Valve’s Steam Controller costs $99 and arrives May 4
Valve’s Steam Controller will hit the market on Monday, May 4 for a list price of $99 in the United States. The Steam Controller does exactly what it says: it communicates with anything running Steam or the Steam Link app, so this includes PCs, Macs, mobile devices, and the Steam Deck.
Eventually, the Steam Controller will connect to the new Steam Machine console and Steam Frame VR headset, but neither product has a specific release date yet. They were originally scheduled to release in early 2026 alongside the Steam Controller, but we’re almost five months into the year and only a third of that promise is close to being fulfilled. Valve said in March that it hoped to ship its products in 2026, dropping the “early” part.
As noted in our review, the Steam Controller is a solid gamepad, especially for its price. It looks and feels a lot like a Steam Deck, with two trackpads under a pair of TMR controllers and a standard set of faces. It’s responsive, ergonomic, and comes with a nice little charging and docking puck that snaps into place on the bottom of the gamepad. Just note that the Steam Controller is not a PC controller: it works with Steam, and Steam only. You will need to add games with their own launchers like Monitoring, Valorant, Minecraft Or Fortnite to your Steam library before playing them with Valve’s proprietary controller. How convenient – for Valve, at least.
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Worldwide Steam Controller prices are as follows:
