Finding Games for 4 Friends When Everyone's on a Different Platform

The setup that nobody planned for

You've got four friends. One built a PC last year. Two have PS5s. One is still on Xbox because Game Pass is too good to leave. Nobody coordinated before buying, and now every game suggestion turns into a platform check.

"Can we play that on Xbox too?"

"Does it have crossplay?"

"I think it's only PC and PlayStation."

"Wait, let me Google it."

Sound familiar? You're not alone. Most gaming groups are split across at least two platforms, and finding games that work for everyone is genuinely harder than it should be.

Why most game recommendation lists don't help

Search "best co-op games for 4 players" and you'll get a listicle with 25 games on it. Great. Now cross-reference that against your group's platforms. Then check which ones have crossplay. Then check if crossplay means PC-to-console or just console-to-console. Then check the player cap because some games say "4 player co-op" but mean local co-op, not online.

By the time you've done all that research, you could have just played the game.

The information you actually need

For each game, you need to know three things:

1. Is it on everyone's platform? Not just "available on PC and PS5" but available and actively supported with online multiplayer on both.

2. Does crossplay work between your specific combo? PC-to-PS5 crossplay doesn't help if one friend is on Xbox.

3. Can enough people play at once? Four-player games are common. Five or six gets trickier.

This is exactly what we built PickThe.Games to check. You tell it which platforms your group is on, and it filters the entire game database down to what actually works. Crossplay status is tracked per platform pair, so you see whether PC-to-Xbox works even if PC-to-Switch doesn't.

Some starting points

If you want to skip the tool and just grab something quickly, here are a few categories that tend to work across platforms:

Browse the full list at pickthe.games/games/crossplay/pc-ps5 or check other platform combos like PC + Xbox and PS5 + Xbox.

We keep a list of free multiplayer games that you can filter by platform.

The best co-op games list is ranked by rating and shows platform availability for each one.

The faster path

Instead of researching individual games, create a board on PickThe.Games, set up the platforms, and invite your group. Everyone swipes through games for a couple of minutes. The app does the platform and crossplay checks in the background, and you get a ranked list of what works.

If your group is on Discord (and let's be honest, it is), the whole thing works through the Discord bot too. Set up a board, share the link, run a voting round. Nobody has to open a browser.

The group changes over time

People buy new consoles. Someone switches to PC. A fifth friend joins the group. The nice thing about having a board set up is that new members just pick their platforms and start swiping. The results update automatically.

You set it up once. It keeps working every Friday.