- Steam App
- Pirate Souls (1929990)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 20 July 2026 - 02:21:07 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
This update is about how you hold the game. Pirate Souls has always been a keyboard and mouse MMO. From now on, it is also a controller game, a click to move game, and a game you can drive entirely from the keyboard. Underneath that, we spent a long stretch clearing out the stutter that has been following players around the world map. Full controller support Plug in a gamepad and play. Any pad SDL recognises works, whether it is Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo or generic, and the game reads which one you connected so the prompts on screen show the right buttons. Positional layout, so it is correct on every brand. Left stick moves, clicking it toggles run. Face buttons attack, kick, dodge and swap hotbar banks. D-pad opens the windows you reach for most. Trigger chords put all twenty hotbar slots within reach without cluttering the HUD. Menus take focus automatically, so shops, banks, trades ...