Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 Raises Over $2.6 Million, Four World Records Set During Marathon

The annual Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 charity speedrunning marathon has ended, with the final total raised eclipsing the $2.6 million mark by the end of the event.

AGDQ 2023 officially raised $2,641,313 during the week-long event, with all proceeds going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. That number brings the total amount raised during GDQ events to over $43 million.

Four world records were set during the event, which marks the most world records ever achieved during a single Awesome Games Done Quick event. The world record runs were as follows:

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
  • Co-op Any% Arcade Old Patch by Benja and Paul-Knives: 56 minutes, 18 seconds
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
  • Any% with Bank Run by Jhay: 2 hours, 54 minutes, 51.33 seconds
• PowerWash Simulator
  • 6 Players, All Vehicles, No Soap by Amyrlinn, Bullets, Biglaw, Enigma Requiem, AngelicKnight, and Acadiel: 33 minutes, 31.7 seconds
• Steven Seagal Is The Final Option (Prototype)
  • Any% 9 exits by Crak Atak: 21 minutes, 44.6 seconds

Other featured runs include MitchFlowerPower’s Super Mario Brothers 3 run to end the marathon, Metroid Dread being completed in just over an hour and a half, and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales being finished in just over two and a half hours.

The next Games Done Quick event is the all-women Frost Fatales marathon benefitting The Malala Fund February 26-March 4. Summer Games Done Quick 2023 is scheduled for May 28-June 4.