SpeedRunners is a 4 player competitive platformer with grappling hooks, power-ups, and interactive environments. Run, jump, swing around, fire rockets, grapple onto people to knock them off screen. All action takes place on a single screen, and the goal is to run off of it. Use weapons and power-ups to slow down your enemies.

A city filled with superheroes. Lots of them. Heroes that compete to get to crime scenes first. Unfortunately they get carried away just competing with each other. Competing to be the fastest, competing to win, and to run. Run really fast.

Welcome to SpeedRunners.

tinyBuild announced that DoubleDutch's SpeedRunners passes $3.25 million in sales, and is finally becoming an official ESL Gaming eSport.

tinyBuild has been pushing for SpeedRunners as an eSport for the last year, running dozens of events around the world on a weekly basis, and working with companies like Twitch, SteelSeries, Alienware to livestream prize tournaments. Through talks with ESL, SpeedRunners has now been signed up for ESL rotation alongside the likes of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and League of Legends.

SpeedRunners players are now invited to compete in official ESL cups and tournaments for prizes, with the first series commencing this Saturday in the SpeedRunners 1on1 Summer Series in Europe, and the first North America Series starting the following Saturday.

Prizes will include a custom ESL trail for the winning player that they can show off to other SpeedRunners during regular play online, trophies, and packs of tinyBuild games.

There will be an official Gamescom SpeedRunners Tournament that will be livestreamed from the Twitch stage next week at Gamescom, including a press-only tournament.

"SpeedRunners as an eSport just makes sense, and the velocity at which our community has rallied behind this important next step for the game has been incredible," said tinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik. "Our pro players can't wait to get involved."

Features:

• 4 Player Competitive Platforming 
• Local and Online Multiplayer
• You can play in any combination - 4 people online, 2 sitting on a couch playing vs people online, whatever! 
• Best played with an Xbox 360 Controller
• Goal is to run off-screen, leaving your enemies behind
• Everyone sees same thing, so the person in front has a disadvantage of not seeing what's coming ahead