Best Controller Games on Steam
Games designed around gamepad play, analog controls, or couch-friendly input.
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1Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Oct 12, 2012
In this game, you can…
- practice alley-docking so much in-game that it carries over to real CDL-style trailer backing tests.
- join online convoys where a small bump can turn into a cross-country chase, or into a friendly honk-and-wave road trip with strangers.
- install major map mods and end up convoying through places like Iceland on custom roads with new physics and navigation.
- start with quick jobs, buy your first truck, take out loans, hire drivers, and grow into a multi-garage fleet that earns while you're out hauling.
- hammer down the highway with the speed limiter off, then sweat every speed camera and fine as you try to keep the delivery on time.
- reverse a full trailer into a tight loading bay and park it cleanly.
- cross a border and immediately deal with new road rules, new signage, and suddenly driving on the opposite side in the UK.
- haul everything from fuel and chemicals to oversized machinery and vehicles, then adjust how you drive to keep the cargo intact.
- tune in to live local radio stations as you drive and switch countries until the music and traffic rhythm sync up with the route.
2Hollow Knight - Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Feb 24, 2017
In this game, you can…
- jump into the minds of characters and enemies to hear their thoughts and dig up secrets that aren't told in normal dialogue
- learn boss fights with no health bar, reading their patterns until you can tell you're winning just from how they move
- take on a near-mythic platforming gauntlet of saws and spikes that can take hours, then reach a hidden payoff at the end
- get dropped into a kingdom with no map, then slowly piece together where to go by exploring, backtracking, and unlocking routes
- customize your build with charms that can completely change how you fight and move, then swap setups to make the same boss feel different
- chain movement upgrades into fluid traversal: wall jump, double jump, dash, then dash through danger and bounce off enemies to keep flying forward
- realize you've charted a massive interconnected world when the full map finally clicks into place and you can see how everything connects
3Forza Horizon 4 - Dynamic seasons change everything at the world’s greatest automotive festival. Go it alone or team up with others to explore beautiful and historic Britain in a shared open world.
Mar 9, 2021
In this game, you can…
- watch the entire map flip seasons together each week, until winter freezes lakes solid and you can drive straight across them.
- drive the Halo Warthog in a crossover mission, then unlock a Cyberpunk car by winning a head-to-head challenge.
- drop into a car battle royale, hunt upgrades on the map, then win by beating other players in head-to-head races.
- race a train in a tiny 1959 Ford Anglia as a full set-piece event.
- slam a supercar through stone walls, trees, and fences at 250–350 kph without stopping.
- stumble onto hidden barn cars, haul them out as rusty wrecks, then restore them into pristine classics you can actually race.
- mess up a corner, rewind time, take the turn again, and keep the race alive instead of restarting.
4Vampire Survivors - Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
- turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
- stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
- start with a whip and end up an immobile tree that kills by radiating garlic.
- open a chest and instantly level up multiple weapons at once, plus grab a big cash payout mid-run.
- combine the right weapon and passive to evolve them into dramatically stronger versions.
- use a shield and a time-freeze as panic buttons, then calmly reposition while everything else is stuck.
5Assetto Corsa - Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!
Dec 19, 2014
In this game, you can…
- blast down Tokyo's Shutoko expressway at night through dense traffic, with headlights and city lights doing the only guiding.
- crash into another driver on a highway server, both of you wait, crash again, then end up driving together for an hour without a single chat message.
- chain mods into totally different activities, from GT races to touge runs, drift nights, open-world city traffic, and even driving a lawn mower or a dinosaur.
- drive a laser-scanned Monza, including the old banked Sopraelevata oval that real races used until 1961.
- wear your tires into flat spots, heat-cycle them, and lay rubber onto the track lap after lap.
- turn up the boost in a Lotus 98T, feel the car squirm as power hits, and manage it so you don't blow the engine.
- put on a VR headset and race through traffic or carve modded roads with full depth and scale instead of a flat screen.
- tweak toe, camber, ride height, springs, and aero, then chase how every change reshapes the car's balance as fuel burns off.
6Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered - In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, the worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in an original action-packed story. Play as an experienced Peter Parker, fighting big crime and iconic villains in Marvel’s New York. Web-swing through vibrant neighborhoods and defeat villains with epic takedowns.
