches to clear quickly, with some exceptions. Status: Decline
Any% Peppino,Unrestricted
01:00:00
PC
WearingFin


GG Aleste 3 Technically one of the best homebrew titles ever released, M2 of emulation fan made their own entry into the Aleste series with a brand new GG Aleste... and it looks brilliant. And plays brilliant. To make it more speedrun friendly, we use the comfort mode, which is comfortable for the eyes but not the player in that all slowdown is removed. Plenty of different stages, big bosses, and spaces for donations and to talk about the Game Gear. Commentated run video is not great, I usually play better. Status: Decline
Comfort Mode (which means Slowdown is removed)
00:40:00
Nintendo Switch
vmpqnmy


SCP: Containment Breach Randomly generated map. Get 35/37 achievements. (the remaining two are really not super applicable to random seeds) All glitches are allowed assuming the player stays inbounds. For GDQ I would do one seed no matter how bad or good it might be -- and show off some really cool tricks as well as some interesting stuff about how maps generate and whatnot. There is also a chance that the run I get is world record since there's still a decent amount of optimization that could be done. Status: Decline
99%
00:35:00
PC
arnaud33200


Rambo: First Blood Part 2 It's an overhead run-and-gun game, similar to Ikari Warriors (NES). Notorious for its difficulty due to the absence of continues or cheats, few have managed to finish it. As the current WR holder, I aim to showcase the possibility of completing it during the silly block. This was a childhood favorite that I recently conquered after years of trying. I've extensively researched the game and uncovered fascinating insights, even developing RetroAchievements for it. Status: Decline
any%
0:12:00
Sega Master System
arnaud33200


Time Gate: Knight's Chase This obscure game could have been Alone in the Dark 4, sharing its engine and some developers. In SGDQ 2021's silly block, I showcased this game and I'm eager to run it again in person. This time, I'll reveal an intriguing glitch allowing me to pass through walls for a significant part of the run. With deeper insights into the game and enhanced commentary, this run promises to be even more captivating. While my current PB stands at 18:52, the GDQ run offers valuable insights worth exploring. Status: Decline
any%
00:22:00
DOS
CallieMacN


Sonic Superstars It's the latest 2D Sonic game! The run has a good balance of skillful gameplay, speedrun glitches as well as cool tech that anyone would be able to try out for themselves. This run would be with Amy, as she differs slightly to other characters such as Tails and Trip, she can help show off the flow of levels in a unique way. Status: Decline
Amy Rose Any%
00:55:00
PC
Plyd


Mad Max Mad Max's unique speedrun operates mostly on being able to complete mini challenges optimally throughout the run while dealing with whatever rng the game gives us, good or bad. The runner must be able to route on the fly. Lots of unique strategies to overcome our severely under leveled player over the run as well as many glitches to help us along the way. Mad Max's speedrun is unlike any other open world game out there. Status: Decline
Any% New Game+
2:40:00
PC
hatkirby


The Witness The Witness is a first person 3D puzzle game. Speedrunning it involves memorising hundreds of puzzles and quickly and accurately drawing lines through grids. Tricks include "sniping", which is sequence breaking the game by solving puzzles from very far away.

The Witness was shown once at GDQ back in 2016, with the shorter 7 Lasers category. I ran All Lasers at GDQ Hotfix last October. All Lasers involves more tricks, and ends with a cool RNG section.
Status: Decline
All Lasers
00:28:00
PC
Zic3


Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster Final Fantasy 6 is a fan favorite of the series and the Pixel Remaster is a breath of fresh air for the game. While some things carry over from the original (Using Gogo to mimic amazing abilities and rods in the end game), there are also some new Pixel Remaster specific things (Like needing less soldiers at the banquet depending on what character you are). Added on is an impressive Final Boss that puts any runner to the test. Status: Decline
Any%
05:00:00
PS5
Zic3


Titan Souls Titan Souls returns! Since my runs at AGDQ 2016 and SGDQ 2017 Titan souls has not gotten is return to the big stage. Myself and Rubiehart are offering a new exciting take on the run, a race! As a 2D "Dark souls"-like game, it is a short, sweet, exciting race as its anyone's game at anytime. All Bosses will take us through the entire game fighting every single Titan along the way! Status: Decline
All Bosses Race w/ Rubiehart
00:25:00
PC
TerpohGaming


Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon A fun point-and-click adventure game from the same folks that brought us "Freddie Fish" and "Pajama Sam". Humungous Entertainment (HE) games are ones that many folks have fond memories of, with this one being close to my heart. Those memories of HE games will hopefully bring in people to enjoy Putt-Putt being whisked to the Moon, and making it back at lightning speed. Status: Decline
No Skips
00:20:00
PC
IndyVillain


Payday 3 Payday 3 (2023) is a first-person shooter game in which players carry out crime-related objectives, usually focused around stealing money or other high priced valuables. All of the levels are highly variable in terms of RNG, so there is a lot of on-the-fly decision making.

Metroid Crime and I are showing off three Normal difficulty levels (5-10 minutes each) from the game that are fun to pull off stealth heists in, and we do it really fast without drawing attention! Controlled chaos!
Status: Decline
2p Co-op - Any Difficulty, Non-Seeded, All Loot
00:30:00
PC
Sonicman2005


Super Punch Patrol Super Punch Patrol is an indie beat‘em up with a unique art style and gameplay that I originally showcased on GDQ’s Unapologetically Black Event. Influenced by streets of rage and other beat'em ups, Super Punch Patrol is a fresh take on a classic genre and we will show how to beat this game in just under 35 minutes using classic beat'em up speed strategies but also some fun boss fights that keep the run entertaining. Status: Decline
Anders Any %
00:35:00
Nintendo Switch
Metroid Crime


Payday 3 Payday 3 (2023) is a first-person shooter game in which players carry out crime-related objectives, usually focused around stealing money or other high priced valuables. All of the levels are highly variable in terms of RNG, so there is a lot of on-the-fly decision making.
IndyVillain and I are showing off three Normal difficulty levels (5-10 minutes each) from the game that are fun to pull off stealth heists in, and we do it really fast without drawing attention! Controlled chaos!
Status: Decline
2p Co-op - Any Difficulty, Non-Seeded, All Loot
00:30:00
PC
Sonicman2005


Streets of Rage 4 Streets of Rage 4 is beat'em up that has handful of vigilantes as they try to dismantle a criminal syndicate led by the Y twins, the children of the previous game's arch villain Mr. X. I am running the game in Mania mode as the Streets of Rage 1 character Blaze Feilding. She does not have any special moves but makes it up by having a devasting combo that does real damage in the game.

Status: Decline
SOR 1: Blaze Mania %
01:35:00
Nintendo Switch
Giga


Hercules: The Legendary Journeys An infamous Nintendo 64 adventure game with a very rushed development based on the TV show of the same name. Hercules and friends run and dive their way straight through solid walls on the way to complete fetch quests and defeat way too many minotaurs.

In addition to clipping through many objects to save lots of time, there are other tricks such as double jumps and boss quick kill strategies, including a recently developed strat that saves multiple minutes on the final boss.
Status: Decline
any%
01:21:00
Nintendo 64
shmumbler


Silent Hill: Shattered Memories In this reimagining of Silent Hill 1, Harry is once again searching for his daughter, Cheryl. Only this time, we're also getting therapy...or not? This run opens the PS2 disc tray to unload upcoming dialogue, skipping most of Kauffman's psychotherapy sessions, saving around 15 minutes throughout the run. Status: Decline
Any% Disc Tray Skips
01:20:00
PS2
moonblazewolf


Long Gone Days Long Gone Days is an indie RPG released in 2023 that focuses on themes of war, culture, and immigration. The game draws heavy inspiration from Earthbound in its themes, character design, and battle system. It takes place in the modern world and tells a story that is extremely relevant to our current global situation. Status: Decline
Any% Console
03:45:00
PS5
moonblazewolf


Final Fantasy X HD Remaster Final Fantasy X has undergone even more exciting development as a speedrun within the past year with the discovery of Mushroom Rock Road/Terra skip. The game now features a whole new route to support this advancement and times are lower than ever. I am also submitting the game with the RNG Fix mod, which scrambles the game's RNG into an untrackable state and makes the run much more dynamic. Status: Decline
Any% Cutscene Remover w/RNG Fix
03:30:00
PC
moonblazewolf


Chained Echoes Chained Echoes is a retro-styled RPG released in late 2022. It features fast action, dynamic turn based combat, with a separate battle system for the game's large cool-looking mechs. I ran the main glitched category last year at SGDQ and would love to be able to show off the game's Glitchless category this year, alongside my partner Ferric. We have worked very hard on route optimization and have performed the run co-op on several occasions. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless Co-op
03:35:00
PC
moonblazewolf


Small Saga Small Saga is a turn-based indie RPG released in 2023 that follows the adventures of a band of rodents as they confront and hope to avenge the death of one of their own against a god. Along the way they have to confront the social issues in their own society as well as their own personal demons and identities. It's a stylish and cozy game that is relatively short for an RPG speedrun. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
01:50:00
PC
shmumbler


White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (2001) A love confession goes awry when Hui-Min Lee gets locked in his haunted school overnight. Thankfully, his parkour skills are far greater than his romance skills, and all encounters but a single boss are easily skipped.

White Day is a highly compact run featuring 2 similarly long paths with multiple skips occuring per minute of gameplay.
Status: Decline
Any% So-Yeong
00:15:00
Status: Decline
Any% Hui-Min
00:15:00
PC
Metroid Crime


Neon Beats Neon Beats (2019) is a rhythm platformer with a fun soundtrack and quick chase sequences. We'll speed through the rhythm-based levels, hop over projectiles, and even make time for dance breaks!
Any% +DLC is 4 levels of the base game, plus 4 extra DLC levels. The DLC levels introduce new mechanics like gravity flipping and portal warping. In All Music Notes, the collectible notes are on slightly more difficult paths, and when you pick them up, you enhance the game's soundtrack with new beats!
Status: Decline
Any% +DLC, Glitchless
00:22:00
Status: Decline
All Music Notes +DLC, Glitchless
00:25:00
PC
FailedUplink


Detention Detention is a point and click horror game set in 1960s Taiwan. It is visually stunning game with a great soundtrack. And beyond that it has a strong story to tell.

There are two categories any% (which is the normal faster ending) and the True Ending (which require a few more steps)
Status: Decline
True Ending
00:58:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:53:00
PC
KeiperDontCare


Donkey Kong 64 The DK64 rando community continues to grow and create new and exciting ways to play, including the newest settings known as KEVIN (yes, that is actually what it's called).
Using the rando's setting "Complex Level Order", as well more advanced hints, it is a fresh and innovative way to play everyone's favorite Donkey Kong game that came out on the Nintendo 64. Find your missing family members, collect the keys, and save DK Isle!
Status: Decline
Item Randomizer - KEVIN Settings
1:35:00
Wii U VC
SMMidi


Wii Play Wii Play is a Wii Remote pointer tech demo with frame-perfect Tanks tricks, dual controller strats, and knitted cow riding. Wall sprays, RNG manip with mines, and mine self-detonation can help optimise the slowest layouts. Nine missions have over a million random permutations so no two runs are the same! Platinum allows us to see the highest attainable medal in all nine games. Status: Decline
Tanks! Solo 100
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Platinum Medals
01:15:00
Wii U
Rifampin


Turok 2: Seeds of Evil Remastered Turok 2 for the PC is a remaster of an FPS released originally for N64 in '98. The remaster brought updated graphics, improved level layouts, quick warping between levels, and quick saving/loading at any time. Most significantly, an exploit was found during the game over screen that makes for one of the most unique runs. It was discovered that you can regain control of Turok, and entering a teleporter revives you. Tight ammo management, health management, and control over your life count are key Status: Decline
any%
00:55:00
PC
duck


Mario Party It's time to party! This speedrun gets rid of the board and dives straight into the good stuff, the mini-games! The goal is simple, beat all the mini-games as fast as possible and hope the computer players don't go beast mode! This run is super wholesome and exciting and is sure to bring tons of laughs and smiles, makes a great race too! Status: Decline
mini-game island any%
00:45:00
Nintendo 64
duck


Banjo-Tooie Banjo-Tooie 100% is a collectable marathon! This game boasts a whopping 90 jiggies, 25 honeycombs, 25 cheato pages, 17 glowbos, 900 notes, 45 jinjos, and 24 moves. The 100% category uses massive gamebreaking glitches to collect it all in under 5 hours. Utilizing the clockwork kazooie egg specifically, it's super fun to see all of the intended puzzles get completely broken throughout this mammoth of a game. Status: Decline
100%
4:45:00
Nintendo 64
duck


Banjo-Kazooie Wahay! Banjo-Kazooie 100% has been a GDQ favourite throughout the years and for good reason. The run has tight movement, precise glitches, amazing level design, and don't forget a catchy soundtrack. Any% has never been showcased at an event before and it's an awesome run as well. Using the bee transformation to escape out of bounds, a few of the levels are entirely performed as the bee and this shaves an entire hour off of the 100% run! Status: Decline
100% no FFM
2:06:00
Status: Decline
any%
1:07:00
Status: Decline
100%
2:03:00
Nintendo 64
Iceblue


Mega Man Battle Network 2 (Legacy Collection) A departure from side-scrolling platforming, Mega Man Battle Network 2 is Mega Man's foray into a card-based RPG. The combat is slick and requires good timing and fast thinking while looking incredibly stylish, all while maintaining the classic Mega Man look and feel. The Single Segment category eliminates any RNG manipulation, thus leaving all battles to have on-the-fly decision making and routing.

Submitting solo, but if others submit, definitely willing to race!
Status: Decline
Single Segment
03:00:00
PC
Metroid Crime


Sonic Mania Sonic Mania (2017) is a 2D Sonic game with rehashes of previous levels from the classic games, alongside some really fun new additions. This run makes use of the Amy Rose mod, which allows her to spin all around, smash enemies with hammers, and look really cute while doing so.
Hang Glider% is a condensed run of Sonic Mania that ends with the game soft locking after 4 levels. Once Amy Rose arrives at Flying Battery Zone Act 2, she seeks out the hang gliders, and peaces out! It's vacation time!
Status: Decline
Hang Glider% - Amy
00:20:00
PC
Hobbit1697


Metroid Dread Metroid Dread Unrestricted categories are a flashy demo of the tech available within the game! Now, better than ever in 2024! A steady first half leads into an action packed second half where the game truly breaks open where it either becomes a race to the finish despite Ravenbeak's best efforts or a devastating boss clean up with late game upgrades! While Dread has had some amazing showings at GDQ, none are shaped by the runner quite like Unrestricted runs are. Status: Decline
Any % Unrestricted
1:00:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses Unrestricted
1:30:00
Nintendo Switch
Revven


The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time & Majoras Mask This is a Co-op run between WoodenBarrel and myself that takes the two 3D N64 Zelda games, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and sticks them together with all their items randomized between the two games. Looking for Goron Mask? It could be found in the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time. Looking for the Iron Boots? It could be found in Majora's Mask on the Curiosity Shop for 500 rupees. We play the same seed, sharing information in order to beat 6 (random) dungeons and defeat Ganon and Majora. Status: Decline
Co-op Combo Randomizer
3:30:00
Nintendo 64
EldritchWolfie


Turnip Boy Robs a Bank Me and HappyByThree will be racing to rob a bank as fast as possible! Status: Decline
Any% Race
00:45:00
pc
zzrules21


RAGE 2 A very Doom-like FPS game, our goal is to stop the Authority from wiping out humanity as we know it
The sequel to RAGE, RAGE2 introduces combat and movement abilities for us to unlock and level up, which we promptly abuse in order to easily get OOB to skip big chunks of the game
The game is open world so we use clever routing to complete the fastest missions possible in the vast world
If the Doom comparisons weren’t quite on the nose yet, we have the BFG9000 to completely obliterate bosses
Status: Decline
Any%
1:45:00
PC
Anankoz


Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble Third game in the Donkey Kong Country trilogy. 103% is a very technical run in which all bonus coins, DK coins and banana birds are collected during a great showcase of everything this game has to offer. The best is saved for the end as the lost world Krematoa features the most difficult stages and some of the most interesting tricks in the game. Since its last showcase, tons of optimizations have been added which have made this category ever more interesting and exciting for a marathon setting. Status: Decline
103%
01:56:00
SNES
BigNoNo


Yakuza Kiwami 2 Yakuza 2 is a highly technical run. This, the remake, not so much. We get magical muscle drinks and big weapons and hit enemies with them until they stop hitting you. Still, there's a lot of execution here in terms of movement and menuing, especially in the big mob fights and set pieces, where packing enemies together and reacting to their movements is crucial.

Also, you also get to fight the two tigers in this one. It's still pretty cool. You hit them with big swords, surprisingly.
Status: Decline
Any%
01:50:00
PC
Kyoslilmonster1


Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex A Third-Person shooter with wall-jumping, AI tricking, and out of bounds movement?!
This hidden gem of a PS2 title was created by Cavia and is a cult-classic anime, Ghost in the Shell.
We follow the story of Motoko and Batou in an attempt to finish this game as quickly as possible.
It is extremely marathon safe and although my PB is old I still run this at least once a month.
This is a great game and would definitely capture the attention of the audience.
Status: Decline
Any%
0:55:00
Playstation 2
teddyras


Dark Souls Randomizer The Dark Souls rando creates a lot of weird situations and routes through the game you wouldn't typically see playing the game normally. Someone went and jumbled up the lord souls and the lordvessel and I gotta find them. Also enemies got jormbled, so we get a new appreciation of twin headed snakes and which boss arenas I hate fighting manus in the most (it's the capra demon arena). I gotta figure out how to cover the whole game map FAST (lil glitches and jumps help) and open all the chests. Status: Decline
No Wrong Warp
02:30:00
PC
Drakodan


Sparkster 2D side-scrolling action-platformer that moves faster than can be reasonably kept up with at times. Both movement and damage-boosts are "routed" in this game, via the boosts you can use to get through levels/obstacles, and how quickly you can burst down bosses respectively. Your health indirectly serves as a resource to deal damage faster, creating a risk/reward system which makes most boss fights a tense affair. Status: Decline
Normal
00:25:00
SNES
CarlSagan42


Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe. Status: Decline
4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign
04:00:00
PC
Drakodan


Astro Boy: Omega Factor 2D side-scrolling beat-em-up by Treasure that sees the titular Astro run, gun, punch, kick, boost, laser and machine gun his way through several stages in an ever-expanding plot that involves quelling a robot uprising in the city, flying to a remote island to uncover a secret weapon, going to the moon, foiling a terrorist plot in Antarctica, travelling back in time 30,000 years, then back to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Don't think about it too hard. It's a very pretty game, though. Status: Decline
Birth
00:30:00
GBA
Pokehero


Pokémon Channel You watch TV with Pikachu as a job, living the dream Status: Decline
Any% (Single Console)
00:47:00
Nintendo GameCube
Pokehero


19XX: The War Against Destiny A classic Arcade shmup played on the Capcom Arcade Stadium version of the game. The game's plot revolves around a lone fighter pilot saving the world from a terrorist organization from starting World War III, seriously. A fun run all about optimizing boss patterns and resource management Status: Decline
Any% Co-Op (w/ RubberDuckyAssassin)
00:26:00
Status: Decline
Any% (De Havilland Mosquito)
00:25:00
Nintendo Switch
Shayy


Undertale Yellow Undertale Yellow is an extremely popular fan-made prequel to Undertale that is officially sanctioned by Toby Fox.

The "Justice" ending is the game's dark ending, where we have to kill every monster encountered. The speedrun very quickly blasts through all of the enemies without too much overworld grinding, and the run features the game's two hardest boss battles, including the infamously difficult Zenith battle which showcases extremely high runner skill.
Status: Decline
Justice Ending
01:15:00
PC
Pokehero


Pokémon Stadium Pokémon Stadium is the second 3D battle simulator released for the N64, but there's no battling here. In Kids Club, the mini-games are played here, with both Hard and Hyper (the hardest difficulty) 9 Wins showcasing every mini-game available with some fun tech to speed them up. Status: Decline
Kids Club (Hyper - 9 Wins)
00:13:00
Status: Decline
Kids Club (Hard - 9 Wins)
00:13:00
Nintendo 64
Shayy


Undertale (Submitted as a race with Mrlink2k)

Undertale's Genocide Ending is very popular and has never been showcased at a GDQ before. This submission uses a modified copy of Undertale in order to give both runners the same encounter RNG, ensuring a very close race throughout.

The submission VOD is from the Winners finals of a tournament featuring this mod, showcasing how close and intense the races were between us.
Status: Decline
Genocide Ending Race
01:10:00
PC
Peace Egg


Overcooked 2 The WR-setting chefs from last year's breakfast block have another tasting menu for your consideration! Thanks to archipelago modding for Overcooked, levels can now end as soon as a star threshold is reached. This not only eliminates a tremendous amount of downtime, it makes cooking quickly and efficiently even more important. Are we prepared for another showcase of frantic cooking around the world? YES CHEF! Submitting as a 3-player run with RUBIEHART and Sunbrojade. Status: Decline
Any% Modded
01:40:00
PC
Shayy


Undertale Undertale is a very technical speedgame when glitches are allowed to be used, heavily relying on the extremely precise and visually impressive Punch Card exploit to skip cutscenes and blast through the game incredibly quickly. It plays very unlike a traditional RPG speedrun.

The Neutral ending is a condensed showcase of the game and is the most competitive category, and the True Pacifist ending is longer but a more complete run, featuring a new area and the game's true final boss.
Status: Decline
True Pacifist Ending
01:27:00
Status: Decline
Neutral Ending
01:00:00
PC
Shayy


Deltarune Deltarune has had both chapters individually showcased at GDQ before, but this category combines both chapters with all of the additional content and hidden boss fights. The run takes advantage of the powerful items we can obtain from CH1 and changes up how CH2 is played as a result. The run features both extremely popular secret bosses, Jevil and Spamton NEO, and is the most complete showcase of what the game has to offer. Status: Decline
All Chapters All Bosses Glitchless
01:30:00
PC
DECosmic


DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition The infamous Devil May Cry reboot. Except this time, you play as Vergil in a unique campaign! Whereas Dante's run is closer to a traditional dmc run (but with more heavily glitched skips), Vergil's run is functionally an action platformer, and the skips are exploitations of level geometry combined with various movement techniques. Fights also have a variety of optimization methods, with everything from environmental kills to teleport cancelling projectiles to shred the major boss. Status: Decline
Vergil's Downfall - Any%
00:30:00
Playstation 5
Roach788


Ducktales: Remastered Submitted as race with DukeFireBird.

Play as Scrooge McDuck as he traverses the world trying to save his nephews who keep getting kidnapped and to chase after those who stole his First Dime.

Through the jungles, up in the mountains, a haunted mansion, and even on the moon!
Status: Decline
Glitchless Any% Easy
00:42:00
PC
D3lighted


The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess HD All Dungeons has not been run at a GDQ before this category tackles all the main Dungeons in a interesting order and will get to see Dungeons you don't usually see in any% like Temple of time, Goron Mines and all of Snowpeak. The current route also implements early Snowpeak witch cuts bombs from the route completely. I would love to show off this category. GMRTA (Goron Mines RTA) is a nice short category and has a really cool way to skip a mandatory fight and would love to show it off.

Status: Decline
All Dungeons
04:15:00
Status: Decline
GMRTA (Goron Mines RTA)
01:25:00
Status: Decline
Any%
03:25:00
Wii U
Aquas


Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara This arcade shoot 'em up (2006) features a variety of scoring and survival techniques, routing, quick decision making, intensely difficult sections and randomness that makes every run different. It is considered one of the hardest arcade shmups. I have the WR score and have been playing dedicated for 1.5 years.

Submission video has detailed commentary from a live run on the game's scoring and mechanics + the run itself.
Status: Decline
High Score
01:20:00
Xbox 360
Jaxler


Vexx Vexx is a 3D collectathon with a massive suite of movement glitches. What separates this speedrun apart from others is its emphasis on vertical movement tech, with the ability to chain massive double and triple jumps through the use of rage jumping and fakie fireballs. Lateral movement is also satisfying thanks to extended long jump tech, and with the addition of glitches like heart duping and cutscene overlap this run is a spectacle to watch in motion. Status: Decline
Any%
1:40:00
Wii
arnaud33200


Land of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse Platformer game and part of the Illusion trilogy, featuring beloved Disney character Mickey Mouse. This is one of the best games on the Master System because of its captivating music, intriguing puzzle-solving elements, and a beautiful overworld with diverse universes. As one of my favorite games on the console, its speedrun showcases numerous shortcuts and glitches, making it an ideal fit for a Disney-themed block. Status: Decline
any%
00:27:00
Sega Master System
Aquas


Contra: Shattered Soldier Diver Mine only, limits firepower to the Diver Mine and Homing Missile weaponry. This is notable because normally the Energy Shot (the Fire Whip charge shot) is used in Any% to much greater efficacy / DPS and time savings. To achieve big damage, instead, Diver Mine only category shifts the skill weight to a continuous 4 to 5 frame window (/60fps) timing before every charge shot is full. This is called a "Full Partial Charge". Overall, this is a more difficult and skillfully executed category. Status: Decline
All Stages, Diver Mine only
00:45:00
PlayStation 2
MrMiguel


Metroid Prime 3: Corruption While not as fast of the other two prime games, it still is a very fun and exciting speedrun filled with a lot of tricks to speed up the game significantly! Most notably Early Elysia, Early Spire or Theronian Bomb Skip (Any% only), Early Spider Ball (100% Only) and lots of very fast movement optimizations that make the game interesting. Status: Decline
100%
4:00:00
Status: Decline
Any%
2:55:00
Nintendo Wii
Aquas


Ghosts'n Demons Ultimate Challenge category has me play through 2 loops and fight the True Final Boss. The 2nd loop has more difficult changes than any official series GnG game. More boss health, more random spawns, new attacks from the bosses. Continues are disabled in the 2nd loop but I'm confident in my ability to clear the game. There is a small chance of failure. (5% chance?). Status: Decline
Ultimate Challenge
00:52:00
PC
OGHappydude


Killer Instinct One of the best arcade fighter of the 90's got ported over to the SNES in 1995 and is remembered fondly after the franchise got rebooted in 2013. Oh, you think we are going to be running that version? Nope!! We will be playing the 2 button version in glorious 144P on the original Game Boy!! Status: Decline
Any
00:15:00
Super Nintendo
pmcTRILOGY


Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza In this 2002 FPS that follows the plot of the 1988 movie, we all knew that John McClane could clip through doors at will and rub up against toilet paper to change his physical properties and jump through a wall, but wait there's more! In the past year, John learned to jump off a ladder in such a way that he can straight up fly and then rub against more weird objects to clip through even more walls. Huh! Weird movie! Status: Decline
any%
00:30:00
PC
Aquas


The Speed Rumbler Classic Capcom arcade title from the creator of the G'nG series. Make a mad dash through 6 stages equipping your car to combat & survive erratic enemy cars who try their best to destroy or ram your car into an instant death obstacle. Speed is the essence of this run as clearing stages quickly is encouraged to earn the necessary points for extra lives and to simply escape death. The randomness can provide a very exciting and fun run. Status: Decline
Any%
00:26:00
Playstation 3
arnaud33200


Astérix Platformer game featuring both Asterix and Obelix. Despite the franchise's mixed reputation in gaming, this Master System adaptation proves to be quite enjoyable. Offering players the choice between two iconic characters enhances the gameplay experience, while the presence of interesting skips adds depth to the speedrunning potential. Having recently revisited this title during a SegaFest event, I believe it would make a fantastic addition to SGDQ. Status: Decline
any%
00:26:00
Sega Master System
Aquas


Gokumakaimura Kai Updated, Japanese only release of Ultimate Ghosts'n Goblins. 2 Loops through the game required to fight the last boss. Arthur uses the Pow Upgrade (heavy damage), Electric Whip weapon, and Angel Armor (infinite flight) to advance through the game quickly. Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
PlayStation TV
arnaud33200


Jurassic Park A well-crafted entry in the Jurassic Park series, this Sega Master System adaptation stands out as one of the best among its counterparts. The dinosaurs are meticulously designed, and the availability of three weapons, coupled with an overworld, opens up strategic opportunities for speedrunners. Despite its lack of popularity, I'm eager to showcase this gem during SGDQ. Status: Decline
any%
00:17:00
Sega Master System
alditto


Momodora: Moonlit Farewell This is quite an interesnting run which uses some risky strats by dealing with bosses with only 1 HP (for most of them), as well as playing pretty much half of the game with only 1 HP. This means it has its fair share of skill and can be entertaining to see it being run live. Status: Decline
NMG Normal
01:12:00
PC
pmcTRILOGY


Slave Zero Slave Zero is a relentless kaiju romp through MegaCity S1-9. This 1999 action game offers huge vertical levels filled with enormous enemies and questionable physics. Doors have seams that let the player climb up and through them. Enemy spawners provide excess vertical boost to get up and over walls. One early game boss self-destructs in shame as the player can jump off boss itself to the end of the level. Status: Decline
any%
00:55:00
PC
ThundaSurge


Lethal Company In this popular co-op horror game, we are contracted workers for the Company! Our job is to collect scrap from abandoned moons to meet the Company's profit quota (Or else). We can use the cash we earn to travel to new moons with higher risks and rewards!

Our goal in this Speedrun is to meet 6 quotas as fast as possible using various glitches such as ship clip, item drop tech, & apparatus clip

(This is a Co-op submission with SpacebarS and ThundaSurge)
Status: Decline
6 Quota 2 Employees Glitched
01:00:00
PC
ClownPuncher139


Batman: Arkham City Any% runs of Arkham City have been shown at GDQ many times before, showing off all the fun glitches the game has and how far the community has come with interesting tech behind the game. I want to show off a run that anyone could do if they were determined. The idea behind the run seems daunting, but in the end, it's incredibly simple. No crazy skips or difficult tech, just playing the game slightly faster than average. But with the added twist of doing literally everything. Status: Decline
100%, Glitchless, No Catwoman
05:10:00
Xbox 360
Alnak


Ghostrunner 2 Ghostrunner 2 is a first person hack & slash set in a cyberpunk megastructure. As Jack, you navigate through levels slicing enemies with your katana.
The game really shines as a speedrun thanks to techniques that make better use of the parkour mechanics.

The sequel builds upon the first game and adds more features which are useful in the run like a motorcycle that lets you reach unintended paths or the ability spam which eventually will make you fly through stages.
Status: Decline
Any% Unrestricted
01:15:00
PC
bobbyburm


Chants of Sennaar Nominated as a "Game for Impact" at The Game Awards 2023, this visually stunning puzzle game allows players to translate fictional languages to bring peace. This run showcases many skips, precise inputs, and technical movement methods across a diverse landscape. Additionally, this game has never been showcased at a GDQ and would shine in a marathon setting. Status: Decline
any%
00:58:00
PC
killingpepsi


Pseudoregalia Pseudoregalia is an Indie 3D platformer/metroidvania with incredible movement tech such as ultra sidehops, kneeslides, platform slidecancels, and moonkicks.
100% OOB plays on original patch with abundant use of OOB to cut down on backtracking. The Map Update adds several new time trials that unlock new costumes, which changes up each areas route in a really fun way.
Willling to be race/backup if others submit as well.
Sybil is the Goat.
Status: Decline
100% OOB
00:30:00
Status: Decline
100% No OOB (Map Update)
00:42:00
PC
Shadra


Outward A simple and quick run showcasing movement tech in the game Outward

Time starts when you select "create" on the character creation screen.
Time ends when you open the Cierzo legacy chest.
Use of the Code Sonic is allowed.
Clipping out of bounds intentionally is banned.
Solo Run
Status: Decline
Legacy Chest
00:10:00
PC Steam
bobbyburm


Inscryption Inscryption is a fast-paced, deck-builder story game that is jam-packed full of quick decisions and huge boss fights.

Act 1 showcases quick thinking and rapid deck building, Act 2 builds up powerful cards with precise strategies, and Act 3 is a dynamic balancing act of power and speed. This game flaunts its beautiful and constantly changing environments paired with tank building strats that we use to clear all enemies that stand in our way.
Status: Decline
any% NMG
01:40:00
PC
killingpepsi


TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight Tasomachi is a beautifully crafted 3D collectathon/atmospere simulator. Your goal is to progress through the 3 main areas completing sanctuary challenges and clearing out the dense fog, while also trying to repair your airship. Gradually throughout the run new tech gets added and compounded like animation cancelling to blind walk during cutscenes, a dash ability combined with precise bunny hops with no speed cap, a double jump, and a recently discovered airtime-storage glitch. Status: Decline
150 Sources
01:05:00
PC
talia


Will You Snail? Will You Snail? is a 2D platformer where you play as a snail fighting against an all-powerful AI named Squid. Throughout the game, Squid calculates the perfect spots to place hazards to catch you, as well as controlling various other environment aspects, forcing you to react on the spot. In the speedrun, this is combined with various flashy skips and boss quick kills, including a literal slam dunk. Any% No Major Glitches is the main category, with Infinitely Easy being the fastest difficulty. 🐌 Status: Decline
Any% NMG Infinitely Easy
00:20:00
PC
Vynnada


Bloodrayne Join us on this frame-counting journey as we play a half-vampire protagonist teaming up with a secret organization. We'll fight untold monsters, unearth weird demons, use giant mechs, and hop in and out of paper walls during this movement-heavy, out of bounds adventure. Status: Decline
Any% Easy
00:30:00
PC
Hyperguyver


Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased his Name Any % Speedrun on the PS5. I had a fun time with this run, though a couple of minutes off of my WR pace, it was focused on making it a fun experience. I added a short skit prior to the run as a fun way to introduce it. It would be awesome to be able to improve upon it and use it during the event in some way should I be accepted. Status: Decline
any % PS5
01:35:00
PS5
IllegallySam


Evoland Evoland is an indie game inspired by genre-defining old school classics like Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and even Diablo. The main gimmick of the game is that the game and its graphics, music, and even mechanics evolve as you progress through the game. The Any% run requires beating the game as quickly as possible, and this includes demolishing the intended route as much as possible, with menu glitches, skipping intended upgrades, and lots of small skips and optimizations all throughout. Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
Xbox Series X
Ratyu


Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles RemasteredEdition No DLC and solid play!
Enjoy the wonderful world!
Status: Decline
Any%(No DLC)
02:35:00
PS5
Ratyu


FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES Utilize multiplayer in the early stages of the game.
By rewriting the ID, the Enemy is equipped and fires a barrage of magic, and even goes to warp!
Status: Decline
Any%
01:50:00
Wii
Mattmatt


Spider-Man (2000) Spider-Man 2000 is arguably one of the greatest Spider-Man games of all time and definitely the most nostalgic for most. The speedrun for this game has changed a lot over the years with new tricks and skips still being found to this day! I run the Dreamcast version and one interesting thing about the DC version is if you play the PAL version through VGA the game runs at 60hz which speeds up the gameplay significantly and makes for a more enjoyable speedrun to watch and play! Status: Decline
No Skips
00:37:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:33:00
Dreamcast
Bubzia


Super Mario 64 Blindfolded Mario 64 has come a long way over the past years and new strategies matching visual speedun times are consistently implemented in runs.
Even difficult categories like 1 Star are now possible due to clever setups for precise tricks like LBLJ and SBLJ, which allow you to skip through most star barriers in the game.
16 Star also has completely new strategies in every single stage and is unrecognizable from even 1 year ago.
Status: Decline
16 Star Blindfolded
00:27:00
Status: Decline
1 Star Blindfolded
00:25:00
Wii VC
Bubzia


Dark Souls: Remastered Dark Souls is considered an extremely difficult game, but did you know that you can push the boundaries of difficulty even further, by completing the entire game while blindfolded?

