The game supports up to 12 players in an online session, though players can also compete with another player in a local split-screen multiplayer mode. The game also features a career mode, a time trial, and a track editor. 66 different cars were available at launch. The vehicles featured in the game can be extensively customized. In the game, the player assumes control of vehicles from the Hot Wheels franchise, and races against other opponents in miniature tracks set in various everyday locations and environments, such as a garage, kitchen, and bedroom. However, it could also be a legal issue between Valve and Epic Games and the other platform holders that’s preventing these versions from having crossplay.Hot Wheels Unleashed is a racing game played from a third-person perspective.
Ultimately, this made fans think that crossplay was being used as a way to force PC players to buy the game again, generating more money. A patch was then released that removed the ability for them to do this. Matters are made more questionable by the fact that for that single day in July 2022, Steam and Epic Game Store players could use crossplay with consoles. However, fans have questioned the decision because the Steam and Epic Game Store versions of Hot Wheels Unleashed launched at the same time as the console versions, whereas the Windows Edition only launched in July 2022, meaning most PC players already owned the game elsewhere at the time crossplay was implemented. The developer explained that there are too many bugs and issues between other PC versions of the game and console versions, which is why crossplay was removed from Steam and the Epic Games Store for Hot Wheels Unleashed after one day of it being enabled, seemingly by accident. PC crossplay in Hot Wheels Unleashed, explained