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Test your Steam game before you launch without building a community (or issuing refunds)

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Pick your players

Choose by their favorite genre, or demographics—or invite your own community using our Bring Your Own Players option.

Connect your game

Share a Store URL or App ID and upload Steam keys. We’ll handle the rest and guide players step-by-step.

Choose your playtest

Set test length, number of play sessions, add tasks and a survey. Once you hit go, the results will start rolling in!

First Findings™ AI Analysis

Our AI analysis goes beyond generic summaries, with prompting engineered by expert games user researchers. Skip to the good stuff, since each insight links right to the clips that back it up.

Key themes and sentiments

Ready-to-share summaries

Evidence-backed insights

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Playtesting isn’t bug hunting.

Create a perfect first time user experience
Understand player churn (and stop it)
Contextualize game analytics
Validate your monetization strategy
Data-backed Keep or Kill validation
Research competing titles to outperform them
Make game development more cost-effective
Discover new audiences and revenue streams
Accurately predict a game’s success
How it works

All the barriers to games research and playtesting? Gone.

01.
Playtest Setup

Choose your test, select your players, and share your game, build or prototype. Our platform and team take it from there.

02.
Recruit & Play

We find and qualify your players and share everything they need to play automatically. Our Research Ops team monitors for issues.

03.
Data Capture

Our platform captures the player’s screen, voice and touch interactions, along with survey responses and a transcript of their “think aloud” gameplay.

04.
Insight Delivery

Every result is human-verified for quality, while our First Findings™ AI analyzes your findings. Review all the data or just the highlights, and share the takeaways with your team.

Playtest released games

Get feedback on your published games (or your competitors). If the game isn’t free to play, easily add Steam Keys for us to distribute to testers.

Steam Playtest

Use PlaytestCloud's player panel, data capture, recording and AI analysis while taking advantage of the control and security offered by Steam Playtests.

Early Access Steam Playtests

Easy to setup, run, and review. We’ll handle the hard parts and deliver insights you can use to make a game players will keep playing.

Demos and Betas

Test your game at any stage on Steam. From Public Demos t Private Beta builds, everything can be securely playtested on our platform.

Get validated.

Reliable player feedback builds confidence in your decisions

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