The blindfolded speedrun of Dark Souls has everything you search for: Clever setups, intense bossfights, cheese strats, broken glitches, blindfolded bow aiming, timed dodge rolls, and much more. But most importantly, we are certainly going to see the famous words everyone dreads:

“YOU DIED!”
Status: Decline
Bells of Awakening% Blindfolded
01:15:00
Status: Decline
Anor Londo% Blindfolded
02:15:00
Status: Decline
Any% Blindfolded
04:00:00
PC
360Chrism


Super Mario 64 A new way of playing SM64 has just come out! With the help of the Archipelago Randomizer you can now randomize Mario's abilities.
You start with just "jump" and "punch" and have to route your way through the game by unlocking more abilities like "Long Jump", "Ground Pound" and "Ledge Grab" to name a few. With more abilities more Stars will be obtainable which will lead to more unlocks.
The goal is to get 70 Stars and enough abilities to beat the game.
Bid war M's color: Red,Green,Yellow,Purple.
Status: Decline
Ability Randomizer
01:30:00
PC
360Chrism


Pokemon Emerald Randomizer This randomizer not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random!

The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, elite 4 members, & finish on champion. I will be playing cooperatively w/ adef, Shenanagans & Keizaron, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.
Status: Decline
Evo Every Level
2:50:00
Status: Decline
Map Randomizer Co-op
02:00:00
Gameboy Player
360Chrism


Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics 51 Games 51 Runners! I want to bring the relay fun to GDQ. I would love to showcase Clubhouse games on the big stage either as a solo run or a 51 player relay where the controller is handed to the next person every time a game has been beaten.

I would organize this and make sure everyone participating is an expert in their game and knows all the strats and backups!
Status: Decline
Win All Games
02:00:00
Status: Decline
Win All Games (51 Player Relay)
2:40:00
Nintendo Switch
LinearC


TMNT Hyperstone Heist I will be playing TMNT Hyperstone Heist as part of the PS5 Cowabunga Collection. Category is Leonardo Easy: all levels.

Hyperstone Heist is unique in that each of the turtles has different base stats. All former GDQ runs have used Raphael, as he has the highest attack and speed; I am going to run Leonardo, hopefully to inspire other runners to run the other turtles.

Join me as we bring a rarely used speedrun turtle to GDQ and showcase his unique stats, strategies, and tricks to beat the game.
Status: Decline
Leo, Easy
00:38:00
PS5
Fuso-Shikine


Takeshi's Challenge Takeshi's Challenge is one of the most famous awful game in Japan. It is treated as the top of Kusoge. This game's idea came from Takeshi Kitano, who is a comedian and now famous as a movie creator. It contains incredible mystery solving, less tips, many enemies and Takeshi Kitano's genius idea. This game can't beat within 1 hour in the usual way because we have to wait 1 hour to find tresure map, but it can beat within 30 min in speedrun. Status: Decline
Glitchless
00:30:00
Famicom
Fuso-Shikine


Sherlock Holmes: The Kidnapped Countess This game is most famous and notorious sherlock holmes game in Japan. It is not adventure. It is action game with terrible difficulty.
Holmes kicks the enemy and earns money and information.
Status: Decline
Any%
0:25:00
NES
heyitsperk


Saturn Bomberman A classic, top down style Bomberman game that has seen massive community growth recently, with 3 different World Record Holders in the past 3 years and over 3 minutes of time save since my last GDQ submission!

Bomb kick trickshots, cross map bomb throws, and frame perfect explosion chains highlight the creativity in this run. 7 unique boss fights with an abundance of fascinating enemies presented in beautiful pixel art will keep the viewer compelled and captivated.
Status: Decline
Normal Mode
00:48:00
Saturn
Silent Wolf


Donkey Kong Country This submission is intended to be an in-person 4-way race between myself, LeadOstrich, V0oid, and Tylen0l. All Stages is the main category for Donkey Kong Country and has not been featured in a GDQ since 2019. Since then, several groundbreaking tricks have been discovered and the game itself has come a long way (which is saying a lot considering how old and competitive the game is). We would love to have the opportunity to showcase the efforts our community has put forward on the big stage. Status: Decline
All Stages
00:36:00
Super Nintendo (SNES)
AstridTheHorrorGirl


RUINER RUINER is a Twin-Stick Shooter set in a Cyberpunk world where gangsters control a city by hacking into people's brains. The game has a lot of OOB moments mixed in with proficient gameplay. Status: Decline
NG+ No Tutorial
00:52:00
PC
AstridTheHorrorGirl


NecroVisioN: Lost Company This is an FPS with a horror influence about World War I, but like, the REAL Great War, with Zombies, and Vampires, and Werewolves and Demons and Dragons. You know? Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
PC
DukeFireBird


Ducktales: Remastered Having just come off the any% at AGDQ2024, the glitchless category for Ducktales Remastered gets to show off the entire game, and even longer Moon level music. Submitting as a race against Roach788 Status: Decline
glitchless easy
0:42:00
PC
AstridTheHorrorGirl


Dementium II HD Dementium II HD is the PC only HD version of Dementium II that was on the Nintendo DS before. It is a very silly run that we are continuing to find new OOB spots for, more sequence breaks, and all sorts of things. Status: Decline
Any%
00:33:00
PC
Sean_A


Super Zangyura Super Zangyura is a 2021 remake of the 2004 action platformer/Castlevania parody Zangyura. The game is self-described as "deathmatic" which basically means that it is very very mean; with brutal trap-filled level design, and enemies that love to stunlock you to death. Movement is sped up through the ability to cancel the dash animation with an attack to negate some downsides of the dash. The game is filled with a charming sense of humour, through its writing and playfully cruel game design. Status: Decline
Nocturne Any%
00:20:00
Nintendo Switch
V0oid


Donkey Kong Country The main category of this SNES classic has seen some of the biggest and most significant improvements in a long time over the last couple of years, thus bringing the top times down to lows never thought achievable in the past. A treat of a speedgame to spectate due to its abundance of skips and glitches, fluid and exciting movement and timeless soundtrack!

Submitted as a race with LeadOstrich, Silent Wolf and Tylen0l.
Status: Decline
All Stages - Modern
00:37:00
SNES
Savac


Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Although recently shown, these categories are vastly different from the A-Rank run and the prior showcase in 2017. Expect skips never before seen on the stage, methodical treasure hunting, and technical mech movement. Join me as I laugh in the face of gravity, walls, and floors, which are mere suggestions in this run.

New Game+ has never been shown. It starts from a completed save with every upgrade, allowing for additional large skips and strategies.

Submitting both as a potential bid war.
Status: Decline
Dark Story (New Game+)
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Dark Story (New Game)
00:38:00
PC
doctor_eggy


Wild 9 The wild 9 speedrun features many skips and tricks of all kinds. This includes getting launched by a enemy into a warp spot in the sky to skip 80% of a level, clipping through walls, and duplicating keys. Much of the game involves using the enemies to solve puzzles (and skip long checkpoint animations ect) there are 14 levels with platforming, vehicle chasing, and falling through space transport tubes. Status: Decline
Any% Easy
00:52:00
PS2
spacecatsunited


Secret Agent Barbie: The Royal Jewels Hello Barbie, let's go speedrun! Secret Agent Barbie: The Royal Jewels is a fun, upbeat platformer with mini puzzles throughout the game. Together with Barbie we run, jump, and roll our way through 16 levels across 4 countries to save the world. There's cars, horses, and even jetskis! Secret Agent Barbie: The Royal Jewels is a hidden jewel of its own and I would love the opportunity to share it with more people. <3 Status: Decline
any%
00:20:00
Game Boy Advance
DanTheVP


Shovel Knight: King of Cards Proposed is a NG+ run of the final Shovel Knight campaign.

Shovel Knight is a definitive modern 2D game and speedruns of it are a GDQ staple.The NG+ run of King of Cards is the fastest main category and has never been featured at GDQ. The Any% run is already quick, and NG+ turns it up to 11. King Knight dashes, spins, pogos, and sometimes flies his way through this showcase of skill and speed. The final stage ends with a pixel-perfect trick after being off screen for 90 seconds.
Status: Decline
NG+
00:30:00
PC
AKDylie


Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Sonic Team's dungeon crawler/ARPG where no two runs are the same due to random drops and randomly picked maps.
Glitchless runs manage items carefully and try to squeeze out the most with limited resources.
Glitched runs break the game open using menu layering to increase attack power to absurd levels, but the enemies can still bite back if not handled quickly.
Status: Decline
any% episode 2 (glitched)
01:08:00
Status: Decline
any% episode 1 (glitched)
00:59:00
Status: Decline
any% episode 1 glitchless (Hunter class)
02:26:00
Wii
Caneras


Jet Force Gemini Jet Force Gemini is a third person shooter where the run features route planning, adaptation, and precise movement/aiming. While runs don't deviate much from playing how the developers intended, they do involve blazing through enemies to unlock progression and difficult to execute strategies. Plus, the soundtrack is full of hits and has been used in the GDQ background playlist in past marathons.

Co-op with 2 runners has never been done before and would involve new strategies unique to it.
Status: Decline
Any% Race
3:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% Co-op
3:30:00
Status: Decline
100%
4:15:00
Status: Decline
Any%
03:35:00
Nintendo 64
RadRingtail


Kingsley's Adventure Kingsley's Adventure is a budget 3D adventure game for PSX featuring tank controls, crunchy low-poly graphics, a banging soundtrack, silly NPCs, sequence breaks, death plane abuse, and a tiny fox. The run uses TAS-discovered strats to skip many rooms, carry keys to later dungeons for more skips, and quick kill bosses. Tricks are spread throughout the hour of playtime with only the occasional run-back, creating a perfect break for donations. Never before seen at GDQ! Fox kigu round 2? Status: Decline
Any%
01:05:00
PS2
Luckyboy527


Over The Hedge DS Come watch the lovable cast of the hit 2006 movie Over the Hedge completely break the fabric of their world and physics itself. Gladys has returned to ruin the sanctuary that the forest holds. As we play through 100% of IGN's 2006 winner for "the best game nobody played" award, collecting all the key items to introduce endangered animals to a live construction site, we will truly find out what lives over that hedge.
This 3d platformer is exciting and funny, making it perfect for awful block.
Status: Decline
All Levels
00:30:00
New 3DS with capture card
mrlink2k


Undertale The Undertale Genocide category is the most ran category of the game. Instead of relying heavily on the difficult tricks of other categories, the genocide route forces players to grind encounters in an area until there are none left, making the category primarily focus on the luck of the encounters as well as the mastery of weapons.

This is being submitted as a race between myself and Shayy where we play on a mod to get the same encounter RNG, allowing for a close race the whole way through.
Status: Decline
Genocide Ending Race
01:10:00
PC
streetbackguy


Dead Rising 4 Frank Rising, unfortunately Frank West got reincarnated as a zombie. Now in the search for a cure, he must save everyone he met in Dead Rising 4's campaign (who are still alive). Status: Decline
Frank Rising - Good Ending
00:50:00
PC
Moogle


Batman Dark Tomorrow Batman Dark Tomorrow is the 2nd Batman game from Kemco. The category "best ending" is the best ending of the game where Batman lightly jogs through the streets of Gotham, sewers, an asylum and a trip to an undisclosed mountain area to deactivate the doomsday device and beats up Ra's al Ghul and get credits. the game plays exactly like what you'd imagine a superhero game from the early 2000's would with locked camera angles and tank controls. Status: Decline
best ending
00:40:00
Microsoft Xbox
wilbun84


Pseudoregalia Pseudoregalia is a movement-heavy 3D platformer and metroidvania. It is a fast-paced run that takes advantage of slide cancels to boost your momentum, frame perfect clips to move in and out of bounds, and checkpoint manipulation to death-warp to different parts of the map. With only two-skippable cutscenes, this run is a constant stream of great platforming movement, sure to please fans of similar games like Super Mario 64.

Pseudoregalia was also run this year at AGDQ and Frame Fatales.
Status: Decline
All Abilities% (Full Gold Patch)
00:22:00
Status: Decline
100% (Full Gold Patch)
00:35:00
PC
anarchy


UNO (Ubisoft) Everyone knows the world famous, friendship ending card game UNO that came with your xbox! Get rid of all your cards and win! But it's way less widely known that you can speedrun UNO. This is Ubisoft's 2016 UNO, a run that showcases shennanigans that are the UNO CPU, awesome DLC decks and all around teaching those about the interesting world of UNO speedrunning. And now with added tomfoolery, we have Bingo! Lock in and Trust! Status: Decline
Blackout Bingo
1:15:00
Status: Decline
Bingo
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Every Deck (No Rules Added)
1:15:00
PC
Vysuals


Hollow Knight The fastest patch of Hollow Knight is patch 1.2.2.1 that almost all the main categories of the game are run on. This is the 1xx% run for that patch, getting everything in the game that counts for completion. This category has such a cool mix of challenging bosses and interesting quick kills for bosses in ways you won't see in any other HK run. Not to mention getting all the movement abilities to really show off what you're capable in this game, with a crescendo of action at the end. Status: Decline
106% NMG
2:50:00
PC
anarchy


Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Making it's debut at a mainline GDQ event, Wolfenstein II follows another action-packed adventure with BJ Blazkowicz as he takes on the Nazi's on American soil. This run is glitchless, so it doesn't have any major glitches, but it does still use a lot of speed-tech to complete the game fast. These include utilizing weapon upgrades, optimized routing and battle walker skips which allow for some slight sequence breaking in the later half of the run all without glitching. It was space aliens! Status: Decline
Glitchless
1:25:00
PC
anarchy


Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Wolfenstein: The Old Blood tells the beginning of the end for the allies in an alternate WW2 timeline. This run is very individual and unique compared to the others new Wolfenstein games. It takes a page out of previous attemps at revivals of the Wolfenstein series and includes influences from the supernatural and comedic relief. This run is glitchless, meaning no major glitches, but it does still use some small speed-tech and optimizations to make an already fast game faster. Hot Dog! Status: Decline
Glitchless
1:25:00
PC
anarchy


Wolfenstein: Youngblood Wolfenstein: Youngblood takes the series to 1980 as it follows BJ Blazkowicz's twin daughters Jess and Soph as they fight their way through Nazi occupied Paris to find their dad. Solo Glitchless w/Peps denotes that in this run only one of the two characters is being controlled, there are no glitches and that the run will be utilize the peps, unlockable buffs which are available across playthroughs. Though complicated, this run showcases a unique take on a game known for being totally busted. Status: Decline
Solo Glitchless w/Peps
2:10:00
PC
HexSpeedruns


Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Super Mario 3D World was originally released on the Wii U but got ported to the Switch in 2021. This version allows us to skip cutscenes and improves the characters base running speed. 3D World was already filled with awesome momentum and crazy skips but now it's more fast paced than ever! While the Wii U version was shown at previous GDQ events, the Switch version still has yet to be shown off. Status: Decline
Any% Race w/ KingJO444
1:45:00
Nintendo Switch
anarchy


Wolfenstein: The New Order Wolfenstein: The New Order is the original gangster alt-timeline revival game. This glitchless run takes us through an gripped adventure with BJ Blazkowicz as we liberate Europe from the Nazis. Though there are no glitches, we still utilize some speed-tech including checkpoint reloading, movement exploits and other optimizations. It's gritty, serious and a great re-introduction to the series. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Status: Decline
Glitchless
2:00:00
PC
Keizaron


Pokemon Emerald Randomizer This randomizer not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random!

The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, elite 4 members, & finish on champion. I will be playing cooperatively w/ 360Chrism, adef, & Shenanagans_, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.
Status: Decline
Map Randomizer Co-op
02:00:00
GameCube (Game Boy Player)
adef


Pokémon Emerald Randomizer This not only randomizes all battles & wild encounters, but also shuffles all entrances in the game! Every door, staircase, & ladder leads to somewhere random!

The goal is to find & complete all 8 gyms, e4 members, & finish on champ. I'll be playing w/ 360chrism, Shenanagans_, & Keizaron, splitting up & covering different parts of the map simultaneously. This run is cooperative chaos at its finest.

Choose-my-main gives donors the chance to choose what Pokémon I solo-main for a rando run!
Status: Decline
Choose-my-Main
02:40:00
Status: Decline
Map Randomizer Co-Op
02:00:00
Gamecube (Game Boy Player)
Keizaron


Animorphs Trust in the me that trusts in the under estimate run. It's Silly Block instead of Awful Block so the time won't be awful. Status: Decline
125%
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
GameCube (Game Boy Player)
Lady_Smaell


Worldless Worldless is a beautiful, stylised 2D metroidvania that was released in 2023. It encompasses traditional metroidvania elements with exploration and the collection of abilities to progress further and mixes it up with active battles which require precise timing to attack effectively and defend against enemies attacks.

Any% is a streamlined run of the game utilising a small number of exploits to quickly dispatch enemies and an exhibition of both platforming and combat prowess.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
PC
Keizaron


Pokemon Crystal In Randomizer Co-op Bingo, Tyrant14 and I will be completing goals on a randomly generated board, ranging from catching certain Pokemon to obtaining certain items and more. Through good communication and properly divided roles, we will be blacking out the card entirely, completing all 25 goals. Seeds for both the randomizer and the bingo board itself will be vetted to ensure a marathon- and estimate-safe run. Status: Decline
Randomizer Co-op Bingo
01:30:00
GameCube (Game Boy Player)
Keizaron


Pokemon Emerald Speedrunning one game is already hard enough. What better way to bond with friends than by trying to co-op speedrun multiple games at once, where all the items are randomized between worlds!

Submitting as a 2 Player Co-op with JHobz296 (KH2) and a 3 Player Co-op with JHobz296 and RUBIEHART (Overcooked! 2)
Status: Decline
3 Player Archipelago
03:00:00
Status: Decline
2 Player Archipelago
02:30:00
PC
Tyrant14


Pokemon Crystal In Randomizer Co-op Bingo, Keizaron and I will be completing goals on a randomly generated board, ranging from catching certain Pokemon to obtaining certain items and more. Through good communication and properly divided roles, we will be blacking out the card entirely, completing all 25 goals. Seeds for both the randomizer and the bingo board itself will be vetted to ensure a marathon- and estimate-safe run. Status: Decline
Randomizer Co-op Bingo
01:30:00
Nintendo Gamecube
theValiantSun


Stardew Valley The farming simulation game that is sweeping the internet, Stardew Valley makes for a unique speedgame that delights both casual and challenge runners alike. With the 1.6 update, the game is once again in the forefront of indie gaming. While both of these runs feature older versions of the game, they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

Submitting both categories with atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings, Terpretor, theValiantSun
Status: Decline
4P Seeded Community Center Restoration
01:40:00
Status: Decline
4P Mines120 Relay
01:30:00
PC
BetoKos


Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue If you love SMT/Persona and Metroidvanias, this game is the game for you!

Developed by team Ladybug this game is a hidden gem for those seeking for another amazing metroidvania experience. In this game you play as the iconic Jack Frost and Pyro Jack Bros. and go in an adventure to beat the Evil Black Frost.

The speedrun is really broken with a lot of interesting skips and glitches. There is aways something going on or a tech to be explained. It's short but packed with cool strats!
Status: Decline
Any% Easy
00:15:00
PC
teddyras


Sushi Souls Universe The sequel to I'M GOING TO DIE IF I DON'T EAT SUSHI! They give you the ability to dash towards the ground right away and there's boost pads in some levels, so this one's a bit more complicated as a speedgame.

Oh yeah, uh, you go to universes where sushi is sports, another where it's computers, and one where it's god. Imagine if some guy showed up in your universe and just started eating soccer balls and told you it was food, that's this game. What I'm saying is: it's great!
Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
PC
theValiantSun


PlateUp! PlateUp! is a roguelike kitchen simulation game where we are trying to franchise a restaurant by surviving for 15 days! This run was completed at Flame Fatales 2023. We raised over $1k during the run with over 100 of that occurring in the last 3-minutes of the run for an unofficial run incentive to catch our kitchen on fire. This game has a lot of opportunities for donations and also is ran by the extremely charming Team OAT (not biased)!

3P with atwentysomethingloser, okNia_, and theValiantSun
Status: Decline
Any% - Random Seed, Turkey, Trio
00:40:00
PC
NathanFTL


PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Nathan: Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.
Status: Decline
8P
00:40:00
PC
bombomb


Custom Robo :Battle Revolution This game was released in 2004 as Robot Action RPG.
It is first game in the all Custom Robo series released in world wide countries.
Aim to clear by combining parts consisting Robo, Gun, Bomb, Pod and Legs.
The final boss is the strongest in the series.
Status: Decline
New Journey-Any%
2:10:00
Nintendo Wii
bombomb


Custom Robo This game was released in 1999 as Robot Action RPG. This title is only release in Japan and first title in this series. Aim to beat the game by combining parts consisting Robo, Gun, Bomb, Pod and Legs respectively. I have world record of this category.
Status: Decline
Scenario Mode
2:05:00
Nintendo 64
Violin


Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2024) Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2024 is a Nintendo Switch remake of the GBA game of the same name, which I speedran for SGDQ 2020. This features very similar fast and fluid movement, with triple jumps, back flips, and awesome puzzle skips, and this time there are 4 extra worlds across Any%+*. There are also some extra Expert Levels, which would be an awesome showcase as a donation incentive. Submitting as a solo run or race :)

*Any%+ is an extended Any% category that includes the Plus Worlds.
Status: Decline
Any%
1:15:00
Status: Decline
Any%+
2:10:00
Nintendo Switch
JaekRock


Sunset Riders Yeehaw! Sunset Riders is a beloved run 'n gun for the SNES, where the stakes are high and one hit means death and loss of powerups. The run focuses on quick levels and boss kills, requiring pixel-perfect damage distances from bosses, despawning enemy weapons, and careful timing. 2P difficulty and boss HP increase from the standard 1P difficulty. I will play a pistol wielder (Steve), and spacecoastgaming will select his character based on donation.
See YT video description for run highlights.
Status: Decline
Beat the Game (Co-op) - Normal
00:25:00
SNES
limy


Chessplosion Chessplosion is a mix between classic bomberman and chess as a puzzle fighter. Pieces explode in the path they would normally move in chess (ex, the bishop can only explode diagonally). There are a couple of different modes I'll be submitting for this- adventure, which is more of a story mode with set challenges per level, dungeon, which is more of a binding of isaac style rougelite with lots of exploration, and gauntlet, which is a combo-based rapid-fire mode that has a different flow. Status: Decline
Adventure Mode (Any%)
0:27:00
Status: Decline
Gauntlet Mode (1P)
0:13:00
Status: Decline
Dungeon Mode (True Ending)
0:22:00
Status: Decline
Dungeon Mode (Normal Ending)
0:13:00
PC
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 other fangame. Each stage is uniquely themed with an immense variety of challenges and bosses, with the final boss being a perfect climax. 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: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
PC
Wolsk


I Wanna Be The Fangame! Back in AGDQ 2021, I got to showcase the blazing-fast Any% run with the bonus GLaDOS boss incentive, but that category still leaves out half the available content in the game. In the 100% run, you'll see many more optional bosses, classic game references, wrong warps, and even a shmup! Come bear witness to all that Fangame has to offer! Status: Decline
100% (Hard, No Timer Item)
00:45:00
PC
Tylenol


Donkey Kong Country Submitting as a race with Silent Wolf, LeadOstrich, and v0oid.
This category has lots of new glitches and strats ever since its last time at GDQ (2019) and would be a very different run to show case as well as plenty of intense moments for racing purposes (many places to make come backs or push pulls)
Status: Decline
All Stages
00:36:00
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
limy


Hi-Fi-RUSH Half hack and slash, half rhythm game, with tons of animation canceling and movement optimization. The perfect game honestly. I'm running Rhythm Tower, which is the post-game mode where you go through 60 floors of different fights and bosses where you get graded on your combos and your speed, on top of being able to save RTA by animation canceling out of special attacks making this run flow completely differently than Any% does. Status: Decline
Rhythm Tower - Easy
1:13:00
PC
Satorha


Metroid Dread Unrestricted aims to complete the game while getting all sorts of items out of order, pretending that walls and floors are fake, and while ignoring enough pickups where applicable to consider the run as Low%!

It's an exciting box of speed, visual spectacle, and RNG! Both new and experienced Dread fans and speedrunners alike can find much to appreciate in this bombshell of a category.

Any% is by far the fastest, while All Bosses and 100% are more elaborate and grow more and more interesting.
Status: Decline
100% Unrestricted
01:37:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses Unrestricted
01:14:00
Status: Decline
Any% Unrestricted
01:00:00
Nintendo Switch
stone_clive


Ai Cho Aniki It was released on TurboGrafx-16 from MASAYA.
At first glance, the game appears to be a shooting game, but a fighting game command input system is adopted for the use of techniques. Despite the flashy graphics, the game contains many serious challenging elements, since a single input error can lead to time loss.
I will play it on WiiU VC.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:21:00
WiiU VC
stone_clive


Tenchu Stealth Assassins This game is Rittai Ninja Katsugeki Tenchu: Shinobi Gaisen in Japan.
I must obtain the secret items needed to shorten
time. (Stage 1 and Stage 3)

There are stages where you can be found by enemies and stages where you should not be found.
The use of items is very important.

The video submitted is the Japanese version, but if selected, it will run in English.
This can be changed in the options.
There are no major changes to the game, just a change in language.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PS2
limy


Super Monkey Ball: Touch and Roll This game is the perfect blend of SMB1 and SMB2 where the physics are similar any many of the levels have been transformed to fit onto the DS. A lot of the levels have been broken in completely different ways than the originals, with many fantastic original levels. Additionally, I have a Score Attack RTA showcase which requires mastery of all parts of the game. It's one of the hardest runs I know.
I'm not submitting All Worlds but I am open to doing it through an incentive.
Status: Decline
Main Worlds (Score Attack)
0:55:00
Status: Decline
Extra Worlds
0:18:00
Status: Decline
Main Worlds
0:28:00
New 2DS
BetoKos


Sheep Raider Sheep Raider is an amazing Looney Tunes game where you play as Ralph Wolf and your goal is to steal sheeps from Sam Sheepdog in a sneaky and clever way. Every stage has it's unique quirks and gimmicks BUT we never play he intended way, that's the fun part.

The speedrun has evolved so much since my last GDQ Hotfix showcase and there is a lot of new strats that were found pretty recently. I would love to showcase this new route because it's honestly mind blowing.

Status: Decline
Any%
01:05:00
PC
ThundaSurge


Rocket League The Rocket League custom map making community over the years has made several challenging maps that push the limits of the game and this Workshop Showcase submission aims to show off some of the best and most challenging speedruns available in RL! Many of the maps included require expert car control and precise player "mechanics" to complete. The maps have a lot of love and care crafted into them and each map has something unique to offer to both the player and viewers. Status: Decline
Workshop Showcase
01:00:00
PC
DirtyBunny


Zwift Zwift is a game controlled by a bicycle hooked up to the internet. It's a fitness app with MMO elements which are explained in the video.

In this skill-style run, I do the "Sprinters Challenge" (or "Sprint %" of you like), where I pedal down the southern coast of the world and compete on 4 sprints in less than 40 minutes.

My bigger goal is to encourage people to start a fitness journey of their own. Start small, aim big. If a 50+ year old diabetic can do it, you can too.
Status: Decline
Sprinters Challenge
00:40:00
PC
Slurpeeninja


Where's Waldo? (Submission for awful block)
The traditional Where's Waldo? Submission!
Categories include Easy, Medium, Hard, or All difficulties!!
This run features Waldo hiding in various locations, and the goal of the speedrun is to find him as fast as possible. While this sounds like a simple task, Waldo is a master of disguise and can be anywhere the six RNG seeds place him.
Status: Decline
Any%, All Difficulties
00:15:00
Status: Decline
Any%, Hard
00:10:00
Status: Decline
Any%, Medium
00:07:00
Status: Decline
Any%, Easy
00:05:00
NES
Retroverse


Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered is a first-person mayhem game where you play as a cat and cause chaos and destruction while the humans are away! The dishes, bookshelves, science equipment, refrigerator food and even ancient dinosaur fossils will not be spared!

This is a remastered version of the game with new levels and goals. Every level and their goals are randomly generated, making for a new and fun experience each time!
Status: Decline
Procedural Gauntlet - All Stages
00:23:00
PC
Retroverse


Felix the Cat Everyone loves Felix!

This Game Boy port of the NES platformer is a bit shorter but is still packed with all the action! The game features 6 interesting worlds with lots of cool upgrades for Felix.

Between the tight jumps, lag management and iframe manipulations, this game is sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats!
Status: Decline
any%
00:15:00
Game Boy
Jiro


Pico Park PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Nathan, Goofy, and Winbag.
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 8 Player
00:40:00
PC
Retroverse


Dynasty Warriors 5 Dynasty Warriors is a cult classic dating back to the PS2 era of gaming. This series is action packed and full of great story-telling.

In the year 200AD, the Han dynasty fell leading to an age of turmoil in China. Various heroes from across the land battled for power. One of these people was Lu Bu, known as a powerful but untrustworthy general to be reckoned with.

Lu Bu is a character immortalized in many video games and media and is a fan favorite.
Status: Decline
Lu Bu Musou Mode - Easy
00:10:00
PS2
FujiP


Sheepy: A Short Adventure "Sheepy is a free pixel platformer released by music label MrSuicideSheep in February 2023. It is signified by its quality in both ambient and action music, its cute and mesmerising pixel art, and its tight movement, all uncharacteristically polished for a free game. The minor optimizations and minute timelosses shine bright, especially in the second half of the run, making it a great game to have as a race.

Submitted as a race between dosufura1984, mobtelo, and fujip."
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless (Race)
0:20:00
PC
Cleavly


Here Comes Niko! Here Comes Niko is a cozy 3D platformer hat is so, so cute! This game has a ton of glitches and tricks with a cast of charming characters. We will become a fishing hook, dance with a flamingo, and enter arcade machines all to get paid and hired.

Any% Bottle Walking will see us becoming a professional friend very quickly, with a massive glitch involving a bottle with a cute little fish on it that has not been seen at GDQ.
Any% restricts this glitch, but has its own fun unique tricks.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:23:00
Status: Decline
Any% Bottle Walking
00:22:00
PC
Regole


Dark Souls Trilogy All three Dark Souls games have fast Any% speedruns, all making use of very different glitches and skips. In this run I will be showcasing all of them back to back to back in order, in a Dark Souls Trilogy Any% run. There will be whacky movement tech, item dupes, wrong warps, and more spread across all three games as we try to finish the entire trilogy as quickly as possible. Status: Decline
Trilogy Any%
01:45:00
PC
cicada


Carto Carto is a "Carcassonne"-like puzzle adventure that rearranges the map to advance.
It's a cute picture book-like game, but a wicked game that takes advantage of out-of-bounds.
I broke the world record of this game in 2023.
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14:00- Skip by out of bounds.
32:54- Volcano stage skip.
Status: Decline
All Secret Pieces
01:05:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
PC
cicada


Transiruby Transiruby is a 2D action game released by SkipMore in 2021. It features speedy playing and skipping techniques.
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24:40- Early Elevator(I discovered this)
29:56- Dramos Skip
Status: Decline
Any%
01:30:00
PC
potaterhands


BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart Described as a "lesbian romance boss rush", BOSSGAME has you control 2 characters simultaneously in a challenging action battler where coordination, timing, and reaction speed are essential to mastering the game. With 16 bosses each possessing a unique arsenal of offense and defense, there's never a dull moment in this world-saving adventure. Status: Decline
Boss Rush: ALL
00:25:00
PC
mobtelo


Sheepy: A Short Adventure "Sheepy is a free pixel platformer released by music label MrSuicideSheep in February 2023. It is signified by its quality in both ambient and action music, its cute and mesmerising pixel art, and its tight movement, all uncharacteristically polished for a free game. The minor optimizations and minute timelosses shine bright, especially in the second half of the run, making it a great game to have as a race.

Submitted as a race between dosufura1984, mobtelo, and fujip."
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless (Race)
00:20:00
PC
atwentysomethingloser


Mail Time Mail Time is a relaxing, cottagecore adventure set in a peaceful forest far, far away. It’s your first day on the job as a newly minted Mail Scout. With pep in our step and a letter glider on our back, we're off to deliver letters, collect trinkets, and meet all the animals in the neighborhood to earn ourselves 14 mail scout patches as quickly as possible. Status: Decline
14 Patches
00:25:00
PC
atwentysomethingloser


Stardew Valley The farming simulation game that is sweeping the internet, Stardew Valley makes for a unique speedgame that delights both casual and challenge runners alike. With the 1.6 update, the game is once again in the forefront of indie gaming. While both of these runs feature older versions of the game, they have yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!

Submitting both categories with atwentysomethingloser, blackheartwings, Terpretor, theValiantSun
Status: Decline
4P Seeded Community Center Restoration
01:40:00
Status: Decline
4P Mines120 Relay
01:30:00
PC
atwentysomethingloser


PlateUp! PlateUp! is a roguelike kitchen simulation game where we are trying to franchise a restaurant by surviving for 15 days! This run was completed at Flame Fatales 2023. We raised over $1k during the run with over 100 of that occurring in the last 3-minutes of the run for an unofficial run incentive to catch our kitchen on fire. This game has a lot of opportunities for donations and also is ran by the extremely charming Team OAT (not biased)!

3P with atwentysomethingloser, okNia_, and theValiantSun
Status: Decline
Any% - Random Seed, Turkey, Trio
00:40:00
PC
WearingFin


Blazing Star The pinnacle of pre-rendered 16-bit games and questionable English translations, By abusing safe spots and the internal difficulty, I take what is one of the harder Neo Geo shmups and make it seem... almost trivial? But no, being a pacifist means being careful, and mistakes can be costly, but playing this way is also the quickest. Each boss has a timer and by keeping the rank low, I can speed kill all of them. Video a typical run produced today (23/3), please see other vids for commentary style Status: Decline
Level 4 (Arcade Default)
00:25:00
Nintendo Switch
AKDylie


Phantasy Star Online The original version of the game released for Dreamcast, with the most glitches to exploit, including a door clipping glitch that allows skipping some rooms to shave off a few more seconds, and allow skipping the Ruins unlock backtrack quest. Stacked weapons gives a powerful character without armor that must take things out before being overwhelmed. Status: Decline
any%
00:57:00
Dreamcast
Dosufura1984


Sheepy: A Short Adventure "Sheepy is a free pixel platformer released by music label MrSuicideSheep in February 2023. It is signified by its quality in both ambient and action music, its cute and mesmerising pixel art, and its tight movement, all uncharacteristically polished for a free game. The minor optimizations and minute timelosses shine bright, especially in the second half of the run, making it a great game to have as a race. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless (Race)
0:20:00
PC
SuperSonic


Mega Man Battle Network 2 (Legacy Collection) A departure from side-scrolling platforming, Mega Man Battle Network 2 is Mega Man's foray into a card-based RPG. The combat is slick and requires good timing and fast thinking while looking incredibly stylish, all while maintaining the classic Mega Man look and feel. The Single Segment category eliminates any RNG manipulation, thus leaving all battles to have on-the-fly decision making and routing.

