Players talk, file bug reports, argue about endings, ask when the Linux build is coming, why the game isn't free and how to beat level 12. It happens across community boards you do not have time to refresh, and most of it drifts past you.

Gameplainer reads every board, every topic, every reply on your game's community, turned into something you can actually act on. It works whether your game lives on Steam, on itch.io, or on both at once.

Everything, in one breakdown

Open your forum view and the whole community is laid out in front of you. How many topics and posts there are, how many threads your team has answered, and how many are still hanging. Which conversations are heating up and which have gone quiet, with the newest activity at the top and pinned threads kept where they belong.

Take Swan Song, a tender little puzzle game on itch. One board, a pinned bug report thread, and a steady stream of players who wandered in for the art and stayed for the story. Gameplainer counts all of it, watches how fast the team replies, and keeps a running picture of the board over time. That same view does the job for a busy Steam discussion hub with hundreds of threads.

Know what is waiting on you

The useful question is never "how many posts," it is "what needs my attention." Gameplainer separates the threads still waiting on a reply from the ones a teammate already handled, and pushes the ones that need an answer to the top. The bug report from three weeks ago stops quietly rotting at the bottom of the list.

Hear about it the moment it happens

When a player posts, Gameplainer sends the update straight to your Discord. The message names the threads that moved, counts the new posts on each, and links you to both the original thread and the full breakdown on gameplainer.com. You find out from a ping in your Discord, not from a guilty late-night scroll.

Wherever your players gather

Itch lets developers run a comment section, a full discussion board, or nothing. Steam has its own discussions. Gameplainer reads whichever your game uses and wires it up on its own, with no setup. Add a game, and if there is a community to watch, it starts watching.

Take a look

Point Gameplainer at one of your games and open the forum section. Whether your players gather on Steam, on itch, or both, it is all in one place!