Action · April 19, 2016

SpeedRunners (2016)

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In a city filled with superheroes, getting to crimes becomes a competition on its own. Fortunately there are enough rockets, bombs, grappling hooks, spikes, and other goodies lying around -- to make the competition fun and fast. Welcome to SpeedRunners. SpeedRunners is a 4 player competitive platformer with grappling hooks, power-ups, and interactive environments. Run, jump, swing around, fire rockets, grapple onto people to knock them off screen. Key Features 4 Player Competitive Platforming! Keep up with the fastest player in-game, or fall offscreen and get eliminated! Use weapons like missiles, mines and grappling hooks to screw over your friends, and make new enemies! Local and online multiplayer! Can you have 2 players on a couch against 2 other players on the internet? Yes of course! Bots enabled - play on your own with several AI opponents. Or put them into matches with other people! A tutorial teaches you how to play Controller compatible (and recommended!) A dozen expertly designed maps Unique game modifiers A character named Unic! Full blown level editor with over 10k user created levels An exciting single player campaign Create your own custom in-game trails (visible when you hit super-speed)

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168 Action titles launched in 2016 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume36.7k Steam reviewsTop 16% in Action
Positive rating94% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 19%
Metacritic84/100Genre average 77 — top 22% of Action titles
Concurrent peak195 playersTop 25% in Action by live player count
Engagement hours12 h averageTop 40% for session depth among Action

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Multiplayer · 524
  • Racing · 462
  • Local Multiplayer · 312
  • Indie · 306
  • Competitive · 301
  • Fast-Paced · 294
  • Platformer · 265
  • Action · 254
  • 2D · 229
  • 4 Player Local · 206
  • Funny · 199
  • Parkour · 194
  • Sports · 170
  • Controller · 127
  • Local Co-Op · 117

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Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Czech
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Dutch
  • Hungarian
  • Greek

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Korean

Reception Metrics

Steam community

94%Very Positive · 36.7k reviews

34.5k positive · 2.2k negative

Metacritic

84/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.5/10

Curator recommendations

22.7k

Peak concurrent players

195

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player

Press Quotes

“Speedrunners is the Competitive Multiplayer Mario That Nintendo Should've Made” Kotaku “A Great Example Of Early Access Development Benefitting A Game And Its Players” Rock Paper Shotgun “SpeedRunners is a fully realized idea, a great platformer, and a terrific party game that’s fun online as well.” PCGamer

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

12h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

5h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

32h

Current engagement

Achievements

29

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateApr 19, 2016
DeveloperDoubleDutch Games
PublishertinyBuild
Base price$2.99 -80%
DLC / Add-ons3 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Editions & Packages

  • Buy SpeedRunners