Best Video Game Crossovers 2025

Occasionally, game companies will collaborate to launch a crossover game, timed event, or DLC expansion that appeals to devotees of both franchises.

This can lead to some truly outstanding spin-off games or at the very least, an intriguing footnote in the franchise’s legacy and video game history.

To illustrate just how cool and bizarre crossovers can be, we’re highlighting the best video game crossovers of 2025 across PC, console, and mobile.

We’ll be updating this list in the future with novel crossovers, so make sure to check back and let us know if we missed any of your beloved video game crossovers of all time!

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For our first crossover, we’re going way back to the early 90s for some classic beat ’em up action with Battletoads & Double Dragon for the NES, Genesis, SNES, and Game Boy.

Combining two of the most beloved franchises in the genre, the game sees DD protagonists Billy and Jimmy Lee embarking on a sci-fi adventure with help from a trio of hard-hitting toads.

While an abundance of operable vehicles and environment interactions result in combat that feels closer to Battletoads than Double Dragon, this isn’t too surprising when you factor in Rare was the developer.

Regardless, Battletoads & Double Dragon managed to bring both franchises together for an entertaining and memorable team-up adventure.

Fighting games are typically abundant with crossovers; after all, who doesn’t have a fantasy video game matchup they’d like to see settled once and for all?

One such series that has a lengthy history of crossovers in the form of guest characters is Soulcalibur, specifically starting with Soulcalibur II and its platform-specific fighters.

GameCube players would charge into battle as Link from the Legend of Zelda; PlayStation fighters, Heihachi from Tekken; and finally, Xbox users could play as the graphic novel antagonist Spawn.

Although the series has had a few missteps regarding guest characters since then, exceptions like Geralt of Rivia in Soulcalibur VI prove how enjoyable these types of crossovers can be when executed properly.

Mortal Kombat is another fighting game series that has an extensive history of crossover guest characters from other games as well as renowned film franchises.

The series started including cameo characters with Mortal Kombat 9, which featured Kratos from God of War, and Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street.

However, Mortal Kombat X would take things even further by securing horror legends like Jason Voorhees, Alien, Predator, and Leatherface for its fighter pack expansions.

The same can be said of Mortal Kombat 11, which included DLC packs adding 80s action film characters such as the Terminator, Robocop, and Rambo, along with DC Comics’ the Joker.

Leveraging Marvel and Capcom’s vast catalog of superheroes, villains, ninjas, fighters, and monsters, Marvel vs. Capcom is one of the most cherished fighting game crossovers of all time.

The series consists of ten games whose rosters cover everything from Street Fighter to Resident Evil, X-Men to The Avengers, and even some distinctive fighters like Ruby Heart and Amingo.

Typically, each game’s story focuses on one central bad guy who plans on destroying both universes until the heroes band together to stop them.

Where MvC standouts compared to similar crossover fighting games is the degree of care and attention that goes into designing each character’s moveset.

From a licensing perspective, video game crossovers can seem like a daunting task; especially when you’re bringing together characters from wildly different properties, genres, and eras of gaming.

So imagine our astonishment when Telltale managed to put out the card game sim crossover Poker Night at the Inventory for PC in 2010.

In it, players gather around a poker table for sessions of Texas Hold ‘Em with characters from Sam & Max, Team Fortress 2, Strong Bad, and Homestar Runner.

The game was followed up by the 2013 sequel Poker Night 2, which included appearances from Venture Bros.’ Brock Samson, Ash Williams from The Evil Dead, and Borderlands’ Claptrap among extra characters.

Four defining qualities go into every Kingdom Hearts game: exceptionally complex plotlines involving “light” and “darkness,” spiky anime hair, key-shaped weapons, and Disney character appearances.

Of course, we only mean to poke fun at Square Enix’s strange handling of the action RPG series throughout the years despite its success.

Fan service aside, the series has managed to remain popular by focusing on certain themes that carry over from game to game, them being the power of love, collaboration, and friendship.

While this is fitting for a crossover with family-friendly Disney characters, Square has also never hesitated from taking the series in some peculiar directions regarding story and gameplay.

Next up, we’re highlighting a standalone crossover game that combines the entertaining puzzle-solving gameplay of Professor Layton with the visual novel courtroom drama of Phoenix Wright.

Released in 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney sees players investigating locations to gather evidence before bringing their findings to trial.

This is broken up into separate sections where the player is accompanied by either Layton or Wright as they carry out their duties to crack the case by solving puzzles or questioning suspects.

A lot of thoughtful consideration went into making sure both characters are given enough time in the spotlight and the contrast in Layton and Wright’s personalities makes for entertaining cross-examinations.

