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Find out where streamers got stuck in your demo.

We find the Twitch streams of your Steam game, listen to what the streamers said, and turn hours of VODs into a short list of bugs, confusing moments and highlights. Every item links to the exact minute.

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Or find your game among 91 already analysed

Roadside Research

8 streams · 7h 29m

  • Stream 2, 43 min analysed: 31 problems, 4 highlights.
  • Stream 3, 45 min analysed: 28 problems, 6 highlights.
  • Stream 8, 1h analysed: 26 problems, 4 highlights.

+ 5 more streams on the game page

  1. Frustration6/8 streams

    early money too tight for stock, unlocks and upgrades

    13 quotes + ▶ timestamps in the full report
  2. Frustration4/8 streams

    customers drop trash then complain the store is dirty

All 88 findings for Roadside Research
Real output from 8 Twitch streams, analysed in the week of 5 Oct 2026. Quotes and streamer names stay in the private report.

What we measured

indie games analysed
91
Twitch streams listened to
740
of stream audio transcribed
584h 43m
moments, each tied to a quote and a minute
10,329

Counted from the reports behind the radar. We listen to a slice of each stream: up to an hour of the part where the game was played, and up to about 30 minutes of the streamer talking. Not affiliated with Twitch.

6h 56m of streams, 110 findings to read

This is Lucid Cats. We skip the chat banter and the snack breaks and keep the moments a designer can act on.

What you would have to watch

6h 56m

  • Stream 1, 48 min analysed: 20 problems, 1 suggestion or comparison, 2 highlights.
  • Stream 2, 59 min analysed: 29 problems, 8 highlights.
  • Stream 3, 51 min analysed: 26 problems, 1 suggestion or comparison, 5 highlights.
  • Stream 4, 1h analysed: 26 problems, 8 suggestions or comparisons, 9 highlights.
  • Stream 5, 1h analysed: 8 problems.
  • Stream 6, 41 min analysed: 19 problems, 6 highlights.
  • Stream 7, 40 min analysed: 21 problems, 1 suggestion or comparison, 8 highlights.
  • Stream 8, 56 min analysed: 19 problems, 5 highlights.
Show moments:

What you read instead

110 findings

  1. wake up exit is hard to locate in dreams5/8 streams
  2. not clear that the hub computer starts a run4/8 streams
  3. objective of the game and first dream is never explained4/8 streams
  4. hub map is overlooked until after a run4/8 streams
  5. per player credits and wallets are not communicated4/8 streams
  6. early earnings are too low to afford any upgrade4/8 streams
  7. pajama colour customization is enjoyed4/8 streams
  8. player can get trapped inside bedroom closets3/8 streams
102 more for Lucid Cats

Every finding comes with proof you can check in seconds

Frustrationblocking

the glider runs out of stamina over open water and every fall sends the player back to the post office

3 of 5 streams

“the wing gives out halfway, again. Straight into the sea, and it sends me all the way back to the post office.”

▶ 16:20opens the VOD at this minute

Example from our scripted test recording of a fictional game. The stream count is illustrative.

  1. What kind of moment

    Bug, confusion, frustration, quit, suggestion, comparison or highlight, with a severity.

  2. How widespread

    How many of the streams hit it. One stream is a lead; four is a pattern.

  3. Their exact words

    Copied from the transcript and checked by code. If the words are not in the recording, the item is dropped.

  4. The minute to watch

    Opens the Twitch VOD at that moment, so you can see what was on screen.

On the radar this week

Small games with the most different streamers, and the problem those streamers mentioned most.

Full ranking of 90 gamesAll 91 games A–Z

  • Dressmaker

    55 problems · 22 highlights · 8 streams

    fitting pattern pieces onto the fabric layout without wasting material is fiddly

  • How to Fish

    62 problems · 14 highlights · 8 streams

    shark boss gatekeeping the cooking unlock feels overly difficult

  • Invokyr

    103 problems · 31 highlights · 12 streams

    idol or hazard effects mirror and reverse movement controls confusingly

  • Shift at Midnight

    104 problems · 30 highlights · 12 streams

    unclear rule that trash bags can't be discarded anywhere

  • BOMBANANA!

    64 problems · 12 highlights · 12 streams

    converting piano module letters to numbers confuses players

  • RV There Yet?

    76 problems · 11 highlights · 12 streams

    push-to-talk voice chat repeatedly breaks and disrupts communication

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How it works

76 seconds, with captions. Fogpost and its streamers are made up, and the voices are generated.

  1. 01

    Paste your Steam link

    We match your game or demo to its Twitch category, and to stream titles in Games + Demos.

  2. 02

    We listen to the streams

    Only the part where your game was on screen, in most common languages. Chat banter is skipped.

  3. 03

    You get a short report

    Problems first. Every item has the streamer's own words and a link to the minute in the VOD.

Illustrations use invented example lines.

Register your demo for Next Fest

Send us your Steam page. We confirm by email, then tell you for free when streamers play your game in its Twitch category (once it has one) and before their saved VODs can expire. We analyse the saved VODs from the press preview through Oct 26. When at least three streams in which the player talks give enough concrete problems, you get your game's page and decide there whether to buy the report ($49). Not enough, no report, nothing to pay.

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The form asks only for your Steam link and an email for the report.

Report for one game
$49
One-off, no subscription. Any sales tax or VAT is included.
Refund
30 days
Not useful? Email us and get your money back. Refund policy

“An insanely helpful tool! I love that it surfaces everything you would want to know, without me having to painfully watch the streamer struggles.”

Indie game studio, October 2026 report

What it won't do

  • It does not watch the screen. It only knows what players said out loud.
  • It does not replace your own playtests. It tells you which moments to look at first.
  • It does not cover YouTube or Kick yet, and it cannot analyse streams whose VOD was not saved.

Questions

Which streams do you cover?
Public Twitch streams of your game, including demos streamed under Games + Demos when the title names your game. Streams without a saved VOD, and very quiet streamers, give us little to work with. Twitch deletes most VODs after 7 to 14 days, so ask early.
What happens when a VOD is deleted?
The item stays in your report with the streamer's words and the minute; only the link is marked as expired. Links work as long as the streamer keeps the recording; we check them daily and mark the ones that are gone.
Which languages?
Players can speak most common languages. The report is in English, with the original quote next to the translation.
What do you keep?
Audio is deleted as soon as it is transcribed. Transcripts are deleted after 30 days. The full report stays at an unlisted link that search engines do not index. Streamers can opt out at any time.
Is this AI?
Speech is transcribed on our own machine. An AI model reads the transcripts and picks out the moments; audio never leaves our machine. We only keep an item if the quoted words really appear in the recording.
Why aren't the quotes on the game pages?
They are the streamers' words, so they stay out of public, indexed pages. They are in the full report, one click behind the checkout.