About Crossplay Guide
Short version: we track 447 games, re-check them every day, and show our sources on every page.
Who runs this site
Crossplay Guide is run by Mike Johnston. My day job is running the tech side of The Kitchen Magpie, a food blog. I built this site because finding out whether you can play with a friend on a different console usually means digging through forum threads and old patch notes.
The site is independent. It isn't affiliated with any platform holder or publisher, and nobody pays for a verdict.
How a game gets researched
For each game I go to the publisher's own announcements, patch notes and support pages, and write up which platforms play together, any limits (for example only some modes, or an opt-in setting), and whether progress carries over. I use AI tools to help find and read those sources, and every claim on a researched page links the source it came from so you can check it yourself. Pages I've researched say "Researched by Mike Johnston" next to the date they were last checked.
Where the facts come from
Games that haven't been researched yet come from Wikipedia's List of video games that support cross-platform play, which volunteers keep up to date and which cites the publisher announcements, patch notes and support pages behind each entry. We link those citations on every game page so you can check them yourself. The list is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Release dates, developers, genres and multiplayer details (player counts, co-op, split screen) come from IGDB.
What "plays together" means
A crossplay group is a set of platforms whose players share the same matchmaking or servers. Some games have more than one group: for example, PlayStation and Xbox might play together while the Switch version is separate. Where a game is on a platform that isn't in any group, we say so, because that usually means those players only meet each other.
On PC, crossplay often depends on the store. We list which PC stores (Steam, Epic, the Xbox app, and so on) are part of each group.
How often we check
Every night a script re-reads the sources, records anything that changed, and rebuilds the site. Changes show up on the recent changes page. Last check: October 10, 2026.
Corrections
Crossplay changes with patches and new ports, and sources lag behind. If you spot something wrong, tell us with a link to the official announcement and we'll fix it.