From the mid 2010s onward, the handle Primorix has been a steady presence in the world of indie game speedrunning. Based in the United States, he has focused on technically demanding action platformers and story driven games, including Shovel Knight, Bastion, Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Grapple Force Rena and Hyper Light Drifter. According to his profile on Speedrun.com, he has logged more than two hundred full game submissions across six different titles, with a total recorded run time of nearly six full days and a history on the site that stretches back roughly a decade.
What sets Primorix apart is not only his ability to compete at the very top of multiple leaderboards, but also his commitment to explaining routes, writing detailed guides and turning marathon appearances into live teaching sessions for viewers. In Shovel Knight he helped push early Any percent times to the edge of the 45 minute barrier. In Bastion he became both a dominant runner and a primary route writer. In Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition he climbed all the way to a world record in the flagship All Skills No Out of Bounds or Time Attack category.
Origins In Indie Action Platformers
Speedrun.com records show that Primorix joined the site roughly ten years ago. His first recorded runs date back about eleven years and he has continued submitting new personal bests as recently as the last week, which means his active career spans essentially the entire modern era of organized leaderboards and tournaments.
From the beginning he gravitated toward games that reward tight movement and careful routing rather than purely glitch heavy play. His list of primary games is dominated by side scrolling action titles and isometric action role playing games. Shovel Knight and Bastion appear earliest and most prominently on his profile, followed later by extended work in Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition, with shorter stints in Ys: Memories of Celceta, Grapple Force Rena and Hyper Light Drifter.
The pattern that emerges from his run history is consistent. He seldom dabbles briefly in a game. Instead he settles into a title for months or years, learns multiple categories and then uses that knowledge to create guides or to showcase the game at online marathons. That approach is clearest in Bastion and Ori, but it traces back to his earliest Shovel Knight days.
Shovel Knight And The First Breakthrough
Shovel Knight, the retro styled action platformer by Shovel Knight, was one of the earliest games where Primorix left a clear mark. His Speedrun.com profile shows dozens of full game submissions for the title, and the main Any percent leaderboard records a 43 minute 11 second time on PC that still sits among the stronger historical results on the board.
Community discussion from the mid 2010s makes it clear that he was a central figure during the first wave of Shovel Knight optimization. In a 2015 thread on the r speedrun subreddit celebrating Smaugy’s first sub 45 world record, one commenter wondered aloud where the new record had found thirty seconds of improvement over Primorix’s previous best, suggesting that his time had stood as the mark to beat in the race toward sub 45. Shovel Knight VODs on SpeedGaming’s channels show him squaring off in tournament races against runners such as Smaugy, applesauc, ericDLC, MunchaKoopas and Tohloo, a series of matches that helped define an early tournament scene for the game.
Beyond pure competition, he contributed to the structure of the community itself. Speedrun.com’s moderation logs list him as a moderator for Shovel Knight, with a series of actions recorded over several years, which means he helped maintain leaderboards and verify runs during a key growth period for the game’s scene. His Shovel Knight period established a pattern that would continue in later titles. He combined strong times with visible community work and used races and moderation as tools to build a wider audience for the game.
Building Bastion Into A Flagship Speedgame
If Shovel Knight introduced Primorix to the broader speedrunning world, Supergiant’s action role playing game Bastion is where his legacy becomes most obvious. On the Bastion leaderboards he has at various points held first place in several headline categories. Speedrun.com currently lists him as the record holder for Any percent New Game plus with a time of 3 minutes 53.940 seconds on PC, as well as for Any percent New Game, Any percent No Menu Storage New Game and All Story Levels New Game, with each of those categories showing him in first position on the boards.
Primorix reinforced that competitive success by investing heavily in documentation and teaching. The Bastion guides section on Speedrun.com includes two major documents authored by him, both titled NG All Story Levels Guide, one published roughly seven years ago and a fully updated version posted in 2020. Together with earlier tutorials by runners like LawyerDog, Vulajin and IanSynth, his guides gave new runners a modern, consolidated path into the category. They also codified newer routing developments and clarified trick execution in a way that helped keep Bastion approachable even as times dropped.
His relationship with Bastion eventually carried into Games Done Quick marathons. A 2019 article on Cliqist that previewed indie games at Awesome Games Done Quick listed Bastion on the schedule as a forty to fifty minute All Story Levels New Game run on PC with Primorix as the runner. Later community writeups and databases of marathon runs record him performing Bastion at AGDQ 2019 with a time near forty five minutes, and again at charity side events like One and Done a thon 2022, where he delivered another Bastion showcase for Games Done Quick’s audience.
