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SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed
Developer Fair Play Labs
SpeedRunners 2 is a high-speed multiplayer platformer where rival superheroes face off in breakneck races using parkour, grappling hooks, and game-changing power-ups. Fall behind, and a shrinking ring of fire eliminates you – until only one runner remains. From the Steam store page
275 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
51
Mixed
120 positive · 116 negative
95% range 45–57%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 120 | 116 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 1 | 2 | 34 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
193 of 354 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
51% recommend · 118 yes, 112 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 230 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (295 of 527 positive).
Many players enjoy the game with friends and find it fun despite some issues. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the game for feeling like a worse version of the original. [4][5][6] Several players note input delay and visual clutter as problems. [1][7][8]
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- [4]
I have over 5,000 hours in the original SpeedRunners across multiple accounts. I know nostalgia is absolutely influencing my opinion here. I grew up with this game. It got me through high school and university. It is still one of the ways I stay connected with friends I rarely get to see anymore. And somehow that makes SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed even more insulting. This feels like a cash grab wearing the corpse …
- [15]
8 maps 12 characters A short and terrible campaign Visual clarity could not be worse There's not one reason to pick this up over the original Speedrunners. It's not even an early access game, it just has no content. Play the original.
- [1]
I love the game, it works absolutely fantastic in local with friends, I do however do not like that there is a little bit input delay. It is manageable. Don't listen to the other people whom give negative just because they don't like the music? or the one whom just called it a reskin. I do however the frustration of people trying to connect to online servers. But I don't think that is a good enough reason to give it …
- [11]
I've played my fair share of SpeedRunners 1 over the years, and through all the SR2 playtests. This game is excellent, it could use some bug fixes, some more maps down the line and some more improvement to readability. Oh and the gun needs a nerf. But overall the game looks and feels great I've had some killer matches already, it's so much fun. The bad reviews are absolutely wild, they're mad the game only feels …
- [2]
The game is quiet fun, especially with friends. Which is why I hope for the devs to make it possible to play other modes with friends besides custom matches. Original review: Not me, nor my friends, are able to create a lobby because of connection issues. Also, as I understand it, the only way to play with friends is in a custom lobby. You won't be able to enjoy any other public game modes together with your …
Summarised from 34 of the 269 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed talk about fun with friends in local or custom lobbies; those who didn't talk about input delay online is a common complaint. Which matters more to you?
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60 of 275 · most liked firstI have over 5,000 hours in the original SpeedRunners across multiple accounts. I know nostalgia is absolutely influencing my opinion here. I grew up with this game. It got me through high school and university. It is still one of the ways I stay connected with friends I rarely get to see anymore. And somehow that makes SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed even more insulting. This feels like a cash grab wearing the corpse of a game I love. The first SpeedRunners was never the most graphically…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →8 maps 12 characters A short and terrible campaign Visual clarity could not be worse There's not one reason to pick this up over the original Speedrunners. It's not even an early access game, it just has no content. Play the original.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off I'd like to start this review with some highlights of the Agreement you sign in the beginning. EULA License Grant for the Game. We grant you a non-exclusive, personal, revocable, non-transferable license to download, install, and use the Game for your personal, non-commercial use on devices or console you own or control, provided they meet the necessary specifications. You agree that your use of the Game is solely for personal entertainment and has no monetary value. Restrictions &…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why would i buy a "sequel" game with the same maps and characters, but slower and harder to read.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS. it is NOT the original devs behind speedrunners 1. The people behind this are cash hungry losers that put NO soul into this game, because of the following: -Barely any content added to the newer one. (2 new items (WOW! so much), 4 characters and a bunch of maps that are awful to play as. -There are bugs everywhere from being stuck in objects making you lose the round to just being blasted into the killscreen for what seems like no good reason. -There are new gamemodes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The arrangements of the new music are worse than before. It has too much layers and kinda ♥♥♥♥♥ with the iconic themes from the prequel. There are few bugs, where you can kinda glitch on corners or barriers. And one the of the worse changes, is that you have to stand still to taunt. Taunting during movement was one of the most fun interactions in the prequel. The Maps are mostly reworks from the prequel. Fix the bugs and the taunt mechanic, hopefully you change the music, but thats not the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately, something just feels off. Music used to be the very soul of this game and I'm sad to say that in this one, it doesn't capture that spirit at all. The new game modes might not be