Aug 12, 2022
In this game, you can…
- chain roof launches, wall-runs, free-dives, point zips, and last-second swing catches before hitting the street.
- web an enemy to a wall or a car, then grab a manhole cover and slam someone with it mid-brawl.
- unlock tons of suits and use suit powers that change how fights play out, including showing up in an underwear suit for serious missions.
- throw yourself off a rooftop and start web-swinging across Manhattan.
- swing straight into a fight and stay moving while you dodge bullets, leap over enemies, and keep attacking without stopping.
- clear enemy hideouts silently with stealth takedowns across rooftops and interiors around the city.
- drop to street level mid-patrol and hear civilians react to you cheering, criticizing, or freaking out as you pass.
- snap photos of famous landmarks like a tourist, including selfies from the tops of skyscrapers.
- get a running J. Jonah Jameson radio show that reacts to what you're doing around the city.
7Cult of the Lamb - Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Aug 11, 2022
In this game, you can…
- tell a follower about the afterlife, let them volunteer to die for you, and watch a tentacled void drag them away mid-ritual.
- recruit enemies and even bosses you just defeated, then decide whether to marry them, humiliate them, chain them up, or keep them working.
- start a romance quest for a follower, botch the love spell, still hold the wedding, and then get asked to arrange a fight to the death with their crush.
- get executed as a sacrificial lamb, then get resurrected by an imprisoned god who hands you a crown.
- build a cult camp with farms and kitchens, then sprint back from dungeon runs to feed, shelter, and sermonize so your cult powers up combat.
- marry followers, kiss them for loyalty, then sacrifice or resurrect them later when it suits your cult.
- revive a dead follower, gift them a longer lifespan, promote them into leadership, then imprison and re-educate them when they resist.
- run fast combat dungeons where you swap weapons and curses on the fly, stack tarot-style buffs, and learn bosses' patterns to topple four bishops.
8Stick Fight: The Game - Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.
Sep 28, 2017
In this game, you can…
- shoot guns that spit out chasing snakes that swarm whoever they find.
- fire a black hole cannon that sucks everyone in and forces the fight into the next level.
- take control of a boss and use it to wreck your friends for a round.
- get launched across the map by your own shotgun, rocket, or minigun recoil.
- shoot chains or supports to collapse platforms and drop people into pits or hazards.
- fight on stages packed with spikes, lasers, lava floors, and shifting safe ground that turns each round into a scramble.
- pull off movement tricks like diving, flipping, wall-climbing, and tossing a gun just to pick it up for an extra jump.
9Brotato - Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Jun 23, 2023
In this game, you can…
- wield six weapons at once.
- play a character that can't use weapons at all and instead explodes on contact with enemies.
- lock shop items you can't afford, reroll the rest, then merge matching weapons into stronger versions.
- survive 20–90 second waves, then sprint into a shop to buy gear before the next swarm hits.
- start with a weapon type and see the shop start nudging more of that same style at you.
- pick from dozens of potatoes with big bonuses and penalties that force totally different runs.
- switch between manual aim to focus fire and auto-aim that sprays your guns in every direction.
- turn enemy drops into both money and XP, so every wave becomes a choice between staying alive and grabbing loot.
10NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 - The latest opus in the acclaimed STORM series is taking you on a colourful and breathtaking ride. Take advantage of the totally revamped battle system and prepare to dive into the most epic fights you’ve ever seen !
Feb 4, 2016
In this game, you can…
- pair two characters to unleash a unique team ultimate, like Pain trapping foes in a giant sphere while Konan carpet-bombs it with paper bombs.
- trigger character-specific ultimate attacks that play out as full cinematic set pieces, like Madara's Perfect Susanoo splitting mountains in two.
- switch fighters mid-combo to keep a hit going, then chain into a different character's attacks to extend the string.
- activate an in-fight transformation that pauses the action, then drops you back in with a new form like a mini episode climax.
- play story battles as staged boss fights with quick-time sequences, where set pieces escalate into anime-scale finales.
- choose between two story paths that follow Naruto and Sasuke separately, then converge for the war's turning point.
- free-roam around a hub, pick fights on the fly, then get pulled into mob-clearing brawls or sudden boss encounters.
- land a hit on someone and keep them airborne so long they barely touch the ground for minutes in a row.
