Summer Games Done Quick Raises More Than $2.4 Million For Charity During Annual Speedrun Event

  Summer Games Done Quick 2025, this year's week-long, 24-hour speedrunning marathon, ended yesterday after raising more than $2.4 million for charity. More specifically, SGDQ 2025 brought in $2,436,614 for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières.

This year, over 2600 attendees gathered at the Hilton Minneapolis in Minnesota from July 6 through July 13 to watch speedrunners blaze through games like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Balatro, Super Mario Maker 2, Blue Prince, Mario Kart World, Beat Saber, AEW: Fight Forever, and more. 

Those 2600 attendees, alongside the thousands of others who tuned in to watch on the SDGQ Twitch channel, raised $2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders, which cares for people affected by conflict, disease outbreaks, natural and human-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries.

This year’s event featured the new Arist Alley, where artists and craftspeople sold products and more at booths, a live concert by the band The Megas, and more. 

You can catch up on all the speedruns on SGDQ’s YouTube channel here. 

Source: Game Informer