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. I wish it supported PS4 controllers, but luckily I have a Switch controller so it works for me. Mac is where things get a little bit tricky as there is no plug and. Steps to use Xbox One Controller on Steam on Mac. Just plug in your Xbox One controller on a Linux system and you’re all set to game. At least we have something to play 2D Steam games until Valve gets it together. Linux also has a native support for Xbox Controller which makes it quite unique because this is something that is only found in Windows OS. 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). 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. It worked fine on 2D games that don't require a mouse for looking around. 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.
