My Favourite Runs of 2025

2025 has been a huge year for BotK speedrunning, with the release of the Switch 2 having a massive impact particularly on the Breath of the Wild scene. It's brought back beloved old routes and created many new and exciting ones! But the Switch 2 wasn't needed for every new development, as the community, as always, innovated at every opportunity which allowed for many new milestones to be reached across many categories, old and new.

This year was also the year I decided to launch this blog to celebrate and try to publicise every world record that gets achieved and it's been throughly enjoyable and rewarding. Just knowing that even one person takes something away from the publication makes all of this more than worth it. I really look forward to what 2026 brings, both personally within the speedrunning scene and what magic other runners bring to the table, because it feels like nowadays anything really is possible (except plat skip).

It's easy to take the people around us for granted but I am forever grateful for all the incredible and lovely people I get to surround myself with. Through everything I've gone through personally in this honestly godawful year, knowing I can always fall back to the digital refuge of the communities I've come to make home over the last 5 years make perservering through it all all the while worth it.

With all that sentimental spiel over, I decided to do something very original and create a list of my favourite runs of this year, one for each month. I tried to keep the list diverse and base the selection of runs off of whether they were special milestones, impressive, entertaining, notable in some way or if I just really liked them. See you in 2026!

January

BotW

Two Players, One Controller Any% (1.0 - 1.7) 25:57 by Mikey + Player5

TotK

Great Sky Island 100% (v1.2.1+ (Latest)) 38:03 by EliasNXKO

February

BotW

Great Plateau Any% (1.0 - 1.7) 12:24 by MoldyMeatballs

TotK

100% (pre-v1.2.1) 28:40:41 by nukie

March

BotW

Any% (1.0 - 1.7) 22:58 by Player5

Totk

10 Koroks (pre-v1.2.1) 11:38 by cephla

April

BotW

All Women (1.0 - 1.7) 1:47:14 by lux270

TotK

Runeless Great Sky Island Any% 25:57 by Anthony_408_SR

May

BotW

Shrine Collection: Great Plateau (Extended, 1.0 - 1.7) 37:36 by Zilano

TotK

Any% (pre-v1.2.1) 39:46 by MoldyMeatballs

June

BotW

Any% (1.8.2 Switch 1 Edition) 23:56 by Player5

TotK

100% (v1.2.1+ (Latest)) 46:19:18 by orcrist_gc

July

BotW

Great Plateau Any% (Bug Limit, Switch 1) 19:58 by LouLouCore

TotK

All Dungeons (pre-v1.2.1) 2:31:11 by Player5

August

BotW

Any% (Master Mode, 1.8.2 Switch 2 Edition) 26:38 by TyTt

TotK

Any% (pre-v1.2.1) 38:56 by MoldyMeatballs

September

BotW

Master Sword Restricted (1.8.2 Switch 1 Edition) 1:23:33 by moistgoolash

TotK

Great Sky Island Any% (Glitchless, Switch 1) 24:50 by Lime_s1

October

BotW

Runeless Any% (1.0 - 1.7) 29:15 by Hasuri

TotK

Great Sky Island 100% (pre-v1.2.1) 35:22 by cephla

November

BotW

Master Sword Restricted (1.0 - 1.7) 1:13:38 by jm_runs

TotK

Any% Glitchless (Switch 1) 1:01:49 by Lime_s1

December

BotW

10 Koroks (Bug Limit, Switch 1) 9:28 by cephla

TotK

Master Sword Restricted (Switch 2 Edition) 1:09:56 by NayruAcolyte