Game recommendations?

Get Dragon's Dogma. It's great and makes full use of the gamepad. It's not the easiest game but you'll only truly learn when you play with the hardest niggas.

Or get Outer Wilds. Excellent game with good gamepad use.

Also who the hell plays Deus Ex with a gamepad lol. It's made for mouse and KB.

Incidentially, the game you are giving away here, Hob, I tried back in the days when I was in team KB+M. I found it to be unplayable. Things have changed over the years and I wouldn't want my gaming nowadays without my Steam controller. I love that thing! And I just recently started Hob again and am now hving a blast with it thanks to the improved controll-ability.

Sometimes. I'm using an Xbox controller mostly for jump-n-run/metroidvania-style games and loved playing Ori and the Blind Forest, HyperLightDrifter and Axiom Verge with it, all fantastic, my fav is Ori. Those are definitely not easy, many would call them hard, but there are more difficult games out there as well... looking at Hollow Knight, great game, but I suck.

Deus Ex (original and HR) also I loved playing, but I did with KB+M.

I play everything with a controller if it is supported, you can lay back at your chair and is generally more relaxed way to play. of cource you can't play competitive shooters with a controller (call of duty, battlefield etc.) but if you play just for the story is fine. best games to play with a controller are fighting games (tekken, mortal kombat etc.), driving games (dirt, grid etc.) or action games with a lot of rolls and dodges like dark souls, devil may cry, assassins creed or nier (i'm playing nier automata these days with a controller).

I use a controller for pretty much any top down/isometric turn based game and side scrolling platformer. Briefly scanning my list of installed or finished games in Steam and GOG:

• 3030 Deadwar Redux
• Bastion
• Beat Hazzard
• Braid
• Deadlight
• Dead Cells
• Dex
• Foregone
• The Final Station
• INSIDE
• Into the Breach
• LIMBO
• Little Nightmares
• Mark of the Ninja
• Rochard
• The Sexy Brutale
• The Silent Age
• Steamworld Heist
• Steamworld Dig
• Stealth Bastard Deluxe
• Symphony
• Thomas was Alone
• Transistor
• Trine series
• Unmechanical
• Vessel
• XCOM & XCOM2

Also driving games:

• American Truck Sim
• Euro Truck Sim 2
• BeamNG
• Mudrunner
• Rocket League

And flying games:

• Rebel Galaxy
• Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages

It also works great for the Telltale games:

• Minecraft Story Mode series
• Tales from the Borderlands
• The Walking Dead series
• A Wolf Among Us

I was gonna suggest Mortal Kombat 11, since I bought my controller when I bought this game, but I read that you turned it down (and I'm a girl too :D)

Here are a few you may wanna look at:
Fall Guys: I find this one fun and try to play a couple of rounds whenever I can.
Bumerang Fu: It has both single player and local multiplayer mode (it has Remote Play Together). It's kind of fun.
Party Hard: I love the old school aesthetics. Plus, since I suck at platformers, this is a different kind of game.
Firewatch: I really liked this game. You get to explore the surroundings while completing tasks and moving forward in the story. I stopped playing because I had too much work and then I forgot I had it, lol. Now I wanna play it again and finish it.

I really love Human: Fall Flat, but... It's not that it's difficult to play. The characters have weird movements (that's the whole point of the game), which can get frustrating. But it was one of the first games I played when I bought my controller, and I love it.

What can be better to learn to play with a controller than former console exclusives? :D
I can recommend Quantic Dream trilogy or at least Detroit as the last one. They are good and not hard, mb except some QTEs in Heavy Rain (they are a little bit uncomfortable). So you can easily get used to controller :)

Apart from the Quantic Dream trilogy, which has been recommended, here are some other games that I enjoy playing on controller:

• Celeste
• Any combo based game (Tales of Berseria comes to mind) or fighting game (Skullgirls is hard af)
• Castle Crashers
• Knight Squad 1 and 2 (this is technically a multiplayer game, but I have tons of fun playing it solo)
• Towerfall Ascension (also MP, but has a nice story mode)
• Beat Hazard 2 (not really controller game, more like twin stick arcade)
• LEGO games
• GTA V (could be because I first started playing it on the 360, but I find it way better on controller than MKB)
• Guacamelee 1 and 2

I don't know about being easy but these are ones I play with a Xbone. I sometimes have to switch to Mouse/Keyboard for difficult shooting sections, I am bad at aiming with a controller.

Tomb Raider (Any)
Control
Batman Arkham series and Origins
Alan Wake
Bayonetta
Binary Domain
Bot Vice
Broforce
Brothers
Cross Code
The Bureau XCOM Declassified
Cuphead
Darksouls
Darksiders
Dandara
Enslaved
The Evil Within
Final Fantasy (Any)
Genshin Impact
Iron Fisticle/Crypticle
Just Cause 2,3
Kingdom (Any)
Lego Games (Any)
Life is Strange
Little Nightmares
Mad Max
Mass Effect Andromeda
Metal Gear Rising Revengence
Metal Wolf Chaos
Shadow of Mordor
Mortal Kombat X
Injustice
Mother Russia Bleeds
Oddworld Strangers Wrath
Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps
Outland
Red Faction Armageddon/Guerrilla
Remember Me
Resident Evil (Any. Maybe not 7 or village never played those)
Renegade Ops
Retro City Rampage
Ryse
Saints Row (any)
Shakedown Hawaii
Shenmue 1&2
Sleeping Dogs
The Surge 1&2
Vanquish
TTs The Walking Dead (any)
40k Space Marine

Some games do play better with a controller -- many 2D and 3D platformers, some Action/Adventure games. Before I play a game, I always look up the word "controller" in the Steam Discussions to see what people's opinions are, it helps.

If you are really just starting with a controller, you might start with easy games -- knowing where the buttons A/B/X/Y are WITHOUT having to look down makes a HUGE difference.

So maybe start with some LEGO games? You seem to have played "The Hobbit", so you probably know more or less what to expect of them... Youropa also worked well with a controller for me (despite a few annoying vehicle sections).

Cheers!

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