Poki Playtesting vs Userplay

Poki Playtesting is a free web service for game developer teams that want player feedback, bug findings, and design checks. Poki supplies players, devices, and tracking tools, while developers choose test devices and audience categories. Uploaded web builds or prototypes can come from any development stage, subject to content moderation; Poki recommends builds that work on desktop, mobile, and tablet. Each playtest returns 10 recordings containing button inputs, console output, session duration, country, and device type. Players join through a Mystery Tile and must consent to recording. After 10 recordings are watched, a player fit test can measure playtime with 500 players, usually in about five hours and up to twice daily. A web fit test presents the game on Poki category pages to around 10,000 players and measures click-through rate, average time on page, and conversion to play over roughly seven days. Poki for Developers provides upload, analysis, updating, and recording review tools. Supported workflows cover engines including Unity, Godot, Phaser, GameMaker, and others. Tests are free and repeatable, but uploading does not guarantee testing or platform placement.

Userplay is playtesting infrastructure for game studios, bringing tester recruitment, key distribution, session capture, review, and feedback into one workflow. Studios can recruit and screen players from Discord communities, then review session replays with bugs, feedback, and standout gameplay moments surfaced automatically. Voice transcripts help teams interpret player responses, while post-playtest surveys and custom forms collect structured feedback. The platform lists compatibility with game engines, game stores, desktop operating systems, and web games, including GameMaker, Defold, Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, Steam, Epic Games, GOG, itch.io, Chrome, Windows, macOS, and Linux. Discord supports recruitment and key distribution; Mailchimp synchronization supports targeted campaigns. In the browser recorder, configured tracks are captured locally and video and audio upload after the session. Microphone capture is off by default, webcam video is not captured, and players must consent before recording. Production and recording data is hosted in the United States, with TLS 1.2 or higher in transit and AES-256 or equivalent encryption at rest. The free Indie plan is free; paid plans start at $99 a month, billed annually.