Games Like SpeedRunners

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Why similar: Multiplayer 20.7%, Competitive 15.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 13.8%, 4 Player Local 11%, Platformer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It turns precision platforming into a versus mind game, with players racing to survive hazardous courses while sabotaging one another.

Race to the finish in Giana Sisters: Dream Runners, a fast-paced, head-to-head platformer for up to four players.

Why similar: Racing 40.3%, Multiplayer 15.3%, 4 Player Local 14.2%, Local Multiplayer 13.6%, Platformer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Another competitive 2D footrace where four players sprint through platforming routes and use power-ups to disrupt each other.

Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

Why similar: Multiplayer 23.8%, Local Multiplayer 16.4%, Fast-Paced 16.4%, Competitive 10.9% ★, 4 Player Local 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: The same kind of hyper-fast, friendship-testing multiplayer energy, with constantly changing rules and tiny mistakes causing instant losses.

Runbow, and all its 9-player madness, is now on Steam!With tons of competitive modes for up to 9 players--locally and online--and a massive Single Player Adventure, Runbow is the crazy, colour-based platformer you've been waiting for.

Why similar: Racing 49.4%, Local Multiplayer 16.7%, Multiplayer 9.1%, 4 Player Local 9%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling races, ruthless screen pressure, and local/online party chaos make it one of the closest games to SpeedRunners’ core loop.

Run, jump and butt-slide into the glorious toy-filled world of Action Henk! Become a master of momentum and defy physics as you race against a band of ragged 90s action figures to once and for all prove that Action Henk is the fastest of them all!

Why similar: Racing 61.5%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Platformer 11%, Action 4.6%, Level Editor 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A momentum-heavy toybox platform racer built around perfect lines, boost management, and beating other players to the finish.

Speed around loops, dart through train crossings, drift around helter skelters, and unleash wacky weaponry in this modern take on classic top-down multiplayer racing games such as Micro Machines and Mashed. The twist? You build the track.

Why similar: Competitive 20.1% ★, Racing 18.8%, Local Multiplayer 15%, Multiplayer 12.8%, 4 Player Local 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its weapon-filled elimination races deliver the same chaotic competitive mix of speed, shortcuts, and screwing over your friends.

Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

Why similar: Multiplayer 22.6%, Local Multiplayer 18%, Competitive 12.9% ★, 4 Player Local 12.2%, Fast-Paced 12%

Why You'll Like It: While it’s more of an arena shooter, it shares SpeedRunners’ lightning pace, instant reversals, and excellent local/online competitive play.

Compete for the world record in this fast-paced multiplayer racing platformer! Dash through short and fun levels, or be creative and build your own levels in the fully fledged level editor!

Why similar: Racing 29.9%, Multiplayer 20.8%, Parkour 15.9%, Level Editor 10.3%, Platformer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a pure competitive platform racer, emphasizing tight movement execution and short repeatable runs in a way SpeedRunners fans usually click with.

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 34%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Competitive 13.2% ★, Fast-Paced 12.1%, Sports 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The constant tug-of-war over screen control and forward momentum captures the same high-pressure chase feeling as SpeedRunners.

Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities. Play intense local matches with friends and foes, challenge yourself in the singleplayer mode or battle it out online.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 23.9%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Competitive 15.3% ★, Fast-Paced 10.8%, 4 Player Local 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The original still nails that same adrenaline rush of movement, timing, and weaponized chaos in short multiplayer matches.

Banging beats and mad style, Lethal League Blaze is the most intense ball game you can play online with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Fast-Paced 23.1%, Competitive 22.2% ★, Local Multiplayer 16%, Sports 11%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its speed, comeback swings, and competitive reads make it a great fit if you love frantic versus mastery and quick rounds.

Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

Why similar: Multiplayer 34.5%, Local Multiplayer 21.9%, 4 Player Local 17.7%, Funny 10.7%, Local Co-Op 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades racing for arena survival, but its slippery movement, lethal items, and fast rounds hit a very similar competitive nerve.

TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 34.6%, 4 Player Local 17.1%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Local Co-Op 10.1%, Platformer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Few games match SpeedRunners’ local-multiplayer intensity as well, thanks to pinpoint platforming, mind games, and brutal ring-out moments.

Hot Shot Burn is the hilariously violent party brawler that lets you compete in the galaxy's ultimate televised blood sport. Experience crazy couch battles full of ridiculous flukes and insane skill shots for up to 4 players.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 19.8%, 4 Player Local 19.6%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Competitive 7.6% ★, Local Co-Op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A compact arena brawler focused on knockbacks, movement traps, and spectators-turned-hazards that channels similar couch-competition energy.

Ninza is a free multiplayer game like no other! Instead of directly attacking your opponents, you crush them by pushing pieces of the level. Embrace chaos and dive into an entirely new level of frenzied and creative gameplay, where the environment itself becomes both your weapon and your enemy.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 16.8%, Fast-Paced 15.6%, Competitive 15.6% ★, Multiplayer 14.6%, 4 Player Local 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: This indie versus platform fighter leans hard into acrobatic movement and quick kills, making it a natural pick for SpeedRunners fans.

The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 47.9%, Multiplayer 25.3%, Funny 6.8%, Action 6.1%, Platformer 6%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the original’s relentless push-and-pull dueling with more modes and even nastier close-range chaos.

Award-winning same-screen party racing for up to 16 players! Race brutal-cute aliens on exotic planets, using weapon powerups and physics-based vehicles to annihilate your competition in frantic round-based combat. Connect spare gamepads, laptops and smart devices as extra controllers.

Why similar: Racing 25.5%, Fast-Paced 14.6%, Local Multiplayer 12.8%, Competitive 12.3% ★, Multiplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This one brings the same party-racer sabotage spirit, replacing platforming with top-down vehicular mayhem and heavy use of weapons.

Slice and dice your friends with boomerangs in this frantic physics party game. Join a crew of your favorite foods as you grill, chill and spill your enemies. Discover ridiculous power-ups and stack them together in deadly combinations.

Why similar: Competitive 32.6% ★, Local Multiplayer 23.4%, 4 Player Local 22.6%, Local Co-Op 8.7%, Funny 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its clean controls, quick rounds, and vicious item-powered local multiplayer make it a great 'just one more match' alternative.

Missing the days of split screen multiplayer or wanting to play with actual in-person friends in the same room? Death Stair is a local multiplayer stair climbing game. Play locally with maximum three friends and race to the finish while the fourth, armed to the teeth with an arsenal of unconventional ammo types, does everything to stop...

Why similar: Racing 20.3%, Fast-Paced 16.3%, Competitive 12.7% ★, Multiplayer 12%, 4 Player Local 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its absurd physics chaos and brutal local-versus design scratch a similar itch if you enjoy short, screaming-match party rounds.

Samurai GUNN 2 is a fighting game with Samurai and Gunns. Best your foes online or locally in this cutting edge sequel featuring Rollback Netcode and Ranked Matchmaking. Free Edition out now!

Why similar: Competitive 41.8% ★, Local Multiplayer 17.6%, 4 Player Local 17.2%, Multiplayer 13.6%, 2D 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers ultra-fast platform arena duels where mobility, map knowledge, and instant punishes matter as much as they do in SpeedRunners.

A fast-paced action-sports game that pits 2-4 players against each other in a frantic combination of air hockey and tennis. Players scramble to retrieve and throw a glowing disc while unleashing devastating abilities and defending their end zone.

Why similar: Multiplayer 30.5%, Sports 29.8%, Competitive 27.2% ★, Action 6.5%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Although framed as a sport, its emphasis on speed, positioning, and relentless pressure feels a lot like a one-screen competitive chase.

A 2D party platformer where you fight with a hat! Throw your hat to attack, defend and bait opponents. But watch out! If someone jumps on your hat... you die!

Why similar: Competitive 21.5% ★, Fast-Paced 20.2%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Local Multiplayer 13.3%, 4 Player Local 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like SpeedRunners, it’s a read-heavy competitive game where mobility and split-second punishes decide very fast matches.

