Is Trove Cross-Platform in 2024?

By | February 1, 2024

‘Video game’ is love at first sight for gamers. Ever since the evolution of video games in the 1950s, the industry slowly developed to become one of the top profitable industries in the market now. Video games are of various genres including action, adventure, horror, simulation, puzzles, role-play, arcade, cooking, fighting, and more. Players can choose the genre they want to play. 

Video games come with single-player and multiplayer modes. Players can choose their convenient mode. To play the multiplayer mode, players need additional players. With the help of cross-platform technology, they can easily find their suitable opponents from the unlimited number of players available online. 

Cross-platform technology enables multiple players to play a single game together at the same time from their respective gaming platforms. As cross-platform is an expensive and advanced gaming technology, you cannot find many games with this feature. This technology is slowly developing. In another few years, we could see more numbers of cross-platform games in the market.

Like cross-platform, cross-progression is also a gaming technology. Cross-progression allows gamers to resume the game progress from any gaming console. Their game will be saved in other gaming platforms apart from theirs. 

Cross-platform has both advantages and disadvantages. Trove is a popular game in the market with a huge fan base. Also, this is a multi-player game. So, let’s find out if the game supports cross-platform or not!

A Quick Introduction to Trove

Trove was released in the year 2015. It is a sandbox game published by Trion Worlds and developed by the same. In 2015, the game was released for macOS and Microsoft Windows. 

For Xbox One and Play Station 4 consoles, the game was released in 2017. For Nintendo Switch, game was released in 2021. 

The gameplay of Trove is much similar to the gameplay of the Minecraft game’s survival mode. 

Trove is a voxel-based sandbox game. Trove’s world is 2D. It also has 3D cubes made from Voxels. In Minecraft, you’d have seen health bars. In Trove, there are health points systems. Players can gain health points by consuming food found in the Trove world. 

You can collect unlimited items in the Trove game as it is a sandbox game. Players can reach Adventure Worlds levels if they pass through the next levels of the game. 

Trove is unique from other games, as it is a multi-player only game. This means you always need other players to play the game. You cannot play it alone. 

Now, it’s time to know if Trove supports cross-platform. 

Is Trove cross-platform in 2024? 

Unfortunately, no! Trove is not cross-platform in 2024. This means you cannot play the game with players from other gaming platforms. If you have a PS5, you cannot play the game with Xbox players. 

Not just between these consoles, cross-platform is not available between any consoles. Over the years, the game developers of Trove have worked much to develop the content of the game. They haven’t thought much about the cross-platform feature. Recently only the game was available for Nintendo Switch users. 

Also, as we already mentioned, Trove is a multi-player game. It cannot be played by a single player alone. A player always needs additional players to play the game. This makes cross-platform a great requirement for the game. But, unfortunately, cross-platform is not supported by Trove. 

Therefore, players have to find other players from the same gaming platform as them to play the game. Example: If you are a Play Station player, you have to find additional Play Station players to play this game. 

Is Trove a cross-platform PC and Xbox One?

No. Trove is not cross-platform between PC and Xbox One. Players from both these consoles cannot play the game together owing to the absence of a cross-platform feature. 

Cross-platform games come with several advantages. It allows players to play across different platforms without any hassles. This in return expands the reach of the game. Not just that, but it also helps strengthen the gaming community. 

On the other hand, players can enjoy the same features and quality irrespective of the platform they are using. It removes all disparities across all gaming platforms. 

Now you must be thinking about why Trove developers have ditched the cross-play feature, despite all the advantages. To be frank, cross-platform technology is more complicated than you think. It not only requires extra time and effort, but sufficient investments to improve the overall quality of the game across all platforms.

To add to it, the gaming platforms also have to accept the developer’s proposal and agree to work together to make it happen. So you can say it requires both technical and political input to build a quality cross-platform title. It is because of these complications that many popular games including Trove don’t have the cross-platform option. As of now, there is no update available on whether Trove will be made cross-platform or not.

Is Trove cross-platform PS5 and Xbox One?

Again, No! Trove is not cross-platform between PS4/PS5 and Xbox One consoles. 

Players from these consoles cannot cross-play the game. They have to find players from the same console to play this multi-player game. In other words, PS5 users and Xbox One users cannot play this game together.

Since Trove is not a cross-platform title, it separates players into different groups that cannot interact with one another.

Developers of Trove have ditched the cross-play feature because the hardware of PS5 is different from Xbox One. This will result in different experiences between the two-player groups. To avoid any disparity, they have decided not to include cross-play in Trove. 

Is Trove cross-platform PS4 and PS5? 

No. Trove is not cross-platform between PS4 and PS5. Though PS4 and PS5 use the same online services, cross-platform is still not enabled between these consoles. As of now, there is no official update from the game developers of Trove yet, regarding the cross-platform feature. 

Therefore, we cannot expect cross-platform for Trove in the next few years. As cross-platform is a time-consuming technology, it will take some years to materialize. 

FAQs

1. What is the Trove game about? When was it released?

Trove is a voxels based sandbox game. It was released in 2015 for Microsoft Windows and macOS. 

2. Is Trove cross-platform between PC And Nintendo Switch console?

No. Trove is not cross-platform between PC and Nintendo Switch. Players from PC can only play with other PC players and players from Nintendo Switch can only play with other Nintendo Switch players. 

3. Does Trove support cross-progression technology?

The answer to this question is No. Trove does not support cross-progression. The game progress of a Play Station 4 player will be saved only in that console. The same applies to other consoles as well. 

Conclusion

If other video games do not support cross-platform, it is not a major drawback. But, for Trove it is a huge drawback, as it is a multiplayer only game. The game cannot be played by a single player. It requires multiple players. If the game supports cross-platform, the players could have an open option to choose players from all across the world. Now, they can play the game only with players who own the same gaming platform as them. Let’s hope for cross-platform to be introduced soon for Trove!

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