Short answer first, because that’s what everyone wants to know: yes, Rocket League is fully cross-platform and also supports cross-progression, and it’s been doing crossplay better than most games for years. PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch players can all play together and live in the same online ecosystem. Ranked, casual, tournaments, private matches — it all works.
What matters is how it works, what’s shared, what isn’t, and where the limits still are. That’s where most confusion happens, especially for players who switch between platforms or try to team up with friends on different systems. Here’s everything you need to know about cross-platform play in Rocket League.
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How to Play Rocket League Cross-Platform
Rocket League doesn’t split its player base by hardware. Once you are online, matchmaking pulls from a single pool across PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch. It’s been the default cross-game setup since early 2019, long before crossplay became an industry buzzword.
You don’t need special lobbies or separate queues. Ranked 2v2 at Champion level works the same way whether you are on a keyboard, a DualSense, or Joy-Cons that are fighting for their lives. Cross-platform play is enabled by default when you first install the game.
If it ever gets turned off or you want to confirm, open Rocket League Settings and under the Gameplay tab, which is the first in the settings menu, make sure the Cross-Platform Play box is checked, and if it wasn’t before, click it to enable the checkmark.
However, Rocket League doesn’t have cross-platform voice chat. When your squad is split across different systems, you need Discord or the console’s party app to talk to each other. Text chat has its own quirks. Party chat messages are visible across platforms, so your team can keep things coordinated no matter what. But match chat is restricted, and only people on the same platform can see these messages. Quick Chat is the exception and works everywhere, that’s why “What a save!” remains the universal tongue of Rocket League.
How to Play Rocket League with Friends on Different Platforms
Once cross-platform is enabled, Rocket League combines players from all platforms during public matchmaking. To play with specific friends on different systems, you’ll need to use Epic Games’ friend system and set up a party or private match.
Add your cross-platform friends:
- Launch Rocket League and open the Friends List with this:
- Console: Press the right trigger on the main menu.
- PC: Click the square icon in the bottom-right corner.
- Click Add Epic Friend at the menu’s bottom.
- Enter your friend’s Epic Games ID, and ask your friend to accept the request from their Friends List notifications.
Note: Your friend must have an Epic Games account linked to Rocket League, or cross-platform parties won’t work. If they don’t have one, they first need to create a new Epic Games account and link the game to it.
Create a party:
- From the main screen, select Create Party and invite your Epic friends to join the party.
- Once they accept, you can play together across all different game-supported platforms.
Start a private match together:
- Once the party is set, select Play from the main menu.
- Click Custom Games, then Private Match.
- Pick one of the following options:
- ‘Create Private Match’ to host the game.
- ‘Join Private Match’ if you want to join a friend’s match.
- If you create a match, set who can join (party-only or anyone with name and password). Using a room name and password is usually the easy option. To get into a friend’s lobby, enter the room name and password given by your buddy.
Once everyone is in the private match, Rocket League treats the session as a full cross-platform lobby, no matter if players are on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, or Switch.
Cross-Progression and Shared Accounts Explained
Rocket League is cross-progression enabled, so once you link the platforms through your Epic Games account, your profile travels with you. Competitive rank, XP level, Rocket Pass progress, stats, titles, all of it syncs. You can pick a primary device to set your baseline rank and progression, and later on, switch to a different platform without resetting anything. In terms of progress, Rocket League treats all platforms as different doors into the same account.
Most items transfer easily across platforms after accounts are connected. Common drops, Rocket Pass rewards, event items, blueprints, crafted items, and Item Shop purchases can be shared between systems. The exceptions are mostly licensing and platform exclusives. Console-specific cars and cosmetics don’t appear properly on other systems and stay locked to their original platform. Licensed DLC packs from the old days have the same case. Credits and esports tokens are also platform-bound and won’t merge across systems.
Note: Player-to-player trading was removed in December 2023, so cross-platform trading is no longer a factor.
Rocket League works great, no matter what platform you pick. The game was developed on mechanical skill, not some hardware edge or aim assist drama. Higher frame rates help at high levels, but there’s none of that controller vs keyboard mess in it. If you’re good, you’re good, simple as that.
Everyone plays in the same pool, so you never have to wait long in matchmaking, even years after launch. If you switch to a new system, you don’t lose all your progress and pick up where you left off. Not many competitive games manage to do this, but Rocket League has done that without fracturing its community. The developers haven’t only introduced cross-platform, but they built the whole game around it, and that’s why it still feels so exciting to play.