Games like SpeedRunners
If SpeedRunners is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rocket League®, Don't break the Egg and Explosive Dinosaurs — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its low spec accessibility, competitive and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →SpeedRunners is a 2D platformer racing game developed by DoubleDutch Games and published by tinyBuild, released in 2016. Four players compete at high velocity across screen-scrolling courses, using frame-rate-unlocking techniques, grapple-hook-boosting, and speed-boost-pads to gain competitive edges. Item-sabotage mechanics let racers weaponize pickups mid-race to knock opponents off-screen. Reviewers and players describe the gameplay as intense, competitive, and fun, with a remarkably steep skill-ceiling that rewards dedicated players. Ranked matchmaking supports competitive play while low-spec-accessibility ensures broad hardware compatibility. Priced at $2.99, the game holds a 95% positive rating from over 9,600 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About SpeedRunners: 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.
Players who liked SpeedRunners also play
Steam players who put hours into SpeedRunners also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Rocket League®
WHY THIS
Shares ranked matchmaking and a competitive mood with SpeedRunners.
Top pick for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SpeedRunners.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
Don't break the Egg
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SpeedRunners.
Hop, dodge, kick and whatever you do, don't crack! Don't Break the Egg is a chaotic sack race game for up to 4 players where perfect timing is the difference between victory and disaster.
Explosive Dinosaurs
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SpeedRunners.
These dinos really know how to detonate a party!
Slip & Skid
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Race against your friends and alter the track by placing obstacles after each lap. Change the rules mid-game with roguelike modifiers. Shove your opponents off the track, drift, boost and jump. Up to 4 players online and local split-screen.
Death Stair
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with SpeedRunners.
Ranked #5 for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SpeedRunners.
Missing the days of split screen multiplayer or wanting to play with actual in-person friends in the same room? Death Stair is a local multiplayer stair climbing game. Play locally with maximum three friends and race to the finish while the fourth, armed to the teeth with an arsenal of unconventional ammo types, does everything to stop...
Ultimate Sheep Raccoon
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with SpeedRunners.
Ranked #6 for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Ultimate Sheep Raccoon is a bike-racing party game where you and your friends build the course together. Add obstacles and dangerous traps, take the lead with power-ups, and race to the finish!
Phantom Spark
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with SpeedRunners.
The best feeling racing game out there. Precision time-trial racing against npc champions in the campaign or other players on the leaderboards.
Trailblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with SpeedRunners.
Ranked #8 for SpeedRunners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SpeedRunners.
Get ready for high-speed thrills with an explosion of colour in Trailblazers, the first-ever second-to-second co-operative arcade racer. Paint the track with dynamic racing lines, boost on your team's colour and blaze your way to victory!
Reviewers mention these as similar to SpeedRunners
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Overcooked
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Crawl
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.
Brawlhalla
WHY THIS
Shares ranked matchmaking and a competitive mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
An epic platform fighter for up to 8 players online or local. Try casual free-for-alls, ranked matches, or invite friends to a private room. And it's free! Play cross-platform with millions of players on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android & Steam! Frequent updates. Over sixty Legends.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Ultimate Chicken Horse
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Gang Beasts
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City.
Stardust Vanguards
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SpeedRunners.
Reviewers of SpeedRunners cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
STARDUST VANGUARDS is a local four-player dueling game combining arcade-style battling with the ability to summon your own NPC army as support! But be careful: a random event system dynamically alters the flow of battle with NPC space pirates gunning for victory themselves!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SpeedRunners at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SpeedRunners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SpeedRunners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SpeedRunners.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SpeedRunners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with SpeedRunners.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SpeedRunners on Steam right now. Shares Casual with SpeedRunners.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SpeedRunners on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SpeedRunners.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SpeedRunners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SpeedRunners on Steam right now. Shares Casual with SpeedRunners.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SpeedRunners.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with SpeedRunners.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SpeedRunners.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SpeedRunners.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about SpeedRunners
- Does SpeedRunners run on Steam Deck?
- SpeedRunners is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does SpeedRunners cost?
- SpeedRunners is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does SpeedRunners have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — SpeedRunners supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to SpeedRunners?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SpeedRunners are Rocket League®, Don't break the Egg, Explosive Dinosaurs.
- Who developed SpeedRunners?
- SpeedRunners was developed by DoubleDutch Games and published by tinyBuild.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on SpeedRunners.
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