Massive Multiplayer Crossover / Video Games

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• Name any Racing Game with licensed cars and/or bikes, and it's always this trope aside from one-make racing games such as OutRun 2. Notable ones including Test Drive, Need for Speed, Gran Turismo, Colin McRae Rally and DiRT, Project Gotham Racing, Asphalt, Forza, GRID, Project CARS, and so on. And that's only counting Real Life manufacturer brands!
• Disney Infinity is a video game with a 'toybox' mode that allows player to mix and match characters from Disney and Pixar movies. Infinity 2.0 adds Marvel Universe characters and Infinity 3.0 adds Star Wars characters.
• LEGO Dimensions does the same as Disney Infinity, but with LEGO franchises and minifigures and non-LEGO properties, including The DCU, The Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Jurassic Park, Scooby-Doo, Back to the Future, Portal 2, The Wizard of Oz, Adventure Time, Harry Potter, Mission: Impossible, The A-Team, Sonic the Hedgehog, and even E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and LEGO City Undercover.
• The King of Fighters was the original crossover fighter, taking characters from several SNK series including Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Psycho Soldier and Ikari Warriors.
  • NeoGeo Battle Coliseum is an extension of the above, including also characters from Samurai Shodown, The Last Blade, World Heroes, Aggressors of Dark Kombat, and even Metal Slug.
  • The King Of Fighters XI also threw in Buriki One and the Fu'un Series in the list of games represented in the series.
  • SNK Gals Fighters is similar to KOF in that it has characters from SNK fighting games duking it out, the only real difference being that the roster is entirely female. It has a spiritual successor in SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. Both rosters mainly have characters from The King of Fighters, but the latter has Skullomania and Thief Arthur as Guest Fighter DLC Characters, bringing this a bit further.
• A staple of store demo displays in the later 90s, Sega produced Fighters Megamix, a crossover of Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, and a couple one-off games such as Virtua Cop, Rent A Hero, Sonic the Fighters, and even Daytona USA.
• Capcom's "VS" series:
  • The Marvel vs. Capcom games, (X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and now Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite) pit the characters of the various game series produced by Capcom against the heroes and villains of the Marvel Universe in, naturally, a fighting tournament. Only the sketchiest rationale is drawn for this.
  • Following this is the SNK Vs. Capcom series, (SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium, Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000, Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium and SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos) basically putting the characters of both companies' Fighting Game series against each other. A spinoff series known as SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters is a TCG pulling characters from both companies' entire libraries.
  • And then there is Namco × Capcom, a action/strategy RPG featuring characters from Namco and Capcom.
  • Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken x Street Fighter however are actual fighting games featuring Namco (Tekken) and Capcom (Street Fighter) characters.
  • Only related through the VS. series via the appearance of one Capcom series rather than multiple but what the heck: Cross Edge is a RPG with Compile Heart at the helm of development. Characters from Darkstalkers, EXA_PICO, Disgaea, Spectral Souls, Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg and Mana Khemia show up in this one.
  • There's also Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, which returns to the gameplay of the Marvel series but instead pits the Capcom characters against the works of Tatsunoko Production like Gatchaman and Casshern. It is basically Marvel vs. Capcom using Japan's Marvel.
    • Even before Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, there was a PlayStation Fighting Game called Tatsunoko Fight, which pitted four Tatsunoko superhero anime (and one original made-up anime) characters, along with their females/sidekicks and villains.
• Super Mario War contains hundreds of user created skins that allow you to make the wackiest of situations. Any character that has been in Super Smash Bros. has a skin in the game, and even very obscure and non-videogame characters have been made, making this the largest video game crossover.
• Project × Zone is a Spiritual Successor to Namco × Capcom, only now adding Sega (and technically Bandai of Namco Bandai, with Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, and .hack being Bandai's franchises before the merger with Namco) into the mix. The sequel also adds Nintendo characters.
• Ken's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2 features a number of characters from different Capcom games, including Pure the Mage from the crossover game Capcom World.
• Capcom's Adventure Quiz, Capcom World and Capcom Quiz games feature several Capcom characters in the shared world of Capcom Kingdom, with Original Generation characters making cameos in later games. According to the mobile crossover game Minna to Capcom All Stars/Street Fighter x All Capcom, all Capcom heroes reside in Capcom World.
• Capcom's own Mascot Fighter: Capcom Fighting Evolution. The only game where we were able to have a Zangief vs. Alex fight^note Before the release of Street Fighter V anyway, and which not only had the distinction of being the only Capcom-made^note SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos doesn't count, it was made by SNK crossover not featuring Morrigan, (Anakaris, Demitri, Felicia and Jedah, plus Pyron as one of the final bosses, were the Darkstalkers representants) but also the only game where we were able to fight as one (or two) of the Red Earth characters who aren't Tessa. (Leo, Hauzer, Hydron and Kenji were the representants)
• In contrast, the Super Robot Wars series (almost certainly the originator of this trope in video game form) has magnificent, complex plots, and the individual games have touched upon nearly every Humongous Mecha series in existence. Particular of note is how they merge individual episodes to make missions, including having the famous "dancing" episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion set on Macross Island.
  • Additionally, Super Robot Wars: Original Generation is a Massively Multiplayer Crossover of various Super Robot Wars original characters (as each Super Robot Wars sub-series is set in its own universe)
    • Furthermore, Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier is a crossover between Super Robot Wars: Original Generation and Namco × Capcom (minus the Capcom) - making it a crossover between a crossover between crossovers and— oh dear...
