Game Studios spent $1.7B a year on playtesting. Don't be one of them.

AI game testing is QA done by an agent that plays your game instead of a person. It sends real keyboard, mouse and gesture input, watches the screen and the running scene, and reports whether a feature works. Ziva's Playtest Agent does this for Godot games: give it a goal, and it plays until it can return a pass or fail verdict backed by what it measured.

Yes. You give Ziva a suite of tests written in plain English, like 'the score goes up when the player clears a pipe'. The agent reads your code to learn how the game takes input, launches it in a sandbox, plays until each test is settled, and records a video of the whole run. Dozens of instances can run in parallel, so a full test suite finishes in minutes.

Traditionally you recruit players, watch them play, take notes, and repeat every build - studios collectively spend around $1.7B a year doing this. With AI playtesting you describe what should happen, and an agent plays the game start to finish on every build, so human playtests can focus on feel and fun instead of catching broken buttons.

Generic UI-automation tools break on games because games render one canvas with no buttons to select. Game-aware options are engine test frameworks for unit tests, record-and-replay input scripts, and AI agents that actually play. Ziva's Playtest Agent is the AI option for Godot: no test scripts to write or maintain, just goals in plain English.

Services like PlaytestCloud recruit real people, which takes days and costs per tester, and is the right tool for judging fun and first impressions. AI playtesting answers a different question - does the game actually work - in minutes, on every build, without recruiting anyone. Most studios need far fewer human sessions once an agent catches the functional breaks first.

Ziva's playtests run fully locally: your game launches and is driven on your own machine, and your project files never leave it. The only remote calls are to zero-data-retention LLMs for thinking and image analysis, so nothing about your game is stored or trained on.

Ziva is free to download and the Hobby tier costs nothing, but the Playtest Agent needs Pro at $50/month. A full playtest runs an agent for the length of a game session, so it uses far more tokens than a normal chat turn.

Any engine. Godot 4.2 and later is self-serve today, Unity runs through Ziva's Unity editor bridge, and studios on Unreal or a custom engine get set up through an Enterprise inquiry. Playtests cover games built for PC, mobile, and console.