Seum: Speedrunners From Hell (Incl. DLC)

Heavy-metal riffs, lava-lit arenas, and split-second execution define a first-person platformer built for players who treat every death as a challenge to shave another fraction off the clock. Marty’s ridiculous quest to reclaim his stolen beer sends him through Hell after replacing his lost arm with a demon limb, gaining supernatural movement powers in the process. The tone is gleefully crude and cartoonish rather than frightening, but the obstacle courses themselves are merciless. Seum: Speedrunners From Hell turns a simple premise into a focused trial of reflexes, route planning, and nerve.

Each compact stage asks you to reach the exit as quickly as possible while avoiding sawblades, spikes, collapsing floors, fire traps, and bottomless drops. Colored demon-arm powers provide the real platforming vocabulary: you hurl fireballs, teleport across gaps, launch yourself skyward, bounce off surfaces, and manipulate movement in ways that open faster or safer routes. Levels are designed around momentum, so clean runs depend on chaining abilities without stopping to think, while frequent checkpoints keep failure from becoming exhausting. The campaign offers well over a hundred stages, and online leaderboards, ghost runs, and race-focused modes make improving a time far more compelling than merely reaching the finish.

What separates Seum from more traditional first-person platformers is its commitment to pure speedrunning; it resembles Portal’s spatial problem-solving stripped of its puzzles and fused with the precision-platforming pressure of Super Meat Boy. Its blocky, high-contrast Hellscapes make hazards readable at high velocity, while the pounding soundtrack fits the aggressive restart-and-retry rhythm. Included extra content expands the collection of punishing courses and gives dedicated runners more routes to master. Newcomers can finish stages through persistence and checkpoints, but competitive players who enjoy chasing leaderboards, optimizing movement, and memorizing dangerous shortcuts get the most from it.