    • And now we have reached critical mass with Project × Zone when they put the Capcom part back in and add Sega while putting the aforementioned protagonists of the previous series in this one.
    • And then Project X Zone 2, the sequel, added Nintendo Characters into the mix (Specifically Fiora from Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and Chrom and Lucina from Fire Emblem: Awakening).
  • And to top it all off, Another Century's Episode is Super Robot Wars using the system from Armored Core.
• Chaos Wars uses a similar SRPG system to Super Robot Wars, but instead has more typical JRPG heroes from Atlus, RED, Idea Factory, and Aruze. This doesn't sound all that impressive — outside of Atlus and maybe Idea Factory those companies are virtually unknown in the States, until you realize this includes Shadow Hearts (Aruze), Growlanser (Atlus), Spectral Souls (Idea Factory), and Gungrave (RED). A sequel has been talked about, and there are hints that Shin Megami Tensei/Persona characters may make it in, and that Nippon Ichi might be invited to join the other 4 designers in the next series.
  • And ditto Trinity Universe, which has two story modes — one with Nippon Ichi's (Disgaea) characters, and one with Gust (Atelier Series) characters. It apparently revolves around someone throwing trash into Laharl's back yard. Gust and NIS are making a habit of doing these crossover games — NIS also has a habit of localizing all of Gusts' releases in the states, too.
• Yet another pastiche of SRW would be Battle Moon Wars which merges the three major published Nasuverse canons together: Tsukihime, Fate/stay night, and The Garden of Sinners.
• Super Smash Bros.:
  • The series centers around having a huge assortment of different Nintendo characters duking it out, from powerhouse franchises like Super Mario Bros. and Pokémon to one-off retro games like Ice Climber and Duck Hunt. While the template was modest for the original game, it became more prominent from Melee onward.
  • With Brawl (the third iteration), the series took it a step further by adding third-party Guest Fighters to the mix, with Konami's Solid Snake from the Metal Gear series and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog joining the fight.^note Sonic was actually intended to be in Melee, but by the time Masahiro Sakurai could ask Sega, the game was too far along its (already brutal) development. Similarly, Hideo Kojima wanted Snake in Melee, but he requested too late in the game's development.
  • 3DS/Wii U has the aforementioned hedgehog as well as Capcom's Mega Man from the Classic series and Namco's Pac-Man, with Ryu from Capcom's Street Fighter, Cloud Strife from Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII and Sega/PlatinumGames's Bayonetta later appearing as downloadable content.
  • Fully realized in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Nintendo Switch: every playable character in Smash Bros. history is selectable (and then some). The game even has more content from third-parties, with Simon and Richter Belmont from Konami's Castlevania and Ken from Street Fighter as fighters and Konami's Bomberman, Yacht Club Games's Shovel Knight, and Rathalos from Capcom's Monster Hunter as Assist Trophies, with the latter also being a boss (same with Castlevania's Dracula). And with DLC, you may add Joker from Persona 5, up to four heroes from Dragon Quest, Banjo & Kazooie, Terry from Fatal Fury, Steve from Minecraft, Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, Kazuya from Tekken, and Sora from Kingdom Hearts to the mix. All told, there's more than thirty different game franchises represented in the playable characters alone, and dozens more when you count stages, music, assist trophies, Mii costumes, and spirits, such as Virtua Fighter, SimCity, Rayman, Tetris, Galaga, Assassin's Creed, Undertale, Cuphead, Metal Slug, Fallout, Warframe, Resident Evil, No More Heroes, Shantae, Devil May Cry, The Elder Scrolls, and Doom. By the time the game's DLC cycle ended, the playable roster alone had fighters from 40 different series.
    Sakurai: Simply put, this is the biggest crossover in gaming history. Once again, worlds will collide.
• Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts series merges nearly every movie in the Disney Animated Canon and some outside of it with the feel and characters of the Final Fantasy series (though, just like the Tsubasa example above, the Disney characters are alternate universe incarnations, as implicitly stated in the TRON world). ^note Or are they?...
• Final Fantasy:
  • On the PSP is Dissidia Final Fantasy and its prequel Dissidia 012, where heroes and villains of various FF games face off as part of the machinations of two opposing powers. Dissidia would later be "rebooted" as a 3-on-3 arena fighter for arcades (sharing its name with the original) and then ported to the PS4 as Dissidia NT, though its story is actually a loose continuation what happens in the first two games.
  • Final Fantasy Record Keeper, much like Dissidia, combines characters from all main games in the franchise, and even a number of spin-offs, the difference being that this is a somewhat decent (for mobile standards) RPG.
  • Final Fantasy Brave Exvius features characters from several Final Fantasy games.
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia is the series' first true Crisis Crossover as far as having the various casts interacting with each other, featuring main series games and some others like Tactics, Crystal Chronicles, and more.
• Tales of the World, Namco's set of Massive Multiplayer Crossover games for their Tales Series. One bonus, though, is that the Narikiri Dungeon heroes' ability to dress as any Tales character and gain their abilities applies to bosses, too. Now add in the fact that theme music changes to whatever character or costume is in the lead of a party in battle, and you have a winning idea when a Tales fan can battle to Motoi Sakuraba's more popular themes, like Fighting of the Spirit or Decisive.
