I’m not great at games. At least, not on PC. I have no aptitude for using a mouse and keyboard.

That’s right—I play everything with a controller.

At least, I play all of my usual genres with a controller. And, up until about three years ago, the arrangement worked. A non-zero number of PC gamers may be shrieking silently (or loudly) about how unideal it is to play certain games with analog sticks, but I never had a problem.

Then my friend group decided to play PvP games. On PC.

One day, I’m playing Sea of Thieves and drunkenly lurching off a boat into water (my character, not me), and then the next, I’m trying to line up headshots on a human opponent who most definitely knows how not to get shot.

It didn’t take long to realize I needed a lot of help, and that assistance had to com

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