Submitting as a race with Iceblue
Status: Decline
Single Segment
03:00:00
PC
SuperSonic


Sonic 3 & Knuckles Sonic 3 & Knuckles is the completed version of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with the Sonic & Knuckles Lock-On Technology cartridge. This beautiful game and entertaining speedrun is such a broken mess from start to finish with various level wraps, screen wraps, slope glitches, boss skips, and funny looking sprites to make your jaws drop. We will be using Sonic alone to traverse through Floating Island to stop Dr. Robotnik's diabolical plans. Status: Decline
Beat the Game - Glitched (Sonic)
00:45:00
Sega Genesis
SuperSonic


Animaniacs A 'Sonic Heroes style' 2D platformer based on a popular 90s cartoon. The Warner Brothers, and Warner Sister, have different abilities that will aid them throughout their quest. We traverse through 5 studio stages retrieving movie memorabilia from the clutches of Ralph the Security Guard and Pinky & The Brain. Adding all 3 difficulties in the submission. The boss fights and damage taken scale higher with a higher difficulty. Status: Decline
Hard
00:34:00
Status: Decline
Normal
00:32:00
Status: Decline
Easy
00:30:00
Sega Genesis
Kory_


Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure was the first majorly successful Toys-to-Life game. This run features 10+ different characters who are utilized for various unique skips and tricks. This run also utilizes the game's Co-op feature often, requiring the runner to manage two controllers in addition to swapping figures.
Status: Decline
Any%
1:07:00
WiiU
SuperSonic


Sonic the Hedgehog This is the game that started it all for the Blue Blur; a 2D platformer with 6 colorful zones with an iconic soundtrack. This category is beating the game from start to finish with no glitches. It is based on movement, execution, and taking the quickest routes in each act. Status: Decline
Beat the Game - Glitchless
00:25:00
Sega Genesis
JetPastel


Donkey Kong Land 2 Donkey Kong Land 2 features remixed music, scenery, and bosses from the familiar Donkey Kong Country 2, only this time on the Game Boy.
In this run, Dixie Kong is the star of the show thanks to her glide ability, which allows for shortcuts and sharp platforming.
Also returning from the SNES games are Animal Buddies and stage gimmicks, which add variety throughout the run.
The 100% category includes collecting all of the bonuses and DK coins, including those in the Lost World.
Status: Decline
100%
01:09:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:43:00
Game Boy Player
shoehorse


Super Buster Bros. Tour Mode of Super Buster Bros. is a hectic sprint through 40 levels of ball-shooting arcade goodness. The run features a mix of strategy and tactics, as each level has an initial plan but most levels devolve into reacting to the randomness that the game throws at you. The rapid pace of the gameplay and the frequency of "how-did-he-survive-that?" moments make the run an exciting watch. The goal of the game is easy to grok, so viewers will have an intuitive sense for the difficulty of the run. Status: Decline
Tour Mode - Expert
00:26:00
SNES
Uppercasserole


Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a 2017 indie metroidvania with incredibly crisp movement and combat, having great depth that is still visually impressive to those unfamiliar with it. All skills is the category where we collect the "major" items in the game, traversing the entirety of the map and deleting bosses with our powerful spells. The All Skills category has recently seen a huge surge in popularity as the route has changed dramatically in Feb 2024 after being stagnant for several years. Status: Decline
All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG) Race (w/ Mathulu)
01:10:00
Status: Decline
All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG)
01:10:00
PC
mathulu


Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a massively successful indie metroidvania from 2017, and is one of the most popular speedgames as well!

I am submitting three categories:

All Skills is a main board category collecting all abilities and finishing the game, submitted either as a race with Uppercasserole or as a solo run

Elegy%, or All Grubs saves all the grubs while showing off Hallownest's beautiful scenery

Happy Couple showcases the game's canonical gay couple along with extremely difficult combat
Status: Decline
Elegy% (All Grubs)
01:10:00
Status: Decline
Happy Couple
01:15:00
Status: Decline
All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG) Race w/ Uppercasserole)
01:10:00
Status: Decline
All Skills (1.4.3.2+ NMG)
01:10:00
PC
mathulu


GRIME GRIME is a wonderful indie soulslike metroidvania from 2021, featuring a beautiful art style and exciting if punishing combat.
As a speedrun, GRIME really flourishes, with tons of speed tech and a small but active and welcoming speedrunning community.
The Any% run of the game has been heavily rerouted in recent months after the latest DLC release, and now involves new tech and optimized boss fights for an exciting experience for viewers either familiar with the game or new to it!
Status: Decline
Any% (Restricted)
00:55:00
PC
mathulu


Ducky's Delivery Service Ducky's Delivery Service is an adorable indie game from 2023, where you control a cute duck with just 2 buttons and momentum-based physics to deliver packages to other ducks' houses.
The Flyer Marathon category is a showcase of all levels in the game, and it is an extremely quick run to do.
This submission is for a race of this category with Quacksilver, which will be a nailbiter to the end with how difficult the last few levels can be!
Status: Decline
Flyer Marathon (Race w/ Quacksilver)
00:12:00
PC
TheHaxor


Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario Bros. 3 is one of the most recognizable platformers of all time as one of the top selling NES games and being featured in the 1989 film The Wizard. The game features unique power-ups to the series, such as the hammer suit, and also introduces flight to the series. Each run of SMB3 requires on the fly routing due to the movement of hammer bros. The fast paced movement of the game results in eye-catching strategies that are sure to be a crowd pleaser. Status: Decline
Any% Warpless
00:55:00
Status: Decline
100%
01:15:00
NES
Quacksilver


Haiku the Robot Haiku the Robot is a solo-dev indie metroidvania where the titular Haiku must explore the land of Arcadia to destroy the Virus that felled all the robots within.

In All Bosses and Skills, Haiku goes on a full map tour to clear out the major areas of the game, including constant heat gauge management, i-frame stacking to walk directly through an incinerator, sequence breaking to the best movement early, dunking the robot, and so, so many fights against malevolent orbs.
Status: Decline
All Bosses and Skills (Base Game)
0:40:00
PC (Steam)
TheHaxor


Super Mario Bros. 2 USA SMB2U is one of the most popular games from the NES console. It's an improvement upon its Japanese predecessor, Doki Doki Panic. It's the first Mario game to feature character selection between levels. Each character has unique abilities that are used throughout the course of a run. There have been significant developments in the All Levels strategies throughout the past year that resulted in a new record. This serves as a great opportunity to showcase some of the new developments. Status: Decline
All Levels
00:27:00
NES
JHobz


Archipelago Multiworld - Kingdom Hearts II Archipelago is a platform by which players can play cross-game randomizers with other players. I have two submissions with this program planned, both of which involve me playing KH2. The 2-person multiworld category has proven to be extremely successful on GDQ Hotfix many times prior. Settings could be tweaked to easily adjust the estimate lower by as much as 30 minutes. I am willing to assist in developing a tool for displaying the feed of incoming items on the layout in an integrated way. Status: Decline
Kingdom Hearts 2 + Pokemon Emerald
02:45:00
Status: Decline
Kingdom Hearts 2 + Pokemon Emerald + Overcooked! 2
03:00:00
PC
OhHeyItsKara


Skator Gator The game before Skator Gator 3D (previously featured at AGDQ 2024), SG is a short, fast-paced game with great music, wild power-ups, and lots of hazards to navigate. The run is very short, but there is a lot to comment on, since SG is a lot of game in a small package.

The run requires very tight navigation, timing, and routing, and has essentially no boring parts, which is nice.

There's also potential for a bid war (gator skin choice) and an incentive (upgrade to All Eggs/100%).
Status: Decline
Any%
00:11:00
PC/Steam
TheHaxor


Multiple Classic Mario Games The MCMG categories require the runner to prepare for and quickly adapt to multiple runs at the same time. The NES Trilogy features SMB1, SMB2U, and SMB3, which are three bestselling games from the NES. The Any% runs are three of the most popular and recognizable runs from the console. The record features runs that broke three iconic time barriers: sub 5, sub 9, and sub 11. This is a unique opportunity to feature this multiple game run for the first time. Status: Decline
NES Trilogy Any%
00:30:00
NES
TheHaxor


Mini Kaizo Bros. 3 MKB3 is a Kaizo Mario game created by Mitchflowerpower that uses the SMB3 engine. It features unique boss designs and puzzles for the runner to solve, which had never been done in an SMB3 Kaizo game prior. There are also unique mechanics that have been added to the game that are sure to surprise. Sticking with the theme of Kaizo, the game features difficult levels for the runner to complete that are sure to entertain fans of Kaizo and Mario in general. Status: Decline
100%
00:45:00
NES
JHobz


Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix I'm submitting both KH2 randomizer and a KH2 speedrun. Open to a race. Would prefer Any% over Critical Mode for the speedrun. Randomizer is always done on Critical Mode.

My randomizer estimate is a worst-case scenario. Seeds are most often < 2 hours.
Status: Decline
Any% (Critical mode, Gummi Skip)
03:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Gummi Skip)
02:50:00
Status: Decline
Randomzier 2024 League Settings
02:20:00
PC
Quacksilver


Ducky's Delivery Service Ducky's Delivery Service is an indie arcade-style postal service nightmare simulator by CT Matthews in which an adorable duck must use his outlandishly momentum-driven propeller hat to deliver mail and gifts to a plethora of ducks who have chosen to live in some incredibly treacherous biomes, including a ghost-infested cave and an active volcano!

In this race, mathulu and I will compete to throw flyers into every single mailbox in the game's 16 levels in a pure time attack!
Status: Decline
Flyer Marathon - Race
0:12:00
PC (Steam)
JHobz


Marvel's Spider-Man 2 The NG+ update is still extremely new. I expect to be able to lower this estimate by quite a bit (as much as 30m) in the coming weeks.

They Any% video is an older PB, my actual PB is 4:04:14, hence why the estimate is lower than the time. Unfortunately the video for my actual PB was corrupted, so I have to use an old one, I apologize.

Boss rush is simply going through all the boss missions back-to-back to show off the boss strats.
Status: Decline
Replay Mission Boss Rush
0:30:00
Status: Decline
Any%
04:15:00
Status: Decline
NG+
04:15:00
PS5
DwarvenDynamite


Growl Save the animals from an evil organization of poachers. Lots of enemy manipulation and precise positioning. A few bugs and skips with a ton of weird and funny moments throughout. Status: Decline
Gen Any%
00:30:00
Sega Genesis
JHobz


Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy OpenGOAL is a fan-made PC port of the original PS2 game, bringing in higher resolutions, higher frame rates, and modding capabilities, including a cutscene skip mod. The video shown is the PB I acquired during an episode of GDQ Hotfix's PB Precipice. Status: Decline
OpenGOAL Any% No LTS (Cutscene skips)
01:10:00
PC
JHobz


Kingdom Hearts 0.2: A Fragmentary Passage The actual name of this game is too long for the field lol Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PS5
Ferric


Chained Echoes Chained Echoes is a retro-styled RPG released in late 2022. It features fast action, dynamic turn based combat, with a separate battle system for the game's large cool-looking mechs. I would love to be able to show off this category alongside my partner Blaze. We have worked very hard on route optimization and have performed the co-op run on several occasions. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless Co-op
3:35:00
PC
Nikoheart


REVEIL REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration.
5 chapters to the game, all exploring the life of the protagonist as he delves further into the dredges of his memories(?) as he uncovers a ghastly truth,
Status: Decline
Any% Just Get Out Of Here
01:00:00
PC
Plumato


Rocket League This will be an additional showcase for ThundaSurge's run that will focus only air dribble maps, to show a higher level of difficulty of aerial ball control.

NOTE: This is meant to be a bonus incentive for ThundaSurge's run, assuming the incentive is met. Also, this will be done in the Breakout hitbox with no additional incentives to change.
Status: Decline
Workshop Showcase (Bonus: Air Dribbles)
00:15:00
PC
erupt


PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage. Submitting 4P with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, and Danny, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag. Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 4 Player
00:28:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 8 Player
00:40:00
PC
stripe


Pico Park PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting 2P with Mkwiifreak, 3P adds Danny, 4P adds erupt, 8P adds Nathan, Jiro, Goofy, and Winbag.
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 2P
00:26:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 3P
00:26:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 4P
00:28:00
Status: Decline
Multiplayer - 8P
00:40:00
PC
peaches


Kid Chameleon Iconic Genesis platformer with a massive twisting web of levels packed with a large variety of powerups and secret exits ripe for speedrunning. The 4Boss run had a new wr set just this year and has a variety of new tricks found since the previous GDQ run in 2018. The 100k trip category utilizes a special speed-gated warp that skips to roughly the halfway point and has yet to be shown off in the main marathon. Status: Decline
100k Trip
00:20:00
Status: Decline
4Boss
00:30:00
Nintendo Wii (VC)
Nikoheart


Silent Hill: The Short Message (Note, this game has a few triggering topics, it's referenced within the beginning portion of submission video & warnings screens in-game)
The Short Message is a free-to-play Silent Hill spin-off set in modern-day Germany. Anita enters an apartment block in search of her deceased friend, Maya. Haunted by text messages from Maya, and armed with nothing but a phone flashlight, the goal is to explore each decaying room, uncover clues, solve puzzles and escape pursuit.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PS5
Uncle Slam


Super Mario Maker 2 Five different game styles across the Super Mario series wrapped up into one! An often overlooked aspect of the game, SMM2’s story mode makes for a surprisingly solid speedrun thanks to Nintendo’s ingenious level design. Each level has its own theme distinguishing it from the rest, including elements you don’t get to see in any online levels.

What we get is a run that includes plenty of flashy skips, moments guaranteed to make you clench, and all sorts of varied movement to keep things spicy.
Status: Decline
Story Mode Any%, No Luigi Assist
01:45:00
Nintendo Switch
okNia_


PlateUp! PlateUp! is a roguelike kitchen simulation game where we are trying to franchise a restaurant by surviving for 15 days! This run was completed at Flame Fatales 2023. We raised over $1k during the run with over 100 of that occurring in the last 3-minutes of the run for an unofficial run incentive to catch our kitchen on fire. This game has a lot of opportunities for donations and also is ran by the extremely charming Team OAT (not biased)!

3P with atwentysomethingloser, okNia_, and theValiantSun
Status: Decline
Any% - Random Seed, Turkey, Trio
00:40:00
PC
Murcaz


Crash Bandicoot N.Sane-Trilogy The classic beloved playstation mascot crash bandicoot is back yet again! Crash 3 NST has been showcased multiple times at GDQ and have always been well recieved and different. its an ever changing category with impressive tricks and sequence breaks on top of the already hard movement. and this time it will be executed by 2 players sharing a controller! submitted with Alaapo. Also submitting 108% which has not yet been showcased and has a lot of cool onecycles and nostalgia not seen in Any% Status: Decline
Crash 3 108%
2:20:00
Status: Decline
Crash 3 Any% 2 player 1 controller
00:52:00
PC
Alaapo


Crash Bandicoot N.Sane-Trilogy he classic beloved playstation mascot crash bandicoot is back yet again! Crash 3 NST has been showcased multiple times at GDQ and have always been well recieved and different. its an ever changing category with impressive tricks and sequence breaks on top of the already hard movement. and this time it will be executed by 2 players sharing a controller! submitted with murcaz Status: Decline
Crash 3 Any% 2 player 1 controller
00:52:00
PC
Kobazzco


Spore Hero Spore Hero is a 3D action-adventure game that takes the popular Creature Stage of Spore for the PC and turns it into a new game. Being a Wii game, motion controls are used all the time to make for a jank experience like no other. There's interesting and precise platforming skips, suffering through motion control combat, and making your arms REALLY big to make said combat easier. All of this together makes for an entertaining run where my abomination saves the world that is sure to make you laugh Status: Decline
Any%
01:25:00
Wii U
Alaapo


Tekken 8 Tekken 8 is newest instalment of Tekken fighting game series.
In this run we complete Arcade/Story mode with Kuma fast as possible and become champion of ''King of Iron Fist Tournament''.
Status: Decline
Arcade Battle - Kuma Easy
00:11:00
PC
Panduhmonium


Yakuza: Dead Souls Want to see Kiryu Kazuma running around shooting zombies with a massive rifle? Yakuza Dead Souls is a weird amalgamation of Yakuza series shenanigans, 3rd person shooter, and every single trope ever presented in media featuring zombies.

In NG+ forget guns, we use a satellite laser from space to delete everything, including yourself, so be careful where you point that thing!

Dead Souls is the hardest difficulty. Zombies are always enraged, love to stomp and tackle, and boy do they HURT.
Status: Decline
Dead Souls
03:25:00
Status: Decline
NG+
02:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
02:55:00
Playstation 3
BubbleBass


SpongeBob's Truth or Square Truth or Square is the second successor to Battle for Bikini Bottom. It has garnered a passionate community due to its varied glitches and complex movement toolkit. Out of Bounds shenanigans create crazy platforming sequences in levels like Mermalair, Santa, and Karate Island. The game also offers unique movement tech such as Spin Boosting to gain massive height quickly and spin-hopping to gain extra lateral speed. Status: Decline
100%
01:12:00
Status: Decline
Any% No LSG
00:50:00
Xbox 360
TheHaxor


Super Mario Bros. 3 Randomizer Randomizer provides a fresh experience to a platforming classic. It features randomized world order, level order/locations, enemy sets in levels, overworld pipe locations/destinations, hammer bro fights, airships, and item rewards from letters/chests. Each world features obstacles (bridges and locks) that must be overcome by fortress completion in order to progress to the end of the world.

This race features the 2020 and the 2021/2022 SMB3 Randomizer tournament champions in a Best of 5 format.
Status: Decline
Any% Warples Bo5 race w/Mitchflowerpower
03:00:00
NES
Starwin


Oddworld Adventures A gameboy port of Oddworld Abe's Oddysee. You fart to jump higher, and break the game. Enough said. Status: Decline
Any%
00:12:00
Gameboy
weldytime


ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBORS ANY% RUN. Standard run. I've ran this for NoGlitchesAllowed and Retrothon in the past. Should be a standard run! Status: Decline
Any%
00:39:00
NINTENDO SWITCH
Jaypeg


FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.

I will be running with happybythree, blondkayvon and gondortowerguard! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.
Status: Decline
any% 4 person co-op
00:55:00
PC
HyperionSkies


Stardew Valley A farming sim Stardew Valley is a unique speedgame with appeal for both casual and challenge runners; the 1.6 update has again put Stardew in the forefront of indie gaming. This run uses an older version of the game, but has yet to be featured on the GDQ stage!
2P Fishtank Vanilla will be run by hyperionskies (me) and blackheartwings
Status: Decline
2P Fishtank% Vanilla
1:45:00
PC
Jaypeg


Cave Crawler Cave Crawler is a lovely short game made by Technomancy Studios. Presented in a "found footage" style, you pilot a drone into a cave and discover something much more dangerous under the surface.

This any% run is short, sweet, and jam-packed with all sorts of rock puns (and room for more). I do a bit where I act as the "trainer" teaching you how to pilot the drone, and we only do the specific scans needed to finish each level. I will bring my own safety vest and hard hat.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:12:00
PC
Kialeee


Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition Set in the Cold War-era Soviet Union, the story centers on FOX operative Naked Snake as he attempts to rescue a weapons designer and sabotage an experimental super-weapon known as the Shagohod.

In this Any% Very Easy, I'll be showcasing a few glitches along with a very accessible speedrun for people who wants to get into speedrunning, and also love the MGS series!
Status: Decline
Any% Very Easy
01:10:00
PC
cassasaur


Dora: The Search for Pirate Pig's Treasure Vamonos! Dora the Explorer and Boots need your help to find Pirate Pig’s treasure in the franchise’s first adventure on the Game Boy Advance screen. With the map and backpack by our side, we’ll travel through eight worlds in this edutainment platformer perfect for the silly block or a cartoon block. The game plays like an episode of the show, complete with friends like Tico and the Fiesta Trio. And we’ll need the audience's help to stop Swiper the Fox! Status: Decline
Any% No Continue Codes
00:40:00
GBI
Crak Atak


Contra: Rogue Corps Contra known for its run and gun changes the format to a twin stick shooter with a massive amount of grinding to play effectively. This run takes on the toughest boss in the game with a roguelike mapset layout. I spent hundreds of hours to have the NG+ file consisting of lots of grinding and savescumming to get the perfect setup I want. The run is mostly about optimizing DPS in various ways while trying to dodge often. Giant enemy crab alert! Status: Decline
NG+ Chaos Finale
00:15:00
PC
Starwin


Resident Evil Gaiden Resident Evil Gaiden is a survival horror game on the Gameboy Color. While this is a Resident Evil title, it plays completely differently than other games in the series. The game uses a first person perspective for fights, and top-down perspective for general gameplay. Gaiden isn't exactly the best game in the series, but when it comes to the horror genre, the worst the game the better the speed tech. Glitches and infinite ammo galore! Status: Decline
Any%
00:38:00
Gameboy Color
Kialeee


Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance This is the fourth release in the METAL GEAR series. Metal Gear Solid 2 is a story a told in two parts:

In the Tanker chapters, Solid Snake sneaks into a secret tanker in pursuit of a new top-secret nuclear weapon, called Metal Gear.

In the Plant chapters, Raiden of the new FOXHOUND unit infiltrates an offshore plant occupied by terrorists.

In this speedrun category, Any%, I will showcase a few glitches as well as an easily accessible speedrun for anyone who wants to get into speedrunning
Status: Decline
Any% Very Easy
01:10:00
PC
Starwin


Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir Spirit Camera is a handheld AR horror game, and a spin off title from the Fatal Frame series. The game involves using the 3DS camera, gyro controls, and a AR notebook known as " The Diary of Faces" in order to progress through the game, and solve the mysteries involving the Woman in Black. While fighting spirits, and solving puzzles is the main focus in the game, I'll also have to manipulate the notebook in real time in order to go as fast as possible. Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
Nintendo 3DS
Sweenerdog


Diddy Kong Racing Randomizer Diddy Kong Racing is an N64 racing game classic that the audience always loves to watch. The music is great, the gameplay is fast paced and wild, and the world of DKR Randomizer adds an incredible amount of complexity to an already insane speedrun. Better yet, this Randomizer submission is a race with Obiyo, another prolific DKR speedrunner. Our races always end up very close, and quite exciting to watch. Status: Decline
100% Randomizer
2:15:00
Nintendo 64
Skybilz


Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (15 Card) There is no better place to save Ancient Egypt than on the GDQ stage - and this run has it all: suspense, no cpu mercy, booster pack intrigue, and anime memes galore. Whether one is a fan of card games, Yugioh, or speedrunning, there is truly something for everyone here. Starting with a pre-seeded deck to maximize time (and fun). Submitting a race between myself and Keiz to maximize our odds of victory against the cpu as well as hold a live rematch that will have people talking for years. Status: Decline
any% 15 Card - Solo
02:55:00
Status: Decline
any% 15 Card - Race with Keizaron
02:55:00
Playstation 2
Skybilz


Super Mario All-Stars Shuffler This showcase was an absolute delight in the finale of Flame Fatales 2022, AGDQ 2023 Online, and I am excited to once again propose this submission now for a live performance. Playing 4 (or 5) 2D Mario games at the same time brings a unique showcase and feel to any speedrun event. Imagine the live and virtual audience on the edge of their seats as they don't know when the game will change over. Status: Decline
any% All Four - No Wrong Warp
01:50:00
SNES (Emulator)
Argick


Sonic Mania Sonic Mania is fast, speedy and fun. This category showcases the game without any of the major glitches that skip through parts of levels & certain bosses.

We'll see everything the game has to offer and is still filled with movement tech and the elemental shields to keep the momentum going. Plus we'll be speeding our way through the special stages to get the chaos emeralds in SECONDS.

This is the complete experience of Sonic Mania! That can also be run with any character! Bid war maybe?
Status: Decline
S&T Good Ending - No Major Glitches
01:00:00
PC
Intovariance


Final Fantasy Legend II FFL2 is an interesting story driven game about family, friendship and betrayal. There are several donation incentive options for this game. Also this game has become more accessible recently with several new ports (switch, PC and phone) Status: Decline
glitchless, no hard resets
1:55:00
PC
ICED


Rain World: Downpour As the hardest of the base game Slugcats, Hunter, lives in a world with much harder creature spawns and a limited amount of days to live. The Pebbles category is a deviation from standard categories as it requires only finishing the game while also having met one of the main characters, Pebbles, while going through some areas introduced with the new DLC. Hunter runs involve mastery over the movement and creature mechanics as you have additional speed and power but no special abilities. Status: Decline
Hunter - Pebbles
00:55:00
PC
DylWingo


Final Fantasy VII Any% No Slots bans the use of Cait Sith's limit break Slots, which insta-kills any boss in the game. No Slots boss strategies differ heavily, with mainly utilizing the Deathblow Materia, as well as abusing Tifa's broken weapon, the Powersoul, that adds much more unique variety and excitement for each boss battle. Add this, alongside several large game breakin skips and a pre-determined steproute to optimally track in-game encounters, FF7 offers one of the best JRPG speedrun experiences, to date. Status: Decline
Any% No Slots
07:00:00
PlayStation 2
Winbag4


PICO PARK PICO PARK is a multiplayer co-op game created by Teco. All players play as colored cats and work together to complete a series of platform and puzzle levels. With online support for up to 8 players, PICO PARK gives a unique, and perhaps chaotic, speedrunning experience for the GDQ stage.

Submitting with Stripe, Mkwiifreak, Danny, erupt, Nathan, Jiro, and Goofy.
Status: Decline
8P
00:40:00
PC
happybythree


FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.

I will be running with Jaypeg, blondkayvon and gondortowerguard! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.
Status: Decline
Any% 4-Person Co-Op
00:55:00
PC
ICED


Rain World: Downpour Rivulet is the fastest of the slugcats with access to multiple movement abilities making them one of the most skill-expressive characters to play. Movement methods change throughout the run involving wall pounces, ploinks, grappling, zero-g, and the use of an anti-gravity ball. Rivulet needs all of these tools to perform the fastest route to deliver the anti-gravity ball, from one god to another, within the limited time each day before the rain comes... Status: Decline
Rivulet - Story
00:48:00
PC
Keizaron


Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories There is no better place to save Ancient Egypt than on the GDQ stage - and this run has it all: suspense, no cpu mercy, booster pack intrigue, and anime memes galore. Whether one is a fan of card games, Yugioh, or speedrunning, there is truly something for everyone here. Starting with a pre-seeded deck to maximize time (and fun). Submitting a race between myself and Skybilz to maximize our odds of victory against the cpu as well as hold a live rematch that will have people talking for years. Status: Decline
any% 15 Card - Race with Skybilz
02:55:00
Playstation 2
Etchy


Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Despite having the same name, this is a new category compared to the one ran at SGDQ2019.

Recently we discovered how to consistently do a glitch called Mount Skips, which save several minutes by doing sub-pixel perfect movements in Victory Road to skip all of the trainers. It's an interesting glitch to explain and showcase!

We beat Gym Leaders in an unorthodox order while catching tons of different Pokemon in order to beat the game! It's a unique Pokemon speedrun that plays like a randomizer.
Status: Decline
Any%
3:05:00
Nintendo Switch
RbdJellyfish


LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, fritt, Krosso, and FireThieff work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation. Status: Decline
all prize bubbles 4 players
01:50:00
Playstation 3
Krosso


LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, fritt, rbdjellyfish, and FireThieff work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation. Status: Decline
all prize bubbles 4 players
01:50:00
Playstation 3
FireThieff


LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, fritt, Krosso, and RbdJellyfish work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation. Status: Decline
all prize bubbles 4 players
01:50:00
PlayStation 3
JalBagel


Monster Hunter World Any% speedrun of Monster Hunter World! New character to Xeno'jiiva, the final monster of the base game experience! What this game lacks in skips and glitches it makes up for in precise execution and deep game knowledge! The goal is to hunt every monster as fast as possible taking advantage of every tool the game gives, including Defender Weapons and Clutch Claw exploits! Status: Decline
Xeno%
02:38:00
PC
fritt


LittleBigPlanet LBP is a physics-based 2.5D platformer focused on playfulness and creativity. In the All Prize Bubbles category, me, RbdJellyfish, Krosso, and FireThieff work together to beat the story mode while collecting every collectable. The mix of a carefully crafted co-op route, high-skill-ceiling movement tech, and a wild physics engine makes the run an entertaining mix of impressive coordination and chaotic improvisation. Status: Decline
all prize bubbles 4 players
1:50:00
Playstation 3
blondkayvon


FOREWARNED You can describe Forewarned(2021) as "If Phasmophobia watched The Mummy & Indiana Jones on repeat." It's a ghost investigation game, but with some fun - and deadly - twists along the way.



I will be running with happybythree, jaypeg_exe, and GondorTowerGuard! Join us as we sprint our way through 9 maps of mazes, traps, and ancient vengeful spirits. No map is ever the same twice, so this involves lots of communication, teamwork, and quick thinking to get the info we need and escape.
Status: Decline
any% 4 person co-op
00:55:00
PC
a_variety_pack


Bayonetta 3 Bayonetta 3 evolves the flashy combat of its predecessors by adding demon summons and a new playable character. The New Game+ speedrun retains the most timesaving skips (including an Out of Bounds, Spider Jumps, and abuse of collision) while taking advantage of the most powerful demons to eviscerate enemies in seconds.
Status: Decline
Any% NG+ (Expert)
2:20:00
Nintendo Switch
WoodenBarrel


The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time & Majoras Mask This is a Co-op run between Revven and myself that takes the two 3D N64 Zelda games, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and sticks them together with all their items randomized between the two games. Looking for Goron Mask? It could be found in the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time. Looking for the Iron Boots? It could be found in Majora's Mask on the Curiosity Shop for 500 rupees. We play the same seed, sharing information in order to beat 6 (random) dungeons and defeat Ganon and Majora. Status: Decline
Combo Rando Co-op
03:30:00
Nintendo 64
NickRPGreen


UnMetal UnMetal is a 2D indie action game that pays homage to the 2D Metal Gear games on the MSX. It tells the comedic story of Jesse Fox, who must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists. Puzzles, boss fights and more can be expected. Guard patterns are randomized and getting spotted isn't optimal, so on-the-fly stealth routing is essential. Perfect adds in taking out every guard, UnPerfect then adds secret dev challenges, whilst All Achievements swaps in other, really nasty objectives! Status: Decline
All Achievements
01:15:00
Status: Decline
UnPerfect - Hard
01:28:00
Status: Decline
Perfect - Hard
01:15:00
Status: Decline
Any% - Hard
00:55:00
PC
NickRPGreen


Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil Klonoa 2 is one of the hidden gems of the PS2 and the recent remaster breathed new life into it. A platformer with a unique mechanic whereby you temporarily capture enemies and reuse them to throw at objects, launch yourself into the air or use their unique powers. Brightly colored with adorable characters, it provides a nice blend of platforming, puzzles, and boss fights. Support mode gives Klonoa an added jump boost, allowing for interesting skips and glitches. Hard gives Klonoa just 1 hp! Status: Decline
All Visions, Normal, Support Mode
01:50:00
Status: Decline
Any%, Hard, Support Mode
01:50:00
Status: Decline
Any%, Normal, Support Mode
01:45:00
PC
Mattmatt


Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Uncharted 2 has one of the most unique and interesting speedruns in the entire series. Using a wide range glitches including launching ourselves across the map, airwalking to skip entire chapters, numerous wall clips and the best part of the run is.... we can pet some yaks! The run has quite a few new tricks since I last showed off the run! All Treasures gives us that extra added challenge in collecting all the treasures, allowing us to make use of even more tricks and skips! Status: Decline
All Treasures
2:10:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:25:00
PS5
NickRPGreen


Mini Ghost Mini Ghost is a cute, MSX-inspired, space metroidvania. Avoiding enemies, fighting mechanized bosses, and navigating the maze of rooms, this run sees good route optimization to carve the quickest path through. Any% takes a risky approach, seeing only about half of the game and skipping most upgrades to take on the bosses very underpowered. 100% meanwhile sees Ghost power up to the max whilst seeing much more of the game. Status: Decline
100%
00:41:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:27:00
PC
Antiaaron


Hard Corps Uprising with Operation Galuga out we should show respect to the game that kicks off the timeline for the contra series. Hard Corps Uprising. Fully upgraded with all perks you run & gun or hack & slash your way through 8 challenging stages to defeat the commonwealth. Status: Decline
Rising Mode Sayuri
00:42:00
Status: Decline
Rising Mode Bahamut
00:55:00
xbox Series S
SHiFT


SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom A niche platformer turned a classic over the last decade, Battle for Bikini Bottom is a nonstop joyride of diverse glitches and creative movement. Damage boosts, memory storage, nonstop sequence breaks with the majority requiring 1/60th second precision. Since its last appearance in AGDQ 2022, the iconic "cruise boost" has been uncapped to infinite speed potential, along with a new spatula duplication process that'll make the audience's heads spin. With that said, I must ask: are ya ready, kids? Status: Decline
100%
1:30:00
Status: Decline
Any%
0:55:00
Xbox
DarkTerrex


The Incredible Crash Dummies Heads will roll and bodies will fly in this NES platformer! Based on the toys of the same name this run features damage boosting that makes you zoom across the screen. LJN made one decent game, shocking I know, and here it is. Last performed by me in SGDQ 2016, I am now submitting my estimate as my then marathon time with new strats and boss manipulation found! So strap in by buckling your safety belt, we're losing our heads to this driver's test speed course! Status: Decline
Any%
00:17:00
NES
SingleScoop


Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Timestamps of interesting parts in the top comment of the video.
Short and cute 3d collectathon where I control Captain Toad and Toadette simultaneously via two controllers. Even though this game might seem mechanically simple, there tends to be just enough at our disposal to come up with some unique strats. Also just look how cute they are.
Status: Decline
Special Episode Any% 1 Player 2 Controllers
00:30:00
Nintendo Switch
DarkTerrex


Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars Bizarre and funky, this 3D platformer about a telekinetic mushroom armed with a sticky hand and weapons built from junk drawer objects takes us on a trippy adventure filled with strange environments and stranger music. Sequence breaks, out of bounds tricks, and long roll jumps for fast platforming make for an entertaining and wacky run that fits perfectly in the Silly Block! I recently rerouted weapon pickups which saved 3 minutes off the previous record run. Status: Decline
Any%
00:51:00
Wii
TheSpectacularSlade


Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Two players get to go through the game as quickly as possible. Now with the wonderful removal of all of the FMV cutscenes the runtime for this game has gone down by a significant amount. Status: Decline
Co-op Any% with Zojalyx
1:10:00
PC
RUBIEHART


Hades Hades runners have been tearing through the layers of Hell at the speed of light since the Supergiant masterpiece released. But what if not just gods and devils of the game came out to play, but the audience? Join RUBIEHART as they take on this challenge run to see if, with a new game file and all of Games Done Quick throwing items, boons, death, and demons their way, they can defeat Hades before the timer strikes zero! Status: Decline
Fresh File Crowd Control
03:00:00
PC
DEVILMAN


Inscryption This is a psychological horror like card game, developed by Daniel Mullins Games in 2021.
There are three main sections. And as the sections progress, you can see how the card game is gradually disrupted. Particularly in Act 3(Unrestricted, PC), I will use two glitches, Fight Skip and Event Dupe, to skip almost all card battles.(47:44)
In Act 3(NMG), I will progress by always drawing a powerful card using the GetFairhand algorithm, the difficulty adjustment system.(51:21)
Status: Decline
Any% (NMG)
01:25:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Unrestricted, PC)
01:17:00
PC
Joester98


Kururin Squash! The lone console entry in the series, Squash! builds on the Kururin style by adding the ability to control rotation speed as well as several new helirins, including ones that punch, spit fire, and make tornadoes! These new mechanics are taken advantage of in boss fights, allowing for multiple quick kills. A limited supply of health, paired with damage abuses to skip cycles in every level, forces extremely fast and precise movement everywhere, making for a very difficult and impressive showcase! Status: Decline
Any% Normal
00:40:00
GameCube
RUBIEHART


Titan Souls Created by Acid Nerve, the same studio that made Death's Door, Titan Souls is a beautiful and challenging 2D pixel art platformer likened to masterpieces like Shadow of the Colossus and Dark Souls. Set in an ancient land, follow RUBIEHART and Zic3 as they race through 19 epic bosses in fights that you will miss if you look away for more than a few seconds. Status: Decline
100% - All Bosses RACE
00:25:00
PC / PS5
Joester98


Pac 'n Roll One of the earliest DS titles, PnR relies completely on touchscreen/stylus controls for movement, but by using 2 styluses, you can move twice as fast! This allows for a number of cycle skips and even a whole level skip! Powerups to make Pac-Man lighter or heavier are skipped or abused to sequence break within levels, and clever boss AI manipulation allows for several quick kills. The constant double stylus action combined with an overly ecstatic Pac-Man make PnR a fun and entertaining showcase! Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
3DS XL
Riekelt


Ape Escape 3 Ape Escape 3 is the third and most complete edition of the Ape Escape series. It has a lot of cute monkeys that escaped again, and it's up to us to catch em.