my cup of tea but I understand they want to reach a wider audience and there's no harm in that. However, if the time spent on background visuals had been invested in character animations and music instead, the end result would have been much better. As for the Steam Deck, full compatibility just isn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game feels very different from the original. Besides the lag, I dislike how it has become less skill-based. The screen feels more zoomed in, making it harder to gain speed or even tell if you are accelerating. The game now relies too much on abilities, and new items like the gun feel unfair. The rocket is also much faster, which affects the gameplay. The new graphics are interesting, but everything blends together too much. The original game needed a sequel or regular updates, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very disappointed. This is not a sequel. It is just a worse version of a game that already exists.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →play the first game instead of this. this one is a completely unfinished joke and an absolute insult to SpeedRunners 1. the controls, graphics, grappling, and animations... everything is absolute garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Everything about this game was somewhat shaping up to be decent until a few months before the release. The demo was pretty good, decently buggy but the entire point of it was to test bugs and gauge what the playerbase wanted. The game was originally set to release in July and a few weeks before that a private playtest was held. The content in it was a little more than what was in the demo (4 new maps, 3 characters, and 2 items) and that was good as the game was about to release it makes sense…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →• more sluggish than SpeedRunners 1 • Less content than SpeedRunners 1 • Lacks visual clarity of SpeedRunners 1 • Screen shink? really in 2026? - why not zoom in, it's 3D ffs (also new effect is blinding)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a huge fan of the first game, I feel I can confidently say that this game is absolutely terrible. I've seen nothing but reskins of maps from the first game. They added these terrible, slow-moving(or stationary) platforming boss fights that just don't fit in with the game at all. You will have more fun playing the first one. Save yourself $10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game fr feels like the prototype to the first one. Just so many problems, looks and feels terrible. Actual Garbage im sorry. Just buy the first.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is no reason to play it over the first one. This one plays worse, has lesser Content and didn't even work for me and some of my friends at launch. If you want to play with more than 4 people buy the first one and download the multiplayer+ mod.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It genuinely adds nothing, just get the first game. It has fewer maps (and some are just the maps from 1), it has messy visuals, and the controls aren't as tight. Overall a downgrade.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed - Release Date Trailer (Sept 3 - PS5/Xbox Series/Switch/Steam/Game Pass with crossplay support) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTL...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the game, it works absolutely fantastic in local with friends, I do however do not like that there is a little bit input delay. It is manageable. Don't listen to the other people whom give negative just because they don't like the music? or the one whom just called it a reskin. I do however the frustration of people trying to connect to online servers. But I don't think that is a good enough reason to give it a negative review. 10/10 from me! well 9/10 until they fix the input delay
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →speedrunners 2 is a cluttered mess that makes it super hard to tell what is going on at times. not only that but there is some weird design choices that makes it feel even worse after coming from the first game for example, you can no longer jump out of boost tunnels, you dont get a jump reset when using a bomb, wall jumps on door switches are completely random, and for some reason they made it so that you cannot jump while holding grapple. i dont know if these are intended but it makes the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming to XBOX Game Pass: RuneScape: Dragonwilds, SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed, The Royal Writ, and more! news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →Played 10 hours in the Speedrunners 2 playtest and then a few more hours on release but I never found me saying "woah, this is cool" or "oh, they did this better". It was always "Oh my god I used to love playing this map" and "Auntie still got it" or "I missed this game so much". Every thing I enjoyed from Speedrunners 2 was actually something that Speedrunners 1 gave me and the more I thought about that, the more I would ask myself "is there something that I like from Speedrunners 2?" The game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad, please save yourself the time, and go play the original. The original is fantastic. Do not download this...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →more of the same but with terrible 3D graphics and music arrangements. If you liked the original keep playing the first title and skip this "sequel". If you want a true sequel, check out Sprint City (made by the same developers).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is super laggy and hard to look at compared to the first one
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Compared to the first one this has fewer levels, fewer characters, worse graphics, and laggier gameplay. Why would you even bother releasing this? Just embarrassing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming to Game Pass: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0... Ultimate: -Speedrunners 2: King of Speed (9/3) Premium: -Shelldiver (today) -Dice a Million (9/4) -Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (9/8) -The Royal Writ (9/10) -Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage (9/10) -RuneScape: Dragonwilds (9/15)
