10 Impossible Video Games Utterly Destroyed By Speedrunners

Dark Souls is one of the hardest games released in (relatively) recent times. The game infamously doesn't hold a player's hand when it comes to the difficulty, throwing huge enemies at them from the get-go with very little in the way of an introduction to how things work.

Ultimately, it's a game that emphasises experimentation through repeated deaths - which shouldn't make for a good formula for those looking to rush through a playthrough.

Nevertheless, speedrunning the entire Dark Souls trilogy remains one of the most popular titles for those players looking to showcase their skills with the mechanics. The 2011 original is perhaps the most interesting of these runs, with the world record for the Any% category being chalked up at 20:53 by American QueueKyoo in April 2022. Given the average time to complete the game is roughly 43 hours, it's a eye-watering time by these dedicated runners.

These runs require numerous hard-to-perform tricks and glitches, with the "Kiln Skip" allowing them to skip out on nearly the entire second half of the game. What's more, when an update was introduced by FromSoftware that made the skip impossible to perform, runners set out and discovered a new way of performing it, showing just how far these guys will go to break a game and keep those times down.