There's a lot of movement glitches like the recently found Hip Drop Storage.
Giving 2 categories, Any% and the more fun Survival Mode. 0 lives, all gadgets and morphs, ALL monkeys!
Status: Decline
Survival Mode
2:06:00
Status: Decline
Any%
1:22:00
PS3
potaterhands


moon: Remix RPG Adventure A quirky adventure game / deconstruction of JRPGs. The category Beat the Game (aka Any%) is tightly routed around the day-night cycle, in-game currencies, and utilizes some clever exploits. There is still a large amount of randomness in the run, which requires an ability to quickly react and adapt to it on the fly. Status: Decline
Beat the Game
2:20:00
PC
FailedUplink


FAITH: The Unholy Trinity FAITH is an intense horror game where one touch is death. You play a priest who is trying to exorcise demons in a retro inspired indie game.

GCB% is all chapters, all good endings, and zero deaths. If a death occurs I run to the end or all good endings if time permits. For this category I am also submitting it as a race with opiepieSunpaul.

Any% Ending II is the good ending of chapter 3 and therefore shows off all bosses.

Marathon% is all chapters completed as fast as possible.
Status: Decline
Marathon%
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Chapter III Any% Ending II
01:10:00
Status: Decline
GCB%
01:35:00
PC
The Retro Runner


Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti This is a very charming Famicom game that has some amazing Halloween vibes. The controls are among the tightest of any game I've played on the NES and it is a joy to play as you control Rick, with a myriad of boss quick kills and deceptively difficult optimized movement and platforming in the run. It's such a good game and deserves to be way more known than it is. Status: Decline
Any%
00:20:00
NES
Rubberduckyassassin


Spyro: Season of Ice A nostalgia trip for some, a trauma bond for others. The 1st handheld Spyro game is a unique experience; from blind jumps, invisible walls to “super fluttering” and wacky boss fights. The speedrun makes this game look like a cake walk, when it is in fact, not a cake walk. This was one of the first games I ever played and is great example of how sometimes a poorly made game can be a fun yet challenging speedrun :) Status: Decline
Any%
01:10:00
Gameboy Player
danejerus


RAGE Despite this game's obscurity, there's some fun and really impressive speedtech in this run. It being on the idtech engine means we've got strafehopping. If you like Quake 2, we've got you covered. Also, about 2 hours of the game is skipped by running away from people and talking to them again. Yes, you read that right. 2 hours. Status: Decline
Any%
02:00:00
PC
juh0


Fear the Spotlight Me: MOM! CAN I HAVE SILENT HILL: THE SHORT MESSAGE?
Mom: WE HAVE SILENT HILL: THE SHORT MESSAGE AT HOME!
Silent Hill: The Short Message at home.
Fear the Spotlight is a Silent Hill inspired indie horror game. Think Silent Hill: A Short Message but at home, and with a lesbian love story! The game has unique skips and optimized routing, and its PS1-esque graphics will surely bring in the likes of many retro horror fans who would like to see this one of a kind game.
Status: Decline
any%
00:38:00
PC
Czikubi


MOTHER All Melodies is a category where the game's only major glitch is exploited to beat the game in a quick and unique way, venturing into many different areas and obtaining abilities not required in the regular Any% category. With tons of manipulation and teleport platforming, it's sure to impress as the first appearance of this game in an official GDQ event. Although Any% skips much of the content in the game, it is still a great representation of this game's speedrun and how broken it is. Status: Decline
All Melodies
1:15:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
Famicom
JonDBS


Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg Marking the 25th Anniversary of the Atelier series, Atelier Marie Remake is marked as a cozy, a cute, and one of the short(est) turn-based JRPGs whose main premise is on item crafting and building. The speedrun of this game feature powerful crafted items such as a SUPER BOMB and a time stopping tablet rendering foes frozen; and a staple in JRPGs, the fast item gathering, less cutscenes and transitions, fast menuing and auto-battle mode. Categories are divided according to Marie's pathway. Status: Decline
A Savior Ending (Very Hard)
01:10:00
Status: Decline
A Professor Ending
00:56:00
Status: Decline
A Savior Ending (Normal)
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Normal Ending
00:14:00
PC
Gerbiez


Mario Party This category is a great way to show the bones and foundation of mario party minigames, and how they became what they are today. There are some elements of RNG, but a lot of time can be made up with skill. I personally have dedicated a lot of time to this category, and would love a chance to show the world how amazing and fun mario party speedruns can be. Status: Decline
Mini-Game Island Any%
00:40:00
Nintendo 64
Crow3893


Nicktoons Unite! This game is a 3D Co-Op Beat Em' Up where SpongeBob, Danny Phantom, Timmy Turner, and Jimmy Neutron team up to defeat the Evil Syndicate from destroying their worlds by collecting power ups in every level. NG+ allows us to have all the abilities unlocked at the start and fully upgraded. "Solo" is a "1 Player Any Controller" category and I will be running with 2 GameCube controllers. Some glitches used are: Increasing an ally's hitbox, going Out of Bounds, Cheerleader Jumps, and partner warps. Status: Decline
NG+ (Solo)
1:10:00
Wii
Duckable


Promenade Promenade is a new, 2D platformer/collectathon game. It takes aspects from many other games, such as Celeste, Mario Odyssey, Klonoa and more. The objective of the game, and this run, is to complete the game as fast as possible, without performing any major skips. There are some very fun, unique strategies that can be performed with your octopus companion, in order to collect all the gear cogs required to reach the top of the elevator. Major skips in this game involve avoiding major progression. Status: Decline
Any% No Major Skips
1:30:00
PC
Crow3893


Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island This game is a platformer where 9 Nicktoons heroes are the "Chosen Ones" who must stop the evil Mawgu from destroying Volcano Island. Throughout the game, you meet up with other characters who join your team, and later on collect items to create a "Rip Zipper" to defeat the Mawgu for good. In a speedrun there are some skips and glitches used such as out of bounds, increased height jumps, continuous character jumps, and using allies to skip parts of a level or hitting cutscene triggers early. Status: Decline
Any% (Solo)
00:40:00
Wii
Crow3893


Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots This game is a platformer where you play as Nicktoons heroes who must stop Professor Calamitous from being titled "The Biggest Genius." You also have to collect "Master Models" of other Nicktoons characters to progress further in the game. In Any%, we collect the 9 fastest Master Models but also doing some interesting skips and glitches. Some of those being increased speed tech, Master Model skips, out of bounds, sometimes to skip entire levels, and even a wrong warp that skips half of the game! Status: Decline
Any%
00:41:00
Wii U
Maxylobes


Resident Evil (2002) One of the most beloved remakes of a game, ever. The HD version on Steam is the best way of showcasing all of the flashy zombie dodges, slick stair-skating, and strict resource routing. Jill and Chris have many differences between them, including entirely different boss strategies, health pools, item routing, and movement. Chris' scenario is preferred, but I'm willing to either have them as a bid war, or run Jill's scenario as a bonus incentive to show off the Door Randomizer. Status: Decline
Door Randomizer
01:20:00
Status: Decline
Jill Any%
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Chris Any%
01:00:00
PC
Phantom5800


Paper Mario Blitz settings attempt to shorten the time it takes to complete a seed by lowering the number of Star Spirits from 7 to 4, and restricting where required items can be placed to only those parts of the game. This creates a much more streamlined encouraging strategic use of items and abilities.
Glitch Logic incorporates dozens of glitches into the item placement logic. These settings also require beating all 7 chapters, and with how broken the game is, this can lead to crazy routing.
Status: Decline
Randomizer (Blitz)
1:50:00
Status: Decline
Randomizer (Glitch Logic)
3:30:00
N64
Phantom5800


Super Mario RPG Breezy is a new mode available in the remake that modifies enemy stats and gives more experience to the player. This has resulted in another drastically different route from even the Normal difficulty where it is no longer considered optimal to get the Super Suit. Status: Decline
Any% Breezy
2:45:00
Nintendo Switch
Mattmatt


The Thing The Thing is a canon sequal to the 1982 movie of the same name, it even features a cameo by John Carpenter himself! This game has a unique trust feature where any one of your squadmates can be infected at any time and it makes the gameplay very interesting. The run itself is very fast paced with virtually no downtime, clipping through walls using needles as well skipping boss and tactical ammo conservation... also making sure we're topped up on medkits! Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
PC
Phantom5800


THE DOG Island You play as a puppy, your puppy sibling is DYING and you have to go to an island full of other puppies to find the cure! By learning the scents of various objects and solving troubles of the island's citizens; you will become a true sniff master, save the world from a flying whale, defeat a resurrected T-Rex zombie and even cure an incurable disease. Status: Decline
Any%
2:35:00
Wii
austinh2714


Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) The Any% run in Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) is a runthrough of the 'Rise of the Empire' Campaign story mode, however you bypass all of the space missions in the campaign. There are 13 levels to complete, certain levels lasting around 2 minutes, to the longest level lasting around 9 minutes. This run also includes certain skips like RRT (Remote Rocket Trigger), Turret Clips, and Out of Bounds. Status: Decline
Any% w/ Bonuses
01:00:00
PC
Mattmatt


Blade II Blade II has a pretty unique and awesome speedrun filled with tons of out of bounds glitches and exploits, skipping most of the levels entirely! Most people haven't even heard of this game but it's a gem that should be cherished! Playing NG+ allows us to start the run with UV grenades already unlocked which helps out massively throughout the run. If accepted I will joined on commentary with one of the developers for the game, Tom Forsyth! Status: Decline
Any% NG+
00:50:00
Xbox
KyoshiCadre


OMORI Omori is a surreal psychologic horror game developed by OMOCAT and released on December 25, 2020. Since OMORI last debuted at SGDQ 2022, there have been several minutes of timesave and optimizations. These timesaves include a massive glitch that allows you to skip multiple sections of the game with the picnic cutscenes. There's a lot of down time but there are several high points within the run. Status: Decline
Any% Unrestricted
1:00:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses No Save Warp
3:55:00
Status: Decline
Secret Ending No Save Warp
3:50:00
Status: Decline
Any% No Save Warp
2:20:00
PC
Drumboardist


Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Saiya-Jin It's a Dragon Ball Z RPG, on the SNES!

So....multiple issues here. It was back in the day when they REALLY wanted to make "card games" the norm for RPGs. It didn't work out....especially when you did things too fast in the menu screens.

But we can break the canon of the series anyways! Want to see "no one die" on Earth? We have a glitched category! TenShinHan rules the world? Glitchless has yer back! Yamcha, Krillin, and Chao-Tzu be relevant? Well, that's glitches again....
Status: Decline
any% Glitchless
03:10:00
Status: Decline
any% "Radar%"
01:10:00
SNES
Punchy


Seven Mansions: Ghastly Smile A pair of colossal idiots moonwalk and manipulate time itself via bugs through a survival horror adventure but where everything just doesn't quite work like a normal video game. The strongest weapon is a pen, for some reason. Status: Decline
Any% Reina
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Any% Kei
00:35:00
Dreamcast
LonelyRoast


Tearaway: Unfolded Tearaway: Unfolded is a 3D platformer from Media Molecule (Creators of LittleBigPlanet & Dreams). It is a creative game with many exploits, "out of bounds" tricks & unique skips that can be used throughout the game. I am the current world record holder for the game & categories. There are also opportunities to add creative flair throughout the game with it's customization options. The game was positively received in GDQ Time Capsule 2015 Vol. III. Status: Decline
Any%
02:15:00
Status: Decline
NG+
1:50:00
PlayStation 4
Punchy


Rugrats: Search For Reptar Strangely bald child jumps awkwardly through this janky 3d "platformer" (genre description tentative) with oddly frantic and unhinged energy for a game made for babies. Throw the baby down a flight of stairs for speed. Status: Decline
Any%
00:20:00
PS2
eewalktub


Deliver Us The Moon A linear progression style of game to complete certain objectives and puzzles. We have in the last year discovered many interesting and unique tricks throughout the entire run to cut the time down to below and hour. Based on the moon in a near future apocalypse where you must reactivate an energy source to restore power to the Earth. Status: Decline
Any% Full Game
01:03:00
PC
Kyoslilmonster1


Forspoken Forspoken follows the journey of Frey, a young New Yorker transported to the beautiful and cruel land of Athia. In search of a way home, Frey must use her newfound magical abilities to traverse sprawling landscapes and battle monstrous creatures.
Enjoy fluid combat, topical humor, and some of the slickest movement you've ever seen in an RPG!
Status: Decline
Any%
02:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% Truthful Ending No DLC/Bonus
02:20:00
PC
TheAlphaDolphin


Sonic Adventure DX : Director's Cut Ahah blue hedgehog and friends go really fast in this game... One rolls on himself the other fly and spins!
They all have funny qualities that make them cool!
But can they beat Eggman and Chaos this time?


Status: Decline
130 Emblems
4:50:00
Status: Decline
Tails Story
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Sonic's Story Race (w/ Katie4)
00:33:00
PC
Katie4


Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut Sonic is fast. He spindashes through levels at light speed, clips through suggestions/walls whenever he wants, skips massive chunks of levels that take forever, and doesn't afraid of anything. So cool!
Submitting as a race with TheAlphaDolphin.
Status: Decline
Sonic Story
00:33:00
PC
davidtki


Lychnis This is a DOS platformer (mostly) released exclusively in Korea in 1994. It's mostly known as a starting point for game companies Softmax and Gravity, and musician group SoundTeMP. Lychnis is a game with some great music and almost looks like it could be an amazing game but for some design decisions that make it almost Kaizo-like. In particular the final boss is a twist and curve that you won't see coming. Status: Decline
Any% (Lychnis)
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Iris)
00:30:00
DOS
davidtki


Pac-Land This is a difficult but also surprisingly fun platformer. That one Pac-Man stage from Smash Bros.? This is it. Originally an arcade release, this has been ported to a few platforms with the TurboGrafx-16 port being one of the best to play due to the built-in turbo function of the controller. There are no tricks in this run, it's all sheer skill.

This would make a great race against FlannelKat, PeaceEgg and Rujasu.
Status: Decline
8 trips (TG-16)
00:35:00
TG-16
Stevetvonline


Nippon Marathon This is a game.

This a game about racing.

This is a game about racing and a dog and more dogs and a lobster and memes and Australians and businessmen and watermelons.

This game is all for fun and janky on purpose and would be an amazing awful block game, or even a regular block.
Status: Decline
Full Marathon (Minigames On, No Turbo)
01:00:00
Xbox Series X
Kyoslilmonster1


Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition You've seen the short version, how about the one without all the glitches and shenanigans!? Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
04:05:00
PC
Kyoslilmonster1


Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age The most broken version of FFXII comes to bear with RNG Manipulation, 4x speedup, and invisible weapons. A literal SPEEDRUN.
This game originally for the PS2 now has an HD remake with all the goodies added to it from the IZJS release which was for Japan only.
This also adds quite a few broken things to the game, including a weapon that has only a 1/10,000 chance of being found..so naturally we're gonna get multiples of it.
Status: Decline
Any%
02:40:00
Playstation 5
BigNoNo


Yakuza Kiwami The remake of the first Yakuza. Majima is everywhere, including in the run, because we beat him in a fight you're supposed to lose (by cheating) and become ridiculously overpowered for the remainder.

By the end of the run we sometimes do x16 the damage you're supposed to do to bosses, which makes the whole thing feel like a cartoon in the best way possible. This all hinges on us playing the game damageless though. Good luck!

Legend is the max difficulty category. NG+ shows a maxed out Kiryu.
Status: Decline
NG+
01:40:00
Status: Decline
Legend
02:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:53:00
PC
Stevetvonline


TOEM Controlling the character of a young photographer, you are tasked by your Grandmother to ascend a mountain to witness a phenomenon known as "Toem". You must go and help NPC characters with different tasks to complete in order to get stamps and achievements to gather EVERYTHING in the game. Tasks can be as small as finding a sandwich to cheering on a snail in a race, the cuteness never stops while we find everything there is to find. Status: Decline
100%
00:50:00
Xbox Series X
Stevetvonline


Dreamworks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders Taking place in the HTTYD universe, the story finds us controlling a deserted survivor of a fire that doesn't know his name. Through the help of the magically hatched egg, you join the hero in stopping the evil Eir from taking over and destroying the dragons. This is nonstop glitches and tricks that just show how broken this game is. Any% has glitches galore that require precision switching to skip past almost any cutscene in the game, and OOB tricks that allow us to skip puzzles entirely. Status: Decline
Any% (V-Sync Off)
01:10:00
PC
IkeSMB


Super Monkey Ball 651 SMB651 is a Super Monkey Ball custom game by the amazing player scrap651. Featuring an entirely original soundtrack by Jim Nopédie, SMB651 feels like an entirely new game, not just a romhack. SMB651’s trailblazing use of switches, wormholes, and conveyors leads to fun speedrun strats that feel right out of vanilla SMB2. SMB651 is also well known for its infamously difficult endgame, which only a small handful of the very best players can consistently beat. This awesome run is not to be missed! Status: Decline
Story Mode All Levels
00:38:00
Wii
Stevetvonline


The Last Campfire Lost in a world unknown, Ember must find a way to escape as well as save those who have been lost in the darkness and become forlorn. This cute puzzle game has some pretty major glitches as well as fast movement through each puzzle and some cute gameplay to boot. In any% we collect 4 forlorn in each chapter and get to the end as quickly as possible. Status: Decline
Any%
01:10:00
Xbox Series X
FOK


SUPERHOT "The time moves only when you move", which means that we will move as much as possible to complete the game as fast as possible. Status: Decline
Any%
00:18:00
PC
bewildebeest


The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask In an any% NMG speedrun without further restrictions, the infinite sword glitch (ISG) is used extensively, as it makes bomb hovers possible and prevents Link from falling off ledges. In this category, however, ISG is prohibited, which yields a substantially different route from standard any% NMG and showcases quite a few quirky glitches. Status: Decline
Any% NMG no ISG
1:20:00
Nintendo Wii
FOK


Batman: Arkham City Arkham City is a second game in the Arkham Franchise, and arguably the one with biggest amount of glitches out there, and we use all of them to complete the game in less than an hour. Status: Decline
Any% NG+ w/Cat
00:42:00
Status: Decline
Any% Easy
1:05:00
PC
IkeSMB


Super Monkey Ball Gaiden Super Monkey Ball Gaiden is an amazing Super Monkey Ball custom game. The levels are both fun & focused as well as large & spectacular, leading to a barrage of stunning speedrun strats such as tight movement (8-5), fast multi-part aerial moves (3-7), and climbing a giant robot (9-7) - every stage is exciting! I would love to showcase one of the best SMB runs of all time.

The Story Mode category plays the 100 main levels; Nambo’s Master Mode submission is intended as a bonus to follow this run.
Status: Decline
Story Mode All Levels
00:42:00
Wii
bewildebeest


The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 100% shows off the most interesting speed tech and skips the game has to offer. Low B Presses is a fun challenge category with a route and strategies unlike any other. Status: Decline
Low B Presses
5:30:00
Status: Decline
100%
6:35:00
Nintendo Wii
snrZora


Sonic Frontiers Any% was at GDQ last year, a lot of cool new stuff has been discovered such as new skips and routes. This game is really movement and tech heavy, which makes the game a really satisfying speed game to look at.

Another Ending is a completely new category. The game has had 3 major updates, which in the latest one, they added a complete new story to the end! This story has new playable characters (Amy, Knuckles and Tails), and a really sick final boss, where Sonic powers up and goes Super Sonic 2
Status: Decline
Any%
1:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% Another Ending
1:30:00
PC
oneeyeddeacon


Plants vs. Zombies PvZ is a game where you need to defend your house against zombies trying to eat your brains. The key to the speedrun is the 50% rule, which means we can advance the waves by dealing ~50% of the damage to a given wave. The speedrun in all of the categories is thus about balacing fast 50% with preparation for future waves of zombies. Status: Decline
All Puzzles
00:20:00
Status: Decline
Survival Endless (20 flags)
00:45:00
Status: Decline
All Minigames
2:00:00
Status: Decline
Any%
3:35:00
PC
JnicTM


Trackmania Trackmania is know for its fun and arcade styled racing maps. But just like Mario platformers have Kaizo mario, Trackmania has World of Wampus (WoW).

Though Wampus is not a mod, it is still an incredibly hard challenge, and is known as a 'trial' map. Therefore the intention of the map was not to complete it in a fast manner, but to be able to complete it at all. But of course speedrunners took up the challenge.

Wampus shows off so much of Trackmanias fun mechanics, bugs and wicked stunts.
Status: Decline
World of Wampus
01:00:00
PC
Brandino59


Luigi's Mansion 3DS Grab your gameboy horror, we have a mansion to explore! This 3DS remake of the Gamecube original brings beautiful updated graphics, gyro controls, and amiibo support into the game. Watch as I have to physically jerk the 3DS up and down in the real world to grab ghosts with Luigi. This run features slick ghost suck-ups and 3DS-exclusive text skip glitches to make E. Gadd stop talking to us about the elements. Let's save Mario and secure the bag! Status: Decline
Any% (Normal Mansion)
1:21:00
Status: Decline
100% (Normal Mansion)
1:45:00
Nintendo 3DS
OGHappydude


Evil Zone The game that has had a tournament featured at (At least) 6 GDQ's and was promoted HEAVELY promoted by SpikeVegeta at AGDQ 2024, Evil Zone is a 2 button fighter with only a block and a attack button. The run is on Easy but I will more than likely STILL game over as the game's story gives only one life! Wonky controls, polygons that you can individually count, and controls that sometimes don't do you want. IT'S EVIL ZONE BAY BAY!!! Status: Decline
Story Mode - Easy%
00:15:00
Playstation 3
rantan


Metal Unit Metal Unit is a side-scrolling 2D action roguelite game released in 2021. Each time you run, the shape and number of maps to advance changes, and equipment is obtained at random, making it a game with a high randomization factor. Speedrun was first shown at an event in Japan in 2022, and has gradually gained popularity with more and more runners. Although the game has a large random element, you can experience many joys and sorrows in one run. Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
PC
Rocher


Blasphemous 2 Blasphemous 2 is the second opus to the andalusian metroidvania. It has great art, game design and bosses.
The No Major Glitch (NMG) category is the most complete category that faces every boss. We will be doing the whole run without picking up any health upgrade.
The route has been very optimized and is able to go under 1:05:00 but the estimate covers 1 or 2 eventual death
Status: Decline
Any% NMG Race w/ Chemigoku
01:20:00
PC
TheShadedMaster


Hexcells Infinite The danger of Minesweeper mixed with the logic of nonograms, Hexcells Infinite is the ultimate test of mouse accuracy. With the Infinite Generator capable of creating 200 million levels, the furious ambient pings will help soothe chatter's souls.
6 Level Showcase aims to show the fluidity of easy logic levels and the rigid path of a hard logic level. Levels would likely be predetermined by size to better fit the category estimate and with special numbers such as important dates
Status: Decline
6 Level Showcase
00:25:00
PC
DarkTerrex


Wizards & Warriors 3: Kuros: Visions of Power The third installment of Wizards & Warriors on the NES has the knight Kuros return right where he left off, chasing down the evil wizard Malkil to the town of Piedup. There he becomes a thief and breaks into people's homes, promises to marry three princesses (and a dragon?) for their jewelry, and finally levitates menacingly at the Burger King to make him explode. Just a normal day for a knight, right?

Would be happy to race with Ppotdot1 or any other submitters.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:25:00
NES
Kingj0444


Super Mario 3D World Super Mario 3D World was originally released on the Wii U but got ported to the Switch in 2021. This version allows us to skip cutscenes and improves the characters base running speed. 3D World was already filled with awesome momentum and crazy skips but now it's more fast paced than ever! While the Wii U version was shown at previous GDQ events, the Switch version still has yet to be shown off.

Submitting Any% as a race with HexSpeedruns. Everything else is submitted as solo.
Status: Decline
Any%
01:45:00
Status: Decline
380 Stars
04:00:00
Status: Decline
243 Stars
02:35:00
Status: Decline
Random%
01:55:00
Switch
DasYorkie


BCV - Battle Construction Vehicles PAL and JP Exclusive game about the honour of fighting using construction vehicles.






Status: Decline
any%
00:34:00
Status: Decline
All Major Cutscenes
00:55:00
PS2
TheProfesser


The Nightmare Before Christmas:Oogies Revenge The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogies Revenge is a Devil May Cry-esque Hack & Slash game based on events after the movie. The game was released on PS2 and Xbox in 2005. The Speedrun focuses on KH1 style Platforming, Money Management (in Any%), and Sing-Along Musical Boss Battles that gets the whole crowd singing. My submission shows the two main categories that takes us through all 24 chapters of the main game, and a shorter sprint that shows everything the game has to hold Status: Decline
Any%
1:55:00
Status: Decline
Any% NG+
1:45:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses
00:40:00
Xbox
GLPhoenix


Eastern Exorcist My usual pitch for this game is "What if Sekiro, but 2d?" which tends to work better for the main story. The category I've submitted is the other story with the other playable character, which tends to be flashier and also more dangerous when it comes to later boss fights.

The last I submitted this game I had an estimate of 1 hour 10, but since then we've been able to cut a considerable amount of time using one simple trick to skip a handful of otherwise annoying fights.
Status: Decline
Any% (NG Casual - Xiahou Xue)
00:55:00
PC(Steam)
CookieBunny


Catherine Climb to the top or die trying. Catherine is a unique hybrid of life sim and puzzle game that was one of my favorite games of the PS3/Xbox 360 era. It's a fantastically fun, original, and challenging puzzle game. Each night brings new types of blocks, settings, strategies, and monsters chasing you as you reach higher and higher into the heavens. Status: Decline
Story Easy
1:20:00
PC
Kobazzco


Find Mii II Find Mii II is a simple RPG included for free on the 3DS, with a speedrun revolving around pre-run setup and instant quick menuing. Recent developments in the speedrun has turned it into something quite silly, with a legion of Miis called S from Peru being used to clear the entire game. Due to this, it makes for a silly, yet engaging run as legions of S from Peru are expertly menu'd into completing the entire game as quickly as possible. A sure to be nostalgia trip for anyone who had a 3DS. Status: Decline
Both Quests
00:16:00
3DS
Dr4gonBlitz


Castlevania: Nocturne in the Moonlight The Sega Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was a Japanese only release of the game that has many changes from the original including a unique character and new glitches that completely change how this version is played. The Glitched Any% route uses a glitch to transfer late game stats and relics to a brand new play file and even has a newly discovered RNG Manip in the route. Maria Any% is the speedrun for the version exclusive character with unique movement and glitches. Status: Decline
Maria Any%
00:10:00
Status: Decline
Alucard Any% Glitched
00:15:00
Sega Saturn
Dr4gonBlitz


Castlevania: Symphony of the Night E3 Demo In 1997, The Electronic Entertainment Expo was held in Atlanta Georgia. A playable demo for the yet to be released Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was at the event. That demo build was designed to keep the player locked in a small play area, but with clever use of movement and glitches its not only possible to break out of the intended area, but its possible to beat the entirety of the game. This speedrun aims to do that while showcasing a very interesting piece of gaming history Status: Decline
E3 Demo Any%
00:17:00
PSX
minimini352


The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker After years of trick discoveries and routing, we have finally broken the 6 hour barrier in 100%, and the run includes all the staple tricks of storage, superswims and zombie hovers, as well as huge skips including barrier skip, early earth temple and hyrule 1 skip.
Glitchless had a huge route change with the discovery of early ghost ship chart and the flow of the route is better than ever. We play through the game mostly intended, focussing on movement and fights, with some big tricks thrown in.
Status: Decline
Any% No MSS Race
1:30:00
Status: Decline
Pearls, Swords, Triforce
4:10:00
Status: Decline
Glitchless Any%
5:20:00
Status: Decline
100%
6:25:00
Wii
DreamTora


The Lion King: Simba’s Mighty Adventure Simba’s Mighty Adventure follows the events of both The Lion King and The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, played as Simba himself. This game is a 3D platformer, but with unique mechanics such as the Pounce which we use to our advantage for this speedrun in order to save time on levels and also get quicker kills on the bosses. Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
Sony Playstation
CheeseJay


Super Mario Odyssey Superstar Mode is a SMO kaizo mod created by Skeleux. This mod aims to make every single kingdom much more difficult. Some of the most notable changes include a "Floor is Lava" challenge for Sand Kingdom, a massive spikebar during the Cloud Bowser fight, and damage bubble covering the entire Mecha Broodal in Bowsers. Overall, I believe this mod would make for a great GDQ showcase because of the insane amount of skill and technical precision it takes to complete all of the stages. Status: Decline
Superstar Mode Any%
1:30:00
Nintendo Switch
Brandino59


Conker's Bad Fur Day Conker's BFD is a goofy, story-driven adventure starring DKR alumni Conker T. Squirrel, but with more beer, raves, and bees than Banjo-Kazooie. In this category, we'll run through the game's story as fast as we can (without watching any cutscenes) to get Conker home after a rough night of partying! Along the way we'll see large variance in the gameplay: from platforming, racing, third-person shooting, to poo-rolling, even some crazy out of bounds manuevers to avoid tricky sections of the game! Status: Decline
Chapters 100%
1:43:00
Xbox Series X
zzrules21


Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Everything beloved from BL2 in SPACE
In Any% we use a new save and play as everyone’s favorite overenthusiastic robot Claptrap to blitz through the story of Handsome Jack becoming the villain of BL2
Weapon merging and infinite ammo glitches return. The 0grav in SPACE let us b-hop to bound across the large maps. Also, the Vibrapulse ZAP ⚡
Geared UVHM is NG+ where we take a maxed out save and use specific gear to launch across entire maps with 1shot and shred enemies with grossly overpowered guns
Status: Decline
Geared UVHM
1:39:00
Status: Decline
Any%
2:15:00
PC
Jerikandra


Chrono Cross - Radical Dreamers Edition In this run, we navigate a challenging speedrun with precision, managing stamina and adapting strategies based on unique boss fight formulas. Utilizing magic elements to counter varying boss colors, we optimize damage and efficiency. FastForward is crucial, cutting traversal time and speeding up battles, allowing swift strategy execution. The game's colorful graphics, beautiful cutscenes, and convoluted storyline create an immersive, rewarding experience across time and parallel dimensions. Status: Decline
Lynx% FastForward
01:22:00
Status: Decline
Any% Good Ending FastForward
04:30:00
PC/Steam
Phantom5800


PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure Pikachu is on an adventure to save the planet from the wrath of Mew who has threatened total armageddon if the Pokémon don't stop fighting and become friends with each other.
Through various minigames, Pikachu must find the true meaning of friendship, defeat Mew, and save the world.
Status: Decline
Any%
2:30:00
Wii
Dwhatever


Super Mario 64 Together with itsbeeve, I would like to complete a Mario 64 Speedrun, preferably 120 Star, but 70 works, too. Both our controllers are connected to a controller switcher. You can switch the controller with a press of a button. Whenever someone donates a specific amount of money to this event (could be $10, more or less) the donation reader will press the switch on who is currently playing. Preferably this happens randomly without itsbeeve or me knowing, but it could also be handled differently. Status: Decline
70 Star - 2 Player 2 Controller
01:00:00
Status: Decline
120 Star - 2 Player 2 Controller
01:50:00
Nintendo 64
YatogamiNL


DMC Devil May Cry: Vergils Downfall This game is all about movement and we will unlock things on the way since this is new game. The more you progress, the more moves you can use for faster battles and skips (if possible). The game plan is to to skip as much fights as possible and when its forced, use a set amount of moves to slay your enemies quickly or use the the edges of the stage to push them off. Status: Decline
NG NMG - Human
00:30:00
PC
Alys Rujasu


Pac-Land A 1989 TurboGrafx-16 port of the classic 1984 arcade game that inspired Super Mario Bros. and numerous other platformers. Pac-Land features straightforward, fun, and challenging platforming with colorful scenery and upbeat music. The TurboGrafx version adds short cutscenes not included in the original version, and an unlockable "pro" difficulty. The game consists of eight "trips" of four "rounds" each, for 32 levels in total. Submitting as a race with the other Pac-Land runners. Status: Decline
The Whole Dang Game
00:32:00
PC Engine
YatogamiNL


Barbie and the Three Musketeers Barbie is a 2D platformer with 4 playable characters and all of them has different abilities. This is mostly a puzzle game because you have to use (almost) all mechanics to make it to the end. All characters get a tutorial so even when you're watching, you'll get to know how the characters play and function. Yes there is also a cat! Status: Decline
Any% Wii
01:00:00
Wii
Primorix


Bastion Bastion is an incredibly broken speedgame with nuanced movement focused around manipulating the scripted events in each level to our advantage. All Story Levels No MS (menu storage) is a long-form category that showcases a variety of tech, Any% No MS is a hyper-optimized short category that has seen incredible recent progress, and Any% Mouse Only is a silly run that is basically a harder version of Any% No MS where pausing the game is not allowed. Status: Decline
Any% Mouse Only
00:22:00
Status: Decline
Any% No MS
00:20:00
Status: Decline
All Story Levels No MS
00:50:00
PC
Alpha0mega


Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion Octo Expansion is the 2018 DLC for Splatoon 2, adding another campaign for player to go through. Any% No Death Abuse aims to finish the game as quick as possible without using the 'Skip Level' feature that is available after dying a set amount of times. This run shows off a variety of different skillsets, and provides quite the challenge, with deaths often resulting in over 15 seconds of time loss, if not more. It's a fun run to watch, making it a great fit for a marathon. Status: Decline
Any% No Death Abuse
1:25:00
Nintendo Switch
cynOmatic


Silent Hill 2 The classic psychological horror that haunted all who played it. This game tackles heavy and dark themes throughout with an unexpected twist at the end. This was the first game that truly scared me and still does. With its apt conveyance of complex emotions and unforgettable atmosphere, it remains one of the best horror games of all time. Status: Decline
Any% Normal
01:05:00
PC
j0kerr


Synaesthete Synaesthete is a rhythm action game where you control the Zaikman, matching beats to the rhythm of the song to destroy enemies and save your world. It is a game developed by 4 students of DigiPen Institute of Technology in 2007, with all original EDM songs. Each level is based around a song and evolves as you move between rooms. I like to say it plays as if Rock Band and Binding of Isaac had a child, dodging enemies and shooting them to the rhythm of the music. Status: Decline
All Songs Warning! (No Tutorial)
00:50:00
Status: Decline
All Songs Trivial (No Tutorial)
00:35:00
PC
Berix


Age of Mythology Age of Mythology is an real-time strategy game over twenty years old. The gameplay ranges from frantic micro, multitasking, and macro gameplay, all in the name of speed.