Screencheat is a ridiculous competitive split-screen first-person shooter where everyone is invisible, so players are forced to look at each other’s screens to win. Supporting both local and online multiplayer, combat in Screencheat is fast and furious with a wide variety of one-hit kill weapons.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 25.6%, 4 Player Local 24%, Multiplayer 22.3%, Local Co-Op 10.6%, Funny 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps platforming for FPS mind games, but the constant spatial awareness and couch-trash-talk intensity feel very familiar.

A couch/online game where you battle your friends with unique and wild abilities. There are many choices such as a shrink ray, creating black holes, stopping time and attaching a rocket engine to the stage to send it flying. Choose a combination that synergizes well to win the round!

Why similar: Multiplayer 26.5%, 4 Player Local 25.5%, Local Multiplayer 18.9%, Local Co-Op 9.9%, Funny 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on ridiculous ability interactions and movement-driven outplays makes it another strong pick for players who love expressive versus chaos.

Parkour Tag is a platforming PvP game that faces two-players off in a competitive game of movement. Run vertically or horizontally on any wall, jump, double jump, slide, vault and more to outmaneuver your opponent and claim victory!

Why similar: Competitive 31.8% ★, Multiplayer 19.2%, Parkour 18.9%, Fast-Paced 10.1%, Sports 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: If the movement mastery is what you love most, its parkour-based pursuit matches offer a similarly intense speed-and-evasion rush.

Join your friends on a mad-as-a-squid, couch-multiplayer race to the most bopping octopus party of the year. Slap your friends down with your tentacles to wrestle the only present out of their grasp, and make it to the party first. Guaranteed to make you smile!

Why similar: Racing 35.6%, Local Multiplayer 18%, Multiplayer 14.2%, 4 Player Local 8.8%, Platformer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It’s a frantic race full of bumping, stealing, and last-second reversals, capturing the same chaotic multiplayer competitiveness.

A futuresport FPS where you race around a skate park / dance club and nail each other with dodgeball trick shots. Singleplayer + Local Multiplayer + Online Multiplayer with 27 different objective-based game modes...or create your own!

Why similar: Competitive 34.8% ★, Local Multiplayer 17.7%, 4 Player Local 17.4%, Sports 11.6%, Local Co-Op 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its arena movement, projectile duels, and split-second eliminations give it a comparable competitive arcade feel despite the first-person view.

Bämeräng is a fast paced boomerang fighting game for two to four players. Enjoy hilarious boomerang battles against your friends in local multiplayer or using Steam's Remote Play Together.

Why similar: Competitive 38.1% ★, Fast-Paced 27.1%, Local Multiplayer 24.7%, Funny 7.2%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Short, hectic elimination rounds and easy-to-read multiplayer chaos make it a lightweight but fitting party-game recommendation.

Knight Squad 2 is a chaotic arcade multiplayer game for up to 8 players. Pick an eccentric knight and fight for glory with wacky weaponry. Triumph over your friends in a ridiculous amount of game modes, both offline and online.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 34.9%, Multiplayer 32.5%, Local Multiplayer 13.5%, Arcade 5.8%, Local Co-Op 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a polished party-combat game built around quick rounds, simple controls, and highly replayable competitive chaos.

Jumpala is a fast-paced action puzzler with heavy fighting game vibes. While the core mechanics are simple, each game is a test of skill and strategy as you try to outscore and outplay your opponents. Features both local and online play.

Why similar: Competitive 43.9% ★, Local Multiplayer 28.6%, Multiplayer 16.4%, 2D 3.7%, Arcade 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its versus platforming revolves around movement routes, space control, and quick tactical decisions in a way SpeedRunners players often appreciate.

Bloody Trapland is a fast-paced multiplayer platformer where the levels are filled with dozens of dangerous traps and tricky jumps that stand in your way! Play co-op with your friends or take on the challenges on your own. With support for up to 4 players at once, local and/or online.

