Published , by Ozzie Mejia
Published , by Ozzie Mejia
Awesome Games Done Quick is almost done for the year. Only two days remain for this year's marathon. This year's edition of AGDQ features the world's top speedrunners taking viewers through some of the biggest games of the past and present. They'll be doing it as quickly as possible and just like they do every year, they'll be doing it for charity in front of a worldwide audience on Twitch.
Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 has returned to Pittsburgh, PA. Many of this year's runners are on-hand for live runs, though a few are checking in virtually from their home spaces. This year's event is raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. After five days, the runners have raised over $1,000,000. Shacknews will be watching all week and we'll make sure to bring you the daily schedule each day. Plus, we'll be sure to highlight the biggest runs worth watching.
Before we get to the schedule, let's look at a highlight from Day 5. Arcade madness!
You can watch all of the action in the embed below!
Here's the full schedule for Day 6, taken from the Games Done Quick website, along with a handful of runs to check out. Times are subject to change depending on the actual completed runtimes, as well as other scheduling circumstances:
| AGDQ 2025 Day 6 Schedule | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time (All Times PT) | Game | Run | Runner(s) | Target Time |
| 10:42 AM | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Tightened Vice - PC | EnglishBen | 1:20:00 |
| 12:27 PM | Fresh Hops | Kaizo SMW 100% - SNES | frozenflygone | 45:00 |
| 1:31 PM | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition | Legendary Trial - Switch | authorblues, Skybilz, GTAce, EpicCrossover | 30:00 |
| 2:16 PM | PS1 Mystery Vs. Tournament | Tournament Finals - PS | CavemanDCJ, Joester98, Dr4gonBlitz | 1:00:00 |
| 3:30 PM | Tetris: The Grand Master | Multi Game Showcase - PS4 | JBroms, spc | 45:00 |
| 4:30 PM | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | 48 Tracks (DLC), 200cc, No Items - Switch | Bayesic | 1:30:00 |
| 6:15 PM | Kaizo Mario World 3 (BONUS GAME) | 100% - SNES | lungfish3000 | 1:00:00 |
| 7:22 PM | jubeat copious APPEND | Showcase - Arcade | PangaeaPanga | 1:00:00 |
| 8:37 PM | Super Mario World | 96 Exit Race - SNES | Vert, Storster | 1:30:00 |
| 10:42 PM | Peggle Extreme | Extreme Grand Master Race - PC | SatanHerself, HeliosWX | 36:00 |
| 11:30 PM | Metal Gear Solid | All Bosses Extreme - PC | MetalGlennSolid | 1:02:00 |
| 12:43 AM | Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble | World Tour Race - Switch | Helix, Moo | 35:00 |
| 1:25 AM | Mega Man 10 | Any% Normal Bass Race - Wii | Slurpeeninja, Phil7 | 40:00 |
| 2:12 AM | Gothic | No OoB - PC | PokerFacowaty | 20:00 |
| 2:44 AM | Deux Ex | Any% - PC | Vahisht | 42:00 |
| 3:33 AM | Ape Escape 2 | Any% - PS2 | Riekelt | 1:00:00 |
| 4:40 AM | Road Runner's Death Valley Rally | Any% - SNES | gameO | 26:00 |
| 5:13 AM | Ristar | Hard Any% - Switch | Mackie | 40:00 |
We got a nice dose of nostalgia with last year's Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. The Legendary Trial is one of the hardest parts of this game, but this game was practically built for speedrunners. We're about to watch four of them run through this for its Games Done Quick debut.
I promise, I'm not including this just so I can link to our definitive list where we ranked all 96 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe tracks.
Mostly.
One of last year's most pleasant surprises was the release of a new Super Monkey Ball game. Those who have listened to Shack Together may have heard the staff talk about how difficult some of these stages are, which will make it that much more interesting to watch two runners attempt to race through them as part of Banana Rumble's GDQ debut.
Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 will take place from now through Saturday, January 11. For more, check out the Games Done Quick website and be sure to come back all week to Shacknews for more on this week's marathon.