All 12 SpeedRunners 2 Characters: The Launch Roster

SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed launches with a twelve-runner roster — the eccentric superheroes of a retrofuturistic 1960s world, per the game’s official description. This page tracks who is confirmed, who is new, and what official sources actually say. Where a detail isn’t verified, we say so instead of inventing it.

The Confirmed Returning Runners

Three names are confirmed by the official SpeedRunners 2 FAQ, which states that familiar faces — including these — return:

The FAQ adds that “most of the main roster” from the original game returns too — so expect familiar faces beyond these three. The original SpeedRunners cast included Moonraker (the first female character added to the original game), Scout, Salem, Veloci-T-Rex, Unic, Hot Head, and SpeedRunner himself; we’ll confirm each name against SpeedRunners 2’s live build as the roster pages fill out.

The Newcomer: Dart

Dart is the confirmed new runner joining SpeedRunners 2 — a frog-like character, distinct from anything in the original cast. New faces matter for meta-watchers: the FAQ commits to ongoing updates every one to two months. New runners haven’t been promised specifically, but the launch roster is best treated as a starting point.

The Rest of the Twelve: Being Verified

That’s four named runners of twelve. The remaining names are being verified against the live build before we publish them — listing eight guesses with a question mark would be exactly the kind of wiki spam this site refuses to be.

The official press kit (tinyBuild / Fair Play Labs, via speedrunners.com) settles the launch twelve on its own: it ships character renders for SpeedRunner, The Falcon, Cosmonaut Comrade, Hot Head, Moonraker, Salem, Unic, ManekiNeko, SkullDuggery, Starlight, Vidna and Dart — see the gallery below. Per-runner detail pages (unlocks, gameplay notes) still land here only as each is verified in the live build. As each runner is confirmed, they get their own entry with:

• What they look like and their theme
• How they unlock (once verified in-game)
• Any gameplay notes that survive testing

Do Characters Play Differently?

In the original SpeedRunners, characters were largely cosmetic — skins with personality, equal in motion, the game’s competitive integrity resting on movement skill rather than pick selection. What SpeedRunners 2 changes about that formula hasn’t been fully detailed officially; treat any “this runner is faster” claim as unverified until it appears here. The movement guide covers what demonstrably matters: momentum.

Cosmetics and Unlocks

SpeedRunners 2 features character and cosmetic unlocks across play — campaign progress, tournaments and events are the natural sources, and the official FAQ confirms crossover cosmetic content is planned (the original’s YouTuber packs won’t carry over as-is, but new crossovers are coming). We’ll document exact unlock paths per runner as they’re verified.

Related Pages

• Beginner guide — rules, modes and your first session
• Movement techniques — what actually wins races
• Items and pick-ups — the ten launch pick-ups