This year’s Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) is coming up sooner than you think, as the full schedule for this year’s event has been confirmed.
SGDQ is one of Games Done Quick’s annual events which see week-long, 24/7 video game marathons streamed online to raise money for charity.
Each event sees highly-skilled gamers take turns to speedrun — completing video games as quickly as possible — with donation incentives set up for viewers to encourage more fundraising.
SGDQ 2025 will take place between July 6th – July 13th at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Minneapolis and will be raising money for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), a charity which provides humanitarian medical care in over 70 countries.
Since its inception in 2010, GDQ has raised over $54m (£41m) for several charities.
Awesome Games Done Quickly 2025 raising $2.56m (£1.93m) for the Prevent Cancer Foundation back in January and last year’s SGQD raised $2.58m (£1.94m) for Doctors Without Borders.
This year’s SGDQ has a very exciting line-up with the finale, an all-chapters run of Deltarune, Toby Fox’s follow-up to the extremely popular Undertale RPG, which is hard to believe considering the third and fourth chapter won’t release until a month prior to the event.
There will also be several runs by British and Irish competitors, including a possible appearance from British duo ZackInTheBox and Jambo who hold the World Record for speedrunning Super Mario Odyssey co-op in just 55 minutes and 44 seconds.
However, a donation incentive will have to be met for the run to appear at SGDQ.
Also participating in the event will be Irish gamer Bree12am who will be racing against three other players in Neon White, a puzzle-platforming first-person shooter in which she holds three World Records.
Other British runs include Okami by SaundersTech, Astro Boy: Omega Factor by Drakodan, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater by ApacheSmash, and Ao Ani by Punchy.
The full SGDQ 2025 schedule, including dates and localised times, can be found on gamesdonequick.com and the event will be streamed on the official GDQ Twitch page.
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