Best Video Games for cross-play support

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Best for cross-play support

Forza Horizon 5

5.0 feature score

Highest scored product for this feature based on supporting review evidence.

Most evidence

Elden Ring Nightreign

8 supporting reviews

Has the broadest review evidence for this feature.

Best overall product

Capcom Fighting Collection 2

4.1 overall score

Strongest overall product among items with scored evidence for this feature.

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#1 Forza Horizon 5
5.0

Cross-play support is praised as a major PS5 advantage for playing with PC and Xbox racers.

Pros: controls responsiveness, movement feel

Cons: tutorial quality, animation quality

#3 Monster Hunter Wilds
4.8

Cross-play support was praised as a major technical addition that made playing with friends across platforms work well.

Pros: art direction, cross-play support

Cons: dialogue quality, monetization fairness

#4 Split Fiction
4.5

Cross-play support was praised as player-friendly and helpful for Friend’s Pass co-op.

Pros: puzzle design, level design

Cons: exploration quality, side character depth

#5 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4
4.5

Cross-play support was consistently seen as useful for playing with friends and broadening multiplayer availability.

Pros: core gameplay loop, controls responsiveness

Cons: crash stability, cross-save support

#6 Diablo IV
4.5

One review praised cross-platform play as fun and appealing.

Pros: lore depth, art direction

Cons: mission variety, protagonist appeal

#7 Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
4.2

Cross-play support is viewed positively because it can make finding opponents easier across consoles.

Pros: emotional impact, animation quality

Cons: enemy variety, server reliability

#8 Borderlands 4
4.0

Cross-play support has limited positive evidence, with multiplayer cross-play described as working well.

Pros: sandbox freedom, art direction

Cons: polish, save system reliability

#9 Civilization VII
4.0

Cross-play support was positively noted on Switch as a good start.

Pros: animation quality, controls responsiveness

Cons: matchmaking quality, user interface design

#10 Battlefield 6
3.5

cross-play was mixed because support exists but PC players lacked a console-style opt-out.

Pros: haptic feedback integration, performance optimization

Cons: pacing, microtransaction impact

#11 Reanimal
3.1

Cross-play support is inconsistent across evidence, with one source praising it and another noting it was unavailable at launch.

Pros: onboarding experience, environmental detail

Cons: family friendliness, movement feel

#12 Dragon Ball FighterZ
2.0

Cross-play support is criticized in the PS5 review because rollback netcode prevents play with PS4 users and there is no wider crossplay.

Pros: movement feel, world-building

Cons: save system reliability, mission variety

#13 Elden Ring Nightreign
1.6

Cross-play support was consistently criticized as absent or a major oversight for a multiplayer-focused game.

Pros: emotional impact, visual effects quality

Cons: crash stability, cross-play support

#14 Little Nightmares III
1.5

Cross-play support was criticized in review-thread evidence as part of the multiplayer feature omissions.

Pros: load times, haptic feedback integration

Cons: save system reliability, aiming precision

#15 Capcom Fighting Collection 2
1.4

Cross-play support is a repeated complaint because multiple reviewers say there is no crossplay and that the player pool suffers.

Pros: emotional impact, sound design

Cons: cross-play support, boss design