The Golden Gift campaign is a shorter 4 mission campaign with a solid mix of glitches, micro, and time to relax and enjoy the phenomenal game sound and music.
Status: Decline
The Golden Gift
00:15:00
PC
tyhill111


Island Saver Island Saver is a wholesome game that teaches kids about money and spreads a positive message about cleaning the environment. Despite being "educational" it is charming and fun to play. Due to new discoveries found over the last year, any% was cut down from about an hour to about 15 minutes, and the I am very excited at the chance to show it off! Status: Decline
any% no DLC
00:16:00
PC
ateatree


Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons (The linked video showcases "all levels", a 50 minute category which includes all of Any% plus the final level. This would make a great upgrade incentive!)

Double Dragon is re-imagined as a post-apocalypse roguelite, where a young pair of brothers take it upon themselves to take down four gangs that threaten their city. As stages are cleared the player gains move and stat upgrades in a semi-randomized fashion, but level order and RNG also dictate what traps and bosses the player will encounter.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:40:00
PC
LV Creed


Rockman 7: Bean Lover This is a "buster only" romhack of Mega Man 7 made by Puresabe (of Rockman 4 Minus Infinity fame) where LITERALLY all you use is just your buster. No boss weapons, no Rush items, no extra utilities nor adaptors. Just your regular, ordinary, run-of-the mill... "bean gatling gun". In addition, a special modifier to make your slides blazing fast is added for that extra little speed pick-me-up. However, why "beans"? Doesn't Mega Man fire "lemons"? Well... I'll let you make that choice. Status: Decline
Any% (Burst Lemon)
00:22:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Burst Bean)
00:22:00
Super Nintendo
RamboRachel


Brink Co-op Submission with j0kerr and Enbyzee

Brink is a 2010 team-based first-person shooter with teams fighting for the control of the Ark, a series of floating islands hosting the remnants of humanity. As Ark Security we complete objectives in the missions while utilizing teamwork and constant communication in order to preserve order in the Ark. We will make use of all 4 available classes to repair, hack, heal, and destroy, in order to keep the Ark safe from contact with the outside world.
Status: Decline
Any% Security Co-op
00:45:00
PC
spagettd


Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue Toy Story 2 is a 3D Platformer collectathon with very strong similarities to games of that genre like Super Mario 64. The objective is to collect Pizza Planet tokens to progress through the levels and save your pal Woody! There's lots of platforming, high-skill technical jumps, and plenty of skips/glitches to showcase as well! In any% we are only required to get 30 out of the 50 tokens to beat the game. This is exclusive to the N64 version, compared to the minimum 40 token on other consoles. Status: Decline
100%
01:00:00
Status: Decline
N64 Any %
00:35:00
Nintendo 64
spagettd


The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Gollum is an infamous game released just last year in 2023 as being the "worst game of the year" by many. Don't let that little worldwide opinion distract you from the fact this is one of the best speedruns to come out last year too! Tons of out-of-bounds platforming, deload shenanigans, and complete level skips, oh my! Status: Decline
Any %
4:00:00
PC
dannyb


The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Glitchless OoT is my bread and butter and SO much has changed in the 8 years since I last played it at GDQ. We have 2 categories: All Main Quests, and Any%. AMQ preserves the feel of a Glitchless run, mandating all dungeons and major story beats, while still being chock full of flashy parkour. Any% stretches the word 'Glitchless' to its limit, offering an extremely unique view into how far the game can be pushed with all of the grey area techniques that aren't glitches but definitely unintended. Status: Decline
Glitchless Any%
2:25:00
Status: Decline
Glitchless All Main Quests
3:50:00
Wii VC
Ulvind


"a" (Note: the game is actually called a (without the quotation marks), but I had to add the quotation marks to get it over the minimum 2 character limit.)

Silly Game block submit.
your soul is about to be reincarnated. find your vessel; defeat the monster; play all the stages of this 2D-Platformer.
Status: Decline
any%
00:18:00
Nintendo Switch
Vysuals


Disney's Extremely Goofy Skateboarding Come enter the world of horrible controls, an uncooperative camera, and egregious hitboxes as we clear all 12 stages as Max Goof, famous son of Goofy Goof. You'll see impossible feats of skill in this run, such as turning your character around and jumping onto tables. The world is ready to see the worst skateboarding game ever made, and the surprisingly fun speedrun of it. Status: Decline
Any%
0:15:00
PC
Reclaimer


BlazBlue Entropy Effect This run takes place as 3 different characters of the player's choosing.
3 Totals runs with 3 different characters showcasing a wide variety of combat and decision making.

Blaze Blue Entropy Effect is an action roguelite with super fast paced hack n slash gameplay with 10 different characters
Status: Decline
Trifecta Run
00:48:00
PC
Sway


Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Still yet to be seen on the main GDQ stage, this run tests mastery of frame-tight Bros. Items and is sure to impress. Several glitches allow us to skip chunks of some areas, get rich quick, and even enter the final dungeon early via a comically trivial clip!

Any% would use a badge that requires us to stay at low HP for the notorious final boss gauntlet, which should make for a thrilling (but very recoverable) ending. All Bosses would show off some additional skips and a safer ending.
Status: Decline
All Bosses
3:40:00
Status: Decline
Any%
2:50:00
Nintendo DS
RUBIEHART


Overcooked 2 Speedrunning one game is already hard enough. What better way to bond with friends than by trying to co-op speedrun multiple games at once, where all the items are randomized between worlds and control stick batteries matter! Join RUBIEHART, Jhobz296, and Keizaron as they play a cooperative multiworld archipelago across Overcooked 2, Pokemon Emerald, and Kingdom Hearts 2. Three amazing runs and worlds, one wild and chaotic run. Status: Decline
Multiworld Archipelago
02:45:00
PC
chemigoku


Blasphemous 2 Blasphemous 2 is the second opus to the andalusian metroidvania. It has great art, game design and bosses.
The No Major Glitch (NMG) category is the most complete category that faces every boss. We will be doing the whole run withou picking up any health upgrade.
The route has been very optimized and is able to go under 1:05:00 but the estimate covers 1 or 2 eventuals deaths
Status: Decline
Any% NMG Race w/ Rocher_brockas
01:20:00
PC
Primorix


Ori and the Blind Forest DE Ori DE All Skills was featured at the last SGDQ, and while the core gameplay focused on high-octane movement and difficult sequence breaks remains similar, there have been several small but significant route improvements since that run, and I personally have improved dramatically at the run as well. Status: Decline
All Skills No OOB/TA
00:32:00
PC
j0kerr


Sonic R Sonic R is a classic Sonic racing game. But instead of playing as the blue blur we play as Knuckles and Metal Knuckles, utilizing their drift control and gliding ability to make tracks faster. We need to collect all 5 Sonic Coins and find all 7 Chaos Emeralds while finishing in first place on each track to complete the game. Try to Feel the Sunshine, keep Living in the City, don't go Back in Time, try to Work It Out, find that Diamond in the Sky, and join me for some Super Sonic Racing! Status: Decline
100% (No OoB)
00:18:00
PC
j0kerr


Brink Co-op submission with Enbyzee and RamboRachel

Brink is a 2010 team-based first-person shooter with teams fighting for the control of the Ark, a series of floating islands hosting the remnants of humanity. As Ark Security we complete objectives in the missions while utilizing teamwork and constant communication in order to preserve order in the Ark. We will make use of all 4 of the available classes to repair, hack, heal, and destroy, all to keep the Ark safe from contact with the outside world.
Status: Decline
Any% Security Co-op
00:45:00
PC
Zojalyx


Veggietales: Larryboy and the Bad Apple A 3D platformer released for the Playstation 2.This game is silly. It has zero invulnerability frames because why not? It has a lot of really awesome speedrunning skips between using elevation to fling us out of bounds and jumping around physics that we really should not be able to jump on. It has been featured at multiple marathons with a lot of strong support across every marathon it has been on. Status: Decline
Any%
01:35:00
Playstation 2
Amyrlinn


Geneforge do you dare to venture to the mysterious and forbidden sucia island? to train in the ancient and mystical ways of shaping the essence of life itself? to learn the secrets of the sholai and confront the world-altering powers of the geneforge?

ME NEITHER, LET'S DO THE SILLY BAD ENDING BY JUST GETTIN THE HECK OUTTA HERE
Status: Decline
Any%
0:15:00
PC
Amyrlinn


Quake a quake level pack except it's better than the original quake :) not as much bhopping but plenty of rocket boosts and corner cuts Status: Decline
Dimension of the Machine - Any%
0:40:00
PC
Amyrlinn


Neon White this is a sub that i'm perfectly willing to do as a dono incentive if another neon white runner submits. this is all three sidequest rushes back to back in hell mode, which means if i die i restart the entire rush. i've gotten this deathless onstage at twitchcon, and it would be a huge rush to do it live at gdq. the estimate is inflated a bit to account for restart deaths. Status: Decline
Hell Rainbow Rush
0:20:00
PC
Mr_Shasta


Kirby Super Star Ultra This remake of the titular SNES title adds 4 new game modes, along with changing up some physics slightly and nerfing and buffing a few powers. 100% has had a lot of strat changes, fight optimizations, and candy and power mixes added to the run that make things way flashier now! There's a lot neat power variety, but Jet is primarily used because of its versatility. 100% beats all game modes, gets all 19 powers in MWW, all 60 chests in GCO, and hits 2 Switches in Dyna Blade. Status: Decline
100%
02:15:00
New Nintendo 3DS XL w/ capture card
Mr_Shasta


The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Phantom Hourglass is completely touch-screen based aside from shortcuts on the face buttons. The run is host to a lot of nice movement and optimizations with this, as well as some neat skips, such as clipping the Hammer through walls to access Goron Temple early or sequence breaking dungeons by displacing the camera and hitting a switch offscreen. We also run on English Wii U VC because it allows us to do a frame perfect glitch to skip a required item and save 4 minutes, plus faster load times Status: Decline
Any%
03:20:00
Wii U VC
adef


Block Dude What can I say that I haven't said about Block Dude before? Well, this speedrun has remarkably difficult puzzles made to look incredibly fast via incredible memorization. Also, there is an awesome glitch done by positioning two blocks in specific spots to go in between them and skip the largest puzzle in the game!
Additionally, I can do levels blindfolded for a donation incentive!
This is probably the most serious submission I've ever written for this game.
Status: Decline
any%
00:12:00
TI-8x Series Calculator
Mr_Shasta


Kirby Planet Robobot Meta Knightmare Returns has us playing as Meta Knight instead of Kirby going through the story mode. It cuts out all the Robobot sections, so it's a lot faster overall. There's a lot of movement tech in this run such as shuttle looping, which allows us to glide over gaps quickly, plus we have 2 room clearing attacks in Galaxia Darkness and Meta Knights that demolish boss fights! Points are dropped whenever an enemy or boss is defeated, and are routed so we can use Meta Quick to move faster a lot Status: Decline
Meta Knightmare Returns
01:15:00
New Nintendo 3DS XL w/ capture card
Mr_Shasta


Kirby Triple Deluxe Dededetour goes through the Story Mode of Triple Deluxe with King Dedede instead, eliminating sections that only Kirby could go through like the Hypernova sections. It also adds warps everywhere, which put you farther ahead in the level, sometimes skipping minibosses too! These are usually in places where Sun Stones would be in the normal game, so you see a lot more puzzles and extra content in this run compared to when playing as Kirby. We also HELLA abuse i frames to save time everywhere! Status: Decline
Dededetour
01:20:00
New Nintendo 3DS XL w/ capture card
Jaxler


Rabbids Go Home A game in which you pilot two rabbits in a shopping cart with mini-turbos like it's Mario Kart. This speedrun is the ultimate combo of high skill ceiling and extremely bizarre / goofy game. On one hand, you have precise boost chains for movement, along with wall clips, proxy boosts, and the signature "bwaa-boost". On the other, we steal a boatload of junk (including two cows) to build a pile to the moon and constantly deprive pedestrians of clothing. Guaranteed to make people laugh / confused. Status: Decline
All Missions (PC)
0:55:00
PC
Mr_Shasta


Bust-a-Move '99 Bust-a-Move '99 is the 3rd Puzzle Bobble game in the series, and it adds some great new features like your bubbles bouncing off the ceiling, plus some new pesky bubbles to deal with. The run comes down to quick on the fly thinking and pinpoint precision, not to mention the more bubbles we shoot, the faster the level ends! The first 4 levels in this run function as one long level each, with clearing the screen advancing us WAY further into the level! After that it's normal Bust-a-Move gameplay. Status: Decline
Puzzle Mode Normal
00:20:00
Nintendo 64
Vermillion


Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid 3 is the 3rd installment in the critically acclaimed Metal Gear Solid series. It is a run that is action packed, while also using a lot of tricky stealth to get through! We will be playing on the highest difficulty, so if we ever get spotted the game is over! Extremely exciting for viewers! Status: Decline
2 Players 1 Controller with ApacheSmash
1:30:00
Status: Decline
European Extreme
1:05:00
PC
Vermillion


Metal Gear Solid 2 Metal Gear Solid 2 is the 2nd game in the Metal Gear Solid series and is a fan favorite. The run will employ a lot of incredibly difficult tricks and gunplay to ensure we get through this extremely difficult run. We will be playing on European Extreme, which is the hardest difficulty and has almost every single enemy kill you in 1 to 2 hits. Status: Decline
European Extreme
1:30:00
PC
Vermillion


Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy X is the tenth installment in the extremely popular Final Fantasy franchise. This run will be using a new mod used for the game that has been extremely popular called “RNG Fix” that basically allows the run to be played with RNG! It will be extremely exciting for everyone to see what happens. We will also be using a new Skip found after 22 years called Terra Skip that saves 20 minutes in the entire run! This run was founded in May 2023 and it would be exciting to show it off at GDQ Status: Decline
Cutscene Remover RNG Fix
3:25:00
PC
CheeseJay


Super Mario Odyssey Talkatoo% is just like regular Any% with the goal of beating the goal of beating the game as fast as possible, except with the twist of having to talk to the hint bird "Talkatoo" for every moon. Talkatoo essentially acts as in-game randomizer and makes the run different every time. This allows for creative movement and routing from the player. I think this category would be great for a GDQ showcase because it is not too serious of a run and could be easily incentivized. Status: Decline
Talkatoo%
1:50:00
Nintendo Switch
CheeseJay


Super Mario Odyssey All Sub Areas is one of the best showcase categories Odyssey has to offer. The goal of this category is to collect moons from every subarea in the game. This means we get to see parts of the game that normally get overlooked in a similar post-game category like Dark Side or Darker Side. The post game in this run is nonstop subarea action, one after another. And to top it all off we to get to end the run with beating the entirety of Dark Side, subareas included! Status: Decline
All Sub Areas
3:25:00
Nintendo Switch
CheeseJay


Super Mario Odyssey All Music is one of Odyssey's silliest runs. The goal of this category is to completely fill out the music list by hearing every song in the game. This makes for some absurd routing where you go into rooms for a split second just to hear a song and overall makes for a very fun run that no other category can offer. Status: Decline
All Music
1:35:00
Nintendo Switch
CriticalCyd


Sonic Frontiers Sonic’s latest 3D adventure, though we've received some new updates since you last saw it that give us even more movement options to traverse the game’s vast open zones.
The Limited Tech Selection category aims to highlight skill at navigating the game’s base structure by banning some of the biggest glitches. Early boss fights and flying over the entire island is out, collectible routing and movement tech is in. We even get to play the infamous pinball minigame!
Status: Decline
Limited Tech Selection
1:50:00
Xbox Series X
GhostKumo


Pokemon Stadium One of the harder Pokemon games, Stadium is one of the most beloved (and weird) spinoffs for the juggernaut franchise. Here we take on the game's foremost popular challenge, the Gym Leader Castle, using the game's meager rentals, as quick as possible.

Oh and I can do this blindfolded.

The crowd's excitement is building over this white hot speedrun!
Status: Decline
Gym Leader Castle R1 (Blindfolded)
02:00:00
Status: Decline
Gym Leader Castle R1
01:55:00
Switch
GhostKumo


Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Ys IX's speedrun is what happens when you put Spiderman-like superpowers in an action RPG, put the trigger for endgame in an early part of town, lock it behind 8 chapters of slowly opening up barriers, and kindly ask the player not to break the game (as if that would stop me). In the years since this game came out, we've found a way to turn this 30-40 hour RPG into a run that can be completed in under 40 minutes, with plenty of wild tricks, skips, and shenanigans. Status: Decline
Any%
00:43:00
PC
GhostKumo


Ys: Memories of Celceta Ys Celceta is the answer to the question "what do you get when an action speedrun community slayed every one of its white whales, found all of its holy grails, and then broke it some more for good measure?" This run features all kinds of glitches, clips, cutscene skips, cutscene forcing, basically every major type of sequence break that makes it ~40 minutes instead of dozens of hours. Status: Decline
Any% Nightmare
00:44:00
PC
SeaAverage


Sheepy: A Short Adventure Sheepy is a semi-spooky platformer about an abandoned sheep who has been brought to life and put on an adventure. Being a glitchless run, a lot of the speed comes from optimized jumps, combat manipulation, and tight movement, with a couple neat tricks thrown in here and there. If you are a fan of spooky environments and cute sheep, this is a must see. Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
00:24:00
PC
frozenflygone


Powerpuff Girls: Him and Seek Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice! Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup fly to finish a scavenger hunt and bring the villains of Townsville to justice. Each girl has unique attacks and movement to defeat enemies and traverse the game. This game features Out of Bounds glitches in Mojo Jojo's "OOBservatory" section, and boss quick kills throughout the run manipulating the game's magic system. highlight timestamps: 1:50:40, 1:52:15. 1:57:40. Status: Decline
any%
00:23:00
GBA
Nambo


Super Monkey Ball Monkey Target is a classic party game where you roll the monkey down a huge ramp, soar into the air, and aim at targets while collecting bananas in the air.

The high-score TAS bursts this minigame wide open by charging up speed to fling to the targets (No wings needed!), and making an unexpected ally of the bomb hazards by smashing them to propel across the targets for pre-flight bananas (rounds 1 and 4).

The RTA opts for precise high-speed flight and landings on tiny targets.
Status: Decline
Monkey Target Score RTA (10-round)
0:20:00
Status: Decline
Monkey Target Score TAS (5-round)
0:14:00
Nintendo Wii
LMMotoss


Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! is a 2005 rhythm game for the Nintendo DS developed by iNiS. Focusing on a male cheer squad that helps people around town get through their increasingly ridiculous tasks with the POWER OF BURNING PASSION, the highest difficulty secretly unlocks the professionals - American style cheerleaders. This category includes only the top tier of songs in difficulty but can still be shortened for time if necessary. Status: Decline
Final Batch Exhibition
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Exhibition
00:50:00
Nintendo 3DS
Kaos_Wulf


Hedon In Hedon, we assume the role of Zan, as she fights her way through hordes of demons and cultists to recover an artifact that was taken from her home. The movement is fast, rhythmic, includes rocket jumps, kick slides, and tossing our axe for speed. The OST features tracks by the esteemed composer, Alexander Brandon, known for his work on Unreal and Deus Ex Status: Decline
Crystal Heart Any%
00:40:00
PC
oneeyeddeacon


Batman: Arkham Knight The Main Story categories utilizes a lot of glitches in order to stop Scarecrow from unleashing terror on the city.

Season of Infamy is a shorter category that completes the 4 DLC side missions, which also showcases some of the gameplay and glitches.

Matter of Family is a short Arkham Episode DLC, where you play the role of Batgirl trying to rescue her father. Due to some major skips, we skip almost half of the DLC.
Status: Decline
Arkham Episodes: A Matter of Family
0:15:00
Status: Decline
Season of Infamy
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Main Story (Easy)
02:35:00
PC
Kaos_Wulf


Turok 2: Seeds of Evil Remaster Turok 2 has shaped up to be one of the strangest speedruns, that is needed an entire history video dedicated to explaining its speedtech to a general audience. We intentionally Game Over to break the game wide open, cheat death itself, and crush times that were previously thought impossible. Status: Decline
100%
1:35:00
Status: Decline
Any% NMG
1:05:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:55:00
PC
ShikenNuggets


Multiple Arkham Games All Arkham games back to back!

Asylum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TXRmbuznfA
City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfX7pFo7JBk
Origins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIwArMslilo
Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A2yBIvAqL8
Status: Decline
Anthology Any%
06:00:00
Status: Decline
Trilogy Any%
05:00:00
PC
Kaos_Wulf


Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remaster The third and final chapter to the Turok franchise on the N64, fully remastered by Nightdive Studios. Turok 3 is an FPS game with multiple characters, each with their own branching paths and selection of equipment. The run has a few major sequence breaks through the use of careful platforming and door clips, but is mostly vanilla aside from optimized movement.

(Watch Danielle's video first for full run explanation, timestamps, and incentive overview.)
Status: Decline
Raptor Any%
00:26:00
Status: Decline
Joshua Any%
00:36:00
Status: Decline
Joseph Any%
00:38:00
Status: Decline
Danielle Any%
00:40:00
PC
ShikenNuggets


Batman: Arkham Origins Have you ever been playing Arkham Origins and thought "I actually don't like playing this game that much, I wish I could play less of it"? Well now you can! Thanks to a series of new glitches combined with a few very old ones you can skip two thirds of the game and make sure all the assassins are behind bars in under an hour.

Cold Cold Heart is a fun little run with a few interesting skips and some remote claw zips, which are currently unique to this category.
Status: Decline
Cold, Cold Heart DLC
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
ShikenNuggets


Batman: Arkham City 100% is a beast of a category with 12 side missions and 400 things to pick up, scan, or break, but with careful planning it goes pretty fast. In doing so we'll see plenty of zips, cancels, jumps, and generally exploiting Batman's most busted gadgets as much as possible. Status: Decline
100%
03:30:00
PC
Nambo


Super Monkey Ball: Launch! SMB Launch! is a challenging SMB custom game. The 20 Master stages are made up of super long kaizo-level obstacle courses involving tight movement on animated obstacles. Sometimes this means keeping balance during a minute-long sprint atop thin 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 packed with challenges and trick shots Status: Decline
Master
0:30:00
Nintendo Wii
ShikenNuggets


Batman: Arkham Asylum Re-live the original worst night of Batman's life, but this time things will be different. Thanks to a variety of zips, animation cancels, and various out of bounds shenanigans, we can skip all the worst parts and ruin weeks of Joker's planning in just over an hour. Since this game was last shown in 2018, the run has changed pretty dramatically, the world record's gone down by over 15 minutes thanks to a huge amount of new major skips in almost every part of the run. Status: Decline
100%
02:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:08:00
PC
Ryroby1


Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Movement manipulation, in-bounds skips, stamina management, rhythm, and adaptability to potion/monster RNG are the name of the game as our heroes run full speed through the forces of Skaven, Chaos, and Beastmen. This intense full game run showcases all the base game (Helmgart) missions with each level's objectives being completed. Celebrating the game's 6th year anniversary, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is set in the popular franchise’s fantasy inspired Age of Sigmar universe. Status: Decline
All Objectives Solo- Full Game (Recruit)
01:30:00
PC
Nambo


Super Monkey Ball: Gaiden Super Monkey Ball Gaiden is an amazing Super Monkey Ball custom game. The 11 Master levels are spectacularly complex and difficult Goldberg-like obstacle courses, which leads to a run filled with balancing sprints across thin wires (EX7) and multi-part airborne sequence breaks (EX10). It's an incredibly thrill-dense run that destroys kaizo-level stages.

This run works well as a bonus run incentive for IkeSMB's Story Mode submission, which together would play all 111 stages in this custom game.
Status: Decline
Master
0:20:00
Nintendo Wii
JonDBS


Atelier Rorona DX: The Alchemist of Arland Atelier Rorona is the 11th installment in the Atelier series (one of the short turn-based JRPGs) which emphasizes more on the item creation/synthesis with a powerful application in combat. The Arland series is well known for its harsh time limit mechanics, hence the speedruns mostly showcase the optimal routing and fast increase in popularity meter towards the good ending, combined with fast menuing (and mashing) and fast pacing of the game. Status: Decline
Good Ending
01:40:00
PC
Heponwana


Below The Ocean Dive deep "Below the Ocean" in search of legendary treasures while using your oxygen lifeline to swing passed obstacles! Run, Jump, Swing, Bubble-Jump, Bungee, Slingshot, Puzzle-Solve, Platform, Treasure-Hunt, BELOW THE OCEAN!
This category has the runner explore all the content in this transquel 1-bit style precision platformer.
Status: Decline
100% All Gems All Chapters
00:31:00
PC
Heponwana


Mr. Platformer A retro inspired platformer inspired by classics on the Intellivision and Atari 2600 and from the always delightful mind of Terry Cavanagh.
Full Game requires playing and completing 40 unique stages before reaching the final goal.
Status: Decline
Full Game
00:18:00
PC
Heponwana


EYELAND A short adventure/RPG where our boatless hero wakes up in a strange land, makes the worst cup of coffee, explores a hotel, mines some coal, learns a song, make a robot friend, meets the mayor, and somehow sails off into the sunset. Status: Decline
Any%
00:12:00
Playdate
Heponwana


The King's Dungeon A microvania on the console with a crank! We’ve eaten the king’s royal cheese and have been trapped in his dungeon. Can we escape to devour cheese again? Can we gain cool new powers? Can we find a use of the Playdate’s crank?
The game has two dungeons to explore and collectibles to find for the 100% completion.
Status: Decline
World 2 Any%
00:08:00
Status: Decline
World 1 Any%
00:06:00
Status: Decline
World 1+2 100%
00:16:00
Playdate
Crisisaurus


Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games This game is a minigame collection featuring your favourite cast of Mario and Sonic characters competing for gold medals in Skiing events, Snowboarding events, Stating events and much much more.

Mario & Sonic's first tag team adventure where they have to Stop Bowser and Dr. Eggman from stealing snow spirits and hosting their own Winter Games. We do mission based on the Olympic winter events to acquire team members and items to save the snow spirits from Bowser and Eggman.
Status: Decline
Adventure Tours Any%
02:50:00
Nintendo DS
DerrickGnC


Earthbound This game is a RPG from 1994, that blends notes of nostalgic, Absurdity, and the esoteric, into a light hearted loveable RPG that will tug on the nostalgic hearts of every 90s kid Status: Decline
Boogie%
01:40:00
Super Nintendo
Czikubi


EarthBound Beginnings Jumping Jellyfish! What a speed run! If we're talking about the best glitchless category for the first game in the MOTHER series, we're talking about this category. Equipped with the Nike® Air Force 1® foams to go 5x faster than in the Japanese version, the tedious parts don't feel so tedious and our boy Ninten can run across the landscape with ease, dodging every enemy with an ancient technique handed down through generations. エンディングまで泣くんじゃない。名作保証。The ultimate EarthBound Beginnings experience. Status: Decline
Any% Non-Manipulated
02:10:00
NES
Hibnotix


Iblard: Laputa no Kaeru Machi This is a 20th century art instalment.
Based on Naohisa Inoue's surrealist universe Iblard, we traverse a world with a design that compliments the PS1's hardware. Our main goal is to collect bus passes and crystals across a collection of maze-like levels to save Iblard (in turn birthing a new body of earth) and get home to our withering plants. Along the way we watch some mesmerising FMVs, befriend some dinosaurs, fight some UFOs and do a lil parkour.
Status: Decline
Any%
01:20:00
PS1
CriticalCyd


Sonic Lost World A game that wears its inspirations on its sleeves and asks the question: what if we made a Sonic game in the style of Mario Galaxy. Actually why stop there, what if Sonic did parkour too! The results is varied and creative stage design, a surprisingly expansive move set and some funny one-off gimmicks to keep the surprises coming.
The Wingless category bans the use of the assist mechanic that teleports you to the next checkpoint, so we actually get to see all the awesome skips and speedtech!
Status: Decline
Any% Wingless
1:20:00
PC
juh0


SAW: The Videogame Imagine: Jigsaw traps a speedrunner in his game of traps... BUT THE SPEEDRUNNER COMPLETES A WHOLE COURSE OF TORTURE IN LESS THAN 1 HOUR!

This horror-franchise-turn-horror game will bring nostalgia to the new (the ones who play Dead by Daylight) and the old (the ones who's watched the movies). Speedrun consists of RNG, time saving skips and OoBs, and great lines such as "You ruined my life!" or "He is faster than I anticipated".
Status: Decline
any%
01:00:00
PC
Potty


Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Warped keeps the intensive movement and precise box breaking the Crash series is known for, whilst introducing the Time Trial gimmick that would become a staple of the franchise. This category collects all Crystals, Gems, and Time Relics. Where this entry shines is the diverse control schemes present in many stages that change up how the runner approaches going fast. Masterful play in order to collect gems and relics simultaneously allows this massive game to be completed in only 2 hours. Status: Decline
105%
2:15:00
PS2
TSR Stormed


Banjo-Kazooie Any% No DDA/POG is a showcase of legacy Any% in its most classic and entertaining form. In this run, we ban two major Xbox glitches, Demo Desync Adventure and Pause Overlap Glitch, that let us start in Rusty Bucket Bay and duplicate notes respectfully. Instead, we start on a fresh file and we try to beat the game from the start. With a wrong warp in Banjo's House and our little friend the bee, we can reach the last level of the game in less than 20 minutes and jet through this 90s classic! Status: Decline
Any% No DDA/POG
1:18:00
Xbox One
Muffin Tunes


Streets of SimCity Imagine driving through the streets of SimCity, through various campaigns cast of stars and their motor vehicle. From delivering packages, running from the law, to even racing against the clock, SoSC is total mayhem within the Sim franchise.

Various campaigns have the player delivering packages of RNG elements, acquiring weapons, and escaping from threats during the dystopian days of 1995. This game is cosmetically customizable to reach any incentive or thematic needs.
Status: Decline
Zippy's Courier Service Campaign | Glichless
00:50:00
Status: Decline
Granny's Wild Ride Campaign | Glitchless
00:25:00
PC
LivelyRaccoon


Chameleon Twist 2 A sequel that keeps the spirit of the original, with fun tongue-based action but adds its own flavor. The addition of the parasol and the ability to attach your tongue to nearly anything allows for tricks where you slingshot your chameleon, skipping large sections of level. Combine this with very forgiving death warps and the game really flies by. 100% collects all coins and carrots, with less emphasis on death warping and more on optimized movement while tonguing coins Status: Decline
100%
00:40:00
Status: Decline
any%
00:28:00
N64
LivelyRaccoon


Tom and Jerry in Fists of Furry A zany powerstone-like fighting game featuring characters from tom and jerry. The spirit of tom and jerry is very present, with cartoon violence taking center stage. Runs of this game have a fun balance of luck and skill. Random weapon spawns are quite important but a good knowledge of the AI behavior and good aim with objects like hay bales and tables can win you fights quickly even without weapons. Each character has unique speed and damage output Status: Decline
any% Spike
00:15:00
Status: Decline
any% Tom
00:15:00
Status: Decline
any% Jerry
00:20:00
N64
cathelios


Drakengard Drakengard is a PS2 game and the first game of the Drakenier franchise. A mix between a flight simulator on a dragon and a musou style game, the speedrun shows off different weapons and an underleveled main character to race to the end of the game as quickly as possible. Within the estimate, we can also fit cutscenes in if desired. Status: Decline
any%
02:40:00
Playstation 2
spaceyL1


Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice A fast paced run with many boss fights and skips. This particular category hasn't been shown at a main gdq event yet, and so has many fights and strats that haven't been shown yet. Status: Decline
All Bosses/Minibosses
01:30:00
PC
SuperViperT302


Pac 'n Roll Remix The Pac is back, this time as a literal limbless ball! This remake of a DS game has us rolling our favorite yellow dot-muncher through 25 levels across 5 worlds, dodging obstacles, gobbling dots to open gates, and fighting the evil Golvis. The game's mechanics give way to many cool level routes, impressive skips, and clean movement, plus a cheery atmosphere to top it all off. Never-before-seen on the main GDQ stage, making this a better time than ever to finally give it the showing it deserves! Status: Decline
Any% (Wii)
00:25:00
Wii U
Kingj0444


Bee Movie Game (Wii) According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to speedrun. Its wings are too slow to get its fat little body a gold split. The bee, of course, runs anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

The Bee Movie on Wii is a clunky licensed game that has some of best, most memorable voice lines of all time! The Wii version has the fastest Any% and mandatory motion controls too. What more could you want for a silly/bad game block game?!
Status: Decline
Any%
01:05:00
Wii
gymnast86


The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Skyward Sword Randomizer is ready for it's GDQ debut!

The Randomizer turns Skyward Sword into an open sky waiting to be explored with... whatever items we happen to stumble across this time as they've all been scattered randomly to the wind.
Co-op gives us the opportunity to show off more of the game in a single seed as we work to pass information back and forth while navigating movement tricks, collision seams, and title screens.

Submitting as a Co-op run with PippyInATopHat.
Status: Decline
Co-op Randomizer
2:45:00
Nintendo Wii
Kingj0444


New Super Lucky's Tale New Super Lucky's Tale released on Switch in November of 2019 and was later ported to PC shortly after. The speedrun for this 3D platformer has had some groundbreaking discoveries, the big one being a glitch that lets us scale any wall infinitely which leads to many sequence breaks! Whether it’s Any% to 100%, this game has got a lot of cool strats, exploits and skips all in an overall charming game!