Why similar: Multiplayer 23.9%, Local Multiplayer 22.3%, 4 Player Local 17.3%, Local Co-Op 13.5%, Platformer 10.2%

Monster Apes! Rockets! Piranhas! UFOs! Build the most insane race tracks ever. Challenge your friends or CRACK A TRACK on your own. Can you make it to the finish line in an explosive race without rules?

Why similar: Racing 36%, Competitive 10.5% ★, Fast-Paced 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Local Multiplayer 7.1%

Experience the extreme simulated sporting sensation that's sweeping our digital nation! Mount Your Friends is a fiercely competitive sporting event for you to play with your friends in the contextual security of your own home, assuming that your home is not composed of sexual innuendo.

Why similar: Competitive 23% ★, Multiplayer 21.1%, Local Multiplayer 20%, Sports 12.4%, Funny 9.7%

Crazy, physics-driven, four-player marathon across Japan. Combining classic racers like Micro Machines and the insanity of TV's Takeshi's Castle, smash through offices and shopping malls and hurl fruit at your opponents in a party game unlike anything you've played before!

Why similar: Racing 28.5%, 4 Player Local 17.4%, Local Multiplayer 16.7%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Sports 10.4%

Ultimate Sheep Raccoon is a bike-racing party game where you and your friends build the course together. Add obstacles and dangerous traps, take the lead with power-ups, and race to the finish!

Why similar: Racing 22.6%, Competitive 18% ★, Local Multiplayer 14.8%, Multiplayer 13.5%, 4 Player Local 11.5%

Pummel Party is a 4-8 player online and local-multiplayer party game. Pummel friends or AI using a wide array of absurd items in the board mode and compete to destroy friendships in the unique collection of minigames.

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.7%, 4 Player Local 25.2%, Local Multiplayer 15.5%, Funny 9.5%, Local Co-Op 5.1%

Ultimate Godspeed is a party racing game. Place items on the track and bring chaos to the race! The goal: Create the shortest way for you or the most pain for your opponents.

Why similar: Racing 24.5%, Multiplayer 15.9%, 4 Player Local 15.6%, Parkour 15.1%, Level Editor 9.1%

"I Am You From The Future! No Time To Explain, Follow m-OH CHRIST!" Chase your future self through time and alternate realities while fighting giant monsters, collecting hats, and eating cake! No Time To Explain Remastered is the remake of tinyBuild's debut game. Now with multiplayer!

Why similar: Platformer 23.2%, Multiplayer 21.5%, Funny 13.9%, Local Multiplayer 10.8%, Indie 10.3%

Fling to the Finish is a cooperative racing game where teammates are tethered together by a stretchy elastic rope. Get up close and personal with your partner to maneuver two characters bouncing, rolling, and flinging their way to the finish line!

Why similar: Competitive 22.2% ★, Racing 20.8%, Local Multiplayer 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.8%, 4 Player Local 10.8%

Jog! Jump! Switch! Coordinate the crazy conga line of alien athletes in this autorunner / puzzle platformer for 1-4 players.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 25.1%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Platformer 14%, Local Co-Op 13.7%, Funny 8.8%

Up N' Down is a multiplayer racing game where you have to use items to your advantage. Race to the top, grab the crown and find a safe way down to the finish line.

Why similar: Racing 28.9%, Competitive 18.6% ★, Parkour 17.3%, Multiplayer 15.2%, Platformer 7.9%

Pimp up your mobility scooter and take on the Grim Reaper and his Zombie army in a race for your soul. Armed with a variety of homemade weapons and gadgets, battle your way through 13 unique & exhilarating tracks. Can you survive the retirement village?

Why similar: Racing 61.7%, Local Multiplayer 18.7%, 4 Player Local 7.3%, Funny 4.6%, Action 4.3%

Fast-paced multiplayer racing game set in the vastness of space. Compete against friends or online rivals in intense races, where quick reflexes and strategic use of diverse skills determine the victor. Embrace the challenge of swinging your way to victory in this exhilarating space-themed race!

Why similar: Competitive 32.2% ★, Racing 26.4%, Parkour 15%, Platformer 9.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Race against up to 7 other players online and create catastrophic chaos with items beyond insanity. Breaking the tradition of single-player, story-based platformers. Interested? This is the brand new 2D platformer experience you want.