By the time Summer Games Done Quick 2023 arrived, Bastion and Primorix had become closely linked in the minds of many viewers. The official SGDQ 2023 schedule included a “Bastion Live Tutorial Showcase” segment co hosted by Primorix and musical_daredevil, framed not simply as a fast run but as a live lesson in how the game’s routing and tricks worked. That slot crystallized his dual role. He was a record chasing runner, but just as importantly he was a teacher who treated marathon airtime as an opportunity to bring new players into the game.
Ori And The Blind Forest Definitive Edition And Modern Records
In recent years, Primorix has shifted much of his focus to Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition. His chosen specialty there is the All Skills No Out of Bounds or Time Attack category, one of the community’s most respected routes because it demands tight execution while avoiding the heaviest sequence breaks.
The main Ori Definitive Edition leaderboard shows him at the very top of that category. As of the most recent data, he holds first place with a time of 26 minutes 36 seconds on PC in All Skills No OOB Time Attack, set only days before the leaderboard was last archived. An earlier run page records a 26 minute 50 second time from roughly half a year prior, which indicates that his current world record is the result of a steady series of small optimizations rather than a single dramatic breakthrough.
Twitch VOD listings and tournament archives add more texture to that progression. His channel is filled with labeled Ori sessions, including an Ori All Skills 2025 tournament qualifier in 28 minutes 51 seconds, as well as longer streams dedicated specifically to “world record improvement attempts” in All Skills. In the 2019 All Skills tournament, SpeedGaming captured a race between Primorix and long time Ori runner Vulajin, a sign that he was already competing near the top of the category years before claiming the record outright.
Like Bastion, Ori eventually became part of his marathon portfolio. A Games Done Quick Express 2024 VOD lists an Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition run by Primorix clocking in at 33 minutes 17 seconds, which translated his high level All Skills play into a live charity setting for a broader audience. That combination of world record caliber times and polished marathon performances has cemented him as one of the faces of modern Ori speedrunning.
Teaching, Guides And Community Presence
Across games, Primorix’s contributions follow a similar pattern. He grinds times to the top of the leaderboards, then turns around and documents the routes for everyone else. In Bastion this is obvious through his two major NG All Story Levels guides, which explicitly aim to present up to date routes and movement tech for new and intermediate runners. In Ori, his commentary during tournaments and in recorded world record attempts often functions as a spoken guide, explaining the logic behind damage boosts, experience management and route choices for viewers who may never attempt a run themselves.
His marathon appearances reinforce that identity. AGDQ 2019 and One and Done a thon 2022 presented Bastion to viewers who might never have seen a speedrun of the game, while the SGDQ 2023 live tutorial showcase explicitly framed Bastion as a game that could be learned and enjoyed by new runners, not just mastered by established experts. Ori’s Games Done Quick Express slot served a similar purpose, mixing high level play with running commentary that walked viewers through the structure of the route and the challenges that make All Skills such a demanding category.
Even outside marquee events, his Speedrun.com statistics point to someone deeply embedded in the communities around his games. He has created multiple guides, moderated leaderboards for Shovel Knight and helped verify runs for other players. That kind of behind the scenes work tends not to generate highlight clips, but it is essential to keeping a game’s scene organized and approachable for newcomers.
Legacy Within Indie Speedrunning
Taken together, the arc of Primorix’s career traces a path through several pillars of indie speedrunning. He was present in the early Shovel Knight scene when the first generation of runners were still discovering how far the game could be pushed. He became one of the leading voices in Bastion, shaping routes, setting record times and then bringing the game onto the biggest marathon stage in speedrunning. In Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition he has added a world record in All Skills No Out of Bounds Time Attack to that legacy, showing that his ability to compete has not faded even as the scene around him has grown more crowded and technically demanding.
Beyond specific times and titles, his legacy lies in the way he has treated each game as a shared project. Through guides, moderation, tournament races and marathon showcases, he has repeatedly taken on the role of teacher and organizer rather than simply that of a runner chasing personal bests. For the communities built around Shovel Knight, Bastion and Ori, that sustained, quietly visible work has helped turn mechanically complex games into welcoming speedgames that new runners can pick up, learn and eventually push further.