My brother and I get together on weekends to play some local co-op games. Far too many times I load up a game in Linux (because I prefer to play there) and the damned thing won't work with more than one game pad. I generally play with the Steam Controller, and he plays with an Xbox 360 controller.

I think it'd be nice to get a list of games that potentially have Local Co-Op, but because either the Link fails to translate the input correctly, or the game itself just doesn't support controllers very well under Linux.

One such game I know of is Hero Siege, where it just doesn't support controllers under Linux. The developers are aware of this one, but they said there isn't anything they can do.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/269210/discussions/0/490124466461346167/

We cannot do anything about these problems, game maker just ports to linux from its own programming language. all we can do is wait for a game maker patch where the problems no longer exist, sorry :(

since its universal and works for other platforms there is nothing to do code-wise for us :/

Death Road to Canada is another one, where the primary controller works under Linux, but it takes over both characters, and so I had to play it under Windows.

Anyone else know of games like this, so as to prevent us Linux nerds from buying them? There are always refunds, but I generally pick up a game a week or so in advance, and so don't have a chance to play it before finding out that controllers don't work.

This also could be an issue with the Steam Link, but that needs to be investigated still.