Submitting Any%, All Main Levels and NG+ as a race with SteveTVOnline

100% is solo
Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
Status: Decline
All Main Levels
01:30:00
Status: Decline
NG+ All Main Levels
01:15:00
Status: Decline
100%
02:55:00
PC
CrispyTacoz


Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is the 4th mainline installment of the beloved Crash Bandicoot series. The any% category on the PC version has evolved with much more skips and tech since its release in 2020. Status: Decline
Any%
01:30:00
PC
AvuKamu


My Friendly Neighborhood Survival horror meets children's television series. (Not saying the names but it rhymes with Pesident Pevil meets Sesame Road)

Cool indie game made by two developers, MFN is a short and fun speedrun with cool OOBs, texture manips, boss fights, and an overall lovable cast of friendly neighborhood residents that just want to hug you... (to death).
Status: Decline
glitchless
0:32:00
Status: Decline
any%
0:21:00
PC
wdssgrant


Red Faction (2001) Red Faction is a game made in 2001 by Volition pioneering its revolutionary Geo-Mod engine allowing it to be the first game with real time destruction. This not only creates free speedrun tech for shortcuts throughout various points of the run, but in recent years the game has undergone several optimizations including Out of Bound tricks and Unique gun play to kill enemies in seconds that has helped the run drop several minutes in the last few years recently dropping below 40 minutes. Status: Decline
Any%
00:46:00
PC
AvuKamu


Alan Wake 2 A 2023 Game Awards winner and survival horror game developed by Remedy Entertainment featuring novelist Alan Wake as he attempts to escape by writing a horror story involving an FBI special agent named Saga Anderson.

On top of the game having new gameplay mechanics, the speedrun will show ladder glitching, crazy out-of-bounds, zipping, dialogue manips for speed boosts. (YT submission will have timestamps for ie.)

Plus, did we mention there's musical bangers and a sweet dance? (we WILL dance)
Status: Decline
glitchless
2:49:00
Status: Decline
any%
2:37:00
PC
shovelclaws


Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart SRB2 Kart is a kart-racer mod inspired by a gamemode of a Sonic Riders mod of a Sonic fangame that is a mod of DOOM. Is that too chaotic??? Well, that barely scratches the surface of what happens in Kart.

One of the best kart racers ever made (Seriously), SRB2K has an amazing community of passionate players. With a sequel getting ever closer, it's about time to get this amazing Sonic fangame on the main stage!
Status: Decline
32 Track Showcase
1:15:00
PC
DEVILMAN


The Hex It's a psychological horror game developed by Daniel Mullins Games in 2018, centered around the gaming community.
I utilize hinted Easter eggs within the game to shorten the time. Specifically, in the RPG section, I use debug mode.(24:33) And in the strategy section, I skip battles using shortcut keys (40:17). Please note that there is a part where violent live-action footage is shown within the record.(01:33:42)
Status: Decline
Hex Ending
01:40:00
PC
Brandino59


Sonic Lost World 3DS Lost World brings Sonic to new heights (literally!) with his parkour techniques, running on and up the walls. No boost button to be found here, just pure spindash speed. This game also introduces new wisps, like an all-consuming vortex and an unstoppable boulder. This run contains incredibly fast and tight platforming with unusual gravity and tubular levels, plus head-spinning gyro controls. We'll be going through all the levels in the game on grounds, on rails, on walls, on rockets, and more! Status: Decline
Any% Helpless
1:25:00
Status: Decline
All Speed Stages
1:09:00
3DS
RUBIEHART


Overcooked 2 Welcome back to the kitchens, chefs. Thanks to a new mod created by toasterparty, the Any% run of this game has taken a time cut so great that even Final Fantasy cutscene remover fans will swoon. Join the world record setting chefs, RUBIEHART, sunbrojade, and PeaceEgg from last year's Horde run as they bring you a menu served in eclectic venues such as city skylines, magical portal filled universities, and the nebulous void of space. We hope you enjoy the show.
Status: Decline
Any% Modded
01:40:00
PC
DEVILMAN


Unworthy Unworthy is a Metroidvania strongly influenced by DARK SOULS, released in 2018. This game is characterized by the inability to jump.
In speedrun, I plan to use the Spirit Bow to slip through locked doors.(21:48, 24:06 in Any% vid.)
In All Bosses category, I aim to beat the game by defeating all bosses, including two secret bosses. I adjust the PC clock to pass through the secret bridge that appears for only 5 minutes (29:17).
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All Bosses
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:32:00
PC
DEVILMAN


Squirrel Stapler This is a short horror game developed by David Szymanski in 2023, inspired by classic hunting games.
Originally, the game involves hunting for squirrels by concealing sound and presence. However, in speedruns, I drink energy drinks to increase movement speed and engage in aggressive hunting. This makes the gameplay like DOOM.
Any% and Any% (Giant Squirrels Mode) are slmost same. In Giant Squirrels Mode, squirrels become several times bigger.
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Any% (Giant Squirrels Mode)
00:25:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:25:00
PC
LonerHero


Devil May Cry 2 Set in modern times, on the fictional Dumary Island, the story centres on Dante and Lucia in their fight to stop a sinister businessman named Arius from raising the demon Argosax and achieving supreme power. Running DMC2 involves high-risk/high-reward most of the time. You are playing unyielding character and wrestle the controller to get precise movement, enemy cycles..etc. Majin form plays huge role for Dante Status: Decline
NG Dante
00:50:00
PC
LonerHero


Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams Sixth and latest installment of Capcom's Onimusha series, while being the fourth and final game in the canonical main series. While this game maintains the core mechanic such as critical hit. Player will have to manage it's RPG element i.e equipment purchase, enhancement and skill point level for 5 different characters. The player primarily controls a swordsman named Soki while giving orders to respective partner, with their respective lifebars displayed at the top. Status: Decline
Normal - New Game
2:10:00
Playstation 2
LonerHero


Onimusha 3: Demon Siege Onimusha 3 focuses around counterattack move that kills most enemies in one strike that is called critical or issen. Since Onimusha 2 you can chain it on multiple hits. You are going to play three different characters and have a companion who's going to assist you within the currency route. The pace of this run is extremely reliant on player's performance. Status: Decline
Any% Normal Mode - Normal
1:10:00
PC
ZELLLOOO


Mega Man Network Transmission MegaMan.EXE dives into this strange cross of classic Mega Man platforming with the strategy folder-building and RPG elements of the Battle Network series, a careful selection of mechanics such as the Reg system and useful battle chips allows us to get by with as few resources as possible, making for a fast but scary run through the internet. Since the last showing at AGDQ 2017, strats have been updated to become both safer and faster and marathon backups are available. Jack in! MegaMan, execute! Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
Gamecube
LonerHero


Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is a broken game due to having two types of out of bonds glitches. Other than requiring to adapt to combat situation. Ryu can interact with the environment abnormally to skip excessive fight sections. This made the run more complex since it require great care to execute with quick menu weapon switching and avoid soft-locking and such. This run used to be auto-scroller until the recent Master Collection release. Status: Decline
NG Any%
1:55:00
PC
LonerHero


DmC: Devil May Cry DmC runs are longer and more complex, including numerous tricks and glitches. This game heavily emphasizes on movement rather than combat. No Major Glitches limits game breaking behavior with tricks like Infinite Glide since that trick is one of the hardest thing to pull in the series. Status: Decline
NG - Human No Major Glitches
1:30:00
PC
TechnicalJL


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for DLC Waves 3 and 4.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.
Status: Decline
96 Tracks 200cc Relay
3:00:00
Nintendo Switch
ToastedMildly


Bioshock Infinite Join me in a thrilling journey through the skies of Columbia as I attempt to break my world record for Bioshock Infinite, glitchless. Experience the captivating story and breathtaking visuals of this iconic game, as I navigate its intricacies with precision and skill. With no exploits or glitches to rely on, every moment is a test of strategy and execution. With heart-pounding combat, witness the mastery of gameplay mechanics as I strive to achieve the fastest ever console completion. Status: Decline
glitchless
2:48:00
Playstation 4
derpydragon15


Skelattack Skelattack is an indie precision platformer. The run consists of many very difficult rooms where one wrong move could lead to hitting a spike, and the room resets. Many of the strategies used throughout the run were developed by myself and the game's creator, David Stanley, who is part of our speedrunning community. The game has a beautiful visual style, fast-paced platforming, and some cool tricks mixed throughout. Status: Decline
Any%
00:50:00
PC
killingpepsi


Spongebob Squarepants Plug and Play The first of many Spongebob Plug and Play consoles released in the 2000's. The Super Chum Bucket features 40 Donkey Kong-esque levels with many hard cycle skips, tight jumps, and whole level skips saving anywhere from 3-25 seconds each. There is also no RNG, just pure gaming skill.
Join me as I use nasal manipulation to maneuver through Planktons evil challenges in order to save Sandy AND the Krabby Patty Formula!
Status: Decline
The Super Chum Bucket
00:20:00
Plug and Play
bobbyburm


My Friend Peppa Pig This adorable 2D story game provides a fleshed out speedrun that will make the whole family squeal with joy. Also, did I mention that this run will be completed BLINDFOLDED? Utilizing a blindfold increases the difficulty of the speedrun strategies significantly by adding in precise timing of interactions and progression through audio cues only. This would be an oinkin' good time on the GDQ stage! Status: Decline
any% PC Blindfolded
00:25:00
PC
GrayGooGirl


Wizards and Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power Wizards and Warrior 3 is an early Rare game, and the last entry in the Wizards and Warriors series for NES. Our hero Kuros finds himself in the town of Piedup, which has been taken hostage by the malevolent spirit Malkil. He must use a series of powers (such as stealing things and shooting fireballs) to save the town... maybe and find love along way?

It's the best kind of NES jank that's well suited for an awful block situation.
Status: Decline
any%
00:25:00
NES
GLPhoenix


Street Fighter 6 The World Tour mode for Street Fighter 6 plays out like an open world rpg, and because of this the speedrun has all the hallmarks of classic rpg speedruning: optimising damage output with peculiar setups, clean movement, swift menuing, and all of this over the top of playing a fighting game against increasingly difficult opponents.

On top of being able to cheese our way through a lot of the tougher fights, being able to adapt to the situations as things go off the rails makes things exciting.
Status: Decline
World Tour All Main Chapters
02:40:00
PC(Steam)
alpha


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for the nitro tracks.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.
Status: Decline
96 tracks 200cc relay
03:00:00
Nintendo Switch
Awoken


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for Waves 1 and 2 of the Booster Course Pass.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.
Status: Decline
96 Tracks, 200cc (Relay)
3:00:00
Nintendo Switch
tapioca


Yakuza The original Yakuza game, featuring everything people like about these runs but also its own unique jank and weirdness. Whenever I run this for a marathon or something, chat says "I've heard about this but never seen it, this is interesting" which is a good sign I figure Status: Decline
any%
02:00:00
PS3
bloodthunder


Amnesia: The Bunker Amnesia: The Bunker is the latest entry in the sereis from Frictional Games

Glitchless showcases the clever routing of the game's various sub-areas of the map without clipping through walls or other major exploits and even though it has a lot of RNG factors, there are consistent backup strats for even the worst case scenarios

Submitting bonus run/incentives to up the difficulty to the new ShellShock mode aka Very Hard and to showcase the 2 min long any% as well
Status: Decline
Glitchless (ShellShock Difficulty)
0:35:00
Status: Decline
Glitchless
0:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
0:05:00
PC
bloodthunder


SOMA Last seen at AGDQ 2016, SOMA has since had a whole slew of optimizations and route changes featuring new prop clips, prop hovers and more importantly, new dialogue skips. All this helps to bring the Simon's journey across the ocean floor right under that hour mark. Status: Decline
Any%
1:10:00
PC
bloodthunder


BioShock Infinite Last seen at SGDQ 2020, BioShock Infinite features a handful of new skips, mainly thanks to high FPS values allowing us to either boost up walls or slip straight through them all together. Fights have also been reworked to flow better and deal with enemies in the blink of an eye. Status: Decline
Any% (HRH-Mod)
1:50:00
PC
bloodthunder


Fears to Fathom Anthology Fears to Fathom is an anthology series where each game you play as a new character trying to survive the events of a creepy story. Plenty of silly strats help us get through the night alive like getting the zoomies from drinking too much soda and boosting off the watch tower to avoid a crazy cult chase

Submitting the 4 episodes that are currently out as 1 run

4 different stories, 4 different characters, 2 entire trays of lasagna eaten, 1 jeffrey and even a piece of cardboard dipped in milk!
Status: Decline
Episodes 1-4 (Current Patch)
1:05:00
PC
Riekelt


Untitled Goose Game Honk! The Goose is back, and ready for more mischief!
With new strategies and ways to annoy the villagers, we're completing our tasks as fast by being a goose!
(Yes, I am the runner of the AMT video from ESA, see ending)
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
00:18:00
Status: Decline
All Main Tasks
00:19:00
Status: Decline
100%
00:35:00
PC
Vysetra


Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines A comprehensive, completionist and fast run of every single quest in base game V1.1, using the character sheet glitch, bunnyhop Source movement and multiple prayers to stop the game from softlocking or otherwise hardcrashing. The true Bloodlines experience.

The Any% routes utilise different clans which have unique routing options and feature the same tech used in the 100% run.
Status: Decline
Any% Gangrel
00:36:00
Status: Decline
Any% Tremere
00:40:00
Status: Decline
100% Quest Log
02:40:00
PC
Zojalyx


Star Wars: The Force Unleashed An Action RPG that has been broken to pieces and had routing changes for the last few years. we have one glitch that skips over an hour of gameplay and we have cool showcases of ARPG combat as well as tight platforming and cool movement. Status: Decline
Any% - No Mission Skips
01:25:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:25:00
PC
ericg08


Call of Duty 2 With 27 levels, cod2's speedrun comes equipped with intense out of bounds, sequence breaks, and unique movement mechanics used to traverse through the 3 campaigns the game offers Status: Decline
any%
2:23:00
PC
MetalGlennSolid


Metal Gear Solid Solid Snake is raring to go with the port that has the best overall showcase possible for this game. From fan favorites like the Vent Glitch and Boba Skip to new discoveries like the new Ninja loop, this game has never been faster and the possibilities are truly expanding. In Any%, the skips and movement will be key in going as humanly fast as possible. In All Bosses, the perfect balance between console and PC exclusivity can be struck in just over an hour. Status: Decline
Any% Extreme
0:38:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses Extreme
1:05:00
PC (2000)
Slyton


Monster High New Ghoul in School Monster High New Ghoul in School reaches new heights for the Monster High franchise with a game that has 1 song as background music that we never hear more than 10 seconds of, but occasionally we get to hear the Fearleading song! Whats more hype than a game with 2 songs and a story that about an ancient artifact that turns zombies into zombies(Yes it turns most characters but zombies to zombies is funnier) Status: Decline
Any%
2:10:00
PC
Nestani


Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights Night of 100 Frights is a Metroidvania-style platformer with mixed 3D and 2.5D levels. 100% includes collecting every Upgrade, Snack, and Monster Tokens as well as defeating every boss in the game. Scooby has a unique charge attack and the ability to climb invisible slopes, which allow for several difficult movement strategies, tight cycle skips, and challenging sequence breaks. Status: Decline
All Monster Tokens
00:42:00
Status: Decline
100%
02:00:00
Gamecube
MetalGlennSolid


Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes, Big Boss awakens from a nine year coma. While plotting his revenge, he has gained the ability to warp in a manner similar to a TerminalMontage video, making it that much faster to get to his goals. Status: Decline
Chapter 1 PSNK
2:05:00
PC
Subbaro


Sonic Colours: Ultimate Sonic Colours is a modern-boost-style Sonic game with a mix of 3D and 2D gameplay. With Ultimate being a remaster of the original Wii game, giving us the new Tails saves or the 360 degrees laser, there are now even more flashy 3D in 2D tricks and skips.

Egg Shuttle is the NG+ mode of the game, getting rid of cutscenes, map traversal and loading times, as well as opening up new boost and wisp routes.

Game Land is a short and sweet bonus world with stages based on classic sonic stage layouts.
Status: Decline
Egg Shuttle
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Game Land
00:30:00
PC
Eroooooooos


Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament Klonoa 2 DCT is a game from the klonoa series that came out on the GBA and there were 2 that release in the US and ill be running the second one, its a puzzle platformer with interesting puzzle solutions Status: Decline
any %
01:20:00
Game Boy Advance
Biglaw


Overcooked! 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw. Status: Decline
Any% 4P Modded
01:32:00
PC
AngelicKnight


Overcooked 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw. Status: Decline
Any% 4P Modded
01:32:00
PC
MarkAlarm


We Ski One of the many garbage shovelware games that released on the Wii, We Ski is a game about skiing down a mountain. I love motion controls!
All Courses and All Courses S+ both aim to beat all 14 of the game's courses and include the range of this game's equivalent green circle to double black diamond. S+ adds the extra difficulty of beating every course with near perfection, requiring constant turning, tricks, and no forgiveness when an NPC rams into you at mach speed and knocks you over.
Status: Decline
All Courses
00:15:00
Status: Decline
All Courses S+
00:20:00
Wii
Acadiel


Overcooked 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw. Status: Decline
Any% 4P Modded
01:32:00
PC
enbee


Overcooked 2 Overcooked 2 is hectic coop game about cooking with friends in increasingly perilous and poorly designed kitchens. Using the Archipelago mod for the game, levels instantly end upon reaching enough points to complete it, rather than being an autoscroller. Because of this, each stage is an exciting mix of chaos, efficient communication and cooking, and extremely questionable food safety practices. Submitting as a team with enbee, Acadiel, AngelicKnight, and Biglaw. Status: Decline
Any% 4P Modded
01:32:00
PC
Brandino59


Diddy Kong Racing DS It's the race of the century, Wizpig vs Wizpig! With new playable characters, tracks,modes, vehicle upgrades, and more, DKR DS brings a new spin to an old favorite. Along the way you will experience some tight and technical movement in the game's vehicles like car power drifts and hover hops. At our disposal as well are DS functions like blowing into the mic and revving up the engine with the touch screen. Even the most seasoned N64 runner has no idea what's in store on the DS! Status: Decline
Any%
2:43:00
Nintendo DS
swooce


Pru the Pigeon What if you took A Hat in Time, Celeste 64, Super Mario Galaxy, [insert some other platformers], mixed them together, and oh also you're a pigeon? That's Pru in a nutshell (eggshell?) The game has 15 levels to diveboost (though it's more of a belly flop), spin and float through, culminating with a big mosquito as a final boss. This is a retro platformer with surprisingly tight movement, and one hoot (coo?) of a good time. Status: Decline
Any%
00:17:00
PC
Eold


Black Mesa Black Mesa is a remake of Half-Life 1 in the source engine. The run features classic source engine movement tech such as air-strafing, bunny hopping, and damage boosting. The Black Mesa speedrun community has spared no expense in utilizing all of these in addition to Black Mesa's own unique tech, such as quantum pausing and sliding. Since the last time Black Mesa was shown at GDQ, new strategies have been developed which have brought the world record down by 10 minutes. Status: Decline
No Void
01:35:00
PC
Digitalhobo


Valkyrie Elysium In Valkyrie Elysium you play as a Valkyrie who is created to find and purify souls to help an injured Odin defeat Fenrir, during Ragnarok. The game is a spiritual successor to the Valkyrie Profile series.

The speedrun has over time gained a lot of out of bounds tricks due to its movement tech. Ranging from small ones like in chapters 1, 2, 3 to ones that skip basically the entire levels like chapters 5, 6, and 7. With some RNG to really spice things up.
Status: Decline
Blossom%
1:32:00
Status: Decline
any%
1:07:00
PC
Alymra


Pokemon Infinite Fusion What makes Pokemon Infinite Fusion different from main line Pokemon games? There are over 200,000 unique Pokemon in the game because of the Pokemon fusing mechanic. The magic of the game is in this spectacle of using and fighting these fusions. The run uses two separate main Pokemon, early game then late game main, and uses different configurations of those mains to get through the the 8 gyms, Elite 4, and a mandatory Super Boss. This run would be great in either a Pokemon or Fan Game block. Status: Decline
Classic Any% Ver 5.1+
01:15:00
PC
Alymra


Pokemon Infinite Fusion What makes Pokemon Infinite Fusion different from main line Pokemon games? There are over 200,000 unique Pokemon in the game because of the fusing mechanic, 126,000 of them have custom community created sprites. Insane BST randomizer takes all Pokemon and changes them to another Pokemon within 300 base stat total of the original. The goal is to find a strong combination of Pokemon to fuse and run through up to 16 gyms, the Elite 4, and two Super Bosses. Any% ends at credits. Status: Decline
Any% Insane BST Randomizer
01:45:00
Status: Decline
Beat Gold Insane BST Randomizer
02:25:00
PC
Alymra


Pokemon Infinite Fusion What makes Pokemon Infinite Fusion different from main line Pokemon games? There are over 200,000 unique Pokemon in the game because of the Pokemon fusing mechanic. The magic of the game is in this spectacle of using and fighting these fusions. The run is a race using two different stable versions of the game with different story progression paths. Both get through the the 8 gyms, Elite 4, and a mandatory Super Boss. This is a unique race because the times are comparable. Race with GaryJGames. Status: Decline
Classic Any% Ver 5.1+ and Ver 5.0.36- Race
1:25:00
PC
Lyon


My Friendly Neighborhood Goofy children's television series meets a survival horror when things go wrong while electrician Gordan is tasked with turning off a still functioning antenna at an abandoned studio.

Being a fantastic indie game developed by just two brothers, MFN is a fast paced and entertaining horror speedrun that showcases funny and loveable, but creepy enemies, interesting OOB maneuvers with texture and impact manipulation and a disturbingly cool final boss design.
Status: Decline
NMG
00:33:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:20:00
PC
sharif


Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game Imagine Trauma Center, but much less compelling from both a gameplay and a story perspective. Status: Decline
Any%
06:15:00
Status: Decline
Episode 1
01:40:00
Nintendo Wii
Pianist15


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16-track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for Waves 5+6, the anchor leg of the relay.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts.
Status: Decline
96 Tracks 200cc Relay
3:00:00
Nintendo Switch
pmcTRILOGY


G-Saviour G-Saviour is a PS2 mecha action game set as a direct sequel to the movie of the same name. The speedrun features relentless forward progress, management of hover and shield meters, and an array of rush-down boss strategies. Since last being submitted, new beam saber tech has been put together for chapters 1 and 3. NG+ sacrifices mobile suit variety for the consistency of infinite roller skating. Status: Decline
NG+
00:26:00
Status: Decline
any%
00:28:00
PS2
PippyInATopHat


Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes KTaNE is an asymmetric co-op game, where players exchange information to solve puzzles.
In this submission, we defuse a modded bomb made just for GDQ, as fast as we can.

There has never been a co-op showcase of KTaNE at GDQ, let alone modded. This showcase shows off various puzzles created by the community, some interesting, some entertaining, some beans!

We have curated 2 bomb options for this submission, one with 23 puzzles and one with 47.

Submitted as a co-op with Pesh and BlvdBroken
Status: Decline
23 Module Modded Showcase
00:35:00
Status: Decline
47 Module Modded Showcase
00:55:00
PC
Pesh


Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes KTaNE is an asymmetric coop game, where players exchange information to solve puzzles. In this submission, we defuse a modded bomb made just for GDQ, as fast as we can.
There has never been a coop showcase of KTaNE at GDQ, let alone modded. This showcase shows off various puzzles created by the community, some interesting, some entertaining, some beans!
We have curated 2 bomb options for this submission, one with 23 puzzles and one with 47.
Submitted as a co-op with PippyInATopHat and BlvdBroken
Status: Decline
47 Module Modded Showcase
00:55:00
Status: Decline
23 Module Modded Showcase
00:35:00
PC
BlvdBroken


Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes KTaNE is an asymmetric co-op game, where players exchange information to solve puzzles.
In this submission, we defuse a modded bomb made just for GDQ, as fast as we can.
There has never been a co-op showcase of KTaNE at GDQ, let alone modded. This showcase shows off various puzzles created by the community, some interesting, some entertaining, some beans!
We have curated 2 bomb options for this submission, one with 23 puzzles and one with 47.

Submitted as a co-op with PippyInATopHat and Pesh.
Status: Decline
23 Module Modded Showcase
00:35:00
Status: Decline
47 Module Modded Showcase
00:55:00
PC
pmcTRILOGY


Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen DS9 The Fallen is a 2000 PC action game with separate but intertwined campaigns for each of the principal cast members Sisko, Kira, and Worf. While bunny hopping and mine jumps work for all characters, each run also offers unique strategies including fantasy walls, sliding down sheer cliffs, and mantling skips. In a showdown between Sisko, Kira, and Worf, who would win? Status: Decline
any% (Worf)
00:48:00
Status: Decline
any% (Kira)
00:45:00
Status: Decline
any% (Sisko)
00:55:00
PC
Fumoffu


Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon Ultimate mode, with out of bounds allowed.

The run starts with all Zangetsu upgrades and a charge slash. The out of bounds category has door skips (jumping over doors) and some out of bounds zips allowing us to skip large sections of levels, and drop directly into boss arenas.

Incentive: Boss Rush mode. This category is a standard boss rush format, however all sub weapons and spells are only able to be collected once. There are also unique boss quick kills only seen in boss rush mode.
Status: Decline
Any%, Ultimate, Veteran
00:28:00
PC
LuikIzumori


moon:Remix RPG Adventure In 1997, the now legendary anti-RPG “moon” launched in Japan. In 2021, under the watchful eye of its original creators, it was finally on Steam, in English!

Have you ever felt it odd that the heroes of RPGs go around opening villagers' closets and stealing from them? Or that they travel the world indiscriminately killing all monsters they meet? This game looks at the RPGs we all know and love from a new perspective.
(From the Onion Games website)

Race with Tecchan and myself.
Status: Decline
Beat the Game (Race)
02:20:00
PC(Steam)
tecchan


moon: Remix RPG Adventure In 1997, the now legendary anti-RPG “moon” launched in Japan. In 2021, under the watchful eye of its original creators, it was finally on Steam, in English!

Have you ever felt it odd that the heroes of RPGs go around opening villagers' closets and stealing from them? Or that they travel the world indiscriminately killing all monsters they meet? This game looks at the RPGs we all know and love from a new perspective.
(From the Onion Games website)

Race with Luik Izumori and myself.
Status: Decline
Beat the Game (Race)
02:20:00
PC (Steam)
tecchan


Community Pom Community Pom is a 2D action RPG released by Fill in Cafe in 1997. It is a combination of RPG elements similar to The Legend of Zelda and a simulation game in which you develop a community of "Pom" creatures. The storyline, dot art, and music match the warm atmosphere of the game, and the player can enjoy the game in a cheerful mood from start to finish. The exhilaration of running through the fairy-tale world at high speed is the charm of speedrun! Status: Decline
Any%
01:30:00
PS
StoRmsN


The Messenger The Messenger is an indie platformer developed by Sabotage Studios, which recently released Sea of Stars.

It's a ninja game heavily inspired by games like the old Ninja Gaiden, combined with a fantastic soundtrack and beautiful visuals.

This game really shines as a speed game; most of the tech is pure movement, and going fast in this game looks super cool and feels very nice.

Unfortunately till now, the full game was never shown at a GDQ despite GDQ hotfix and we need to change that :D
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Second Quest
01:20:00
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100%
2:45:00
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Any%
2:00:00
PC
EnglishBen


Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is one of the most popular speedgames of all time, and I’ve been showcasing it to the masses across the planet for five years now. Join our boy Tommy Vercetti on a quest to take over the world, or not as we skip the entire second half of the game by executing a million glitches and seeing the game’s mission code disintegrate in real time in front of your very eyes. Status: Decline
All Missions
02:40:00
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Tightened Vice
1:20:00
Status: Decline
Any% No SSU
1:00:00
PC
EnglishBen


Grand Theft Auto III Grand Theft Auto III is easily the hardest game in the 3D era, but that doesn’t mean we don’t break it into a million pieces. In this run we skip entire missions, fly a vehicle that was intended to be "unflyable" by the developers, and jump around the map so fast that we kill our character if we do it in the wrong places! All of this in just over an hour. Status: Decline
Tightened Thrice
1:40:00
Status: Decline
Any%
1:20:00
PC
Spyran


Spider-Man (2000) Spider-Man (2000) was most people's first encounter with a Spider-Man video game and is still considered one of the best to ever release. The speedrun for this game is still evolving today. And with it, the community has also grown substantially, with frequent events and broadcasts also ongoing with Spider-Man (2000).

The PlayStation version is the one most people will have played thanks to it's wide distribution. With skips, unique movement tech and more, there's plenty for everyone to enjoy!
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Any% (Hard)
00:43:00
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Captain Universe
00:34:00
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Any% No Skips
00:40:00
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Any% (Easy)
00:36:00
Playstation 1
Spyran


Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro Enter Electro is the sequel to the beloved Spider-Man (2000), but had a much narrower release as it only released on PlayStation. Still, it's a great sequel that is faithful to the original and is a very fun speedrun (if you can handle the RNG!). Lots of unique movement tech and skips again like the original thanks to Spider-Man's powers. Status: Decline
Any% Easy Mode
00:31:00
Playstation 1
KeiperDontCare


Super Mario RPG An infamous speedrun category, relying heavily on RNG, made marathon save through the use of multiple profiles and save files.
Low Level is challenge run meets speedrun, as we must intentionally lose our XP points and stay as low of a level as possible. All the while using various strategies to keep ourselves safe, manipulate fights, and defeat Smithy!
Who will prevail?! Team Left or Team Right??...
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Low Level Showcase
4:45:00
Switch
bombomb


WarioWare:Twisted! This is the 3rd game in the WarioWare series released by GBA in 2004. A gyro sensor called a rotation sensor is installed in the cartridge, and player can tilt, shake and rotate the GBA to clear many mini-games. The only elements used to progress the game are "rotation+A" and it is widely familiar to everyone because operation is very simple. I will play this game using GBP, insert the cartridge into the GameCube and rotate it while holding the my body. Status: Decline
Any%
0:35:00
Game Boy Player
Nave357


Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers SDCCC for the N64 is a short but sweet speedrun, full of classic Scooby scares! The run consists of optimal routing to collect items needed to complete each chapter, with the final chapter showcasing an original villain and a relatively recent glitch that drastically changes the route and time save. No S+Q means no Save and Quit, meaning the run is done in a continuous run, while Any% allows S+Q which means certain locations allow teleporting. It's a fun, classic, short run. Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Any% No S+Q
00:30:00
Nintendo 64
Nave357


Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus One stunning, devious, thievious raccoonus. This PS2 era game is a classic stealth action platformer revolving around Sly Cooper, a raccoon thief seeking to avenge his family. The shortest of the Sly Cooper franchise, the game is busted wide open, with large world skips as well as interesting movement tech and tricks within each level. My submissions are for the Remaster version of the game. Status: Decline
All Minigames
00:25:00
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All Keys
01:15:00
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Any%
00:50:00
Playstation 3
MarkAlarm


Super Mario World Over the years, the Kaizo SMW community has crafted some of the most difficult boss fights ever seen in gaming. Between a precise bullet hell long thought to be impossible, fire and hammers flying around with no rhyme or reason, and lightning raining down without end, each of these boss fights have taken the best of players dozens of hours to beat once. Now, they can each be beaten in under 10 minutes, consistently, on a whim.
Submitting as a co-op showcase with lungfish3000 and tjb0607.
Status: Decline
Custom Boss Showcase
00:30:00
SNES
bombomb


Custom Robo V2 This game was released in 2000 as Robot Action RPG. This title is only release in Japan. But it is said that this game is most famous and masterpiece. Aim to clear by combining parts consisting Robo, Gun, Bomb, Pod and Legs. Aim to clear quickly by using high damage combos that are not used in normal play. The parts are customized gradually with game progress. "New Journey" was called as main story mode. This category same as Any% and I have world record. Status: Decline
New Journey
2:35:00
Nintendo 64
Nave357


Sly 2: Band of Thieves The sequel to the original stealth action platformer, this game allows playing as multiple characters, has an episodic format, and is all around sneaky fun. A constant stream of interesting movement tech and tricks keeps the run engaging, and each episode can be run individually to keep it short, even allowing for the use of additional gadgets for more time save and interesting tech. The first time Sly 2 was at a main GDQ was SGDQ 2022 by me for Episode 1, and a return would be fitting. Status: Decline
Bronze Comb%
00:10:00
Status: Decline
Episode 6+7
01:15:00
Status: Decline
Episode 8
00:30:00
Status: Decline
Episode 1
00:30:00
Playstation 3
Nave357


Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time The 4th entry in the Sly Cooper series is made by a different developer, Sanzaru Games. Thankfully, the devs included a "skip cinematic" button allowing the speedrun to be mostly comprised of non-stop action. The movement tech and strategies are pretty unique, just like the art style, but it keeps the same voice actors and witty dialogue and story to keep it entertaining as well. The episodic format is maintained, allowing for bite-sized runs in addition to the full-game. 100% is especially fun. Status: Decline
Episode 3
00:50:00
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Episode 1
00:45:00
Status: Decline
100%
06:20:00
Status: Decline
Any%
04:50:00
Playstation 3
bombomb


The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD A remake of The Wind Waker released in 2002 for the GameCube. There are glitches that can only be used in the HD version, and there are many things that break the game. You can see sights that not be seen in normal play, such as swimming with high speed in the sea, teleporting, through walls and floating in the air. The difficulty of the glitches technique is very high because the number of using frame perfect is so many. Status: Decline
Any%-Restricted
1:35:00
Status: Decline
All Dungeons-No MSS
3:00:00
Nintendo WiiU
ChampionBeef


The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero Using turbo to skip past the tutorial dialogue of the game, we are able to immediately go to the 3rd final dungeon of the game, use 1 fight to get near max level, and proceed to decimate the rest of the game in a speedy fashion, allowing us to beat this 60 hour jrpg in under 1. Modified Turbo means we use turbo for battles and cutscenes, but not field map movement, meaning the run is easier to follow. Also submitting the non-glitched any% which clears the game in a more normal fashion Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless Modified Turbo
2:35:00
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Any% Glitched Modified Turbo
00:55:00
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Any% Glitched Turbo
00:45:00
PC
ChampionBeef


The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure This speedrun is the hardest and most technical of the trails runs. There's so many amazing strategies that work by a razor thin margin and so many creative ways of getting through battles. The run mainly focuses on doing magic damage with “arts”, as physical damage doesn't scale very well. Modified Turbo means we use turbo for the battles and cutscenes, but not for field movement, meaning the game is easier to follow Status: Decline
Any% Modified Turbo
3:45:00
PC
ChampionBeef


The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 This speedrun makes use of the incredible power of “scrafts”, our ultimate attacks, to decimate almost every encounter in the game. Early on we get very easy access to a huge damage modifier as well as the ability to quickly buff up our strength, increasing our scraft damage even more. Our main character Rean can hack and slash through any wall in the game and get out of bounds, allowing us to skip major parts of dungeons and terrain to save a whole bunch of time
Status: Decline
Any% Modified Turbo
03:25:00
PC
TheGodfatherDictator


Ninja Gaiden Sigma Ninja Gaiden Sigma is a run that requires a lot of skills. Being able to adapt and improvised fighting relentless enemies. While having very tight movement mechanics. This game is sure to entertain everyone till the very end of the run. Status: Decline
Equipment Any%
01:45:00
Status: Decline
Normal Any%
01:50:00
PC
TheGodfatherDictator


Ninja Gaiden Black Last time Ninja Gaiden Black was at GDQ it was in 2018 run by Mike Kanis with a time of 1:55:XX. Since then the run has been improved by over 22 minutes with a current time of 1:33:XX. Ninja Gaiden Black is a run that requires a lot of skills. Being able to adapt and improvised fighting relentless enemies. While having very tight movement mechanics. This game is sure to entertain everyone till the very end of the run. Status: Decline
Master Ninja Any%
02:30:00
Status: Decline
Normal Any%
01:45:00
Xbox Series X
Mee


Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt You play a doctor who treats patients in top-down shooter mode, as in Binding of Isaac. You move like an old JRPG with ZX Spectrum-style graphics, but the game was released in 2014. In this category, you have to get about a third of the way through the game without taking any optional upgrades in order to unlock a bonus, which is pretty tense. After that, everything is harvested as in a more classic 100%, but there are still a few complicated battles. Status: Decline
101% (Normal)
00:20:00
PC
Neko_22


Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series I'll run Klonoa2. On GDQ run of Klonoa1 was accepted some times but run of Klonoa2 never been accepted. Klonoa2 has many cool skips and it really shows even to the most casual of viewers(For example, wall-clip on 20:16~ and perfect timing throwing at vs boss on 31:30~).
Especially "engine skip" glitch (1:12:30~, 1:14:42~ and 1:19:37~ on VOD) which you can return to latest check point while it run event flag is provided to big time save.
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Klonoa2, Any%, Normal, Standard Mode
01:45:00
PC
CaptainEzekiel


Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Resident Evil 7 has received an immense amount of changes in it's routing. Primarily, we have expanded on and introduced new elements to the out of bounds, We go all over the place in a tech heavy sequence break, now. This applies to all categories. Hard madhouse boss fights, new, never before seen at a GDQ OOB routes, new routing since it's last debut - RE7 is ready for a power house of a showcase.

