If you want charity sprints, then you’ll get charity sprints; The organizers of Awesome Games Done Quick have announced that the annual seven-day event will return in January 2025, and their full speedrun schedule is now available to peruse.
More specifically, Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 will take place from January 5 to 12 next year and will feature more than 130 quick races throughout its duration. And according to its newly released schedule, the lineup is typically eclectic, covering everything from triple-A blockbuster titles and indie games to retro classics and other assorted rarities.
Performances will begin at 4:30 pm GMT on Sunday, January 5, with an introductory preamble before a speedrun of Pikmin’s All Parts on RayOken’s Switch. Things come to a close seven days later with a quick run of Super Metroid’s Map Randomizer Race, starring Andy, Eddie, imyt and Oatsngoats, at 4:10am on Sunday, January 12.
In between, there’s everything from Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as well as the traditional Awful Games Done Quick block, which this year kicks off with Superman 64 at 3:24 a.m. on Thursday, January 9, before moving forward with the likes of Golf With Your Grandmother, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and the magnificently named Doronko Wanko. Also of note is the Crazy Taxi speedrun on Saturday, January 11, which will be accompanied by a live rock band playing renditions of their in-game tunes.
If you want to attend Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 in person, it will be held at the Wyndham Grand in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the second time in a row, and registration is now open. Of course, if that’s too impractical a journey, everything will also be streamed online via the Games Done Quick channel on Twitch.
Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 is again raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, after this year’s event raised £1.9 million for the charity in January. Its sister event, Summer Games Done Quick 2024, raised £1.9 million for Doctors Without Borders in July, taking the organisation’s lifetime charitable total to more than £40 million.
