Absolutely love the hardware. Absolutely hate the software.
Controller is super comfy, and everything feels amazing, especially compared to the OG steam controller.
But the software.
How is it this bad?
My profiles have to be reloaded manually all the time. Desktop window focus is constantly breaking with it. Steam Big Picture thinks I'm using a Steam Deck a lot of the time, and I can't exit Big Picture because of that. It puts the keyboard BEHIND the windows menus. Button combinations just don't work. I need to be able to ALT+TAB to use this controller properly... but that doesn't work for some reason. And the fucking inability to prioritize big picture functionality. Like, I can HEAR that I'm navigating big picture settings, but the overly is minimized or something. It's honestly astounding how not really for prime time this is.
Software for this thing is beta AT BEST.
Posted May 8, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC