diff --git a/.github/workflows/github_action_test_suite.yml b/.github/workflows/github_action_test_suite.yml
index a8d7919cc5..041a8fa603 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/github_action_test_suite.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/github_action_test_suite.yml
@@ -118,9 +118,10 @@ jobs:
         evennia migrate
         evennia collectstatic --noinput
 
-    - name: Run test suite
+    - name: Run test suite with coverage
+      if: matrix.TESTING_DB == 'sqlite3' && matrix.python-version == '3.10'
+      working-directory: testing_mygame
       run: |
-        cd testing_mygame
         coverage run \
           --source=../evennia \
           --omit=*/migrations/*,*/urls.py,*/test*.py,*.sh,*.txt,*.md,*.pyc,*.service \
@@ -132,6 +133,17 @@ jobs:
             evennia
         coverage xml
 
+    - name: Run test suite
+      if: matrix.TESTING_DB != 'sqlite3' || matrix.python-version != '3.10'
+      working-directory: testing_mygame
+      run: |
+        evennia test \
+          --settings=settings \
+          --keepdb \
+          --parallel 4 \
+          --timing \
+          evennia
+
     # we only want to run coverall/codacy once, so we only do it for one of the matrix combinations
     # it's also not critical if pushing to either service fails (happens for PRs since env is not
     # available outside of the evennia org)