Industry-leading multiplatform support
Create once, ship anywhere
Reach a wider audience with games that scale across platforms, giving players a consistent experience on all their devices. Create your game once and ship it to players across desktop, mobile, console, and VR without compromising your creative vision.
Multiplatform tips and best practices
Learn the “how to” behind multiplatform gamedev. Hear success stories, get practical guidance, and begin your journey today.
Tips for starting a multiplatform game
Two studios and industry experts share tips on kick-starting a multiplatform project – team building, prototyping, tool selection, project outlining, and more.
Desktop to console: Best practices with Microsoft
Three studios and hosts from Microsoft discuss best practices for bringing your desktop game to Xbox and other platforms.
Reach more players by bringing your game to multiple platforms, including Web, desktop, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®, Xbox®, and Meta Quest.
Choosing multiplatform
Shipping your game on multiple platforms helps you reach more players, wherever they play. This not only gives you a larger potential user base at launch, it also lets you re-engage your most dedicated fans as their hardware preferences change.
As new platforms with more complex APIs evolve, we advance our strategic partnerships to ensure that our platform support keeps growing alongside the industry, helping you extend your player base.
Scalable visuals across platforms
The Universal Render Pipeline (URP) empowers developers to prioritize innovation, as performance and graphic fidelity are optimized across Unity’s supported platform ecosystem. Thanks to its scalability, customizability, and a rich feature set, URP offers you creative freedom for any type of project, from stylized visuals to physically based rendering.
Optimizing for multiplatform
Performance and graphic fidelity vary by console and device. To ensure players have a great experience anywhere, consider:
- Prioritizing testing on your minimum-spec device to pinpoint baseline performance and use Unity’s profiling and debugging tools to prevent, identify, and fix performance problems across all platforms
- Using the Addressable Asset System for content delivery when optimizing for web and mobile to ensure download size isn’t an issue
- Optimizing team collaboration and project version control with solutions like Unity Version Control
- Working directly with experts at Unity through Accelerate Solutions to achieve optimal performance across platforms
Maximizing reach with multiple platforms
When shipping your game on multiple platforms, it’s essential to ensure that it’s ready to grow so you can reach as many players as possible.
With Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS), you can scale your game efficiently because it enables you to iterate faster with C# code that’s easier to read and reuse across other projects.
Unity Gaming Services can help you build live games with tools for multiplayer services, game operations, user acquisition, and monetization.
Cloud Game Server Hosting (Multiplay) delivers performance and flexibility to your gaming infrastructure and provides the best experience to your players.
Understanding multiplatform costs and roadblocks
Multiplatform games come with challenges as well as opportunities for success.
You’ll want to make sure your game isn’t crashing or lagging on any of your target platforms. Unity Cloud Diagnostics enables you to filter crash and performance data, link it to different response teams, and set up custom dashboards to ensure your game runs smoothly on targeted hardware.
It can also be helpful to hear from creators who have taken their games from concept to launch. Unity Roundtable: Learn the true costs and tips for creating a game features industry-leading experts who share advice and game creation experiences.
Maximize platform potential and iteration speed
Optimize your games for the latest platforms with Unity 2022 LTS.
- Increase performance and stability using DirectX 12 graphics API on Windows and Xbox, and experiment with the latest ray tracing support for Xbox Series X|S.
- Iterate rapidly and deploy efficiently on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation® 5, and Nintendo Switch™ with the incremental player build process.
- Better manage WebGL memory, with native C++ multithreading, support for touch controls, and texture compression for mobile web builds.
- Build faster on PlayStation®VR2 and Meta Quest 2 with updated XR tools.
Multiplatform games made with Unity
Two Point Campus
Learn how the Burst compiler, Universal Render Pipeline (URP), and Entity Component System (ECS) helped Two Point Campus share performant code across all target platforms.
Rollerdrome
Learn how Roll7 quickly expanded from PC to consoles and ensured their dynamic action shooter would continue to shine at 4K 120 fps on next-generation platforms.
Greak: Memories of Azur
Learn how Navegante achieved an on-time multiplatform launch for their first release, Greak: Memories of Azur.
Ori: Will of the Wisps
Learn how a small studio created and launched Ori: Will of the Wisps on multiple platforms. From powering greater platform reach to unparalleled extensibility, Unity enabled Moon Studios to access more players.
Cuphead
Meet the brothers, Moldenhauer. They quit their jobs in the marketing and construction industries, remortgaged their homes in 2015, and threw everything into developing their first video game.
Subnautica
Five platforms and 6M+ companies; learn why Unknown Worlds chose Unity to help bring their creative and business vision to life.
Unity for consoles
Unity offers resources to help developers bring their games to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch™, including platform-specific build modules, extra features, learning materials, and premium forum support.
Unity for mobile game development
Create stunning, performant experiences backed by the platform used to create over half of the top 1,000 mobile games on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Unity for VR
Build immersive games with flexible tools that work across VR platforms. Unity supports leading headsets including Meta Quest and PlayStation®VR.
Unity for desktop game development
Unity provides one-click deployment support across PC, Mac, and web platforms.
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