  • A recent download introduces Taki and Mitsurugi from Soulcalibur for use as well.
  • Tales of VS has recently been announced. It's a Fighting Game that we have been told is going to have a total of 35 characters from 13 different Tales games. So far only 8 have been announced. They are: Stahn Aileron and Mighty Kongman from Tales of Destiny, Kratos Aurion from Tales of Symphonia, Richter Abend from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Luke fon Fabre and Anise Tatlin from Tales of the Abyss, Shing Meteoryte from Tales of Hearts, and Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia.
  • Tales of Hearts itself is a borderline example. The cameo summons are somewhere between the trope and a very prominent Shout-Out.
• Astro Boy: Omega Factor for the GBA contains characters from many of Osamu Tezuka's works. You gain levels by meeting new characters.
• Cartoon Network: Fusion Fall was a Cartoon Network MMORPG that combines their various original series (including Codename: Kids Next Door, Ed, Edd n Eddy, The Powerpuff Girls, and Ben 10, among others).
• A.C.E.: Another Century's Episode is, much like Super Robot Wars, a massive crossover between a number of Humongous Mecha series. It's an action game rather than a turn-based strategy game, though.
• Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, where blood-thirsty kombatants and superheroes beat up each other due to a Hate Plague spread by an ugly fusion of two Big Bads.
• THQ's Nicktoons Unite! series merged various Nicktoons with SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius consistently featuring as well as reoccurring appearances of varying frequency from Fairly OddParents, Tak and the Power of Juju and Invader Zim (long after the last one was Screwed by the Network), as well as Stimpy and Rocko in the console version of Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots, and Aang in Nicktoons Nitro. It has since been followed by Nicktoons MLB.
  • First there was the Nickelodeon Super Brawl series of browser games. Years later, the company went full Super Smash Bros. with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, which even included Garfield, who had been purchased by Nick but had yet to get his show by the game's release.
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam is an arcade Fighting Game with a Crisis Crossover Excuse Plot that throws all thirty years of the Gundam franchise together so characters like Amuro, Domon, Heero, Kira, and Setsuna can beat the stuffing out of each other.
  • Similarly, there is Dynasty Warriors: Gundam that has several stories focusing on different pilots teaming up into two forces because of this. Eventually, you can even have different pilots using different mecha.
• Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus is a Nintendo DS Action RPG that throws Shakugan no Shana, Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu, Kino's Journey, A Certain Magical Index, Haruka Nogizaka's Secret, Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan, Toradora! and Asura Cryin' (with cameos from Spice and Wolf, Baccano!, Inukami! and the Boogiepop Series) together into a Crisis Crossover.
  • Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, a traditional fighter for arcade and consoles starring characters from Dengeki Bunko properties, including Asuna, Shana, Mikoto Misaka, Kirino Kousaka, Shizuo Heiwajima, and Kuroyukihime. Representing Sega's own stake in the game (since they developed it) is Akira Yuki (with Pai Chan as an Assist Character), serving as the game's Guest Fighter boss. There's no relation between those two titles except for the same villain, named Zetsumu.
• DreamMix TV World Fighters is a fairly bizarre crossover Fighting Game featuring characters from Konami, Hudson Soft, and Takara. It's a shame it wasn't very good; where else could you pit Bomberman, Simon Belmont, Solid Snake and Optimus Prime against each other?
• Konami has a series of crossover games including Konami Wai Wai World, Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley Jō, Wai Wai Poker, Wai Wai Jockey, Wai Wai Bingo, Konami Wai Wai Sokoban, Konami Wai Wai Racing Advance, New International Track & Field, Jikkyō Power Pro Wrestling '96: Max Voltage, the Mahjong game Hai no Majutsushi, the Parodius series and its spinoffs, and Otomedius.
• Konami's MSX2 Mahjong game Hai no Majutsushi featured eight mascots from various other Konami games: Popolon, Aphrodite, Pentarou, Goemon, Dr. Venom, a Snatcher, a moai, and a perverted version of Simon Belmont.
• Bomberman:
  • Saturn Bomberman features playable appearances from other Hudson Soft characters, those being Bonk, Milon, Master Higgins, Yuna, Manjimaru, Kabuki, Kinu and Manto.
  • Super Bomberman R and Super Bomberman R Online both feature a lot playable cameos, ranging from well-known characters from Konami's repertoire like Simon Belmont and Pyramid Head, to other recognizable third-parties like Master Chief and Ratchet & Clank, to more out-there choices like Princess Tomato and Reiko Hinomoto.
  • Power Bomberman, a Fan Game, features the return of many characters from previous installments, including a lot of earlier cameos such as Lode Runner^note In his Battle Lode Runner appearance, due to the NES versions of these two franchises being connected and Wario^note Due to his appearance in Wario Blast. However, the game also features playable appearances from characters from Konami and Hudson Soft that hadn't crossed over with the series before, including but not limited to Dino Riki, Rin Kagura, Sparkster and Django.
• Magical Battle Arena is a 3D flying Fighting Game that pits the female mages and Magical Girls of Lyrical Nanoha, Cardcaptor Sakura, Slayers, and Magical Circle Guru-Guru against one another, with more characters and series like Magic Knight Rayearth included in Expansion Packs.
  • Its sequel Magical Battle Arena NEXT throws in characters from Touhou Project, Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA and Magical Witch Punie-chan for good measure, albeit at the cost of removing some of the characters from the previous game.
