Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok

Granblue Fantasy: Relink doesn’t cross-save. PC, PlayStation, and the brand-new Switch 2 version each keep their own separate save file, and July 2026’s Endless Ragnarok expansion, despite adding a real headline feature across every platform, didn’t touch that. What Endless Ragnarok actually added is crossplay: for the first time in the series, players on PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch 2 can party up in the same online co-op run. Cross-play and cross-save get confused constantly, and this is as clean an example as you’ll find of a game that has one and not the other.

Game overview

Relink is Cygames’ action RPG built around four-person parties: pick your crew, weave together each character’s distinct combat style, and lean on link attacks and chain bursts against increasingly elaborate boss fights. It first launched on PC and PlayStation in 2024. Endless Ragnarok, a major story expansion released 8-9 July 2026, is a big enough addition that reviewers describe it as close to a definitive edition, new characters, mechanics, and quests, though it’s aimed squarely at players who already finished the base game rather than newcomers.

The same July 2026 release is also the franchise’s Nintendo debut: Switch 2 got the base game and Endless Ragnarok together, simultaneous with the PC, PS4, and PS5 launch of the expansion.

Where you can play it

PC via Steam and both PS4 and PS5 have had the base game since 2024. Switch 2 is new as of 9 July 2026, sold as a base-game-plus-expansion package since there was never an earlier Switch or Switch 2 release to upgrade from.

Steam lists Steam Deck compatibility as “Playable” rather than Verified. Reports describe it running well in handheld mode, around 30-40fps on standard settings, with dips into the 20s during the busiest multi-summon boss fights. Worth knowing if you’re chasing a locked 30 or higher.

Cross-saves and keeping your progress

Verified 23 July 2026, cross-checked against launch-week press coverage of the Endless Ragnarok update and Cygames/PLAION’s own support pages. This is the section to read if you’re weighing whether to start on one platform and continue on another.

Short answer: no, it doesn’t cross-save, and the July 2026 update didn’t change that. PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch 2 each hold a separate save. Progress made on one platform stays there.

The Endless Ragnarok Upgrade Kit doesn’t help either. If you already own the base game and buy the Upgrade Kit to unlock the expansion, that only works on the same platform your existing save lives on. It’s not a cross-platform bridge, it’s a same-platform DLC unlock.

There’s one narrow, platform-family exception. Sony provides a one-way tool to convert a PS4 Relink save into a PS5 save. It doesn’t run in reverse, and it has no equivalent for PC or Switch 2, so treat it as PS4-to-PS5 continuity rather than genuine cross-save.

What’s genuinely new is crossplay, not cross-save, and the distinction matters. Endless Ragnarok is the first time PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch 2 players can be matched into the same online co-op session together. That’s a real, first-for-the-series feature. It just answers a different question than “will my progress follow me”: you can now play together across platforms even though nobody’s save does the same.

Playing with other people

Online co-op supports a four-person party, and as of Endless Ragnarok that party can be mixed across PC, PS4, PS5, and Switch 2 for the first time. PlayStation’s online co-op requires PlayStation Plus; Switch 2’s online mode most likely requires Nintendo Switch Online, consistent with Nintendo’s standard policy for online multiplayer, though that specific detail wasn’t explicitly confirmed in the sources checked for this piece, worth a quick in-game check before you commit to it.

Switch 2 also ships with a mode none of the other platforms have: local wireless co-op for up to four players on separate consoles, no internet connection required. If you’re gathering friends in the same room with their own Switch 2s, that’s the one to use, and it’s the kind of genuinely portable, no-wifi-needed multiplayer this niche cares about.

Features that matter on the move

• No cross-save. PC, PlayStation, and Switch 2 each keep a fully separate save; nothing you saw on one platform’s progress screen follows you to another.
• New crossplay, not new cross-save. Endless Ragnarok lets all four platforms co-op together online for the first time, a genuinely new feature, just not the one that carries your progress.
• Switch 2-exclusive local wireless co-op, up to 4 players, no internet needed, not available on PC or PlayStation.
• Steam Deck runs it, unofficially. “Playable” rating, solid handheld performance with dips in the heaviest fights.
• High entry barrier for Endless Ragnarok specifically if you haven’t finished the base game; reviewers are consistent on this.

Recommended setup

If you’re deciding which platform to commit your save to, decide once and mostly stay there, this isn’t a game where hopping between a Deck and a Switch 2 keeps your character build with you. For local co-op on Switch 2 with friends who each bring their own console, no extra kit is needed beyond the consoles themselves. For solo handheld play on either Deck or Switch 2, a comfortable second controller is worth having on hand if a friend drops in for a couch session; the 8BitDo Pro 2 works across both ecosystems if you want one controller that covers a Deck-and-Switch-2 household.

See our cross-saves guide for how this compares with the games that do carry your progress across platforms properly, and our Nintendo Switch 2 GameShare guide for another recent Switch 2 multiplayer feature worth knowing the real rules of.

Verdict

Endless Ragnarok is a strong reason to be playing Relink again, and its Switch 2 debut plus first-ever crossplay are genuinely new for the series. Just go in clear-eyed on the one thing that didn’t change: your save stays on whichever platform you’re playing on, PC, PS4, PS5, or Switch 2, with only a narrow one-way PS4-to-PS5 exception. Pick your platform for this one and commit, then enjoy that it’s now the platform-mixed party game it never used to be.