What are the best cross-platform games?

If you’ve read the previous section, then you’ll know that “what are the best cross-platform games?” is something of an arbitrary question. Since most games are cross-platform, there’s no way to    Cross-Platform Games  narrow down which the “best” ones are without knowing each reader’s personal gaming preferences.The best we can do is direct you to our “best games” lists for each platform. Some of these games are exclusive, but most are available on multiple platforms. If you see one that you like, go for it:

Best PS5 games
Best PS4 games
Best Xbox Series X games
Best Xbox One games
Best PC games
Best Nintendo Switch games

What are the best cross-play games?
Cross-play games are much more common now than they were in the past. There’s no way to definitively list every single cross-play title, especially since you could technically define a game that works on both the PS4 and the PS5 as “cross-play.” (They are, indeed, two separate consoles.) Wikipedia has a useful-but-incomplete list, and even that contains almost 300 entries.

As such, rather than just list every single cross-play game, we’ve singled out a handful that are worth trying, then included a longer selection below that. While first-person shooters (understandably) make up a lot of cross-play selections, we’ve decided instead to highlight a number of different genres, from social deception games, to RPGs, to sims, to board games.

For the purposes of this article, we’ve also elected to set our definition of a cross-play game as “any multiplayer game that allows players on at least three distinct systems to play together.” These systems could be PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X; they could be iOS, Android and Switch. For each game, we list the systems that support cross-play, so be sure to double-check those before you and your friends run out to buy multiple copies.