Top 15 Controller Companion Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

Put mouse, media and keyboard control in the palms of your hands so you'll never have to leave the couch again!

Mouse Control
The left analog stick controls the mouse cursor.

Media Control
Y is bound to Play/Pause and the shoulder buttons are next and previous track

Fullscreen Auto-disable
Whenever another program, game or Steam Big Picture is running

Virtual Keyboard
Pressing the left stick pops up this arcade style virtual keyboard

1. Xpadder

Xpadder Xpadder simulates the keyboard and mouse using your gamepadWhat does Xpadder let you do?- Play PC games with poor or no gamepad support- Add gamepad support to emulated, internet and DOS games- Play multiplayer games with each player using a gamepad- Control video/music players using their shortcut keys- Use a......

2. JoyxOff

JoyxOff An Xbox 360 Controller Manager that easily allows you turn off the Xbox 360 controller on PC with very Low CPU usage. You can also check the battery charge level.Steam users can use the button bindings to open Big Picture mode or close Steam's main window.......

3. Pinnacle Game Profiler

Pinnacle Game Profiler Pinnacle Game Profiler allows you to emulate your keyboard and mouse with your video game controller, and otherwise customize the controller's behavior. Many PC games do not directly support game controllers, but with Pinnacle Game Profiler you can use any controller to play any game! Games that use awkward keyboard/mouse......

4. AntiMicro

AntiMicro AntiMicro is a program used to map keyboard and mouse actions to gamepad/joystick buttons. It is useful for playing games with poor or no gamepad support.Its graphical interface uses a combination of the Qt and SDL toolkits.It is open source and released under the GNU General......

5. Pad2Key

Pad2Key Pad2Key was built to turn a Xbox 360/PS3/other controller into a keyboard effectivlly adding joystick support for any PC game.......

6. JoyToKey

JoyToKey JoyToKey enables you to control any softwares (e.g. browsers, games on the web, Microsoft office applications or even Windows itself) by using your favorite windows joystick! Whenever you press joystick buttons and sticks, JoyToKey will convert the input into keyboard strokes and mouse movements so that the target application works......

7. GestureWorks Gameplay

GestureWorks Gameplay GestureWorks Gameplay is a powerful tool for using and building Virtual Controllers to make games that would normally require a mouse and keyboard or external controller easily playable on a Windows 8 tablet or other Windows 8 touchscreen device. Users can select from a wide variety of onscreen buttons and......

8. HID Macros

HID Macros This utility is written mainly for Flight Simluator X and has various features specifically to that end; but it can also be useful more generally if you want to activate keyboard macros with unusual keyboards or send differing commands with the same keystroke on multiple keyboards.Differentiating between keyboards while typing......

9. PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac)

PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac) PlayOnLinux (PlayOnMac at http://www.playonmac.com ) is a tool to help Linux (and Mac) users run games and programs for Windows on Linux (or Mac), via the use of (as a front-end for) Wine. Few games are compatible at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the......

10. DJL

DJL Djl is an open-source (GPL licensed) game manager written in Python 2.5 for the GNU/Linux Operating Systems. It is inspired by Valves Steam software for Windows.......

11. Smoothping

Smoothping Smoothping is your ping and lag lowering software. It takes all of the guesswork out, picks the best server for you, and lets you spend time playing, not configuring software!......

12. Source SDK

Source SDK The Source SDK is a software development kit compiled by Valve Software that is used to create maps or mods for the Source engine, with the exception of Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Alien Swarm. These games are packaged with their own SDKs, called the Left 4......

13. Battleping

Battleping Battleping helps gamers achieve a faster connection and improve in-game response time to over 60 games including Aion, Final Fantasy XIV (A Realm Reborn), Wildstar, Age of Wushu,Wildstar and Elder Scrolls Online. Battleping can also help where internet routing issues are causing a problem with any of our supported games.......

14. reWASD

reWASD reWASD is a gamepad remapper for Windows 10 that lets you remap XBox One controls, including buttons and Xbox Elite paddles.......

15. Game Translator

Game Translator A utility for translating language packs used in games into a different language. Supports over 50 games, with more games added through small plugins. Simple and easy-to-use interface.......