neutral · AI labelView post →The original was better. This is a sad remake.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →give me speedrunners but hold the characters and hold the maps and hold the physics hey jimmy give me a speedrunners with nothin
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blatant nostalgia bait, glitchy and buggy, not only does this game feature a reduced roster with mostly the same maps as the first game but the menuing and controlling are incredibly frustrating or near unplayable. the default controls seem weird on keyboard so im glad youre able to change them.. except the game only recognizes the default controls when you try to play the campaign and for me that would mean hitting the "shut down" shortcut repeatedly so i cannot play the campaign at all due…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I mean it's good but the first one is clearly superior, this is a game that doesn't reward your skills as much as the first one and you depend A LOT MORE on speed boosts and items, really feels like the running skills itself are less rewarded in it. We also desperately need more stages and community workshop stages as well
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Speedrunners 1 does everything Speedrunners 2 does but better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the bad reviews are bad faith. the game is great. having a blast
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just buy the first game, this feels like a sluggish re-skin, not to even mention the EULA...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't really see the need to buy this game over the original. The movement feels clunky and laggy compared to the original and all of the levels and powerups are practically the same. There are different visuals which can be a bit distracting compared to the original but not the hugest issue
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely feels like a half baked early access game. I did demo and early playtest and this is just as buggy. The netcode is not great and delay-based for some reason. Seems like a soulless cash grab :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's the same game but worse. with a story mode for some reason and with crappy boss battles tacked on. it's 2026 and it doesn't have ultrawide support. just play the first game, that's a great game, skip this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(Refunded game) I purchased this game because I thought it was going to be like the first but with better graphics and I was wrong. I've been trying this out from the playtest, demo, and now the official release and I am not pleased with this remake. I played the first game primarily for the multiplayer options and have not tried out the story but I won't bother because the physics, lights, design, everything just gives me "Fortnite". They Fortnitified the game and I'm not sure why. When I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This one sucks and feels like sloprunners. No charm. No personality. Feels like fortnite wannabe, Im surpised there isnt a battlepass. Cant see anything from the "fancy new visuals", good luck trying to see which walls are what on some levels. I am severely disapointed and I uninstalled and will never download this slop game again. Fortnite slop runners.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In no particular order: - Terrible input/network latency when playing multiplayer. The game runs fine in singleplayer mode, but this is not a singleplayer game. Even when hosting the lobby, there is serious latency. This is an issue that is not present in Speedrunners 1, and I'm playing on the same network, with the same hardware, and with the same group of friends. - FPS locked at 60 when hosting a lobby. VSync is off, and my settings are all the same when hosting and when joining a lobby,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Speedrunners didn't need a sequel. This game currently feels like a bad cashgrab. * Worse input lag compared to the frist one * Music just cut offs sometimes * Absolutely no reason to play singleplayer * Movement feels clunky, and in a game like Speedrunners this just can't happen * 2.5D/3D is not a bad shift, but it's done terribly * The game feels entirely uncomplete, if they were going to release the game like it actually is, they should've put the tag of EARLY ACCESS, this is in no way a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i think that this game could have been great. but its not. its buggy its clunky and why am i so slow?? it doesnt feel like speedrunners and the new style doesn't add to speedrunners it js feels like a cheap knock off that doesnt deserve the great name of speedrunners. #boycott this game bro js update the old one or maybe get rid of all the new ♥♥♥♥ effects.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is good, Positives: -Surprisingly different than SR1 with new tech for speed (DO TUTORIALS FOR NEW TECH- single wall jumping, using power-ups through walls, etc.) -Most negative reviews are saying really baseless and misinformed things, like focusing on the campaign and how there are only 8 maps (there are 16 maps including the A and B versions of each map) -Custom lobbies had no noticeable lag but it could vary for sure -Please take more than 30m to decide that this game is better/worse…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Pass September 2026 Wave 1: 9.3: - Speedrunners 2: King of Speed 9.4: - Dice a Million 9.8: - Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War 9.10: - The Royal Writ - Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage 9.15: - RuneScape: Dragonwilds news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →'SpeedRunners 2' launches September 3rd on Xbox Series, Game Pass, PS5, Nintendo Switch and PC. youtu.be/ySTLls_VV_I
neutral · AI labelView post →'SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed' launches in July on Xbox Series, Game Pass, PS5, Nintendo Switch and PC. youtu.be/evKOmXYoOQ4
