{"id":1740378,"date":"2026-11-06T05:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryeLkGmpPVvYobbGGBd3BN"},"modified":"2026-11-06T05:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:52:35","slug":"oh-hell-yes-pillars-of-eternity-1-and-2-are-getting-full-fat-gamepad-support-and-you-can-try-it-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/oh-hell-yes-pillars-of-eternity-1-and-2-are-getting-full-fat-gamepad-support-and-you-can-try-it-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh hell yes: Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 are getting full-fat gamepad support and you can try it right now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reader, a confession: each night, before I retire to my chambers, I light a small votive candle. Bowing over it, I clasp my hands and beseech the ghost of Josh Sawyer (who is not dead) to return to the Pillars of Eternity games and add the weirdly-decent gamepad support they got on console to their PC iterations. I am an old man who wants to play them on my Steam Deck, and the existing Steam Input templates don’t cut it for me.<\/p>\n

My prayers are answered. In an announcement yesterday, Obsidian declared that now is the time of the Pillars of Eternity and Deadfire: Controller Support Public Test<\/a>. Both PoE 1 and 2 have ongoing Steam betas that will allow you to play with full, start-to-finish controller support. You can opt into them and try the new feature for yourself by visiting each game’s properties and opting into their respective November 4 beta versions.<\/p>\n

Being betas, they’re a touch buggy right now. Indeed, one of Obsidian’s very first notices to players in the public test’s announcement is “This is a public test, so please expect bugs”, but I’m nevertheless impressed by the limited time I’ve spent mucking around with the games on Steam Deck. <\/p>\n

There are a couple of misaligned gamepad prompts, and a very slight amount of awkwardness with the analogue movement, but frankly my main takeaway is ‘Dang, it’s kind of wild how well these isometric CRPGs adjust to non-keyboard-and-mouse support’. Which, yeah, is how I felt about the console versions too.<\/p>\n

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