These tools have been super easy to use. The level of thoroughness here has been making my title very stable, very quickly, and I'm having a ton of fun developing with steam.

When I click 'See release steps' as per 5:42 I do not get an option to release but I get the standard 'review store presence' and 'review game build' options which would take days to review. Surely this cant be right? Why would a playtest need to be manually reviewed?

Thanks for all your hard work! Looking forward to seeing how helpful this is. I know the UTM working 100% is a big thing right now in communities.

You guys are killing it. Great tool. Thank you!

Great feature, I am looking forward to trying it out for my game!

How do I find games that need to be playtested?

Really looking forward to using this to stress test servers and resolve any connection issues before launch.

Are there plans to support A/B testing or testing multiple versions of a game with this feature?

It's advertised as simple, stress-free way of testing but having to set up store graphics and build settings and build for different depot and then again wait for review process of identical store page and having to wait for review process of build is extremely stressful.

My biggest issue with this is that playtests are assigned at random. That sort of defeats the purpose of playtesting. If some random guy signs up for a playtest, how exactly am I supposed to observe the playtest, or even gather data from it? I feel like I must be missing something

Very handy and great feature! 🚀

It seems this feature can be used as a "Demo" to give free sample of the game to attract customer and entice them to wishlist or buy the main game. Am I right?

What if its your first game and you want to test the game works good with steam multiplayer functions, Can the play testing be done before requesting storefront approval?

We can''t just add specific user ? Like a private test

I'm having some problems with matchmaing System, can't find anyone with an open server and it's only possible to enter the server by using "JoinGame" by Steam Overlay. I don't know if the error is on my part or steam, but I already checked everything I've done.

Does the playtest button always show up on the store page or can I use the playtest to just test things like achievements and stuff? Like do I need to let players see the playtest part?

Does the playtest candidates get notified when they are granted playtest access? And will they give feedback via game's forum? Can they act as if their accounts never received the playtest access, and say nothing about their testing experiences?

You say that we can use Steam Keys for the playtest, but then you completely skip the part where you show us how to request keys. You guys might want to update this video to show how it's done because I've been back and forth with support a few times and the entire process is completely unintuitive.

I got this error when trying to create the Playtest from the "Associated Packages & DLC page:" "Failed to create app! (error: 24)"

Can DLC be playtested?

Is there a way to give specific users access as well?

Thank you Eric!!

Why an ad 30 sec into the video?

This is great.

how i detale playtest

Why do playtests need to be reviewed manually? That defeats the purpose of the TEST part. I want people to be able to play my game immediately and give me feedback.

Is the Playtest a separate game build ??? or the main game build?

How long the users can "playtest" the game?

Sweet !

Hey Steamworks Development my name is Richard Haley and I'm asking if you can create a tutorial video of how to fix Steam-Error: An error has occurred while updating Star Defend (missing executable): C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Defender\Star Defender I've been having this problem for quite some time now and really need to get rid of also what does this all mean?

hello steam i already an game tester by an game test company but i dont have every time an game to test

New World crew!

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Neat idea, but I don't see why developers would use this when they have the option of selling their game in 'early access'. Early Access has: Cash up front to the developer, people already have a lower expectation because 'early access' which lends to more forgiveness for bugs/stability issues, and with Steam's refund policy of two hours/14 days so long as the developer makes a good hook people won't refund. This system: Doesn't give cash to the developer, people would have a higher expectation due to it being a 'beta right before release' phase, and since no money was exchanged the user won't get hours tied to their account making for a full refund easier for the final release. If early access titles were forbidden from being sold, then this feature would be very useful. As it stands it punishes developers for using it over early access.