What do you get when you crossover Game Freak’s Pokemon with Nobunaga’s Ambition series? Pokemon Conquest, one of the greatest tactical RPGs for the Nintendo DS portable.

Much like Battletoads & Double Dragon, this crossover works out well simply for the fact both games fall under the identical category umbrella of turn-based strategy RPGs.

However, what makes Conquest shine in comparison to other Pokemon spin-offs is its distinctive visual presentation inspired by feudal Japan.

What’s more, the Ransei region offers an innovative take on Pokemon settings that’s further complemented by an extensive combat system with tons of room for strategizing.

No video game crossover list would be complete without including arguably the greatest Nintendo exclusive of all time, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch.

Using players’ nostalgia for characters like Mario, Link, and Pikachu as a springboard, the game extends its reach further to franchises like Metal Gear, Sonic the Hedgehog, Final Fantasy, and many more.

Each fighter is given a distinctive moveset that adapts their powers, abilities, and fighting techniques along with stages, items, and songs that reference their respective franchise.

Considering Smash’s staggeringly large 89-character roster, combat is remarkably balanced while fostering an “easy to learn, difficult to master” mindset.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE is another crossover game that leverages a Nintendo property with a completely separate one, specifically the RPG series Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei.

Developed by Atlus and published by Nintendo for the Wii U, the game takes place in modern Tokyo where players control a group of teenagers as they balance a social life, dungeon-crawling, and music performances.

Standing in for Shin Megami Tensei’s supernatural entities are a host of Fire Emblem characters like Chrom, Tharja, and Virion that serve as spectral companions and battle by the player character’s side.

In 2020, the game was updated for the Switch with an improved port titled Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE Encore which includes supplementary songs, playable characters, and story content.

In 2014, Nintendo set out to partner with Koei Tecmo and release a Zelda spin-off that married the franchise’s famous characters and locations with Dynasty Warriors’ hack and slash gameplay.

The end result was Hyrule Warriors, a unique crossover that would end up being critically acclaimed and kickstart an entirely new subseries of Warriors games.

This included an enhanced Hyrule Warriors remake for Nintendo 3DS along with a complete sequel, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, for Nintendo Switch.

Since then, Nintendo has experimented with giving their other first-party properties the Warriors treatment with games like Fire Emblem Warriors and its upcoming sequel, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes.

While not a complete title, Monster Hunter World‘s collaboration with Final Fantasy XIV is one of the superior guest event crossovers in video game history.

Along with having three Unique Assignments to tackle, players could encounter Final Fantasy creatures throughout various biomes, including a Moogle, Cactuars, and the Behemoth.

The latter of which appeared as a unique new monster that would require multiple phases and MMO-inspired strategies to take down.

As a reward for slaying one of the toughest monsters in the game, players were able to craft formidable Dragoon armor for their hunter and Moogle armor for their Palico.

Having learned from years of mistakes and missteps with Mortal Kombat guest characters, NetherRealm was a lot more wary when expanding the Injustice games’ rosters.

Initially, the series was strictly confined to only DC Universe characters as both heroes and villains are forced to team up and put a stop to Superman’s despotic rule.

However, it wouldn’t be long until the original Injustice roster was expanded to include more obscure fighters such as Lobo, Zod, Zatanna, and others along with a surprise cameo by MK’s own Scorpion.

Injustice 2 took things even further by tossing Sub-Zero and Raiden into the mix along with appearances from Hellboy and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

If there’s one thing Fortnite has always excelled at, it’s knowing how to organize and schedule its crossover events to keep players coming back.

The battle royale‘s initial major collaboration was the Infinity Gauntlet, which would grant the first player to find on the map the ability to play as Marvel’s Thanos and unlock a set of abilities.

Since then, countless Marvel characters have appeared in the game along with DC heroes Batman and Superman and characters from diverse properties such as John Wick, Rick & Morty, and Naruto.

Regarding video game crossovers, Fortnite has collaborated with Street Fighter, God of War, and Halo, just to mention a handful.

Due out this year, MultiVersus is an imminent free-to-play platform fighter that utilizes Warner Bros.’ extensive catalog of licensed properties.

It’s one of the more daring crossovers we’ve seen in recent years, one that looks to pit characters like Batman, Shaggy Rogers, and Bugs Bunny among others against each other.

Similar to Super Smash Bros., characters are given a distinctive moveset with consideration for their source material and must jump, run, and punch their way to victory across 2D stages.

While it’s unclear just how many characters will make their way onto MultiVersus’ roster, based on WB’s deep media catalog, the sky is the limit.