ARC Raiders controls, gamepad and accessibility

18 August 2026 · 6 min read

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You can play ARC Raiders with a gamepad: Steam lists it as full controller support, and the DualSense and DualShock controllers each get their own separate tag.

If you’re deciding whether to play with a keyboard and mouse or a controller, and want to know what the game offers players who need particular control settings, the answer sits right there on the game’s Steam page. Everything below reflects the state of that page as of 2026. If you’re not yet familiar with the game itself, there’s a separate overview: what is ARC Raiders.

What Steam says about the controller

Among ARC Raiders’ categories on Steam is the full controller support tag. This is the top tier in Steam’s controller-support system: it means the game can be completed entirely without a keyboard and mouse, from the settings menu through to combat.

Beyond the general tag, Steam separately flags two more categories:

• DualSense Controller Support
• DualShock Controller Support

Both relate to PlayStation controllers. Steam breaks these out from the general full controller support tag when a game explicitly recognises those specific pads, rather than simply working with any gamepad through a generic Windows driver.

Why Steam bothers to separate these tags

The general full controller support tag on Steam just means every part of the game’s interface can be operated with a pad, from the menus through to combat. DualSense Controller Support and DualShock Controller Support, on the other hand, are given out separately when developers have specifically integrated support for Sony’s own controller brand, rather than relying only on a generic protocol like XInput.

In other games, this often — though not always — corresponds to extra touches such as battery-level indicators, lighting, or richer vibration. But which of those, if any, are actually implemented in ARC Raiders isn’t spelled out on the game’s Steam page — that’s the general logic behind the tag, not a description of its specific content in this title.

How to check and enable a controller in Steam

If your pad is connected but the game isn’t picking it up, the cause is usually a Steam setting rather than anything in the game itself. The general process looks like this:

1. Open Steam and go into “Settings”.
2. Head to the “Controller” section.
3. Enable support for the type you need — PlayStation, Xbox, or generic.
4. Restart the game if it was already open when you changed the setting.
5. Inside the game, check the controls menu — you can rebind buttons there to suit yourself.

This is general Steam controller behaviour, not a guide written by the ARC Raiders developers — there’s no official controller setup guide on the game’s page itself.

Steam Remote Play: no category listed

None of ARC Raiders’ Steam categories mention Remote Play. Steam normally adds that tag once a game is officially confirmed to support streaming to another device — a phone, a tablet, or another PC on the same home network.

A missing tag doesn’t automatically mean the feature is technically broken: Remote Play partly depends on settings in the Steam client itself, not only on the individual game. But since there’s no official confirmation on the page, it’s not something to count on in advance — better to test it yourself via Steam Link or the mobile app.

Accessibility: what Steam hasn’t tagged

Steam hasn’t assigned ARC Raiders any dedicated accessibility categories — the kind covering options for players with visual, hearing, or motor impairments. There’s no such section in the game’s category list.

That’s not proof such options are missing from the game itself. Steam doesn’t always break out details like text size, subtitles, or difficulty settings into their own categories, especially for games still being actively developed. The only reliable way to check is from inside the game — open its own settings menu and see what’s there.

If you need a specific accessibility option

There’s no official accessibility tag for ARC Raiders yet, but that doesn’t mean the option isn’t there. A practical way to check a specific need — subtitles, text size, button remapping, colour filters — looks like this:

1. Launch the game itself and open the full settings menu, not just the quick options shown at startup.
2. Check the “Controls”, “Audio” and “Interface” sections separately — the option you need often sits somewhere you wouldn’t expect.
3. If a demo or trial build is available, use it to check the settings before you buy.
4. Look through the community discussions on the game’s Steam page — players there usually list what’s missing themselves.

That’s a general checking process, not a step-by-step guide from the ARC Raiders developers — there’s no official accessibility document for the game at this point.

Which platforms you can play on

According to its Steam page, ARC Raiders runs on Windows. No other platform — macOS, Linux, or a console version — appears in the category list.

Other Steam categories on the page

Beyond controls, Steam has tagged ARC Raiders with a number of other categories, mostly around multiplayer and progress tracking:

These categories aren’t about controls directly, but they help explain the broader context: the game is built around playing with others, not just solo runs. For more on that, see co-op and squads in ARC Raiders.

The tags on the game’s Steam page can change over time — accessibility or Remote Play categories might get added later. The simplest way to check is to look yourself: revisit the game’s Steam page, or check the latest ARC Raiders updates, where such changes tend to get noted.

In short

Steam confirms full controller support plus separate DualSense and DualShock tags for ARC Raiders, but shows no Remote Play or dedicated accessibility categories, and lists a single platform on its page — Windows.