10 Video Games ANYONE Can Speedrun In 10 Minutes

Speedrunning is, to most of us, a sort of forbidden gaming art - the kind of thing we watch on Youtube, enraptured, and then go back to our mortal lives afterwards. When players manage to finish games that should take tens of hours, it's undeniably fascinating to see.

But this doesn't mean there aren't games you could speedrun. In fact, there are a whole lot of games even casual players could complete in under ten minutes, without having to become some sort of godlike savant at using a controller.

This might sound wild - and it very much is - it also does make a strange kind of sense. Not every game can have a complex system of skips that you need in order to make a perfect run, and it's arguably often cooler to see casual gamers be able to get almost record times while speedrunning through certain games.

Some games take hours of luck, concentration, and skill to get even near the quickest speedrun. Some just want you to run to the nearest town and help kill an old wizard.

Gone Home - as much as it is an interesting story - got some well deserved flack for how quickly the game can be completed.

Because, since the last area of the game is in part of the house you star the game in, you can - if you find your way there quickly - finish the game in under a minute by accident, sheerly by picking up your sister's letter and triggering the final cutscene in the game.

While it's fun that the game begins and ends within metres of another, it is understandable that it made many players feel like progression in the game was totally immaterial - because, indeed, it kind of was.

But, this does mean you could easily brag about getting almost the best time possible on Gone Home speedrunning, because literally all it takes is sprinting to this letter as quickly as you possibly can. So long as you don't explain the exact details of it, it sounds pretty impressive - but will quickly become totally unimpressive if you do.