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Identify and resolve gameplay-blocking issues early with structured, in-context functional QA for console, PC, and mobile titles.
Functional QA is the foundation of reliable game quality. Kudos QA’s dedicated testing teams uncover defects that disrupt gameplay, progression, and performance, helping studios launch confidently across every platform.
Functional testing verifies that every gameplay feature, mechanic, and system behaves as intended.
Our testers play through each build methodically to identify crashes, logic errors, soft locks, and progression blockers before your players do.
We check for:
- Core gameplay, mechanics, and level progression
- Menu navigation, UI, and accessibility features
- Save/load systems and checkpoints
- Multiplayer and matchmaking behaviour
- Audio/visual triggers and cutscenes
Even small bugs can damage the player experience and delay certification.
Structured functional QA ensures that your game performs consistently across modes and builds, reducing rework, patch costs, and support overhead.
Early detection of critical bugs reduces rework and keeps your development schedule on track.
Thorough FQA minimises crashes and compliance issues before the first certification submission.
Clear reporting and shared tools keep communication efficient and focused.
A stable, polished experience leads to stronger player feedback and ratings.
Our approach combines expert manual testing with proven QA workflows to deliver consistent, repeatable results.
We define test scope, build schedules, and tools, aligning with your internal bug-tracking system and sprint cadence.
Our QA leads develop detailed test cases covering core gameplay systems, UI paths, and known high-risk areas.
Testers follow structured passes, logging issues with clear steps, severity, and visual references in Jira, TestRail, or your chosen platform.
We retest fixed issues, validate build stability, and confirm that no regressions were introduced in the latest update.
Concise QA summaries highlight trends, coverage metrics, and outstanding risks to support confident release decisions.
Every tester understands design logic, gameplay flow, and platform requirements, not just generic QA practices.
We work directly within your preferred tools and communication channels for seamless cross-team visibility.
Experience across console, PC, and mobile environments ensures thorough coverage for every release build.
Scale test coverage to match milestones, release windows, or crunch periods without compromising quality.
Mike Rouse
Studio Head, Antstream
Antstream Arcade is the world's largest cloud retro gaming service. We partnered with Kudos QA for their ability to give us great testing coverage across our bleeding edge tech stack and their ability to seamlessly integrate with our team. Kudos QA now manages our testing for over 1500 games, our live global services, as well as our new R&D projects.
Anthony Kyne
Head of Studio, Bossa Games
Kudos Games Services integrated quickly with our team and delivered excellent work throughout our console support project. They responded effectively as priorities shifted toward urgent triage and verification, and their support was greatly appreciated across the team. We were extremely happy with the quality of their work and would gladly recommend Kudos Games Services and work with them again on future projects.
Owen Hewitt
QA Manager, Curve Games
The entire Kudos team have been of tremendous support to QA at Curve Games. Their professionalism and passion have been indispensable and Sovereign Tower would not have been the success it was without them!
Mike Rouse
Studio Head, Antstream
Antstream Arcade is the world's largest cloud retro gaming service. We partnered with Kudos QA for their ability to give us great testing coverage across our bleeding edge tech stack and their ability to seamlessly integrate with our team. Kudos QA now manages our testing for over 1500 games, our live global services, as well as our new R&D projects.
Anthony Kyne
Head of Studio, Bossa Games
Kudos Games Services integrated quickly with our team and delivered excellent work throughout our console support project. They responded effectively as priorities shifted toward urgent triage and verification, and their support was greatly appreciated across the team. We were extremely happy with the quality of their work and would gladly recommend Kudos Games Services and work with them again on future projects.
Owen Hewitt
QA Manager, Curve Games
The entire Kudos team have been of tremendous support to QA at Curve Games. Their professionalism and passion have been indispensable and Sovereign Tower would not have been the success it was without them!
Whether you're preparing for certification or scaling QA capacity mid-project, Kudos can help.