SpeedRunners
BANGER · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Dedicated video card recommended, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
April 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. 112 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off still sits 33 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 84 at list, 93 today.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Nidhogg ($9.99, scores 76) and Move or Die ($14.99, scores 71).
The math says it holds its tier up to $14.42, and you are being asked for $2.99.
The press gave it 84; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data says about 16 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 797 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,156 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
2.1 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
70% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
195 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
perfect music and fun gameplay if you learn movement and momentum techniques well. hard to find online lobbies, especially ranked lobbies as a lower rank. it is a great game to play with friends, family, or even bots.
★★★★☆ SpeedRunners is a fast-paced competitive platformer where up to 4 players race through obstacle-filled maps while using gadgets to eliminate each other. Instead of simply reaching the finish line first, the goal is to stay ahead of your opponents until they fall off the screen and are eliminated. The game features a wide variety of characters, maps, and power-ups, including grappling hooks, rockets, freeze...
this game needs more updates and reviews for how good it actually is no matter how old the game is it needs more youtube videos on the game and how to do certain things in the game that are possible people just haven't talked about it from 2013 until now which is kind of a bore
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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SpeedRunners scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207140/speedrunnersThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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