Is Ready or Not crossplay? PC, PS5 and Xbox, explained

By WillyB · tactical PvE + open-world since 2012 · 21 June 2026

Yes, Ready or Not is crossplay, and that is the least useful sentence I can give you, because PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S have shared a co-op lobby since the console launch on 15 July 2025. I get asked this constantly, usually by someone whose mate has already bought it on the wrong idea of how the friends list works, and the answer is yes, while the evening still falls apart for three boring reasons, none of which are VOID forgetting to ship the feature.

I have watched a squad burn twenty minutes blaming matchmaking for a toggle that ships off on console, and I have been the idiot host staring at a lobby while a mate on PS5 sat outside it, because of a mod I had forgotten was installed. Crossplay was working the whole time, and I was just hosting a PC that was no longer vanilla, because the forgotten mod was still sitting there and the mate on PS5 could not get in. Search the question and the internet will give you a flat yes and tell you to enjoy it, which is true and completely useless, because people copy the store page and call it a guide, while I try to follow the session. The session is five of you in a stairwell, or four of you waiting on the fifth because somebody skipped a menu, and that second version is the one the guides never mention.

What actually shipped with the consoles

Ready or Not landed on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on 15 July 2025, and crossplay shipped with that console launch rather than getting bolted on later. VOID’s own explainer is the primary source for that, and Game Rant walked the same ground for people who do not read studio blogs. As of mid-2026 a PC player, on Steam or Epic, and console players can sit in the same co-op lobby, and PC to PS5, PC to Xbox, and PS5 to Xbox are all included, with no awkward split where the consoles can only see each other. Everyone can squad up, which is the part that is genuinely simple, and it is also the part that stops being simple the moment a menu or a mod gets involved.

Co-op runs up to five, which is the default lobby cap, the size of a real SWAT element, and about the maximum number of people I can keep alive in a single stairwell, and Game Rant covered the player limit if you want that number in writing. The cap holds across every platform combination, the game is solo or co-op the whole way through, and there is no live PvP mode in the shipped game, because the old alpha PvP was pulled years back. PC players can mod the cap up to 16 and beyond, but the moment you do that you have left official territory, and you have also locked your console mates out, which is the trade nobody mentions when they show you the bigger stack.

I still play this one solo a lot, commanding an AI stack rather than four humans, which is a different evening and lives in the solo AI team guide. Crossplay is the question people ask when they already have a squad, and solo is the question they ask when they do not, and both are first-class, while neither cares about the recast that says a tactical shooter only counts if your mates are in the Discord.

You do have to turn the thing on

Crossplay is a toggle rather than an always-on default, and on console it ships switched off, so you go to Settings, or Options on console, then the Gameplay tab, then Cross-Play, and set it to enabled on every machine in the party. Pure Xbox has the clicks if you want a screenshot trail, and the first time you go into multiplayer you usually get a one-time pop-up warning that you may encounter cross-network players. I have watched a squad burn twenty minutes blaming the matchmaking for something one menu toggle fixes, which is not a VOID conspiracy so much as five adults who did not open the pause menu.

The friends list is a different pipe

Crossplay matchmaking works without ceremony, but adding and tracking specific friends across platforms runs through Epic, because you link an Epic Games account and that gives you a cross-platform friends list via the Epic Online Services overlay you can invite from, whether they are on Steam, PSN or Xbox. Epic’s own support page is two minutes of admin, and if you skip the link you can still get into cross-network public games, while pulling your specific mate on a different platform into a private lobby becomes a faff. Link it once and forget about it, because it saves a lot of swearing later, and the internet will tell you crossplay means the friends list just works, which it does not. The lobby can accept the platforms, and the friends list is a separate piece of plumbing, so treating those as the same sentence is how you end up in a party chat explaining Epic to a man who already paid for the game twice.

Mods, which kill the lobby quietly

Consoles have no mod support, and that is a platform reality rather than a VOID decision, so if you are the PC host and you have mods running, your console friends simply cannot join, even with crossplay enabled on both ends. There is no clear error, just a join that never happens, and I have been the idiot host in that situation, staring at the lobby while a mate sat there unable to get in, because of a mod I had forgotten was installed. If you are playing a mixed PC-and-console group, the PC host needs a clean, vanilla install, and this is the single most common reason people say crossplay is not working when it is, in fact, working exactly as designed.

People follow people, and they follow a PC player running a sixteen-player stack and assume that is the game their PS5 mate just bought, which it is not, because the official, console-compatible number is five, and it is vanilla. I would rather be boring about that than sell you an evening that never starts, which is a low bar and still the one a lot of lobbies fail.

The save stays where you bought it

There is no true cross-progression, and as of mid-2026 there is no cross-save and no cross-progression between PC, on Steam or Epic, and PS5 and Xbox, so crossplay lets you play together and it does not move your unlocks, loadouts or campaign progress between platforms. Buy it on PS5, buy it again on Steam, and you start from zero on the second one, which is a lesson best learned before you pay twice rather than after. The one narrow exception lives inside the Xbox ecosystem, because the Xbox console version and the Xbox PC app share saves through Xbox Play Anywhere, and that is Xbox to Xbox rather than a genuine cross-platform carry-over. It is worth knowing before you double-dip expecting the gear to follow you, and I would love to tell you that the gap is going to close soon, though I have no evidence that it is.

Ready or Not is fully crossplay across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series, with co-op up to five, and it launched that way in July 2025 and is still the state of play in mid-2026. Flip the Cross-Play toggle on every machine, link Epic if you want a proper cross-platform friends list, and keep the PC host vanilla or your console mates get frozen out. Progression stays put per platform, and if you are weighing the buy itself I went deep on that in is Ready or Not worth it in 2026, while if you are mostly playing alone the solo AI team guide is where to start. The rest of the runs, the ones that are not a friends-list argument, live on the Ready or Not hub.

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