speedgame

plural speedgames

1. A video game that one speedruns.

   The best speedgames are relatively short, not too luck-based, and have a very high skill ceiling.

   3 more examples

   No one had really speedrun that game [Rage] yet ... It's what got me into speedrunning, not what my first speedgame was.

   2016 January 6, Chris Daniel Grant, quoting Halfcoordinated, “How a gamer with a disability speedruns some of the world's fastest games”, in Polygon, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022

   Generations is the speedgame among speedgames, eschewing even the technical aspects of Adventure 2 in favor of levels meant to be blazed through and conquered in as short a time as possible.

   2021 July 13, Caleb Pisoni, “In Defense of 3D Sonic”, in Paste (magazine), Decatur, G.A.: Paste Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2023

   With Minecraft rising up the ranks and becoming the most popular speedgame of all time, there is no doubt this record will be heavily contested in the months to come.

   2022 April 7, Sam Reaves, “Minecraft: Fastest Speedruns”, in The Gamer, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023