• Jump Super Stars and its successors J-Stars Victory VS and Jump Force have characters from dozens of Weekly Shonen Jump series in a Super Smash Bros.-style battle royale.
  • Similarly, Battle Stadium D.O.N. is the same, but specifically has characters from Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Naruto (hence the D.O.N.).
  • As far as mobile games go, there's Jump Stadium and Jump Hero Taisen. Most notable is Jumputi Heroes, which features over 90 different series.
• Speaking of which, Shounen Sunday and Shounen Magazine are looking to take a bite out of Jump Super Stars together with Sunday VS Magazine: Shuuketsu! Choujou Daikessen (Also known as Sunday vs. Magazine) on the PSP.
• Quake III: Arena (and by extension, Quake Live) included characters from Doom (although two of them were invented specifically for this game), Quake, and Quake II.
  • The mod Generations Arena takes the above concept and runs with it, extending the crossover to the gameplay via five classes, each adapting the gameplay of said five games to the Quake III engine, right down to the finest details. Doom-style fast-paced battles and BFG against Quake-style flexible air control and powerful rocket launcher? You got it.
  • And that's not even including custom skins, with which the crossovers skyrocket through the roof.
  • Quake Champions brings back most of the aforementioned characters from Arena, but also adds B.J. Blazkowicz to the mix.
• M.U.G.E.N is a customizable 2D fighting engine that permits end users to homebrew reproductions of any other character in the entire genre, and create unique ones. Fighters already exist for every "vs" title released and almost every fighting games, and can be crossed over in unique ways.
• Nippon Ichi has released one, Trinity Universe. It's made in conjunction with Gust and Idea Factory.
  • Disgaea 3 has characters from almost all Nippon Ichi Series. Including the entire cast of the earlier Disgaea games. Makai Kingdom, Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, Phantom Brave and La Pucelle.
• This Game Mod for Civilization IV has an All Fiction is True premise, allowing for a player to fight wars and build empires as several famous fictional leaders ranging from Agamemnon to Macbeth to Rama, Dracula, Rufus T. Firefly, and Jed Bartlet. Wonders of the World include Galt's Gulch, Hogwarts, Camelot, and Jurassic Park, and adds Hero Units like Don Quixote, Sun Wukong and The Time Traveller.
• The Square Enix board game series Fortune Street has character crossovers of Dragon Quest with either Final Fantasy or Super Mario Bros. depending on the game. Though traditionally No Export for You, a Western release was released for the Wii as Fortune Street.
• Mentioned by the Nerd himself (well, his actor), Super Mario Bros. Crossover.
• The fan-made Mushroom Kingdom Fusion combines a wide variety of classic and contemporary video game characters and universes together into one game. For starters, playable characters include Mario and Luigi, Wario, Sonic and Tails, Link, Arthur, and Roll.
• The cancelled Indie Brawl, a Fighting Game à la Super Smash Bros., but with characters from the Indie Gaming culture.
• Poker Night at the Inventory, a poker game involving characters from Penny Arcade, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Team Fortress 2 and Homestar Runner. Poker Night 2 ups the ante by having GlaDOS as dealer, with Ash Williams, Brock Samson, Sam, and Claptrap as opponents. GLaDOS and Ash especially being no stranger to crossovers by now.
• Any game on Nintendo systems that uses Miis as playable characters or NPCs can become this if you make enough of them.
• PlayStation Move Heroes, featuring Jak and Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, and Sly Cooper (and Bentley).
  • PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale takes this concept, bolts on a few more franchises, and storms Super Smash Bros.'s territory with a Mascot Fighter.
• The Macross Frontier PSP game series allows you to play all Macross universes. The recent title, Macross Triangle Frontier, covers Macross Zero, Macross (as well as Do You Remember Love), Macross Plus, Macross 7, Macross Dynamite 7, Macross Frontier (as well as Macross Frontier: The False Songstress) and Macross 2. This later came to a head with Macross 30, which brings all of the above (minus Macross II) together in a Crisis Crossover along with some Original Generation characters.
• In a more literal example, Minecraft allows anyone to make their own character skins, which leads to 20+ characters all working together to build a house/civilisation and mine for diamonds. In a more official example, packs of skins from multiple properties can be purchased, included (but not limited to) Halo, Star Wars, Power Rangers, Banjo-Kazooie, Super Mario Bros., Adventure Time, Fallout, The Walking Dead, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, etc.
• Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion is a Smash Bros. clone with Cartoon Network characters.
  • The 2016 Beat-Em-Up, ''Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers'' stars Uncle Grandpa, Finn and Jake, Mordecai and Rigby, Clarence, Gumball and Steven.
• Heroes of Jin Yong is set in the world of Jin Yong's novels, where you're inexplicably stuck in the literary world. You can repeatedly bump into the novel's characters and recruit them as part of your team, including Zhang Wuji (Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre) to Shih Po-tien (Ode to Gallantry), Duan-yu (Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils), Chen Jia-lo (The Book And The Sword), Ling Hu-Chong (The Smiling, Proud Wanderer), Yuan Cheng-qi (The Sword Stained With Royal Blood), Hu-Fei (Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain), and more heroes from several other novels. The remake also includes Zhou Bo-tong (The Legend of the Condor Heroes), Yang-guo (The Return of the Condor Heroes) and agaisnt all odds, Wei Xiaobao (The Deer and the Cauldron) - the latter being from another later dynasty.
