For those of you developing PC games that should be played with a controller (as opposed to a mouse and keyboard), what controller do you use during development to test your game on? I am working on an indie game in Unity and from the very beginning, I've planned for the game to be played with a controller, but so far I've only tested it on a keyboard. Now I want to finally make it work with a controller. Can somebody recommend a good PC controller to use, preferably wireless? A name and a brand would be helpful.

I was just looking at the Steam controller on Amazon, but it seems it requires Steam to be installed on your computer, which I don't have because I don't play Steam games.

Thanks.

If you're developing for Windows then a Xbox 360 controller or controller that makes use of XIput is a good starting point.

Thank you all for the replies. I am leaning towards the XBox One wireless controller, mainly because I do a lot of my development in coffee shops and I don't want to carry around yet another cable with me. Plus it has native support for Windows 10, which is what I have on my laptop.

I use an XBox 360 controller. I imagine the XBox One controller would be a great choice. I was pretty disappointed when I got my PS3 controller and found out that Windows 7 sees all controllers as an XBox 360 controller. Even for OpenGL development in Windows it sees the PS3 controller as just an XBox 360 controller that's wired weird.

The important thing is that you're developing for a controller. I pretty much won't buy a PC game unless it's made to use a controller. I've been known to return games on more than one occasion ONLY because the game had no controller input.