Beast of Reincarnation Cross-Save and Cross-Progression

What each storefront actually lists

Three platform holders, three separate answers, each read off the storefront rather than from a guide. These are capability badges, which is the strongest form this claim comes in — a storefront that lists a feature is committing to it.

• Xbox: the capability list carries "Xbox Play Anywhere" and "Xbox cloud saves", and the platform row reads Xbox Series X|S, PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming and Handheld.
• Steam: the appdetails API reports the Steam Cloud category, and platforms as Windows only — no macOS, no native Linux.
• PlayStation: the badge list is PS5 Standard Edition, PS5 Pro Enhanced, offline play, one player, Remote Play, cloud streaming on Premium, and DualSense effects. No cross-save badge and no cross-progression badge.

What Xbox Play Anywhere covers, and what it does not

Play Anywhere is a promise scoped to Microsoft's own ecosystem: buy or subscribe once, play on Xbox console and on Windows, with progress carried between them. Paired with the "Xbox cloud saves" badge on the same listing, that is a published answer for the console-to-PC case inside Xbox. It says nothing whatsoever about Steam. A Windows PC running the Steam build is not part of Play Anywhere — the same machine can hold both copies and they do not see each other's saves, because the entitlement, the cloud store and the save location are all different.

The Steam side is narrower than people assume

Steam Cloud is real and it is listed, but it syncs your saves between machines signed into your Steam account. That is device-to-device, not platform-to-platform. If you play on Steam and later want to continue on Xbox or PS5, nothing published gets you there.

How to read the PlayStation absence

Absences are the easiest thing to over-read, so precisely: PlayStation has not said "there is no cross-save". It has published a badge list that does not include one, on a storefront that does badge cross-save when a game has it. That is meaningfully stronger than silence and still weaker than a statement. The only save-related language on the page is console sharing between your own PS5s, which is a different feature entirely.

What nobody has said

No developer or publisher statement addresses cross-platform progression at all — not in the launch announcement, not in the pinned Steam threads, not in the first patch statement. So the honest shape of this answer is: two storefronts publish what their own ecosystem does, one publishes nothing, and the cross-storefront question has never been put to the team in public. If you need your save to move between Steam and console, treat that as unsupported rather than unannounced.