speedgame

English

Etymology

Compound of speed +‎ game.

Noun

speedgame (plural speedgames)

1. (speedrunning) A video game that one speedruns.

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

   • 2016 January 6, Chris Daniel Grant, quoting Halfcoordinated, “How a gamer with a disability speedruns some of the world's fastest games”, in Polygon‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

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

   • 2021 July 13, Caleb Pisoni, “In Defense of 3D Sonic”, in Paste (magazine)‎^[2], Decatur, G.A.: Paste Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-29:

     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.

   • 2022 April 7, Sam Reaves, “Minecraft: Fastest Speedruns”, in The Gamer‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-06-22:

     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.