🧪Playtest

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Introduction

A Steam Playtest appID has access to the same Steamworks technical features as your main game - but with reduced store and community setup. Instead of having its own separate store page, your Steam Playtest signup will live right on your main game, so that customers can sign up and access the playtest but still Wishlist or Follow the main game.

Valve's documentaiton ... please read it

You can set up a playtest for your game at any time once your game has a store page. You can then let players "sign up" for the playtest via a button that will appear on the main app's store page.

As seen in Valve's documentaiton ... please read it 😉

This is most useful when you want to test a specific part of your game. For example, testing a game mode, a boss fight or some other focused application. it is NOT the way to go to test the entire game.

Set-Up

Valve's litteral step by step guid for doing this ... we will repeate it here
  1. Create the Playtest app from the Associated Packages & DLC page for your game app

  2. Configure the app ... At min you will need to provide a Library capsule image and update the visible name of the Playtest App for example Túatha: Legends - Playtest

  3. Complete the "Release Process" your dashboard will walk you through this

Once that is complete your Playtest is up and ready to work with. You can then make its signup button visible or hidden at will and manage signups by region.

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