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Steam News31 July 202621d ago

Full Controller Support

Reviews help a lot for small games! If you've been enjoying Axe Ghost, please consider leaving one! Axe Ghost now has full controller support. Axe Ghost is turn-based puzzle combat.

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Full Axe Ghost update

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What changed

1 fix1 addition4 changes0 removals
  • Compatibility
  • Events
  • UI and audio
  • Fixes
addedAxe Ghost now has full controller support.
changedAxe Ghost is turn-based puzzle combat. You push monsters around a grid and blow them up. It's based around a Daily Challenge leaderboard, and there are 21 hand-built puzzles in Fragments mode.
changedI'm a mouse-and-keyboard person. To make controller support a worthwhile effort I decided the threshold for shipping it was 'I actually prefer playing Axe Ghost with the controller'. I'm happy to say that's now the case!
changedYou can play the whole game comfortably on an Xbox, PlayStation, or Steam Deck controller. Prompts in the tutorial use the correct controller glyphs, and the pause menu lists every controller button and what it does. Here's some footage of how it plays this way:
fixedFixed the menu frame rate on mac
changedShare your Daily Challenge result to Bluesky

Axe Ghost changes

addedAxe Ghost now has full controller support.
changedAxe Ghost is turn-based puzzle combat. You push monsters around a grid and blow them up. It's based around a Daily Challenge leaderboard, and there are 21 hand-built puzzles in Fragments mode.
changedI'm a mouse-and-keyboard person. To make controller support a worthwhile effort I decided the threshold for shipping it was 'I actually prefer playing Axe Ghost with the controller'. I'm happy to say that's now the case!
changedYou can play the whole game comfortably on an Xbox, PlayStation, or Steam Deck controller. Prompts in the tutorial use the correct controller glyphs, and the pause menu lists every controller button and what it does. Here's some footage of how it plays this way:
fixedFixed the menu frame rate on mac

Reviews help a lot for small games! If you've been enjoying Axe Ghost, please consider leaving one!

Axe Ghost now has full controller support.

Axe Ghost is turn-based puzzle combat. You push monsters around a grid and blow them up. It's based around a Daily Challenge leaderboard, and there are 21 hand-built puzzles in Fragments mode.

I'm a mouse-and-keyboard person. To make controller support a worthwhile effort I decided the threshold for shipping it was 'I actually prefer playing Axe Ghost with the controller'. I'm happy to say that's now the case!

You can play the whole game comfortably on an Xbox, PlayStation, or Steam Deck controller. Prompts in the tutorial use the correct controller glyphs, and the pause menu lists every controller button and what it does. Here's some footage of how it plays this way:

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Also in this update:

  • Faster startup, especially on mac

  • Fixed the menu frame rate on mac

  • Share your Daily Challenge result to Bluesky

  • A batch of scoring and leaderboard fixes

Found something broken? Tell me in the Discord: https://discord.gg/tvq3g7sw2Z

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Steam News / 31 July 2026

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