Developers embrace Xbox Play Anywhere for their games

Athima Chansanchai, Writer

More than 1,000 developers utilize Xbox Play Anywhere (XPA) for their games, which means that when you buy those titles through the Windows or Xbox stores, you can play them on Windows 10/11 PC, Xbox consoles and supported handheld gaming devices at no additional cost.

And your progression syncs across all those platforms.

At this year’s Game Developers Conference, Xbox Wire talked with a few teams at the ID@Xbox Showcase event about what influenced their decision to implement the XPA feature and what benefits it may hold for their gaming communities.

“I mean, I think for us it’s all about discovery,” says Detective Dotson Director Sharlin Shodhan. “Making a game is hard enough, but selling a game in 2025 is super hard. This just gives us all the surfaces that Xbox and Microsoft have as a common access point to sell our game.”