Cross-platform play is the ability to allow different gaming platforms to share the same online servers in a game, allowing players to join together regardless of the platform they own. Since the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, there have been online video games that support cross-play.

More and more mobile game developers are learning that their titles have to reach across playforms if they want to bring everyone in on the fun. With the smartphone market more evenly segmented than ever (iPhone and Android being the dominant operating systems), making games that people can play together, regardless of device, is key.

1. Jul 05, 2017 “PC gaming” has traditionally meant Windows gaming, but it doesn’t have to. More new games support Mac OS X than ever, and you can play any Windows game on your Mac. There are many ways you can play those Windows PC games on your Mac.
2. Oct 24, 2019  Android and iOS players are all playing together with desktop PC players, which means during dog fighting sequences, the PC players have much finer grained controls over their mobile player opponents. This makes for unfair matching that can lead to mobile players loosing out more often than not if they are facing a PC player.

Check out our picks for some of the best cross-platform mobile titles out there, and let us know in the comments if you have any favorites we might have missed.