If you already own Hunt: Showdown, you can also hop onto the Test Server. It shows up as a separate game in your Steam library—just launch that version to join playtests.

The Test Server isn’t always open—you can only get in during specific testing windows. These are announced on Steam, the official Hunt Discord, and social media.

What’s on the Test Server? Pretty much everything that isn’t just a hotfix: early versions of maps, new weapons, game modes, traits, and bigger gameplay changes that need testing.

The Test Server is used to see how things feel. Player feedback is collected there (and across socials) through polls and surveys. Based on that, developers tweak things before pushing them live.

However, the Test Server has basically been abandoned by the developers and doesn’t seem to function anymore. Oddly enough, it has 8 achievements tied to it which I don't understand. Why add achievements to a Test Server?