Apex Legends: How to Link Origin Account to Steam

Respawn Entertainment has enabled crossplay for Apex Legends across various platforms including on the PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. While Apex is fun to play alone, the experience gets better when played with a whole coordinated squad. If you’re playing Apex on PC, you’re likely to be playing it on either Electronic Arts’ Origin or Steam. If you have an account on both, EA and Respawn have enabled players to link your Origin account to Steam and transfer over your cosmetics. While cross-progression for PC and other consoles is currently unavailable, Respawn is working on bringing it into the game.

Here’s how to link your Origin account to Steam to play Apex Legends on a different platform.

How to link Origin account to Steam for Apex Legends

The account linking process starts with first downloading Apex Legends on Steam. Open Steam, and search for Apex Legends. Click the ‘Add to Library’ button and then download the game. Since the game is free-to-play, you can directly add it to your library and install it after the download.

After Apex Legends finishes downloading, launch the game and enter your Origin account details. The username and password is the same one you use for your EA/Origin account. Complete the first time setup and wait for the game to launch. Once you’re in the title screen, you can navigate to the ‘Legends’, ‘Weapons’ to look through your cosmetics including skins, banners, quips, finishers, holo sprays, skydive emotes, and charms. If you want to ever unlink your Origin and Steam accounts, you can contact EA Support through their website.

You can now invite players through both steam and any other cross-play supported platform just by typing in their user name. To add friends, go to the Friends menu and click Find Friend. Type in their EA Public ID, PSN Online ID, Xbox Live gamertag or Nintendo Nickname to send them a request. When you’re in the friends menu, you can also see what platform each of your friends is playing on based on the icon next to their name.