Players usually need four to six hours to complete the main story of this secretive Metroidvania.
Animal Well is currently one of the most popular games available. Following its debut on Thursday, which was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews, it swiftly climbed to the top of the top-seller ranking on Steam.
It has not taken long for speedrunners to figure out how to make their way through the creepy maze that was created by solitary developer Billy Basso. The majority of players only spend between four and six hours to finish the main plot content. YouTubers are already posting runs that are shorter than five minutes, and the any% record, which refers to the best recorded time without any constraints, is being broken over and over again over and over again.
Within a couple of hours of Hubert0987 breaking the world record with a run of 4 minutes and 44 seconds on Thursday, The DemonSlayer6669 looked to secure bragging rights with a run that was 18 seconds faster and maybe the first time that was recorded to be less than 4 minutes and 30 seconds. (If you have not yet completed the game and would like to prevent spoilers, you should refrain from watching the video for the time being.)
It hasn’t even been a week since Animal Well was released, so you can anticipate that records will continue to fall as runners optimize their paths to the game’s final plunger. It is exciting to observe the formation of a speedrunning community around a newly released game, where skilled players compete against one another, possibly for the opportunity to showcase their abilities at the upcoming major Games Done Quick event.