Not a hero Professional DLC as a separate run or incentive.
Status: Decline
Not a Hero New Game Professional
00:30:00
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Knife Only Madhouse
2:15:00
Status: Decline
Madhouse New Game
1:45:00
PC
peterafro


Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano Kao is on an expedition at an island. During it, he is offered to do a race to get a parachute. Kao declines in favor of throwing dynamite to slow down falling speed and go out of bounds. All artifacts does all the stages as opposed to entering the final boss immediately. Status: Decline
all artifacts
00:50:00
PC
peterafro


Mighty Gunvolt Platfomer where you can play as either Gunvolt from Azure Striker Gunvolt (has double jump a powerful attack forcing the people to be still), Beck from Might Number 9 (Sliding and dash attack), and Eroko from Gal Gun (fly and turn enemies into allies) Status: Decline
Gunvolt
00:15:00
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Beck
00:15:00
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Eroko
00:15:00
PC
Ryan Ford


Quest RPG: Brian's Journey So I was talking to Sent while I was practicing this game at AGDQ since I saw he was on the leaderboards and he said "you should submit this to SGDQ to maybe have a good Quest game in"

This is an enhanced De-make of Quest 64. While pretty true to the base game, the run is very different. JP and US version are also very different from each other
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All Spirits
1:55:00
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JP Any%
1:35:00
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US Any%
1:42:00
Gameboy Player
peterafro


Flare Nuinui Quest Run and gun platformer involving Hololive vtubers. True end adds two extra bosses to westa, a boss rush level with 5 new bosses, and one last level featuring a giant skip at the end. NG+ lets you start with all the upgrades, allowing for many unintentional skips. Status: Decline
bad end
00:20:00
Status: Decline
true end
00:30:00
Status: Decline
true end NG+
00:20:00
Status: Decline
ban end NG+
00:12:00
PC
Ryan Ford


The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Zelda LADX is an enhanced re-release of Link's Awakening and a sequel to ALttP. It's a 2D Zelda game with a lot of unique movement and a wild amount of different tech and even doubles as a "2D Mario game" with some familiar characters Status: Decline
Any% (No S+Q/WW/Oob)
1:00:00
Status: Decline
Any% (No WW/OoB)
00:57:00
Gameboy Player
peterafro


Mega Man Rock Force this fangame sets itself apart from every other mega man game because in it you barely plays as mega man. Once you unlock nitro man, you use him for almost the entire run. He has a glitch allowing you to fly in the air and fall through floors. Status: Decline
any%
00:48:00
PC
SirLiveAlot


Geometry Dash Geometry Dash was originally a auto runner game. So how do we make the original 1 to 8 levels harder? Easy, we beat the first 8 levels while juggling! I have never seen anyone else beat games while juggling so perhaps you have not either. Let this be the first. This is also a showcase for the use of the Xbox adaptive controller with the Logitech adaptive gaming kit Status: Decline
any % 1-8
00:14:00
PC
peterafro


Mega Man X7 Mixes up the series formula with 3d movement and the ability to switch between two characters mid stage. any% uses a fresh file and involves reploid collecting and being careful with health. NG+ has all the upgrades making it much speedier. any% is a race between Focussight, Ppotdot, and me. Status: Decline
NG+
1:00:00
Status: Decline
any%
1:04:00
PC
Ryan Ford


Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest Roll and Move: The sequel

Good old fast-paced sidescroller with a good amount of good tricks. Some straightforward parts that leaves good chances for donation reading, and a ton of categories that are interesting in their own way
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Warpless
1:00:00
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Beat Mario (All DK Coins)
1:08:00
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102%
1:37:00
Status: Decline
True Ending
00:43:00
SNES
sharif


The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince Very cute hand drawn escort puzzle platformer. Guide the prince to see the witch of the woods to restore his sight. Many of the puzzles and enemies can be skipped with precise platforming, making the speedrun interesting and high stakes. Status: Decline
Beat The Game
01:15:00
PS5
sharif


Barbie Fashion Pack Games oh dear Status: Decline
Hundo% D:
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Fashion Backpack%
00:10:00
GBC
edzwoo


Super Metroid Map Rando Super Metroid Map Rando shuffles the entire world in a geometrically consistent way. Item logic is based on an open source project that accounts for a vast amount of strategies known by the community.
Hard difficulty has common randomizer tricks and is logic geared for community tournament play.
Expert difficulty has tricks expected in SM Kaizo and Challenge progression will try to pigeonhole the player through a single path.
Seed can be curated by devs for time and a better showcase of skills.
Status: Decline
Hard Tricky
01:30:00
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Expert Challenge
02:30:00
SNES
Zojalyx


The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers One of the greatest video games based on a movie of all time. This run takes 3 characters, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and takes them through the events of the first two Lord of the Rings movies. This run is being presented as a character bid war from the best runner in the world. It features precise EXP routing, boss quick kills that are crazy to watch from a visual perspective, and a fast-paced run that can keep viewers engaged the whole time. Status: Decline
All Levels
01:20:00
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Gimli (Easy)
00:55:00
Status: Decline
Legolas (Easy)
00:55:00
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Aragorn (Easy)
00:55:00
Nintendo Wii
Ray0ken


Sonic Adventure DX I know it's called Sonic Adventure, but sometimes the side characters need a spot in the limelight! In small stories, you'll see fast platforming, glitches, and racing opponents from Tails, fishing with our good pal Big The Cat, and topping the run off with the always exciting Super Sonic endgame (it is his game after all.) Status: Decline
Small Stories (T.B.SS)
00:40:00
PC
Zojalyx


The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King This run had an incredible showcase a few years ago at SGDQ 2022. Now, let us bring it back in a brand new fashion, The PC port has a new feature that allows us to skip all the FMV cutscenes in the run removing 11 minutes of downtime. Plus adding in a co-op run for this game as well will make the run even more entertaining and show off even more of what this game can do. Status: Decline
Any% (No Cutscnes, Co-op) w/ TheSpectacularSlade
01:20:00
Status: Decline
No Upgrades (Solo, No Cutscenes)
01:25:00
Status: Decline
Any% (No Cutscenes, Solo)
01:20:00
PC
Zojalyx


Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 This game is a very fast-paced speedrun. The movement is super fast and there are skips pretty much everywhere in the run even if someone will not even notice it. This is a game that has non-stop Star Wars action throughout the entire game. All Holocrons obsoletes a few Any% skips but adds in a skip that is one of the most insane skips ever in The Force Unleashed 2 Speedrun Status: Decline
All Holocrons
01:25:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:15:00
PC
kasayev


Sea of Stars Sea of Stars is a RPG that is heavily inspired by the classics such as Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG and Illusion of Gaia. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will use the power of sun and moon to defeat monsters created by the evil alchemist The Fleshmancer. The speedrun features a lot of the good stuff such as glitches, huge skips, infinite money glitch, transfering stats between save files, amazing ost, and so on. Status: Decline
Any% No Relics
06:20:00
PC
Ray0ken


Elmo's Number Journey Elmo is here and ready to teach us how to count! In this silly N64 title, we'll jetski through a chocolate river, run across a carnival at the speed of sound, and even venture into Count's Castle, all in the name of a journey to learn more about numbers! Status: Decline
Easy
00:15:00
Nintendo 64
KyoshiCadre


OFF OFF is an indie rpg created by Mortis ghost in 2008 in RPG Maker 2003. You help The Batter in his mission to purify all the zones that have specters infecting them... but is your mission truly just?

This game inspired a lot of indie games seen today such as Undertale, Omori, and OneShot. The game is fairly fast paced, requiring you to be on your toes in boss fights.
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Any%
1:13:00
PC
teddyras


Memoirs of Magic I am submitting this run because I am assured one day it will get in if I just keep making this one of my 5 lol. I think I've submitted it like 10 times now.

It's a really hard doom mod where you can do magic out of your shotgun or a book. Also it's really really zelda. Oh, and this game has made everyone suffer that I made play it because it's hard, but they all assure me they love this game. I got an incentive to make it harder for me, there's plenty of read donation time when I'm not blabbin
Status: Decline
Any%
01:40:00
PC
Taechuk


Alien Hominid HD Alien Hominid HD is a run and gun with the old style of Newgrounds. It is a brutal game as you are rushing through levels doing your best to not get shot, as any hit means death. Friendly difficulty increases player damage, resulting in a faster pace overall, and also gives a shield on respawn and on weapon pickup. The run is constant mashing and masterful knowledge of how to deal with each screen and bosses in quick fashion as well as reacting to random weapon drops which can lead to timesaves. Status: Decline
Any% Friendly
00:45:00
PC
Taechuk


Alien Hominid Invasion Alien Hominid Invasion is a roguelike reimagining-slash-sequel of the original Alien Hominid, where the Aliens invade the planet and aim to destroy the FBI's headquarter, killing anything in their way. The usual run is fairly repetitive, requiring the player to do 6 very similar missions with a different boss at the end, but there is an exploit to give a character another's progress, bypassing the missions and changing the run into a boss rush of all the bosses in the game. Status: Decline
Any%
1:30:00
Status: Decline
Any% Skips
00:25:00
PC
Violin


M&M's Shell Shocked M&M's Shell Shocked is a 3D platformer that is heavily inspired by the Crash Bandicoot series, but without all of the polish that usually comes with a good videogame. That's right, this game is awful, and silly, and even awfully silly. I ran this for GDQ Hotfix a few years ago and would love to showcase it again at SGDQ to bring some smiles and laughter to the people watching. Status: Decline
Any%
00:50:00
PS2
Abbiescorner


Yakuza Kiwami 2 You've seen Kiryu's story, are you Kiryu-ous about The Mad Dog Shimano Goro Majima's story? Well here's Majima in Yakuza Kiwami 2!
Status: Decline
Majima Sega any%
00:15:00
Playstation 5
PippyInATopHat


The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Skyward Sword any% is a fast-paced gauntlet of menus, memory manipulation, and motion controls.

This route is equal parts silly and highly technical with its utilization of title screen shenanigans to skip the majority of intended progression. It also, as of summer 2022, now features an even more unorthodox ending. This new route has never before been seen at a GDQ event and looks like nothing Skyward Sword speedrunning has seen before.

It's flashy, it's fun, it's fast :>
Status: Decline
Any%
01:25:00
Nintendo Wii
speedyISH


Resident Evil Code Veronica: X Last appeared on SGDQ 2017, the 4th main installment of the RE series and the first RE title released for the Dreamcast that both fans love and hate. Notorious for its long backtracking, difficult boss fights and narrow hallways filled with zombies. For this run, all i need is good, precise movement plus a glitch the involves using the training manual... which will allow me to bypass the most notorious boss fights rendering them as small fries. Status: Decline
Any% Glitched
1:50:00
Playstation 3
Peas


Puyo Puyo Sun The first Puyo game to add a gimmick to the standard Tsuu rule, where if an opponent offsets damage, Sun Puyo will drop in each column, in order, from left to right. Normal Mode is Arle's Story, except played on the Master Difficulty, the hardest difficulty in the game. The drop speed is very fast, the AI moves fast, you deal slightly less damage, and you start with more colors. I will offer an incentive to fight Carbuncle in Schezo's story. Status: Decline
Fight Carbuncle%
00:10:00
Status: Decline
Normal Mode (Master Difficulty)
00:28:00
PS1
Peas


Puyo Puyo 2 The iconic sequel to Puyo Puyo, which introduced the counterattacking mechanic, where if your chain power is stronger than what your opponent set off, they will take more damage. Endurance Mode is essentially Rally Mode in most Puyo 2 ports, where instead of a score attacking run, you fight all of the characters in the game. The fights slightly increase in difficulty, but each death decreases the drop speed for said fight. This is played on the SEGA AGES version, also known as the arcade port. Status: Decline
Endurance Mode
00:40:00
Nintendo Switch
Peas


Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz HD Released in 2019 as a remaster to the Wii launch title, Banana Blitz HD reverts to analog controls, as opposed to using gyro controls. Additionally, the jumping mechanic and boss fights have been improved to accommodate for this change. The game also adds Sonic the Hedgehog to the cast. All Worlds runs through all 100 stages, with Worlds 1-8 each containing a boss fight at the end. Worlds 9 and 10 have an extra stage instead of a boss fight. Status: Decline
All Worlds
00:50:00
PC
Peas


Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll Best known for the use of the Balance Board, Step & Roll is a laxer approach to the Monkey Ball series. This game lacks the jumping from Banana Blitz and improves the motion controls. However, playing with the Wii Remote adds obstacles to the levels. By changing one line of code in the memory address, we can trick the game into loading the Balance Board stages while playing with the Wii Remote! This makes the game much more accessible, and a very unique SMB speedrunning experience. Status: Decline
All Worlds
00:40:00
Wii
LifeL1ke


Summoner A pseudo-isometric RPG from the developers who brought you the Red Faction and Saints Row series, Summoner was an ambitious game for its time. The speedrun takes advantage of various menu exploits and some design oversights to skip animations, kill bosses very quickly, or in some cases skip bosses entirely. Many parts of the run also involve micromanaging multiple party members to complete up to 4 different objectives simultaneously. Status: Decline
any%
2:00:00
PC
LifeL1ke


Cyberia This game would be a perfect fit for Silly block even when it's being played well, but what really makes it shine are the over the top death animations. Slip on an oil slick twice? dead. Touch one wrong button on a security lock? ENTIRE FACILITY EXPLODES. There is even one instance where you can literally shoot your own foot off. Status: Decline
All Unique Deaths
1:13:00
PC
LifeL1ke


Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 An action-platformer with some RPG elements, the speedrun uses animation cancelling to move faster throughout the game. In addition to this, there are several large skips that take advantage of the game’s physics and damage mechanics to bypass lengthy combat and puzzle sequences. Some notable skips happen at 5:25, and 59:20 in the video. Status: Decline
any%
1:25:00
PC
G3neziz


Pokémon Red/Blue This glitch-heavy category shows off a broad range of techniques like RNG manipulation, out of bounds movement & memory manipulation in order to obtain all 8 gym badges in the reverse order.

Giovanni's badge first, brock's badge last.

Most of the glitches are visually stunning and will definitely trigger some "oh my god, you can do this with this game?" moments.
Status: Decline
Reverse Badge Order
00:40:00
GBI
G3neziz


The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask This category makes heavy use of stale reference manipulation (SRM), which has been discovered around 4.5 years ago.
Since this is a memory manipulation glitch we can overwrite data in memory to achieve our goal:

Collect all the boss remains from their original source (at the end of each dungeon) instead of just glitching them directly into the inventory.

"Sequence breaking" is an understatement in this category.
Status: Decline
All Dungeons (SRM)
00:50:00
WiiVC
G3neziz


Pokémon Gold/Silver The majority of this run will be done glitchlessly.
However, mid-run we'll set up our pc's box names with very exotic names.
This usually indicates the use of arbitrary code execution (ACE).

And that's 100% accurate for this category.

We want to end up in the credits after defeating the final boss Gold. Save Corruption is banned, but everything else, including ACE, is available to us.
Status: Decline
Any% No Save Corruption
01:00:00
GBI
Czikubi


Super Mario Bros. 3 All forts continues to be unparalleled in the SMB3 speedrun world when it comes to the amount of bizarre content that it holds. Long ago, shortly after its last appearance in a GDQ, it became the only long category to feature a wrong warp, and it has gained many other unique strategies since then. SMO 97%, the most difficult and punishing category, goes where no other category goes. It is the only time you will see a shell jump in this game, and it enters levels you would otherwise skip or clip. Status: Decline
Any% All Fortresses
00:48:00
Status: Decline
Small Mario Only 97%
01:20:00
NES
Teruokun


Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe. Status: Decline
4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign
04:00:00
PC
TeamMacIntyre


Factorio This is a 100% achievement run of Factorio. The run requires getting every single achievement in the game in one run. A very difficult run and a very competitive category right now between myself and the top runners. Typically random seed, but recommended to prepare a seed for this event to remove reroll time.

I can easily describe what I'm doing and why it matters during the run, and make it exciting for new / unfamiliar viewers of the game.
Status: Decline
100%
04:45:00
PC
Fablespell


Meet Your Oshi Meet Your Oshi is a new FNAF styled game that released last November and hasn't been run in GDQ before. Us runners for the game have discovered a few bugs and tricks that I think would be interesting to show off. It's a simple game, that could potentially be ran in under an hour if things go correct, and could fit well within a horror block. Status: Decline
any%
01:10:00
PC
PippyInATopHat


The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Randomizer Skyward Sword Randomizer is ready for its GDQ debut!

The Randomizer turns Skyward Sword into an open sky waiting to be explored with... whatever items we happen to stumble across this time as they've all been scattered randomly to the wind.
Co-op gives us the opportunity to show off more of the game in a single seed as we work to pass information back and forth while navigating movement tricks, collision seams, and title screens.

Submitted as a co-op showcase with gymnast86 :>
Status: Decline
2 Player Co-Op
02:45:00
Nintendo Wii
Electric_man17


Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear To The Rescue The run will showcase the best of Buzz Lightyear’s Abilities to collect many Pizza Planet Tokens, Power-ups and defeating bosses as quickly in order to save Woody from going to Japan Status: Decline
100%
01:05:00
PlayStation TV
Slayur


Call of Duty: Black Ops Call of Duty: Black Ops is one of the most iconic games in the entire franchise, with a lot of memorable quotes such as "The numbers, Mason, what do they mean?" This run will showcase precise movement, strategic glitches, and optimized routing to deliver an exhilarating experience for the viewers. Status: Decline
Any%
02:55:00
PC
DanTheVP


Diablo IV Proposed is a Co-op run of Diablo IV with CarlSagan42, DanTheVP, FuryfulFawful, and Teruokun. D4 hasn’t been seen at GDQ, and this submission offers an intense challenge that’s exciting for runners and viewers. It has the same action you’d get in a solo run, while adding unique routing and 4 player perspectives. D4’s randomness means players must adapt and coordinate at all times, especially on the hardcore difficulty. Despite permadeath, potions and backup characters make the run marathon safe. Status: Decline
4-player Co-op - Hardcore Campaign
04:00:00
PC
Glubbers


The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Twilight Princess All Dungeons is a lengthy, but relaxing category which has a combination of precise tricks, cool general gameplay, and goofy glitches, and as a result delivers a consistently interesting experience for viewers and runners alike. Status: Decline
All Dungeons
04:00:00
Nintendo Wii
Donaldwd518


super mario world This is a fan made game called Beautiful dangerous by Iamtheratio. The category is mustache %. Which is where you run the entire hack 100% but also wearing a fake mustache Status: Decline
mustache %
00:51:00
SNES
sharif


Jenny LeClue - Detectivu Fun little fourth wall breaking detective noir story starring an intrepid young wanna-be detective, Jenny LeClue. Solve the various mysteries of Arthurton and get to the truth your mother is hiding. Fun little puzzle game, speedrun mostly just knows where to go and how to solve puzzles optimally. No Dialogue Skip categories create a more immersive narrative experience, at the cost of 2 hours of game time. Status: Decline
100%
05:15:00
Status: Decline
Any%
04:15:00
Status: Decline
100% No Dialogue Skip
07:15:00
Status: Decline
Any% No Dialogue Skip
06:15:00
PC
EldritchWolfie


Turnip Boy Robs A Bank Turnip Boy is back and this time he's running and gunning for cash. This is any% so we are going to be robbing a bank as fast as we can. Status: Decline
Any%
00:45:00
PC
Satoryu


9 Years of Shadows 9YoS is a Metroidvania with strong themes of color and music. Its defining mechanic is the light bar, which serves both as ammo for your ranged offense and as your first line of defense when you are hit. So maximizing your damage while not making yourself vulnerable is key to succeed. Europa also gains new armors on her journey, unlocking new elemental properties and traversal methods. Status: Decline
any%
1:35:00
PC
Corvimae


Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure This game is the only game that uses the world's worst keyboard, the DS Wireless Keyboard. It's ISO layout, it does not feel good to type on, and you're forced to use either it or the touch screen, which is an even worse experience. It's a silly run but I'm very good at typing. Catch Mew is like 30 minutes straight of error-less typing. It's very very hard. Maybe instead of "learning a run" we should be "running a learn (with Pokémon: Typing Adventure)" 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Status: Decline
Catch Mew
0:52:00
Status: Decline
Any%
0:44:00
DS
Lotus_RT


Wario Land 3 Wario Land runs have always had a great degree of entertainment in them thanks to the tricks involved. However, we've always showcased the shorter Any% categories in the case of Wario Land 3. Let's break the mold and show off the skills and possibilities of what we can execute when we have to get not just all 100 chests, but all the game's music coins, totaling 200, on top of that! In a game that encourages exploration, let's bring the music box world to life! Status: Decline
100%
03:40:00
Game Boy Color
dopezzera


The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Submitting as a relay with jess57329 Status: Decline
100% Glitchless
6:10:00
Nintendo Wii
Lotus_RT


Wario Land 3 Randomizer Just like with many other games that have a lot of available items and progressions, Wario Land 3 also possesses the ability have a randomized experience. This breathes life in a game that naturally encourages exploration. With the plethora of available settings, we will always get a unique experience each time. After the success of the Pokemon Crystal Randomizer in AGDQ2024, let's show off the possibilities that are available in a Wario Land 3 Randomizer Experience! Status: Decline
Randomizer, Any%
02:00:00
Game Boy Color
jess57329


The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 100% Glitchless is a category which beats the game while getting every item that stays with you after playing song of time under a set of community-defined restrictions that we refer to as "glitchless". This run shows off complex routing based on in-game time events, route-defining sequence breaks, and engaging movement tech for each transformation mask.

Submitting as a relay with dopezzera
Status: Decline
100% Glitchless
06:10:00
Nintendo Wii
Gerbiez


Mario Tennis This run is a great challenge. It's a fun way to show the community how reactive and difficult a mario tennis speedrun can be. This category includes Tournament cups + Star Cups. Star cups is VERY difficult and would be a good example of the difficulty for the speedrun. While the beginning tournament cups being more about aces and clean gameplay, making it a breeze. A great balanced overall run that deserves to be shared! Status: Decline
All Cups
00:35:00
Nintendo 64
emray


Hollow Knight The famous Silksong prequel done fast!

Patch doesn't impact the run too much in this category, and it can be done on current patch as in the submission video to easily transition to Pantheon of Hallownest, if accepted as an incentive.
Status: Decline
True Ending NMG
01:30:00
Status: Decline
Pantheon of Hallownest
00:30:00
PC
LaserTrap_


LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (DS) A goofy game shown on the GDQ channel before, and shown very successfully for a live audience at ESA last year. This is far from the best Lego game, as it's obviously broken from the onset, but I can break it further and it is, frankly, hilarious. I also accidentally cursed myself by purchasing a version 1.0 cart, which somehow dooms me to only running the All Levels category, since literally none of the others are possible :) Status: Decline
All Levels 1.0
00:52:00
DS
LaserTrap_


LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (GBA) I recently ran this in person at ESA, and was able to get the crowd incredibly hype. You need this at your event. This submission also assumes my PAX run is a huge hit.
All Episodes is the main category and is being submitted as a race with JankPickle.
Death Star Plans are the collectible in this game, and collecting them is on a whole new level of skill. As a non-traditional Lego game, deaths restart the room, and we take a lot of risks. This run will have you on the edge of your seat.
Status: Decline
All Death Star Plans
01:10:00
Status: Decline
All Episodes
00:50:00
DS
LaserTrap_


LEGO Batman: The Videogame (DS) This is one of the best speedruns I have to offer. While this game casually might have not been the most fantastic, the speedruns can skip any of the slowest sections. Lego Batman on the DS is a super sneaky pick for the best flowing speedrun you could possibly see at Games Done Quick. Free Play allows us to bring any character back into each of the levels, leading to flashy clips and height gaining tricks and so much more. Hero and Villain are separate story lines, but both together plays best. Status: Decline
Free Play - Villain
00:29:00
Status: Decline
Free Play - Hero
00:43:00
Status: Decline
Free Play - All Levels
01:12:00
DS
cajink87


Barbie Fashion Pack Games It's not easy being fabulous. Help Barbie and her friends be glamorous and achieve the fashion backpack through a series of minigames.
Oh dear...

Submitting as a race with sharif
Status: Decline
Hundo% D: race
01:00:00
Status: Decline
Fashion Backpack % race
00:10:00
GBC
LaserTrap_


Demon Shift A short and very fast-paced platformer originally for Flash, but still playable in 2024. Play as a demon, and shift through the 2 dimensions, altering collision or behaviors of obstacles. This feature is surprisingly polished and unbroken, but there are still minor skips with precise platforming, and even without it, the slick movement should speak for itself. This game has been hidden for far too long. Status: Decline
The Devil Is Satisfied
00:15:00
PC
junkyard_dave


Tecmo World Wrestling I recently dropped the record in this obscure & goofy wrestling game from Tecmo by nearly 17 minutes incorporating TAS strats from ShesChardcore and adding my own RTA strats - and the best part is the run is extremely RNG and horrible. Will it take 5 minutes, or 20? Who knows!

Join our wrestler in our extremely random journey toward being the best (or worst) in the world.
Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
Nintendo Entertainment System
junkyard_dave


Bucky O'Hare I recently achieved HARD! mode Bucky (2nd place) with 0 accidental deaths. HARD! mode Bucky is an anti-piracy feature that turns all damage into one hit kills that you can trigger by entering a password at the beginning of the game. One of the best lesser-known flagship platformer speedruns and one of most underrated categories on the NES. Status: Decline
HARD! Mode
00:30:00
Nintendo Entertainment System
junkyard_dave


Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril Submitting version 1.1 on the NES which is the hardest difficulty. Released in 2010 by SivakGames, Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril is a tough-as-nails platformer. Incentives will include different difficulty modes which limit my lives from infinite, to 50, to just 20 - if which exceeded, I'll get kicked back to the title screen. When I first beat this casually with my girlfriend, we died nearly 2000 times and it took 15 hours to beat. My current lowest deaths is 4.

Very hard game!
Status: Decline
Any% (Normal - Unfair)
00:42:00
Nintendo Entertainment System
junkyard_dave


Battletoads "All Stages" allows us to skip some of the worst parts of the runs by skipping Turbo Tunnel and entering some screen transitions early, also, skipping racing the rat in the Rat Race level.

Note: I'm learning this ahead of time as I submit this and the estimate will drop drastically. Will update/resubmit before the deadline with a better PB once I have a PB.
Status: Decline
All Stages
00:45:00
Nintendo Entertainment System
Bayesic


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe This is a 6-person relay submission to run through all 96 tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 200cc with no items. We will each be running through one of the 16 track categories on the main leaderboard, with my submission being for the retro tracks.

It's been a couple of years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was featured at GDQ, and half of the tracks have never been showcased before on 200cc, which is the fastest game mode and introduces new strategies and shortcuts
Status: Decline
96 tracks 200cc relay
03:00:00
Nintendo Switch
Maxylobes


Visage A popular indie horror game, inspired by Amnesia and Silent Hill. Despite the simplistic mechanics, this game provides very unique, and complex skips. One of which involves loading multiple areas at once, which will surely blow the minds of many. Chapters% has evolved a lot over the past year. Two brand new skips, and a new variation of an existing one. All of them are wild, and also cut the darkest subject matter from the game entirely. This category is now the best possible showcase for GDQ. Status: Decline
Chapters%
01:00:00
PC
Mattmatt


Dead Space 3 Dead Space 3 does not get anywhere near enough love, and it's still the only game in the series that hasn't had a solo run featured at GDQ. In this run we abuse tons of out of bounds, wall clips, mine boosts as well as launching ourselves across the map to skip huge portions of the game. NG+ allows us to mine boost right from the start of the game, as well as making combat trivial, putting the spotlight on the glitches! Status: Decline
Any% New Game
2:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% NG+
1:55:00
PC
Maxylobes


F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin After running F.E.A.R. twice at past events, I feel it's time to bring the sequel to the stage. Over the past couple of years, this route has gone through major changes that have cut 10 minutes off of the run. New clips, out of bounds skips, and unintended parkour, all make it just as flashy as the first game. There's also a heavier emphasis on optimizing combat in this run, which makes fighting sections more interesting. While it may not be as spooky as F.E.A.R., it is just as entertaining. Status: Decline
Any%
01:15:00
PC
Kingj0444


Disney Illusion Island Disney Illusion Island is a new switch exclusive 2D metroidvania platformer with Disney characters that was recently released on July 28th of 2023. Being very linear in it’s main path, this game is filled and built off of tiny optimizations and corner cuts that really add up over the course of the run. There's also 1 major exploit called IWC (Infinite Wall Cling) that's very hard but skips 2 major sections in Any%, saving 10 minutes. No IWC is the glitchless category where this trick is banned. Status: Decline
Any%
02:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% (No IWC)
02:20:00
Switch
ColonelFatso


Front Mission: Gun Hazard Sidescrolling action RPG by Omiya Soft & Square, blending 2D mecha action with level progression, ammo & health management and a detailed narrative about soldier-in-exile Albert Grabner unraveling a global conspiracy to feed pointless wars around the world. Routing in the game is primarily about meeting specific level thresholds to unlock important shop items such as new mecha suits & weapons, as well as an ammunition glitch that busts the weapon balance wide open. Status: Decline
any%
03:00:00
SFC
Tommy_Tricks


Wacky Races: Starring Dick Dastardly & Muttley This run involves four 5-race circuits showcasing all the race tracks available to the game. It makes use of the fastest car in the game and involves utilising car abilities and picking up tokens to power said abilities.