• Heroes Phantasia is an RPG from Banpresto, featuring Sgt. Frog, Slayers, Darker than Black, My-HiME, Sorcerer Stabber Orphen, Read or Die, Rune Soldier Louie, S Cryed, and Blood+.
• NES pirate cartridge Kart Fighter drops the characters from Super Mario Kart into a fighting game, while World Heroes 2 (not to be confused with the actual World Heroes games) includes Ryu, Chun Li, M. Bison, Haggar, Andy Bogard, Lawrence Blood, Mai Shiranui, Mario, King Koopa, Sonic the Hedgehog, Leonardo, and Goku.
  • The Mega Drive bootleg Top Fighter 2000 MK VIII attempts to take this one step further, (albeit with fewer characters) with Muhammad Ali, (yes, the legendary boxer) Michael Jordan, (yes, the NBA star) Ryu, Goku, Kyo, Cyclops, Ryo and Geese Howard all playable characters. The title screen features the former two, while the intro sequence (which includes Ali punching Jordan in the face) implies that they were going for an Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny between them.
• The Queen of Heart crosses over Comic Party, Filsnown, Inagawa de Ikou, Kizuato, Shizuku, To Heart, Go To Heart, and White Album. Aquapazza crosses over Comic Party, Kizuato, Routes, Tears to Tiara, To Heart, Utawarerumono, and White Album.
• The Warriors Orochi series becomes this in the third game when it adds characters from various Koei Tecmo titles aside from the main Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series, including: Achilles, Ayane, Joan of Arc, Nemea, and Ryu Hayabusa. Its Updated Rereleases add Kasumi, Momiji, Rachel, Sterkenburg Cranach, and a guest character from Bandai Namco, Sophitia Alexandra.
  • Warriors All-Stars adds to the mix Nights of Azure and Opoona.
• Widenyo, a very addicting and grind-tastic turn-based strategy game featuring 156 characters from a multitude of Alicesoft games.
• One of the oldest examples for video games? King's Quest. Its Fantasy Kitchen Sink setting was explained in The Kings Quest Companion by stating that Fairy Tale characters, mages, magical creatures, The Fair Folk, and gods of dying faiths literally withdrew to an alternate universe to survive.
• Universal Monsters Online does this with various Universal Horror characters; a few had already crossed over in the films, but the game adds several more to the mix.
• Namco Super Wars for the WonderSwan.
• The Hoyle series of games by Sierra involves a variety of Sierra characters and Sierra staff that you can choose as your opponents. The first one alone has half the cast occupied by King Graham, Princess Rosella, Colonel Henri Dijon, Shelly LeBlanc, Larry Laffer, Sonny Bonds, and Roger Wilco. The rest included some original characters, staff, and the staff's children.
  • Sierra games themselves could be this. A typical King's Quest game ran on Fantasy Kitchen Sink and had everything from dragons, The Fair Folk, a gnome spinning straw into gold, a climbable beanstalk, FairyGodmothers, Red Riding Hood and Granny, Dracula, Greek mythology, druids, Ooga-Booga land (an homage to Tim Burton), and whatever else the designers felt like throwing in.
• Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Dracula's come to life inside a book chronicling his various reincarnations. Unfortunately for him, so have the guy that beat him for good, his reluctant reincarnation following that defeat, their witch friend, Dracula's human-sympathising son, the Belmont that said son freed from mind control, the girl that helped them, the Belmont Dracula cursed, who then killed Drac ''again'' to beat said curse, an amnesiac with magic siphoning powers, the duo that beat him and Death at the same time, and Getsu Fuma.
• Brutal Mario. Mario vs Bowser and the Koopalings, King K Rool, Dr Wily, the enemies from Trials of Mana and the cast of the Kirby series, among others. That's not even counting the references in the overworld graphics/music or included in the form of the normal enemies.
• 1001 Spikes has many different characters from other games - Commander Video from BIT.TRIP, Sugimoto, President Thompson and Zombie from Tempura of the Dead, Juni from Knytt Stories, Nyx from NyxQuest, and Curly Brace from Cave Story. It even has an author avatar of Jonathan Blow (who made Braid ).
• 100% Orange Juice is virtual boardgame developed by the Doujinsoft group Orange_Juice to celebrate their 5th anniversary. Some series featured in it include SUGURI, sora, QP Shooting, Flying Red Barrel and Alicianrone.
• Heroes of the Storm is the Blizzard Entertainment crossover MOBA. Heroes from Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Overwatch and even The Lost Vikings get mixed up with a multiverse Excuse Plot and fight to the death across different battlegrounds.
• With the inclusion of Link, Villager and Isabelle as DLC and the Inklings in the Updated Re Release, as well as the Blue Falcon as a kart and Mute City, Big Blue and Excitebike Arena as tracks, Mario Kart 8 becomes this, to an extent.
• Runbow has become this with indie game projects headed to the 3DS or Wii U. Playable characters include Gunvolt, Rusty, Juan and Tostada, Swift Thornbrooke (from Sportsball), Scram Kitty (from Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails), Commander Video and Commandgirl Video, Shovel Knight, Xeodrifter (from Xeodrifter), Teslamancer, and Unity-chan.
