playtest

English

Etymology

From play +‎ test.

Verb

playtest (third-person singular simple present playtests, present participle playtesting, simple past and past participle playtested)

1. To test a newly developed game by playing it or having it played.
   • 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 321:

     CPH3 had been playtested too long, and they’d added so many new elements that the game was extraordinarily buggy.

Noun

playtest (plural playtests)

1. A session of testing a newly developed game by playing it or having it played.

   We've fixed the first round of problems and it's time for another playtest.