A curated selection of open-world games that have cultivated robust speedrunning scenes, offering complex mechanics, route optimization potential, and dedicated community support for record-breaking play.
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Includes titles like 'Breath of the Wild' and 'Tears of the Kingdom' which feature massive maps and physics-based interactions that allow for innovative glitch-based routing and sequence breaking techniques.
A massive urban sandbox that supports a wide variety of speedrun categories, from street races to story mode completions, leveraging advanced glitch mechanics and clipping for record-breaking times.
One of the most active speedrunning communities, known for complex RNG manipulation, glitch-heavy routing, and extensive use of console commands for category-specific records and experimentation.
Offers a dense, realistic open world with diverse categories including story runs, 100% completion, and challenge races, requiring deep knowledge of map geometry and NPC pathing behaviors.
An infinite sandbox with a highly active speedrunning scene focused on 'Any%' routes that involve exploiting game mechanics, block clipping, and coordinate management to reach the End dimension quickly.
Combines open-world exploration with souls-like mechanics, allowing runners to sequence break through boss encounters and utilize teleport glitches for aggressive, high-skill record attempts.
Historical open-world settings with parkour mechanics that enable unique route optimizations, clipping through walls, and skipping mission steps for faster completion times across multiple titles.
A dystopian open world that supports various speedrun categories, leveraging early game exploits and vehicle glitches to bypass content and reduce completion times significantly.
A vast space exploration game with modular planet generation, offering opportunities for sequence breaking and glitch-based travel to minimize time spent on loading screens and exploration.
Features a procedural London with diverse playable characters, allowing for flexible route planning and exploitation of hacking mechanics to skip levels or bypass enemies efficiently.
Specifically designed for high-speed traversal with grappling hooks and parachutes, making it ideal for categories focused on pure movement efficiency and map traversal optimization.
Open-world shooters with repetitive mission structures that allow for pattern recognition and exploitation of enemy AI for streamlined route execution and reduced combat time.
Looter-shooter open worlds where skill builds and weapon damage scaling enable 'rage builds' for rapid enemy elimination and fast map traversal in story completion categories.
An open-world Harry Potter game with flying mechanics that allow for aerial shortcuts and sequence breaking through spell interactions, creating new routing possibilities for runners.
A realistic open-world RPG with a complex state system, requiring precise glitch usage and sequence breaking to skip long conversations and travel times in speedrun categories.
A zombie survival sim with a large open map, supporting categories for base building speedruns and story completion, relying on resource management and efficient travel routing.
An open-world survival game featuring massive horde mechanics, allowing runners to exploit crowd control abilities and pathing glitches to bypass large sections of the map quickly.
An open-world martial arts game with a dense city map, supporting speedruns that focus on efficient combat chains and driving shortcuts to minimize time to story conclusion.
Over-the-top open-world action games that allow for vehicle spawning glitches and weapon exploitation to trivialize enemy encounters and speed up mission completion times.
A post-apocalyptic RPG with a large world and complex dialogue systems, known for advanced sequence breaking and glitching techniques to skip lengthy quest chains and travel.