Session Recording

Capturing video or input logs of real player sessions to observe behaviour without the observer effect of moderated testing, seeing exactly what players do, not what they say they do.

In games, this means

Players in surveys report understanding the tutorial. Session recordings show them skipping every prompt and wandering confused for 8 minutes. Recording reveals the gap between self-reported and actual behaviour, one of the most valuable and consistently surprising sources of UX insight. Tools like Parsec, OBS-based capture pipelines, or dedicated game analytics SDKs enable this at scale.