Speedrun

Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

Speedrun is one of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and driving down the average quality of all video games everywhere. Speedrun is an abandoned Early Access "speed run" themed precision platformer slapped together with Unity (enabling mediocrity) where you move more by dashing than by running and jumping, it's unclear why this approach was chosen but it results in an unpleasant experience. The game was abandoned roughly 3 months after launch and hasn't been updated in a year and a half. Resolution and controls are locked, and can't be changed or customised to improve the visuals or the control experience. "Oh", you might say, "But there's an option to change the resolution in the default Unity launcher that pops up when you run the game." Well, we have some very special developers here and they completely ignore whatever resolution you set. Incompetence or spite towards gamers? Who knows. A choice was made to use obsolete retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's also an ugly screen filter you can't turn off, and no audio controls, probably because the developers wanted to insult gamers with godawfully a repetitive, godawfully loud chiptunes meets dubstep ear assault that you can't turn off. Thanks for that. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. This abandoned Early Access dumpster fire isn't even free, the developers indicate an intention to charge money for this in the future. They really should be paying gamers to compensate for time lost and emotional trauma for playing a video game that's really so bad it's against the Geneva Convention.