{"id":137177,"date":"2026-05-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201131"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:00:00","slug":"absolums-latest-patch-sees-full-cross-play-support-join-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/13\/absolums-latest-patch-sees-full-cross-play-support-join-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolum&#8217;s Latest Patch Sees Full Cross-Play Support Join The Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a4b374f133c53\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a4b374f133c53\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"a4b374f133c53\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Absolum\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a4b374f133c53\/absolum.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a4b374f133c53\/absolum.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Absolum\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Dotemu<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We loved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/absolum\">Absolum<\/a>&#8216;s fantasy roguelike loop when it first arrived on Switch and Switch 2 last year, and now, we have even more of an excuse to dive back in with friends.<\/p>\n<p>As shared on the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYPiuRHjSQS\/\">official social channels<\/a>, Absolum now supports full cross-play multiplayer across Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and Steam, so you can team up with your pals (whatever their console of choice) and bring the fight to Azra together.<\/p>\n<p>An accompanying post on the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1904480\/Absolum\/\">Steam page<\/a> shared the following message from the devs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s taken us a little while to get here, and we know you\u2019ve been fighting alongside us as we prepared in the background. As a co-op multiplayer Beat \u2018em Up, there\u2019s a lot which goes into the background, and with Xbox Rebels joining the fight recently, our master code-crafters at Guard Crush have brought it all together, to bring you all together.<\/p>\n<p>The fires of rebellion burn on all fronts, and we heard your calls. While cross-platform play has been on the way since launch, we\u2019ve been polishing and tweaking, and making sure we could bring all platforms together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-instagram\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DYPiuRHjSQS\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This cross-play support comes just seven months after the game launched last year. In the time since, we&#8217;ve landed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/02\/absolums-threads-of-fate-update-out-now-includes-balance-tweaks-corrupted-biomes-and-more\">free content update<\/a> and news of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/04\/fantastic-fantasy-roguelike-absolum-is-getting-the-full-physical-treatment-on-switch-2\">physical Switch 2 edition<\/a>, with that previously-announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/09\/fantasy-roguelike-absolum-isnt-out-yet-but-its-already-getting-an-animated-series\">animated series<\/a> presumably still bubbling away in the background. We Absolum fans are eating good, eh?<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/switch-eshop\/related-articles:197409,188446 @ 1778685882 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be teaming up with your cross-platform pals in Absolum? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Dotemu We loved Absolum&#8216;s fantasy roguelike loop when it first arrived on Switch and Switch 2 last year, and now, we have even more of an excuse to dive back in with friends. As shared on the game&#8217;s official social channels, Absolum now supports full cross-play multiplayer across Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and Steam, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}