Rematch Dev Confirms No Crossplay at Launch, Just Hours Before Early Access Goes Live: 'The Whole Point Was to Play With Friends'

Rematch developer Sloclap has confirmed its crippled volition not person crossplay astatine launch.

Rematch is simply a 5v5 online multiplayer arcade shot crippled played from a third-person perspective. Its caller beta was hugely popular, with 1.9 cardinal taking portion crossed PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. The beta deed a concurrent subordinate highest of 175,000 crossed platforms, staying successful the apical 5 most-played Steam games each time it was available.

In a tweet, Sloclap said crossplay betwixt Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox won’t beryllium disposable for Rematch astatine launch. The crippled is disposable to play now, 3 days early, for those who wage much for the Elite oregon Pro Edition, but the authoritative merchandise day is this Thursday, 19 June.

However, crossplay is “one of our apical priorities for upcoming updates,” Sloclap insisted. “We'll stock an ETA arsenic soon arsenic possible, enactment tuned!”

The deficiency of crossplay astatine motorboat for a competitory multiplayer crippled released successful 2025 has travel arsenic a astonishment to fans, immoderate of whom person expressed their disappointment.

“Well that's a shame,” said redditor MajesticZed, “was hoping to play with friends connected a antithetic platform. Guess I'll conscionable hold to bargain it until they instrumentality it then.”

Some who were readying to play via PC Game Pass were peculiarly disappointed by the news, fixed it means they cannot play with Steam players due to the fact that of the deficiency of crossplay. “What a joke,” said redditor schumacher01. “Ah man, this is simply a bummer,” added Natemcb. “Ruins the plans of maine and my radical playing until they adhd it.”

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Some are present saying they’ve refunded their preorders. “Okay that’s precise disappointing, I'm refunding the game,” Peatrex said. “The full constituent was to play with friends.”

Given Rematch is an online multiplayer game, you tin spot wherefore immoderate who were looking guardant to its merchandise would beryllium disappointed by the deficiency of crossplay. But Sloclap has said crossplay is simply a priority, truthful hopefully it’s added to the crippled sooner alternatively than later.

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