It's just a shame these companies won't work together to give us something as basic as native controller support in Steam. The M1 chip is a beast and I can play games I could never play on Integrated Intel Graphics. If you can manage to get all planets in alignment and you're willing to put in a little effort, you can have a good experience playing 2D games on your M1 Mac thanks to this app.
#MAPPING KEYBOARD KEYS TO GAME CONTROLLER PS4#
I wish it supported PS4 controllers, but luckily I have a Switch controller so it works for me. At least we have something to play 2D Steam games until Valve gets it together. Otherwise, I applaud the developer for his effort and making the app free. So you can move around in 3D games but not look (which makes 3D games unplayable). Unfortunately, this compromises the left/right function of the controller AND the keyboard. You can map the mouse to the right joystick and it does control the mouse pointer on the desktop, but for some reason it doesn't translate to looking around once you are in the game. The issue is that the key mapping for my new pc controller is all over the place - for some reason R2 is menu, L2 is gestures and the right analog stick causes me to attack (moving the stick to the left makes me do a heavy attack for example) The PC version doesn't seem to have any way to change controlls for a gamepad- only allows you to change mouse/keyboard mapping (which is dumb. If there was a way to map keyboard keys to right stick up/. It worked fine on 2D games that don't require a mouse for looking around.
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Until Steam updates controller support, this is the best we get. This is the only app I could find that will let me use a controller with 2D Steam games on my M1 Mac on Big Sur.