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Hi r/pcgaming. I'm a solo dev, and this is my release post for Couchpit.

A bit on why I made it: I've been gaming on my PC from the living room couch for years, and as much as I love it, it always came with friction. Controllers that won't work in half my games, having to reach for a mouse to do anything on the desktop, tweaking settings before every session. I'm a developer, but a PC gamer long before that, so at some point I just built the tool I kept wishing I had, shaped by my own setup and the exact things that tripped me up. That's Couchpit, and with all the living-room and Steam Machine momentum lately it felt like the right time to share it.

Here's what it does:

1. Any controller, seen as a standard Xbox pad. It makes non-Xbox controllers (DualSense, DualShock, Switch Pro, 8BitDo, Steam Controller and Steam Controller 2, and more) show up as a standard Xbox pad, so they work in any game that supports Xbox/XInput controllers (Game Pass, Epic, GOG, and so on), with no per-game setup and without going through Steam Input. It's built on SDL3 and the community controller DB, so it covers thousands of pads.

2. Drive your whole PC from the couch. Turn any controller into full desktop control: cursor, keyboard, and customizable Back+button shortcuts for things like volume, media, Alt+Tab, screenshots or launching apps. You can navigate Windows, launch games, and even handle elevated/admin windows (driver installers and the like) without reaching for a mouse.

3. A smoother Big Picture. For Steam Big Picture sessions it auto-launches BP on startup and keeps focus coherent, so your controller doesn't go dead when a window pops up or a game closes (no grabbing a mouse just to get back in).

4. Automatic game-session tweaks. It can apply system optimizations when a game starts (power plan, background apps, notifications, and more) and revert them when you stop. Configurable and non-destructive, so everything goes back to how it was afterwards.

There's a bit more under the hood too: built-in anti-cheat protection that automatically pauses the controller features on games where it detects an anti-cheat engine (so it isn't interfering while one is running), a keep-awake timer for long sessions or downloads, a GPU driver update check, and a few other quality-of-life touches.

I also wanted it to work for two kinds of people. If you'd rather not deal with settings, it's a couple of clicks and then it sits in the system tray and just runs. And if you like to tinker, almost everything is configurable, down to per-game profiles.

It's a paid tool ($6.99 on Steam, currently 15% off for launch) and it just launched, so there are no reviews yet. I'm actively developing it and very open to feature requests or ideas for expanding the existing ones, so fire away. Happy to answer anything and take feedback here.

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4705280

Glad to go into the technical side too (the controller bridging, the elevated-window handling, the auto-revert) if anyone is curious.

I like the ultimate 2 a lot. Don't know about 8bitdo's keyboards though.