• Bandai Namco Entertainment's Nendoroid Generation is an obscure PlayStation Portable crossover RPG where you can see characters from Haruhi Suzumiya, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, The Familiar of Zero, Steins;Gate, Black★Rock Shooter, Dog Days, Fate/stay night, and even the popular doujin series which is the Touhou Project, in cute Nendoroid forms in a story that no one seems to bother understanding. Part of the reason for the game's obscurity lies in the fact that it was never given an English version, nor did anyone make an English patch.
  • It was said that Shana from Shakugan no Shana and Madoka from Puella Magi Madoka Magica would appear in the game as DLC characters, but there seems to be no evidence aside from them being in the character lists on various websites.
• The Dark Parables series is pretty much this for fairy tales. Although there is only one playable character - the Fairy Tale Detective, who resolves the issues preventing Happily Ever After - there is an ever-expanding cast of characters from a variety of classic tales, all of whom interact with one another in some way or another. Thus you see things like Snow White's twin brother being engaged to Rapunzel, and Jack confronting Goldilocks, and Pinocchio's father being married to Cinderella's Fairy Godmother - among many other connections.
• Tetris (Bullet-Proof Software, 1989) for the NES: The best ending has Peach clapping, Mario and Luigi dancing, Bowser on accordion, Samus on Cello, Link playing the flute, Pit playing violin, and Donkey Kong on drums.
• Newgrounds Rumble features several characters from its namesake website — Pico, Alien Hominid, Hank, Salad Fingers, Fancy Pants Man, and several more.
• Game Tengoku, also known as The Game Paradise, was a 1995 arcade shooting game by Jaleco featuring five characters from the company's past (such obscure titles as Exerion, Butasan, Momoko 120%, Formation Z and Plus Alpha) uniting against a crazy Mad Scientist who wants to control the world of arcade games. Since the whole game is set in an arcade, there are several more nods and parodies of old games from Jaleco and other sources. It also had a PlayStation-only sequel in 1998, adding even more characters.
• Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours is slowly becoming this thanks to its DLC packs:
  • The Taito pack includes the Inter Gray from Night Striker, the Black Fly from Metal Black, and the X-LAY from RayForce.
  • The Sega pack includes the Harrier from Space Harrier, Opa-Opa from Fantasy Zone, and the TRY-Z from Galaxy Force II.
  • The CAVE pack will include ships and characters from DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu, Deathsmiles, and Ketsui.
  • The Raizing pack will include ships and characters from Battle Garegga, Mahou Daisakusen, and Soukyugurentai.
• Five Nights at Freddy's World features characters from all around the franchise: all four versions of the animatronics, characters who only make an appearance in the background or in the game's lore, and even Guest Fighters from Scott Cawthon's other games, Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. and The Desolate Hope.
• Pulp Adventures roster of playable characters has an impressive cast featuring:
  • Characters of the main timeline: Long List ahead (one line equals one work).
    • The Avenger,
    • Captain Midnight,
    • Dick Tracy,
    • Doc Savage, Monk Mayfair, Ham Brooks, Renny Rennwick, Long Tom Roberts, Johnny Littlejohn, and Pat Savage,
    • The Green Hornet and Kato,
    • The Green Lama,
    • Indiana Jones,
    • Jungle Jim and Kolu,
    • Mandrake the Magician,
    • Miss Fury,
    • The Phantom,
    • The Rocketeer,
    • The Shadow,
    • The Spider,
    • The Spirit,
    • Tarzan.
  • Show Within a Show characters: Conan the Barbarian, Zorro, the Lone Ranger and Tonto. They appear in levels representing books being read by the main protagonists; said books tell real events (in-universe), then those three franchises are also part of this large crossover instead of being fictions in-universe.
  • Sandbox mod-only characters: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, John Carter and Dejah Thoris.
• Continuing the Disney trend is Disney Crossy Road, which is a spinoff of Crossy Road where you can play as heaps of Disney characters!
• Indie Game Battle was a Smash Bros-esque game that features characters from Blob Games Studio and a boatload of 3rd Party characters.
• BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle features characters from various Arc System Works games such as BlazBlue, Persona 4: Arena and Under Night In-Birth as well as RWBY. A fifth series, Arcana Heart, a sixth series, Senran Kagura, and a seventh series, Akatsuki Blitzkampf, are on the way for Season 2.
• LittleBigPlanet can become this by combining Downloadable Content, you can have Batman, Marty McFly, Spider-Man and Jack Skellington in the Muppet Theater, or Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Incredible, Jack Sparrow and SpongeBob in the Land of Ooo.
• Miitopia can potentially become this as a result of the Miis found online and the amount of player choice in regards to who's who. For example, you could have the Burger King as an actual king, Tingle as an official fairy, Batman fighting against Dark Lord Kirby! Of special note is that there is a search function for Mii characters. Pick any character or real person with any amount of notability and you will be given 10 Miis for it, as long as you can name that character within 10 spaces. Doesn't matter if it's "Einstein," "Eisenstein," or "Eisenhower"; or "Sash W.," "Sash Lilac," or "SachaCohen"; you will find that character and can fit him, her, or it into the story somehow.
• Indie Pogo is a fighting game starring various characters from around 20 different indie games, with even more appearing as unlockable trophies.
• 3D Power Drift, an Updated Re-release of Power Drift featured Harrier, Binsbein, Nameless Beast Warrior, Flagman, Joe Musashi, Dralinflore, Axel, Blaze, Adam, Mr. Hang-On, Galaxy Lady, and Alex Kidd.
