10 Awesome Video Game DLC That Combines Two Iconic Franchises (2025)

Video game crossovers are becoming more and more commonplace these days. It's an easy way to raise the profile of both franchises while giving shared fans something to enjoy. Plenty of games mash together characters, stories, or elements of two IPs, whether it's as brief as a cameo or as in-depth as an entire fictional world.

DLC is a more modern way of combining games. The base game may be its own entity entirely, only for fresh downloadable content to bridge the gap between it and another title. Plenty of recent video game DLC has added characters or entire storylines from one game into another.

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10 Powerwash Simulator Takes A Trip To Final Fantasy VII

Powerwash Simulator - Midgar Special Pack

Powerwash Simulator has become an unexpected gaming juggernaut, even among the recent explosion in simulator games. Its unusual premise and satisfying gameplay have made it an internet favorite. This high profile has taken it places few fans would expect, including the city of Midgar from Final Fantasy VII.

Powerwash Simulator - Midgar Special Pack tasks players with cleaning iconic objects and locations from Final Fantasy VII. Players don't get to explore and clean the city itself. Nonetheless, levels give them some time with bosses like the Scorpion Sentinel and areas like Tifa Lockhart's Seventh Heaven bar.

Control: AWE

10 Things Fans Want From Alan Wake 2Control's worldbuilding places it firmly in a shared Remedy Entertainment universe with Alan Wake. Both games deal with supernatural phenomena in the modern-day United States. Documents in Control reference Alan Wake's setting and events, and the titular character himself even makes a cameo. However, Control's second DLC takes things a step further.

Control: AWE has Jesse Faden and Alan Wake's stories collide. Jesse has to fight off the Dark Presence and Hiss combined in Hartman, while Alan Wake's numerous audio appearances fill in the gaps following Alan Wake's main plot. Control: AWE even forsakes following up on some of Control's open plot points in favor of following Alan's story.

8 Dead Cells Crosses Over With One Of Its Inspirations

Dead Cells: Return To Castlevania

Dead Cells' gameplay draws inspiration from many different titles. Its 2D platforming and action-adventure combat hearken back to the Castlevania franchise, as does its gradual exploration through unlocking new abilities. The game finally pays homage to the franchise in Dead Cells: Return the Castlevania.

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania doesn't just include items, enemies, and bosses from Castlevania in Dead Cells' world and story. Instead, it gives an alternate route through the game where the Prisoner teams up with Richter Belmont to storm Dracula's Castle. The gameplay is still Dead Cells, but it's a welcome piece of Castlevania for franchise fans.

7 Injustice 2 Has Fighters From Another Iconic Fighting Game

Injustice 2: Fighter Pack 1 & Injustice 2: Fighter Pack 2

Injustice 2 is an entry in one of the fighting game franchises made by NetherRealm Studios. Their most famous outings are in the Mortal Kombat series, one of the most iconic fighting games ever made. Mortal Kombat lends Injustice 2 some of its beloved characters across its first two Fighter Pack DLCs.

Injustice 2: Fighter Pack 1 adds the ice-themed ninja Sub Zero to its roster of primarily DC Comics combatants. Injustice 2: Fighter Pack 2 doubles down with the lightning-wielding Raiden. They're joined by numerous other guest characters from other franchises but are far and away the most significant video game crossover among them.

6 Final Fantasy XV Had Some Temporary Assassin's Creed Content

Final Fantasy XV: Assassin's Festival

The Best Games With Assassin Player CharactersFinal Fantasy XV: Assassin's Festival was a highly unusual piece of downloadable content. It didn't adhere to the typical model of a paid piece of DLC that is then part of the player's game forever. It was a free downloadable event that was only available in Final Fantasy XV between August 2017 and January 2018.

Final Fantasy XV: Assassin's Festival was one of several crossovers between the Final Fantasy and Assassin's Creed franchises. It paired with a hidden Final Fantasy XV-themed quest in Assassin's Creed: Origins. Although it's no longer available, many fans fondly remember the unusual Assassin's Creed-inspired costumes and gameplay included in the festival.

5 Fortnite Has Crossed Over With Many Properties

Fortnite: Battle Royale - Various Seasons

Fortnite: Battle Royale has become more than just one of the most popular battle royale games ever released. Its marketing team has included vast quantities of crossover video game content across its various season passes. This rounds out its other content from franchises like movies, TV series, and internet culture.

Fortnite has crossovers ranging from God of War to Halo to Alan Wake. This often comes as character skins or items from their parent game. However, the Fortnite crossover with Alan Wake contains an unconventional narrative segment relating the latter franchise's story.

4 Dead By Daylight Pays Homage To Horror Game Royalty

Dead by Daylight: CHAPTER 16 - Silent Hill

Dead by Daylight is another video game that has become ripe fodder for crossovers. It's come to incorporate horror movie heroes and villains from almost any medium. This includes other video games. One of the most notable is Dead by Daylight: CHAPTER 16 - Silent Hill, which includes elements from the titular video game.

Dead by Daylight doesn't just have new maps and characters in this chapter. It also has Silent Hill's iconic Pyramid Head, one of the most infamous horror game villains of all time. Silent Hill joins other video games in this crossover, including villains from Resident Evil and survivors from Left 4 Dead.

3 Super Smash Bros. Casts Its Net Wider Than Ever

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighters Pass & Fighters Pass 2

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Super Smash Bros. is the quintessential crossover fighting game. Early franchise entries are primarily or wholly restricted to Nintendo games. However, the series has grown over time until Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has characters from all walks of video game. This is true of the base game, but even moreso for its DLC.

Fighters Pass and Fighters Pass 2 for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate do contain Nintendo characters. However, they also include crossovers with franchises like Persona, Banjo-Tooie, Street Fighter, Tekken, and more esoteric choices like Minecraft. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC also doubles down on crossovers in the base game, such as with Final Fantasy VII.

2 Monster Hunter World Borrows An Iconic Final Fantasy Enemy

Monster Hunter World: Behemoth

Monster Hunter: World has had many collaborations over its lifespan. It has included costumes from Devil May Cry and crossover events with titles like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Horizon Zero Dawn. However, its most impactful crossover is with Final Fantasy XIV, in the form of a quest chain leading to a confrontation with Behemoth.

Behemoth is one of the most infamous monsters in the Final Fantasy franchise. He more than pulls his weight in Monster Hunter: World. He fits into Monster Hunter gameplay with some subtle differences, including an aggro system drawn from MMORPGs. Extreme Behemoth is the hardest single monster in Monster Hunter: World's High Rank, changing the game forever.

1 Sea Of Thieves Meets An Iconic Pirate Game

Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island

Sea of Thieves, aside from being the premiere modern-day pirate game, has crossed over with iconic pirate fiction. One of its seasons is inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean, featuring characters and locations from the films. More recently, it has touched on gaming history with Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island.

Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island doesn't just pay lip service to its titular franchise. It tells an original story following up on the games many years later, complete with gameplay inspired by Monkey Island's iconic puzzles. It's still Sea of Thieves, but the free DLC season should remind fans of fond Monkey Island memories.