How we check facts
Stores tell you whether a game has "co-op". They rarely tell you whether the two of you can play the story split-screen on your console, or whether both of you have to buy it. That is the question Press Join answers, game by game and platform by platform.
Every fact on a game page carries one of these labels:
- Verified
- Checked hands-on or confirmed by the publisher, with the date we checked.
- Editor
- Editor's record. Compiled by our editors from publisher information and patch notes, waiting for a hands-on check.
- Store
- Store listing. Taken from the store's own feature list. Stores list features, not details: a split-screen flag says nothing about player counts or the campaign.
- Check
- Needs a check. A detail our editors flagged as uncertain. Treat it as likely, not promised.
- Disputed
- Sources disagree. Sources disagree about this detail. It stays marked until we have checked it.
Editorial records and the catalogue
The games groups ask about most get a full editorial record: every platform, player counts, whether the story works together, crossplay and copies. Every other multiplayer game with enough player reviews comes from the store catalogue. Steam's feature list says which ways of playing together it supports on PC, and the Xbox and Nintendo stores list the ways of playing on their consoles. A console store's listing is shown in the store's words and stays a maybe until a record confirms it.
Where nothing confirms how a game plays together on a platform, the table says "Not confirmed" rather than guessing. "Not listed" means the store listing for that platform (Steam on PC, the Xbox or Nintendo store on their consoles) does not mention that way of playing.
Where the rest comes from
Prices, review scores, Steam Deck status and store art come from the Steam store and refresh several times a day. Descriptions and the notes on what a game is like together are written by us.
Prices are shown for your region where we have them and can change at any time; the store's own page is always the final word.