• Blade Strangers is a fighting game that features characters from Nicalis and Studio Saizensen games such as Code of Princess, Umihara Kawase, Cave Story and The Binding of Isaac, plus guests from Azure Striker Gunvolt, and Shovel Knight.
• Crystal Crisis is another Nicalis crossover, this time a puzzle game, and features characters from around ten different indie games, along with a few of Osamu Tezuka's characters and even Johnny Turbo.
• The mod Here There Be Monsters for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim consists in fighting against a dozen of sea-monsters from different real-life mythologies, resulting in a crossover between the Elder Scrolls universe, Classical Mythology (Karkinos, Phorcys), The Bible (Leviathan), Finnish Mythology (Iku-Turso), Norse Mythology (Jormungandr, the Kraken, Ymir), Celtic Mythology (the Curriud), and Mesopotamian Mythology (Tiamat); in-universe, this whole bestiary is actually a single family (the children of Tiamat and Phorcys). The mod's sequels, The Call of Cthulhu and Sign of Cipactli, respectively add the Cthulhu Mythos and Aztec Mythology to the story. The stand-alone companion mod Here There Be Monsters: Trollhunter adds five bosses, again based on trolls from various sources (Peer Gynt, Metalocalypse, Danish folklore, The Mighty Thor, and Beowulf).
• Paperbound is a Platform Fighter where characters fight in settings of classic books like Journey to the Center of the Earth. It also has quite a few indie guest characters.
• Twinkle Queen puts together various waifus from Akabeisoft2's visual novels like Blessing of the Campanella, Tayutama, The Devil on G-String, and Koihime†Musou.
• XCOM 2 can become this with mods, specifically the Allies Unknown and Allies Unknown Redux (for the expansion) mods. Both allow you to bring alien races from other franchises in as soldiers. So far, included universes are:
  • Mass Effect, featuring turians, salarians, asari, quarians, krogan, and geth.
  • Star Wars, featuring Twi'leks and HK droids.
  • Halo, featuring the Sangheili.
• Taito's "Bubble Bobble meets Space Invaders" puzzle game Pop'n Pop features a variety of characters from its games: Chack' Pop, The Fairyland Story, Bubble Bobble, Kiki Kai Kai, The NewZealand Story, and Don Doku Don.
• Another Taito game, Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders is not just a crossover between the two franchises, but has playable characters from its Library of games.
• Shady Lewd Kart is a surprisingly decent Mascot Racer featuring characters from Eastern/Western hentai games and mascots of adult artists.
• Code Shifter stars Video Game programmer Stella, who uses her digital avatar Sera to debug a game that's close to completion. Along the way, she gains assistance from 8-Bit sprites of characters from many Arc System Works IPs, including Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, Double Dragon, Kunio-kun, Jake Hunter, Of Mice and Sand, Damascus Gear, Inferno Climber, Birthdays the Beginning, and Wizard's Symphony.
• Fantasia Re:Build is an RPG set to release on iOS and Android devices this year that is a Crossover between various light novel series under Kadokawa's Fantasia Bunko imprint, including How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, Sky Wizards Academy, Chrome Shelled Regios, Slayers, Anti Magic Academy The 35th Test Platoon, The Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Date A Live, Tokyo Ravens, Coffin Princess Chaika, Gamers! (2015), High School D×D, Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, and Full Metal Panic!.
• Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium is a multiplayer baseball game series with a cast featuring real-life baseball players, Japanese baseball team mascots and characters from Namco games like The Legend of Valkyrie, Pac-Man, Genpei Tōma Den, Dig Dug, Mappy etc. Take a look for yourself.
• Heavy Burger is a love letter to the Data East game library (Now owned by Marvelous via G-Mode), in which you control one of four Peter Peppers killing each other on different arcade games of the now-defunct company.
• Monster Girl Quest! Paradox RPG has a bonus scenario featuring characters from seven other games, making it the biggest crossover involving monster girl eroges. The other games involved are SHRIFT, Parade Buster, The Three Charms, Succubus Quest, ROBF S4U, Succubus Rhapsodia and Succubus Prison.
• Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure has playable characters and levels from Toy Story, The Lion King (1994) and Tarzan. The three series don't directly interact with each other in any way and their skaters are restricted to their home worlds, but the kid skaters can access any world.
  • In addition, a McDonald's appears in the main level hub, a mission has the player deliver food to customers, and you can unlock Ronald McDonald's shoes as a clothing option upon completing said mission. Rapper Lil Romeo also appears as a playable character.
• With Fortnite having a lot of Crossover Collaborations, we can have a match forming with John Wick, Batman, the Avengers and the Jedi to pit against Thanos, the Black Order and the Stormtroopers altogether, with more additions to be added in the future.
• There was a commercial for Super Nintendo Entertainment System made for South Korea (which in that region is named Super Comboy). In that commercial, Mario conducts a band of chorists conformed by Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, Fox, Ryu, Chun-Li, Goku, Krillin, Tsubasa, Raphael, Buster Bunny, Rhandi, Congo from Congo's Caper, an SD Gundam and the hero from Dragon Quest V.