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this game so much, it feels snappy like the first one, the new visuals go well with the animations and it feels familiar without feeling like the same. I also really like some of the new models and voice acting of some characters, but others feel too different from what I perceived them in the first one, mainly Salem which was my main and Cosmonaut which is looking a little odd in the campaign. Speaking of campaign, I beat it in 40 minutes which is not a lot, but this is a multiplayer…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is quiet fun, especially with friends. Which is why I hope for the devs to make it possible to play other modes with friends besides custom matches. Original review: Not me, nor my friends, are able to create a lobby because of connection issues. Also, as I understand it, the only way to play with friends is in a custom lobby. You won't be able to enjoy any other public game modes together with your friends, such as 64 man, 8 man, rotating game modes etc., which is a huge negative…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Releasing this week — June 30, 2026. Info via [Play-Asia.](https://play.asia/blog/2026/06/30/releasing-this-week-june-30-2026/) Upcoming on Playstation: 1. Antichrist (1 Jul 2026) 2. SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed (1 Jul 2026) 3. Where Winds Meet: Hidden Mountain (1 Jul 2026) 4. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem Pack (1 Jul 2026) 5. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (1 Jul 2026) 6. EA Sports College Football 27 (2 Jul 2026) 7. Ganbare Goemon Daishuugo (2…
neutral · AI labelView post →Game about speed with 3rd map being boss that moves so slowly there is no speed, level construction is not fun, art direction went to ♥♥♥♥, someone on dev team lost their mind, I'm refunding
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this mostly on PS5, don't know why I bought it on steam as well: It's just a straight downgrade from the first game. It's less readable, it feels overall sloggy, the items aren't as rewarding (hook and ice beam got seriously nerfed), one of the new items is pretty OP (the ray gun thing with three shots), the maps are the same, the new ones are very meh... Yeah, don't see why I should be playing this over the original.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly one of the worst games I played, a true spit in the face of the fans. The original is so good and this is so bad, it really amazes me how clunky it feels and how bad the hitboxes of the obstacles are. For anyone new please go play the original, it holds so well I don't even know why they would make a new one. What a joke!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game took all of the things that i liked from the original speedrunners, and made them worse. i genuinely refunded the game after 30 minutes of play. the gameplay feels choppy, theres too much animation clutter, i find the animation style cringey. theres very few maps, no workshop that i could see, and some of the maps are just recycled from the original speedrunners. i loved the original speedrunners but the community is so small i stopped playing and was hoping this would revive the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Things can get blurry and it feels empty compared to the first game. The single player campaign isn't interesting and even shorter than the one in the original. There's some new maps, and two whole new items, but other than that, it feels like there could have been so much more. At this point, just get the first game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game feels like a blatant cash grab and is worse than the original in almost every way apart from the graphics. The campaign is littered with spelling and grammatical mistakes and overall just feels ai generated. The graphic settings feel like they make no difference to how the game looks. Low and High look almost identical with the only difference being the framerate. I was getting 40-60 fps while on high and >350 fps on low.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is not only worse than the first one, but is also so much behind on content. I played the demo couple months ago a lot, it has not changed much from the demo. I'm still playing speedunners1. I won't type out everything i don't like about it, there are many reviews that explain it well. But one thing i found interesting is they buffed grapple cancel wall climb, drastically. So much so there's no point in normally jumping between 2 walls to climb. It looks and feels bad to play like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An all new title with insane dev support. Speedrunners 2 was announced today by FairPlay Labs the creators of NASB2. They are also hosting a Speedrunners 1 tournament to reward the winner with a free copy of Speedrunners 2 youtu.be/T0x5XcI2J6c
neutral · AI labelView post →they got rid of the deer furry from the first game this is unforgivable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played my fair share of SpeedRunners 1 over the years, and through all the SR2 playtests. This game is excellent, it could use some bug fixes, some more maps down the line and some more improvement to readability. Oh and the gun needs a nerf. But overall the game looks and feels great I've had some killer matches already, it's so much fun. The bad reviews are absolutely wild, they're mad the game only feels *98%* the same as SR1 instead of *100%*. Don't listen to them. This game is dirt…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So far it just doesn't feel as responsive as the first game, and I think it's because of the visuals. I get wanting to make the game look like a fresh improvement, but pure 2D was already such a great choice and I just don't feel that a game of this genre and one that requires precise timing benefits from such new graphics. The story is fine, I thought it was funny albeit pretty short. I like the idea of boss battles, but I don't think they were executed superbly. It doesn't help that you can…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game to play 4-player couch co-op but there is a glitch to where 3 controllers cannot be connected to the game at the same time. Every time I attempt it one of the controllers is controlling 2 spots and one of the controllers just doesn't control anything. So I cannot recommend this game to anyone interested in local co-op until this issue is fixed.
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