I've chosen this run as I believe it showcases most of what the game has to offer in terms of both game design for a Kart Racer and speedrunning difficulty. This run also has 3 semi-consistent tricks available to showcase which would not be otherwise in any other category.
Status: Decline
All Cups; 1 Player; 1 Controller
00:45:00
PlayStation 2
Twyn


Rogue Legacy 2 Rogue Legacy 2 is a Rogue Lite where dying allows the player to level up and improve gear. Sadly in this high drama action packed category, we beat the game with the first heir, meaning no dying, no improving, no hope. This is a very difficult category so in a live setting it's only an attempt, dying would mean beating the game any%, still high skill but the real show lies in the expectation and hope of finishing deathless. It works very well live (as shown in the example video).
PB is 1h25.
Status: Decline
First Heir (attempt)
01:40:00
PC
Mulanv44


Super Mario Odyssey Talkatoo% is essentially the randomizer of Super Mario Odyssey Any%. In this run, you must keep talking to the bird 'Talkatoo', who provides you with the names of moons across the kingdoms. While this is intended to be a hint mechanic for new players, speedrunners have creatively turned it into a challenge for top runners.
As a race, the stakes are high. Runners must rely on luck for good moons, while also strategizing and making routes on the fly.
Status: Decline
Talkatoo% 2 Player Race
1:50:00
Nintendo Switch
Joester98


Crash Twinsanity Twinsanity takes the meaning of "broken" to a completely new level. 100% features lengthy OoB sequences everywhere, zombie mode to make Crash invincible, and even an invisible hoverboard! A glitched longjump is used repeatedly to skip most puzzles and cutscenes, and Cortex himself is heavily abused as a platform to allow for some truly ridiculous skips. With an acapella soundtrack and hilarious dialogue to go with it, Twinsanity is definitely one of the most entertaining runs out there, period. Status: Decline
100%
01:25:00
PlayStation 2
opi_pie_sunpaul


FAITH: The Unholy Trinity GCB% is all chapters, all good endings, and zero deaths. If a death occurs I run to the end or all good endings if time permits. For GCB% category I am also submitting it as a race with FailedUplink. Status: Decline
GCB%
01:40:00
PC
Riekelt


Goat Simulator 3 Goat Simulator 3 is a quirky game that actually has a legit ending! It's a simulator free-roaming game generally, but there are "GTA like" missions you can do. When doing enough of these, you get access to the final boss.
There is movement tech that makes traversing fast, and a lot of references to other games and pop culture to make it a fun watch!
Status: Decline
Beat the Farmer
0:40:00
PC
Riekelt


Retro City Rampage Retro City Rampage is a GTA3-Demake inspired game on all the consoles (last game on wii). It has lots of missions, and lots of references to other games and pop culture (Mario, Contra, Zelda, MGS etc). Next to some cool tricks and getting infinite ammo via a clever trick, this run is all about drinking coffee to make the gamespeed twice as fast, that I need to react too. Status: Decline
Any%
1:10:00
PC
opi_pie_sunpaul


FAITH: Chapter III Play in turbo mode. In turbo mode, you can choose between x2 or x4 speed. x4 speed is very difficult to clear, but I can do it. Status: Decline
Turbo% Ending II (x2)
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Turbo% Ending II (x4)
00:30:00
PC
Riekelt


Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Remastered We all know GTA SA, and it was in SGDQ last year. However, this can be done faster. Only in the PC version of the Remastered version (Not definitive, but close to it), can you do an Arbitrary Jump in Script (or AJS), which is a really convoluted and clever setup to warp to the final mission, skipping all of the game. It's a millisecond-precise trick, but marathon safe

In this submission, I will submit a version where I show a typical run where it fails, and 1 that succeeds in 1 go!
Status: Decline
Any% showcase
00:18:00
Status: Decline
Any% showcase with fail
00:25:00
PC
CriticalCyd


Sonic Heroes One of the most unique Sonic games thanks to the team mechanic that allows you to switch between 3 different playstyles on the fly and what better way to show off everything this system can do than with the extra challenging Super Hard Mode!
LTS is a subcategory that bans a couple of big tricks that would otherwise disregard most of the stage design, forcing us to be far more creative with this game’s amazing movement options to traverse the most difficult stage layouts the game has to offer.
Status: Decline
Super Hard Mode LTS
1:00:00
Wii
Hibnotix


Sonic Free Riders It's been 7 years since the original Sonic Riders was showcased at a GDQ event.
Sonic Free Riders throws out the rulebook from the original release. Considered a spin-off as opposed to a sequel, Sonic Free Riders was a launch title for the ill-fated Kinect. In this game we once again race the eclectic cast of characters in any of the four main stories. Each stage is a different challenge and can include wobbling, jumping, crouching and even t-posing.
Status: Decline
Any%
02:00:00
Status: Decline
Team Bid War
00:30:00
XBOX 360 w/ Kinect
linewashere


Pokémon Platinum Glitched speedrun of Pokémon Platinum, there has been significant route improvements recently, and the route is a lot different compared to what was showcased on the Hotfix in January 2024. Status: Decline
Any%
2:55:00
Nintendo DS
texas_grandma


Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Final Mix HD This game hasn't been featured at a mainline GDQ event since AGDQ 2019, to my knowledge, where Pessilist ran Terra Crit lvl 1 Any%. Since then the game has developed a lot, and I had a hand in many of the recent improvements to both the categories I'm submitting, including being the former world record holder for Terra Crit lvl 1. Either or both of the categories would make an exciting showcase to demonstrate the evolution of one of my personal favorite speedgames. Status: Decline
Aqua Crit lvl 1 Any%
00:48:00
Status: Decline
Terra Crit lvl 1 Any%
00:56:00
Playstation 4
Violin


Kingdom Hearts III For this showcase I'll be fighting the hardest superboss in the Kingdom Hearts series with these restrictions:

-Critical Mode
-Level 1
-All Pro Codes
-Kingdom Key Only
-BLINDFOLDED

This showcase was a massive fan favorite at the past two RPG Limit Break events, and would be perfect for a big donation incentive, even as a standalone thing.
Status: Decline
Blindfolded Yozora Showcase
00:30:00
PC
ninpalk


Yooka-Laylee Any% w/ flight could be compared to 16 star from Super Mario 64. It isn't the fastest way to beat the game, but is much more marathon safe and actually has collection of some collectibles unlike any%, making it a fun watch. 100 pagies however, is more comparable to 70 star from Super Mario 64. This run gets the bare necessities to beat the game with intended requirements, with lots of cool glitches and fun movement along the way! Status: Decline
100 Pagies
02:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% w/ Flight
00:28:00
Nintendo Switch
Peas


Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo finally completed the Booster Course Pass DLC, adding 48 more courses. They also implemented a “speed buff” for the midweight characters, which completely shifted the metagame and strats, especially for the base game courses. Therefore, I’d like to offer a bidwar to choose my combo. 96 Tracks runs through both base game and DLC, showing off fan-favorite courses, and shortcuts done without a mushroom. 48 Tracks DLC shows off the completed Booster Course Pass courses. Status: Decline
150cc 48 Tracks DLC (No Items)
02:00:00
Status: Decline
150cc 96 Tracks (No Items)
04:00:00
Nintendo Switch
Duckable


Super Mario Odyssey Talkatoo% is essentially the randomizer of Super Mario Odyssey Any%. In this run, you must keep talking to the bird 'Talkatoo', who provides you with the names of moons across the kingdoms. While this is intended to be a hint mechanic for new players, speedrunners have creatively turned it into a challenge for top runners.
As a race, the stakes are high. Runners must rely on luck for good moons, while also strategizing and making routes on the fly.
Status: Decline
Talkatoo% 2 Player Race
1:50:00
Nintendo Switch
Asuka424


Final Fantasy Type-0 HD One of my dream speedruns to learn, Type-0 HD is an action RPG that is also one of the more obscure Final Fantasy titles. Throughout the run, we balance RNG, our constant state of panic, and needing to reroute based on who's still alive in Class Zero...and who we can throw into the frozen crystals of the workhorse of the run: Shiva. Also Samurai Jack carries us on his back when all else fails.
Timestamps in VOD description.
Status: Decline
New Game, Cadet
02:30:00
PC
Rubberduckyassassin


GBA Spyro Trilogy The first 3 handheld Spyro games are both canonically a Trilogy, and a very entertaining speedrun! Familiarizing yourself with each game is a feat in itself, but this run tests how fast you can beat all 3 games with no break! Each game offers an improvement to the isometric graphics, fast-pace mechanics, bangin' music, and also has a unique charm and playstyle to each individual game! Status: Decline
GBA Trilogy Any% (Cheats)
00:30:00
Status: Decline
GBA Trilogy Any%
02:10:00
Gameboy Player
MHFsilver


VIVIDLOPE Vividlope is a speedgame that has a great balance of challenging movement, great expression when it comes to how you approach completing levels, and fun design. The items category makes use of the item menu which allows you to use items outside of their intended levels, this makes for a lot more clever routing and pathing throughout the levels and in some levels, it can even break the intended design. Status: Decline
Any (Items)
00:40:00
PC
MHFsilver


Hebereke 2 A uniquely designed 2D rougelike, Hebereke 2 is a run that requires the runner to do a lot of on the fly thinking and rerouting to work around the randomized levels while making use of several items and characters, all to pull of tricks like down warps, cutscene skips and even abusing some unintended side effects of certain game mechanics. All together it makes for a really fun, cute but challenging speedgame Status: Decline
Any%
01:00:00
PC
Rubberduckyassassin


Pokemon Rumble This charming WiiWare beat-em’-up has us playing as cute toy Pokemon, going through 4 ranks consisting of 6 stages and a Battle Royale. We use Pokemon (either given to us from special passwords or ones that are in the wild) to complete the stages in a timely manner, and beat up a wide variety of pokemon, swiftly. This game consists of cutting corners, battle royales, shiny pokemon, and damage rolls; what more could you ask for?! Status: Decline
Complete the Game Passwords
01:55:00
Status: Decline
Any% Passwords
00:38:00
Status: Decline
All Stages No Passwords
1:10:00
Status: Decline
Any% No Passwords
00:55:00
WiiU
Rubberduckyassassin


Mortal Kombat: Armageddon The last of the Midway-made Mortal Kombat games; Armageddon tells the story of Tavon, son of Argus, and how he uses random weapons including but not limited to a lightsaber, solves puzzles, and enacts extreme violence to fulfill a quest he doesn't know anything about. This 3D “open-world” beat-em-up has unique and silly strategies used in both fights and movement along with fantastic voice acting and graphics for a bloody-good time. Status: Decline
Konquest Any%
01:35:00
Status: Decline
Konquest All Relics
01:40:00
WiiU
AirAngel


Smushi Come Home This submission is for a race with SeaAverage!
Venture through a cute Fern Gully-esk world filled with adventures, surprising jumps, bugs that just want to help (or not), and random side quests to help friends in need. Currency routing, saying "heck it I'm going to jump anyways," and expert knowledge of the game really comes through in this category. Please note my PB/runs are consistently under the 42 min mark, the submission video includes a mushroom cosplay incentive that added more time.
Status: Decline
Any% No OOB Race
00:42:00
Switch
Wed


Spyro 3.5: Return to the Forgotten Realms Created as a passion project for those that wanted a little bit more out of the original Spyro trilogy, Spyro 3.5 doesn't hold back. With a much heavier focus on exploration and mechanical mastery, this is a Spyro fangame that is littered with outside-the box thinking throughout it's runtime. As a speedrun, Spyro 3.5 features all of the goofy tricks you've stored away in a hard drive 8 years ago because they're "useless" and finally gives them a chance to shine. Status: Decline
Any% No Sorceress Skip
00:45:00
Playstation 2
Lunaaa


Geometry Dash After over 7 years, Geometry Dash 2.2 released, which included it's platformer mode "The Tower"! This category has you beating the first 4 levels (Floor 1) of the official platformer mode, aka The Tower, as fast as possible. This run has many things such as one side-scroller, many obstacles, 3 usable game modes (with more to hopefully be used in the future floor 2), and even a boss fight. Status: Decline
Tower Floor 1 Any%
00:25:00
PC
Ace Delusional


Fortnite: Save the World Dungeons is a dungeon crawler event inside Save the World. It is semi-Rougelike, where each game has the basic layout remains the same, but the placement of Monster Spawners and keys is random.
The All Dungeons category will go through all 5 dungeons in the game, with each dungeon being unique and having their own twist.
Status: Decline
All Dungeons
01:00:00
PC
Konception


PocketBike Racer The Sneak King fed us, now it's time to burn off those calories on tiny little motorcycles while wearing some questionable costume. Status: Decline
Standard Race Tournament (150cc)
00:15:00
Xbox
Konception


Adventures in the Magic Kingdom This is a somewhat goofy and lighthearted game where we are tasked with riding famous rides from Disney theme parks to collect keys to unlock the castle doors to start the parade. We play as like a cowboy kid for some reason? Also you have to be good at Disney trivia to be good at this run, I don't make the rules. Combined with iconic sprite work and fun platforming levels, this run is equal parts silly and fun! Status: Decline
Any%
00:15:00
NES
Konception


Garbage Pail Kids It's a Garbage Pail Kids game! It's also the Super Mario Bros. 2 we have at home! Watch as we go through a disgusting 8-bit journey with 4 different playable characters, multiple skips/shortcuts, quick kills for almost all of the bosses. Oh also, there are fart clouds, snot rockets and projectile vomiting (tastefully done, of course) at our disposal. This game came out in 2022, but I will be performing the run on an authentic, hot pink NES cartridge! Status: Decline
Any% Tourist
00:32:00
NES
MarkAlarm


Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is the first entry in the toys-to-life series Skylanders. Akin to amiibo, figures are used to bring characters into the game. This run features swapping between several figures, using multiple controllers simultaneously to control multiple players, precise movement, and fast combat to optimally get through the game.
Any% Glitchless is the most movement heavy category in the game while still featuring many tricks and a few skips to keep the run fluid and fast paced.
Status: Decline
Any% Glitchless
01:40:00
Wii
MrMiguel


Metroid Dread The most broken category of this game. Like the name implies, Unrestricted allows us to take advantage of any glitch known to date, in particular clipping through walls and floors, it can be a little jarring to someone who doesn't know all of the tricks, but it is very fun.

This speedrun heavily relies on RNG, both in early game and late game, it could go either extremely well with a fast time below an hour or catastrophically bad and potentially take over no more than an hour.
Status: Decline
Any% Unrestricted
1:00:00
Nintendo Switch
Asuka424


Groove Coaster: Wai Wai Party!!!! Groove Coaster: Wai Wai Party!!!! is a unique rhythm game brought out of the arcade and onto the Nintendo Switch. This showcase not only shows off many of the hardest-rated songs on the hardest difficulty (Master), but it is played with a controller that replicates the true arcade experience.
Controller shown on screen starting at 17:49 of VOD; showcase length can be adjusted anywhere between 00:30:00 and 01:00:00.
Status: Decline
Master Showcase
00:40:00
Nintendo Switch
Odme_


Penny's Big Breakaway Penny's Big Breakaway is less than a month old and is already making big waves in the speedrunning community! This game has some of the most fluid movement seen in 3D platformers since the release of Super Mario Odyssey back in 2017. Conservation of momentum is a key factor in showing off just how fast you can move in this game. The Any% Restricted category allows every level to be shown off while using the game's intended mechanics to pull off crazy skips in some of the levels! Status: Decline
Any% (Restricted)
1:35:00
PC
AsheWynLucatiel


Chrono Trigger Chrono Trigger (CT) has not been in a main GDQ marathon since 2019 and is a highly acclaimed JRPG. Any% No LSS is a highly execution-based category of CT, and combines tricky RNG manipulation with several difficult glitch-based skips. The run culminates in a long gauntlet of tough fights (Lavos Shell) and demands high focus and skill.
Any% instead opts to use a complicated wrong warp to skip the shell in a more glitch-intensive ending.
This can be a bid war diverging after defeating Magus.
Status: Decline
Any%
2:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% No LSS
3:00:00
SNES
Paulsaltine


Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi Shadow Dancer is an side-scrolling action game and is the 2nd game in the Sega Genesis Shinobi trilogy. A challenging game with precise movement, calculated attacks, and nasty one-hit deaths, Shadow Dancer is bound to challenge the player to no end. The run has some nice boss quick kills, though being able to perform them is RNG dependent. Can Joe Musashi and his doggo companion Yamato take down the evil Union Lizard and save New York City? Status: Decline
Any% Shu
00:14:00
Sega Genesis
Argros


It Takes Two Filled with exciting platforming, funny/cool skips, and captivating co-op gameplay, It Takes Two is an amazing speedrun. With previous appearances showing off any% were happy to bring you Inbounds. A category that with its restrictions brings more unique and fun sections never seen before. Now including two brand new skips saving over 1 minute for everyone category. Status: Decline
Inbounds
02:15:00
PC
Daemonweave


It Takes Two Filled with exciting platforming, funny/cool skips, and captivating co-op gameplay, It Takes Two is an amazing speedrun. With previous appearances showing off any% were happy to bring you Inbounds. A category that with its restrictions brings more unique and fun sections never seen before. Status: Decline
Inbounds
02:15:00
PC
Heponwana


The Quiet Man The infamous awful game that’s designed around FMV content but removed all audio until New Game+. Game play is made of “realistic” brawling that involves teleportation and the “I win” button as you beat up the same three character models, only to suddenly require strategy once complacency has taken hold. Remember to avoid the “soft-lock button” as you stumble to victory! Somehow despite all its problems, we are left with a game that is truly special as comedic art.
Any% skips multiple cut scenes
Status: Decline
Normal Any%
1:33:00
Status: Decline
Blessed Silence normal
02:12:00
Status: Decline
Re-mumbled normal
02:12:00
PC
Harutomo


Muscle March "Muscle March" is a mysterious game released exclusively for download on the Wii.
The game is controlled using the Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuck controllers. When you move them up and down, the character strikes a pose. Try to strike the same pose as the top runner. If you finally catch the top runner, you will clear the stage.
Status: Decline
All Levels
00:20:00
Wii
Harutomo


We Love Katamari Reroll We Love Katamari Reroll is a remake of the PS2 "We Love Katamari".
It has some additional elements not found in the original version.
The remaster has faster loading speeds, allowing for greater time savings compared to the original.
Enjoy the comfortable roll-up and great background music!
Status: Decline
Roll Up the Sun(Any%)
0:50:00
PC(Steam)
danejerus


Resident Evil 1 (Remake) There's a really easy bidwar for this one: Doors vs. Locks. In door rando, every door exits to another random door. The dining room in the mansion might spit you out into the lab at the end of the game. It's chaos. Lock rando is less chaotic but arguably has a higher skill ceiling to keep track of everything. Also, bidwar for Jill's outfit would likely pull some donations in.

Since I can only give you one video, here's door rando.
Status: Decline
Randomizer
1:30:00
PC
danejerus


DOOM (2016) With the recent showcase of DOOM 100% at AGDQ, it would be great to showcase an even buggier, glitchier, and more broken version. Classic gains access to checkpoint loading which gives us the ability to sequence break and dupe items. You still get almost all of the combat, but we do a lot of zippin' around too. Status: Decline
100% (Classic)
02:50:00
PC
Asuka424


Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore What began as a spiritual successor to the cursed games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon turned into a surprising fun, exciting, and very challenging 2D platformer. This run has boss quick kills, precise jumps, tight health management, and cutscenes animated in the same style as its predecessors.
Yes, we can totally watch these GLORIOUS cutscenes if accepted.
Status: Decline
Any%, Casual
00:20:00
PC
texas_grandma


Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance HD This game is unique as a speedgame in the Kingdom Hearts series for its heavy emphasis on movement, and while this game famously has a dominant strategy problem, I believe that this run demonstrates that there's still a high level of skill and plenty of exciting and varied strategies you must use to go fast, on top of an intricate movement system with lots of room for optimization. Balloon, Mini, Thundara, and Slow are used throughout as well as the infamous Balloonra. Status: Decline
Beginner Any% NG
02:10:00
Playstation 4
Konception


Bugsnax Bugsnax is a wonderful, colorful game with a brilliant and inclusive cast of characters and tons of fun exploits and skips. The Any% category gets through 95% of the story in about 6 minutes by getting through loading zones way too early, which is significantly faster than the All Bosses run of last summer. This is a quick little kinda-bug-kinda-snack shaped treat that's ripe for the pickin'! Status: Decline
Any%
00:19:00
PlayStation 5
Iceblue


Zelda II: The Adventures of Link An obscure official release of a Zelda game that doubles as a Metroidvania and also an RPG! Link doesn't find new weapons in this Zelda title, but instead he gains experience to level up his Attack, Health and Magic stats.

Ganon has cast a spell on Zelda and put her to sleep. Link ventures out into the world to stop Ganon and wake Zelda. He has to learn spells, gain experience, and ultimately enter the Great Palace to face off against his greatest foe ever! Himself.
Status: Decline
100% All Keys 1CC
01:20:00
NES
Ryan Ford


Gimmick! If you saw me run this online for SGDQ 2021, I'm trying to submit the unrestricted categories this time

The latter half of the run is very different
Status: Decline
Best Ending
00:13:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:09:00
Famicom
passere


Disney's 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue Cute retro puppy platformer goes hardcore, because this is a TAS. We pass through walls you expect to be solid, use enemies to get ahead in ways that seem impossible, and gain so much speed it looks like teleportation. It's 16 minutes of non-stop action--with some time for donations, of course.
An unexpected (but awesome) game to TAS. Nominated for PSX TAS of 2023 on TASVideos! (TAS by passere and Avouca, presented by passere. Estimate allows for a short trick primer before the TAS starts.)
Status: Decline
All Levels TAS
00:22:00
PS1
itsbeeve


Super Mario 64 I will be performing Super Mario 64 Nonstop 120 which is different than your usual vanilla 120 star run! In this category extension with specific game shark codes, you grab the star, you keep going and you're not kicked out of the level. The routes are very different and you'll see some strats you've never seen before in a vanilla 120 star run. I will also be performing the newest, biggest time save in years called Carpetless! Status: Decline
Nonstop 120
01:15:00
N64
Maxylobes


Shenmue After years of submitting Shenmue, I now have ShenTool. It allows us to fast-forward the in-game clock, effectively acting as a "Timeskip" mod. It is half the time of regular Any%, and we still get to experience the entire game! Fighting sailors, huge skips, forklift racing, hilarious dialogue, timeless cutscenes, and so much more. Shenmue ran so Yakuza could sprint, and IT IS time to have Ryo Hazuki take the stage.
"And thus the saga… Begins…"
Status: Decline
Any% Timeskip
03:20:00
PC
SeaAverage


Bastion The quick little Bastion Any% run that we all know and love. Admittedly mostly throwing this out there in case y'all need a short Checkpoint game to fill time with. Status: Decline
Any%
00:05:00
PC
Jerikandra


Chrono Trigger Chrono Trigger is such a classic and amazing RPG. This run doesn't really do it justice but at the same time, it's also kind of awe-inspiring to see the final boss beat to a pulp in a mere 5 minutes. Status: Decline
New Game+
00:07:00
PC/Steam
ShikenNuggets


Batman: Arkham Knight It's Halloween, and there's an army in town, led by Scarecrow and a new mysterious figure: the Arkham Knight, who is definitely not Jason Todd. Batman will have to use his most trusted ally, prep time, to, well, ignore most of what's going on and make a beeline straight for the end of the game, in a path that involves extreme teleportation, slightly less extreme teleportation, falling through floors into out of bounds shenanigans, and forcing the car to teleport to strange places. Status: Decline
Matter of Family DLC
00:15:00
Status: Decline
Season of Infamy DLC
00:35:00
Status: Decline
Main Story (NG+)
02:35:00
PC
SeaAverage


Smushi Come Home Smushi Come Home is an adorable game about a mushroom named Smushi that gets snatched away from his family and is trying to find his way back. The No OoB category is full of tight jumps and movement, clever platforming, and adorable friends.

Submitting as a race with AirAngel
Status: Decline
Any% No OoB Race
00:42:00
PC
Jerikandra


Dragon Quest XI S - Definitive Edition In DQXI Any%, we're able to leverage the horse out of bounds glitch to skip the necessity of gathering several orbs, saving significant time in progression. Additionally, we are able to utilize 2d-mode of the game to grind some levels, making up for the lost experience. Finally, we exploit the sea strand glitch to acquire the harp in Act 2, bypassing the requirement to rescue Jade and skipping over five extra boss fights. Amazing graphics and fun gameplay make this run a lot of fun! Status: Decline
Any%
05:05:00
PC/Steam
BigNoNo


Yakuza 0 The game that re-introduced Yakuza to the masses. Crush bosses with fancy furniture and neon signs as Kiryu, or use the power of breakdancing as Majima, in true 80s fashion. Acquire shotguns. Fall in love. 0 is a game about life before the bubble exploded, and its speedrun is similarly all about taking out bosses before they reach their 2nd phase and delete you from existence.

Legend is the max difficulty category. Bosses hit harder than financial collapse. But don't worry, we have nail bats.
Status: Decline
Legend
04:10:00
Status: Decline
Any%
03:40:00
PC
Stevetvonline


New Super Lucky's Tale New Super Lucky's Tale released on Switch in November of 2019 and was later ported to PC shortly after. The speedrun for this 3D platformer has had some groundbreaking discoveries, the big one being a glitch that lets us scale any wall infinitely which leads to many sequence breaks! Whether it’s Any% to 100%, this game has got a lot of cool strats, exploits and skips all in an overall charming game!

Submitting as a race with Kingj0444 or solo
Status: Decline
NG+ All Main Levels (Race)
01:15:00
Status: Decline
Any% (Race)
01:00:00
Status: Decline
All Main Levels (Race)
01:30:00
PC
Nambo


Super Monkey Ball: Stardust What if we took a flashy trick shots compilation video, and turned that into all 100 stages of a speedrun?

SMB Stardust is a challenging SMB custom game focused on speed and air control with a wacky gimmick: Every stage has a bonus "stunt goal" in an absurd place that REQUIRES you break the stage with a flashy trick shot to reach it. This run is nothing but action as we slam dunk into 100 goals that are way above the stage, hanging upside down, or even atop decorative objects!
Status: Decline
All Stunt Goals
1:00:00
Nintendo Wii
BigNoNo


Yakuza The game that started it all, and it sure is a video game. The greatest challenge here is to work the game's lock-on system. There's also an on-rails shooter part, and yes it works about as well as you'd think from a PS2 game. On the plus side, we eventually get magic swords that stunlock bosses - again, if you can get Kiryu to actually hit them in the first place.

Still, this run gives that weird satisfaction like riding a mechanical bull. Could work real well in the awful block.
Status: Decline
Any%
02:05:00
PS3
BigNoNo


Yakuza 2 The sequel where the series really hit its stride. Y2 is a highly technical run, where we use input buffers to skip boss phases and QTEs, play a chunk of the game in critical health to skip a long animation, play the finale in critical health to max out our damage, wrestle tigers that can very easily pounce you at a bad time and ruin your day... I'm never calm running this game. Why do I do this to myself

Also yes you fight two tigers in this game. It's pretty cool
Status: Decline
Any%
02:15:00
PS3
PootLoops


I Am Fish An adorable yet difficult game that exhibits both the grace and chaos of speed running. This run is chock-full of hilarious glitches, speed-tech, massive skips and routing techniques with 4 fish and 13 levels.

Will we be able to make every fish pun in existence during the course of this run?

Status: Decline
Any%
01:30:00
PC
PootLoops


Surgeon Simulator 2013 Watch the quickest surgeon in the world complete 9 surgeries in less than 10 minutes. #notarealsurgeon Status: Decline
Bob Levels - Any Rating
00:10:00
PC
davidtki


Organ Trail The zombie apocalypse parody of the original Oregon Trail. Travel across America to Safe Haven (in Oregon no less) as you attempt to survive the onslaught of zombies. As you might expect from an Oregon Trail parody there is a lot of RNG in this game, but it's actually quite a bit fairer and safer than Oregon Trail.

There's also a bonus sub-game Clement's Quest that I am submitting, just for some fun "difficult to control game" shenanigans.
Status: Decline
Clement's Quest
00:17:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:20:00
PC
TheAlphaDolphin


Sonic Frontiers Jump in the world of cyberspace with Sonic saving the world once again from life threatening menace. He already saved it, but as a result eggman lost his daughter... Here's the alternative story introducing movement from Tails, Knuckles and Amy. Status: Decline
Another Story
00:43:00
PC Steam
Katie4


Sonic Heroes Sonic Heroes is a peculiar game in the Adventure era. Each character has its own bag of tech to abuse, making for a high skill ceiling but awarding players with slick movement in kind.
Limited Tech Selection is a subcategory that bans the use of certain tricks, most notably bop boosting. No "warp-to-the-end-of-the-level" tricks here!
Team Sonic is your typical romp through the game, while Chaotix involves completing specific missions to complete stages, making for a unique experience.
Status: Decline
Team Chaotix (LTS)
00:52:00
Status: Decline
Team Sonic (LTS)
01:05:00
GCN
Iceblue


BS Legend of Zelda With the success of BS Zelda at AGDQ 2023, I decided to route out 4th quest (BS Zelda's 2nd quest). This quest contains a brand new overworld, brand new dungeon layouts, and all new routing, while keeping the charm of the game. This quest introduces a couple new, yet familiar bosses that make our quest a bit tougher! Submitting both any% and 100% as solo runs. If anyone submits these, I'd be more than happy to race! Status: Decline
4th quest 100%
00:42:00
Status: Decline
4th quest any%
00:35:00
SNES
Punchy


Dino Crisis It's the popular resident evil but with dinosaurs game. The game can be completed without ever attacking with some additional difficulty which is novel even among the Resident Evils. Status: Decline
Best Ending
01:40:00
Status: Decline
No Weapon
01:40:00
Status: Decline
Any%
01:40:00
PC
cynOmatic


Ore No Ryouri The best cooking game you've never heard of. In this whimsical and silly run, we'll be playing as a skilled chef, rival to an evil frog and his goons trying to take over the world. The only way to stop them? Cook better & faster! This game is a delightful treat that directly inspired Cook, Serve, Delicious, and no doubt many others. Status: Decline
Easy Any%
00:35:00
PS3
TheShadedMaster


Friday Night Funkin The Newgrounds rhythm game that sparked a modded apocalypse of songs and tunes, FNF is here for the main stage with the Indie Cross mod. The titular Boyfriend must face off against 3 notorious indie characters: Sans Undertale, Cuphead Cuphead, and Bendy Ink Machine. With 19* songs to rap against, the Boyfriend is challenged with a host of deadly mechanics culminating in the fiery Nightmare trio destroying the boundaries of rhythm game difficulty. Status: Decline
Indie Cross Mod Showcase
1:10:00
PC
DefyByDefault


Princess Kaizo Land I am submitting Princess Kaizo Land (Princess%). Princess% requires you to run the regular Any% category while in Princess Peach cosplay/drag. I believe it is a fun run that will show great support for the drag community and get people talking! It is a shorter and will pair nicely with other kaizo fangames (like Grand Poo World 3) or Princess Peach: Showtime! I will be in full costume for this run as an in person run. Status: Decline
Princess% (Any%)
00:22:00
Super Nintendo
AggytheAron


Gris An incredible games as art puzzle platformer with an incredible story all told through the stunning gameplay that is filled with lots of clean movement, skips and tricks that are sure to delight. Status: Decline
All Achievements
02:00:00
Status: Decline
All Mementos
01:45:00
Status: Decline
Any% NMG
01:30:00
Nintendo Switch/PC
ins0mnia


Hollow Knight Hollow Knight is a 2017 indie metroidvania that has gone on to define the genre, and features movement and combat that is simple to understand but in the hands of speedrunners possesses incredible depth that is visually impressive even to people new to the game. 107% AB is a completion category featuring everything the game has to give, sans the 40m boss rush added in the final DLC. This includes precise movement and skips, combat trials, and boss fights. Status: Decline
107% All Bosses No Major Glitches
03:10:00
PC
Gerbiez


Mario Tennis This run is a nice mix of RNG + Skill. One of the earliest mario sports games from nintendo, between scoring aces, and getting good returns, it would be a great chance to show people how fun some of the old mario games can be. Nice short category that can easily be done in 15minutes. Status: Decline
Tournament Cups
00:15:00
Nintendo 64
shovda


JokerShellOK JokerShellOK is a difficult Super Mario World fangame that focuses on shells and everything you can do with them, including things never before seen on the GDQ stage. The ample use of "chocolate" - mechanics not seen in Super Mario World - combined with the wide variety of shell tricks makes for a flashy, captivating experience. This would be the most difficult SMW fangame to be shown off at a main GDQ, and shovda, the WR holder and Frost Fatales runner of the fangame, is up to the challenge. Status: Decline
Kill the Koopalarve%
00:50:00
Super Nintendo
minimini352


Luigi's Mansion Any% has seen its largest timesave in 10 years, discovered by myself, taking the run from 7 minutes long to just over 5. By performing some Mouse Acrobatics™ we can get a skew in the first hallway and clip out of bounds without needing to defeat a single portrait ghost, do some tricky out of bounds movement and finish the run off with the very difficult King Boo one cycle. Status: Decline
Any%
0:10:00
Wii
shovelclaws


Paradise Marsh Paradise Marsh is a first person open world all about collecting bugs in a unique world to fill the night sky with stars.

With movement akin to some of the best FPS speedruns, PM heavily relies on RNG due to its random world generation. Bug spawns are random too, so it's an adaptive run that takes a high amount of knowledge and on-the-fly decision making to perform! With the soft tunes of Disasterpeace and stellar visuals, it balances chaos with serenity perfectly.
Status: Decline
All Captures
0:25:00
PC
minimini352


Mario Party Advance Mario Party Advance is very different from your typical mario party game, playing more like an adventure game. We will ride around shroom city, completing 50 quests for various characters and playing minigames along the way while dealing with koopa kid. A chill run which focuses mostly on decision making and dealing with the RNG given to try to land on dice spaces and get as much movement as possible to minimise minigames. Status: Decline
Beat Shroom City
2:45:00
Wii U
Bamford


Monsters, Inc: Scream Team Monsters Inc. Scream Team is probably the best Monsters Inc. game that exists but there isn't much competition. You get to hear Mike say "Booga Booga Booga" over and over again which is very funny. Plus there's lots of tricks and strats blah, blah blah. Status: Decline
Any%
00:30:00
Status: Decline
100%
1:05:00
PC
minimini352


Link's Crossbow Training In All Triforces we complete the main objective for all 27 levels in the game, shooting plenty of targets, enemies, skulls and pots. Fast and precise aiming with the wii's motion controls are key to having a fast run, and "ranger" levels where we have control of Link will test movement at the same time. Status: Decline
All Triforces
0:30:00
Wii U
Bamford


Alice: Madness Returns Dark and creepy Alice in Wonderland game. Strats finding has taken off recently so the game got even cooler. Not the most kid-friendly game but also not mature content. Status: Decline
100%
3:35:00
Status: Decline
Any%
2:00:00
PC
Bamford


My Street Minigames but they aren't good and you have to push a cow for like 20 mins. Great game Status: Decline
Any%
1:30:00
PS2
Bamford


Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Crazy Maze This is one of the worst games i've ever played. Obviously the first choice when it comes to the marathon and should for sure be the opener :) Status: Decline
Any% 1 Player 2 Controllers
00:40:00
Status: Decline
Any%
00:35:00
PS1
Pandora_jane


Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem Ever wondered how fast you can get the secret Rune Mantorok and the Enchanted Gladius?
What's the minimum amount of Spells to beat the game?
How fast can Eternal Darkness be beaten if you are not allowed to use glitches?
So many questions, but the answers can only be found on the ancient's plans.
Follow Alex Roivas on her eternal seek for knowledge and speed, as she does moving spells, time travel and multiple warps.
There's also the rats, I almost forgot.
Status: Decline
Glitchless
2:05:00
Status: Decline
Low Spell Challenge
2:30:00
Status: Decline
100% One Alignment
2:06:00
Wii
Pandora_jane


Hybrid Heaven It's the year 2000, an intergalactic invader is trying to take over the planet by replacing the world leaders with genetically engineered hybrids. Only Johnny Slater can stop it, using his top notch athletic abilities (and a couple guns).
Is it an action game?, an RPG?, a wrestling simulator? a convoluted story?, all of the above?. It doesn't matter, but it definitely is a great speedrun. And remember, everyday is only left leg day.
Status: Decline
Any% Normal
2:50:00
Nintendo 64
Pandora_jane


Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising The sequel of the amazing classic turn-based strategy from Game Boy Advance.
We have to move out and prevent Black Hole from taking over Macro Land. Sturm comes back with a new crew and all kinds of new weapons.

Watch the enemy AI do exactly what we want it to do via RNG manipulation, in an apm heavy war adventure with no rest (except waiting for the enemy turns I guess, which is great for donations!).
Status: Decline
Any%
1:20:00
Game Boy Advance
Pandora_jane


Hocus Pocus It's not related to the 1993 movie, or to the 1971 Focus song. No, this is an original story that follows the trials of a wizard apprentice called... well... Hocus.
A quite simple game with some precise movement and a speedrun that exploits cheat codes in a very unintended way. There's also dragons and walking trees, yahoo!
Status: Decline
All Episodes (Easy)
0:52:00
PC
Pandora_jane


The Lost Vikings 2 The criminally unknown sequel of the super classic The Lost Vikings.
With an unfortunate late SNES release on 1997, along with questionable Playstation and Saturn ports, this game went completely under the radar. Despite this, it's a very competent puzzle platformer and an amazing speedrun, as it greatly expands the movement options of the first game.
Runners have to manage 3 characters at the same time, trying to optimize and automatize as many actions as possible.
Status: Decline
Special Moves
1:18:00
Status: Decline
Any%
1:27:00
Super Nintendo
FlannelKat


Pac-Land Pac-Land is a pioneer of the platformer genre. With only a few tricks the run relies on pure execution and makes for an extremely exciting race. The category "The Whole Dang Game" plays all 32 rounds of the game up until it's ending. Status: Decline
The Whole Dang Game
00:30:00
Turbografx 16
FlannelKat


Weird Dreams Weird Dreams is just an extremely bizarre game. We use cheats to give ourselves unlimited lives otherwise this basically would not be runnable. At least not in a marathon. We'll hit things with fish, eels, and flyswatters.

All Dreams means we will not take advantage of a glitch that lets us skip a level of the game if it occurs
Status: Decline
All Dreams
00:20:00
DOS
FlannelKat


Fire Bam Fire Bam is best described as "Zelda 2 at home." It's an early HAL Labs game that attempts to do it's own version of Z2 to various results. Between Autoscrollers to extremely obtuse direction in the game to shops randomly losing items if you do things out of order the whole thing is a bit of a mess. I absolutely adore this game and need to show people it. Status: Decline
Any%
01:30:00
Famicom Disc System
FlannelKat


The Don Bluth Trilogy The Don Bluth Trilogy is 3 games back to back. Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and Dragon's Lair 2. Basically they're FMV quick time games that demand a high level of execution the whole way through. There's even a genuine skip in Dragon's Lair so it's theoretically actually a speedrun. We can also split these games into single game runs or withhold one as a donation incentive. I've learned my lesson since this run and will bring will bring commentary for sure. Status: Decline
Any%
00:50:00
PC
Punchy


Silent Hill Harry Mason runs into doors but in a fast way.

New Game (Easy) has new glitches not shown at GDQ yet, All Bosses is the more orthodox route. UFO Ending is a bit shorter but has alien memes.
Status: Decline
UFO Ending
00:40:00
Status: Decline
New Game (Easy)
00:55:00
Status: Decline
All Bosses
00:55:00
PS2