• Dead by Daylight started off with only original characters, but over several DLC patches, began adding licensed characters and maps from horror movies, tv-shows, and other video games. This started with Michael Myers and Laurie Strode from Halloween, Bill from Left 4 Dead, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Freddy Krueger and Quentin Smith from A Nightmare on Elm Street, Amanda Young and David Tapp from Saw, Ghostface from Scream^note The character underneath the mask is a Canon Foreigner; only the mask and name are licensed, because the rights to the mask and the movie are separate., Ash from Evil Dead, the Demogorgon, Nancy Wheeler and Steve Harrington from Stranger Things^note Although they were eventually Screwed by the Lawyers and removed from the game after the rights expired in 2021, but added back in late 2023., Pyramid Head and Cheryl Mason from Silent Hill, Nemesis, Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Albert Wesker, and Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil, Pinhead from Hellraiser, Sadako Yamamura and Yoichi Asakawa from The Ring, the alien from Alien, Chucky from Child's Play, and Nicolas Cage (yeah, just Nicolas Cage, the actor). Skins based off of characters from the web series Crypt TV were also added for some of the game's original characters, as well as a skin that turns one of the original killers into Naughty Bear (a previous game made by the same developer).
• Animation Throwdown: the Quest for Cards features characters, locations and cards from several of Fox's most well-known animated series at the time: Family Guy, American Dad!, Bob's Burgers, Futurama and King of the Hill.
• Disney Sorcerer's Arena is another Disney example, taking characters from franchises both old and new and both well-known and obscure and putting them into a PvP RPG game. In addition to the Classic Disney Shorts mainstays Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and such, the roster also includes characters from Frozen, DuckTales, Onward, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, The Black Cauldron, and dozens of other Disney franchises. As of 2021, this game is still active and still expanding its roster, as can be seen with playable instances of characters from Raya and the Last Dragon and Jungle Cruise. It is also one of the few Disney crossovers to use characters from the Disney Channel, the other one being...
• Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, another PvP RPG game with a comparably large and wide roster. Franchises in this game not in Disney Sorcerer's Arena include Kim Possible, The Sword in the Stone, The Muppets, Ratatouille, and Up, among many others.
• In Japan, The Unholy War was given a makeover as "Little Witching Mischiefs" and featured seven of the first magical girls to exist from Sally the Witch, Himitsu no Akko-chan, Hana no Ko Lunlun, Mahou Tsukai Chappy, Mahou Shojo Lalabel, Majokko Meg-chan, and Cutey Honey.
• Multi Versus pulls together several of Warner Bros.' most iconic properties, from DC Comics to Looney Tunes to Game of Thrones to Adventure Time.
• Battle Racing Stars, a Racing Game featuring characters from variety of Halfbrick Studios games — Barry Steakfries, Sensei, Dan The Man, The King and so on.
• Disney Speedstorm is a Mascot Racer that features several Disney series. The currently confirmed series in the announcement trailer are Classic Disney Shorts, Beauty and the Beast, Monsters, Inc., Mulan and Pirates of the Caribbean.
• Funko Fusion has Funko Pop versions of Universal properties exploring massive worlds ala Lego Dimensions.
• Cross Impact, the successor to Indie Rumble is a Platform Fighter similar to Super Smash Bros., though its roster focuses on indie game characters. It's also the only video game where Jacket from Hotline Miami can beat YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG's Alex with a baseball at.
• From the creators of the Super Smash Flash games, Video Game/Fraymakers currently features 6 playable Indie Game character and and abundance of others who serve as assists. With it's "FrayTools program, the player can add just about about anyone to join Indie Rumble's roster.
• The Doom multiplayer Game Mod ZDoom Wars allows players to play as protagonists from six different Doom-engine games (Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Chex Quest, Strife and the freeware Virus) and command armies of monsters from these games.
• The Doom multiplayer mod Samsara allows the players to choose from 8 different characters, each with specific traits; apart from Doomguy, it includes the protagonists of Chex Quest, Heretic, Hexen, Wolfenstein 3-D, Duke Nukem 3D, Marathon, Quake and (planned as of 2013) Unreal.
  • The mod has received a third-party Extra Heroes pack and as of this writing, Samsara Reincarnation is currently in 2.0 adding the characters from Rise of the Triad, Caleb, Strife Guy, Eleena, Space Seal, Rebel Moon Commando (Rebel Moon Rising), Kyle Katarn, the characters from In Pursuit of Greed, Jack, Grondoval, Gordon Freeman, Adrian Shephard, Lo Wang, the Cybermage, Jon, Leonard, Bitterman, the Demoness, James Bond, Petton Everhail (Catacombs 3D), Danial Garner, Prisoner 849, and finally another iteration of B.J. Blazkowicz.
  • This isn't limited to the characters either, a plugin allows you to have the campaign of an idTech 1 compatible .iwad to generate with enemies from all across these games, That spot where you find, say, a Baron of Hell might instead have a Juggernaut, a Phase II Dark Trooper, or an M1 Bradley.
• An old (and never finished) Doom mod EarthBound Doom not only had you playing as the protagonists of EarthBound (1994), but added enemies taken from many different shooter games, including Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, as well as one or two monsters from Blood and Strife.
• Smite has had a large amount of crossover skins for its playable roster of gods, with RWBY, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rambo, Stranger Things, Avatar: The Last Airbender and many more being represented.
• Brawlhalla is seeing a huge surge in crossover fighters. As of 2023, these include characters from Shovel Knight, Rayman, Hellboy, Adventure Time, WWE, Steven Universe, Tomb Raider, Ben 10, The Walking Dead, Kung Fu Panda, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Street Fighter, G.I. Joe, Castlevania, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Halo, Tekken, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

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