Summer Games Done Quick Returns This July, Schedule Out Now

The Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2026 schedule is dwell. This 12 months’s lineup features a acquainted mix of technically spectacular speedruns and a few wacky novelty ones.

This summer time’s shindig takes place in Minneapolis from July 5 to 11. Donations will go to Doctors Without Borders, for which final 12 months’s occasion raised over $2.4 million. (If you are new to this, image the outdated Jerry Lewis telethons, solely with enjoyable and ultra-skilled avid gamers instead of Liberace and Neil Sedaka.)

More latest titles within the 2026 schedule embrace Kirby Air Riders, Don’t Stop Girlypop, and Mouse: P.I. for Hire. And who would miss the prospect to observe somebody blaze via Drywall Eating Simulator? Among the older favorites are Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest, and the oddball 1996 Sega Saturn title, Mr. Bones. (It’s… somebody’s favourite, proper?)

It would not be a Games Done Quick occasion with out oddball runs. This summer time, somebody will use automated instruments to gather all 120 stars in Super Mario 64 at inhuman velocity. A runner will attempt to get a Balatro rating excessive sufficient to interrupt the sport. Finally, there’s Gordon & Daxter, a “one-of-a-kind hybrid run where Half-Life 1 movement is imported into Jak and Daxter.”

You can peruse the full schedule for the remainder of the week’s speedruns. You can livestream all the SGDQ 2026 occasion from dwelling on Twitch and YouTube, beginning on July 5.