Why similar: Racing 36.8%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Parkour 17.2%, Platformer 9.2%, Funny 7.9%

Pound your way to victory in this 4-player competitive platformer. Create massive shockwaves in the terrain to bounce your enemies off the stage while trying to avoid being sent flying yourself.

Why similar: Competitive 42.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 31.8%, Platformer 15.6%, Indie 10.3%

Spiders with laser swords! Duel to the death against your friends or choose to team up and hold back swarms of savage enemies. Swing, stab and shoot with style, effortlessly performing movie-worthy parkour.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 26.6%, Parkour 17.3%, Multiplayer 16.5%, 4 Player Local 16.1%, Funny 7.6%

Ragdoll Runners is a physics-based athletics game where you control independently the two legs of an athlete in 8 events of different types: sprint, long jump, triple jump, hurdles. Play against the computer, with 3 friends on the same PC or online against other players' records.

Why similar: Sports 39%, Competitive 38.9% ★, Funny 12.3%, Indie 9.8%

Compete across land, water and air in incredible transforming vehicles that change from cars to boats to planes mid-race.

Why similar: Racing 51.8%, Local Multiplayer 16.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, 4 Player Local 5.6%, Fast-Paced 5.5%

Arrange a pit crew of 1-4 members and, amidst total chaos, secure the gold in 4 decades of racing championships against the mighty Dominion Torrento. Retro vibes and buckets of stress blend in this friendship-testing party game, where you fix stylish sports cars in both local and online co-op.

Why similar: Racing 26.3%, Local Multiplayer 18.9%, Multiplayer 16.3%, 4 Player Local 15.6%, Local Co-Op 7.3%

A high-speed multiplayer racer with a unique power-up system! Combine different juices for a range of attacking and defensive abilities. Drift through looping bends. Soar over monumental jumps, and defy gravity around tubular tracks in an explosively colorful racer!

Why similar: Racing 31.3%, Local Multiplayer 17.7%, Multiplayer 16.2%, 4 Player Local 13.2%, Sports 10.1%

Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.

Why similar: Racing 45.8%, Fast-Paced 14.4%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Local Multiplayer 8.4%, Level Editor 6.1%

Master rocket-powered parkour! Boost, slide, wallrun, and fly through 70+ handcrafted levels... or build your own in Create Mode. Play solo, race online, or climb the leaderboards in async multiplayer.

Why similar: Racing 26.1%, Fast-Paced 20.8%, Parkour 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Platformer 8.5%

Heave Ho is a riotous multiplayer party game for up to four players in couch co-op and versus play, or online with Steam Remote Play. Reach out, get a grip, and swing to victory — or meet your messy end!

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.3%, Local Multiplayer 21.5%, 4 Player Local 19.2%, Local Co-Op 9.5%, Co-op 7%

Fighties is a fast paced 2D platform fighter. Choose from a wide selection of Fighties each with their own unique play style. Beat down your opponents to become the strongest Fightie of them all.

Why similar: Competitive 16.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.5%, 4 Player Local 13.3%, Fast-Paced 11.9%

A FEW QUICK MATCHES is a fast-paced, 1-4 player platform fighter that lets you bring old-school stick battles to life! play with your friends locally, or challenge players online in this flash-inspired spectacle!

Why similar: Competitive 27.3% ★, 4 Player Local 22.8%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Local Multiplayer 17.3%, Indie 4.6%

Dash and dodge bullet clusters in nerve-wracking slow motion moments and challenge your friends online or offline to awesome and fast paced battles with up to 4 players!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 21.7%, Multiplayer 19.9%, Sports 11.2%, Platformer 10.7%, Local Co-Op 9.4%

Winning is Cheating in this futuristic racer set on rollercoaster-like tracks. Create shortcuts to cheat your way to the front. Beat a series of varied solo missions of increasing difficulty and then take your skills online in the cross-platform multiplayer, or battle your roomies in split-screen.

Why similar: Racing 30.5%, Fast-Paced 18.2%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Competitive 12.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 10.2%