Independent player help
Find all 12 runners, follow a map-secret route, or check whether your friends’ platforms can play together in King of Speed.
Choose the reward you actually want, without mixing costumes and playable runners.
Match each runner to an official portrait and name.
Read the reported final-XP-bar behavior and its limits.
Written community routes with landmarks and timed videos.
Choose your setup first. A crossplay setting and a working party are not the same thing.
Find the invitation and local-input setup.
Steam, PS5 and Xbox support; dated Switch update checks.
Separate solo queue, lobby and loading problems.
Pick the symptom you can reproduce instead of changing every setting at once.
Check detection, bindings and player assignment.
Check the specific fix released in Patch 1.4.
Update, restart and compare the same scene.
Start with ordinary races; you do not need to master Reverse Grapple first.
Basic tutorial, working inputs and a practice race.
Check inputs and test an optional keyboard remap.
Work on grapples, slides and route choices.
Quick answers
New to the game? Follow the first-session practice plan →
Start with a player question
Fix an input problem, check a multiplayer limitation, or learn the next part of your race. Each guide links the sources behind its answers.
Separate public queue failure from party, platform, and lobby symptoms.
A custom keyboard starting point and the developer-confirmed numpad/menu conflict.
Supported platforms and why crossplay, lobby play and a party queue are different features.
All 12 named runners with official portraits, plus separate guidance for skins and unlock requirements.
Separate runners, skins and profile rewards with a checklist for the evidence still missing.
Stuck in the tutorial? Check inputs, old-game timing advice, and the limits of skipping a lesson.
Switch crossplay is temporarily unavailable during the Patch 1.4 delay. Check what your group can do now.
The real Basic and Advanced achievement names, requirements, and incomplete-lesson checks.
The complete 32-achievement lookup, visible Steam requirements, hidden entries, and safe unlock checks.
Follow four community routes: entrances, landmarks, pickup directions and timed player videos.
New Rush City story scope, mission types, boss encounters, replay and reward evidence.
Museum, Metro and more: understand alternate layouts before copying an old shortcut.
The two new pickups, Golden Hook versus grapple, and confirmed crate-block interactions.
Four-player local play, up to eight online, campaign, ranked queues, and Tournament 64 in one index.
Online, couch, LAN and Remote Play Together setup, with crossplay and lobby checks kept separate.
Practice grapples, slides, wall jumps, slope jumps and route decisions without invented frame data.
Official minimum specs plus a symptom-first path for FPS, stutter, crashes and online lag.
Is King of Speed worth it? Compare the multiplayer limits, crossplay caveats, campaign scope, and current launch sentiment.
Independent fan guides
We separate developer information from player reports and our own practice suggestions. These guides are source-researched; we have not independently run-tested every move, item or platform pairing.