It was revealed back in March that the team at Xbox was looking into adding touch controls to Project xCloud, and it's finally here - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is now playable with touch controls in the Project xCloud Preview.
It works as you'd expect - you can use makeshift d-pad and Xbox buttons to navigate the menus, and the gameplay incorporates two virtual analog sticks. All in all, it seems to be working very well!
During today's Microsoft Game Stack stream, various snippets of Gears 5 gameplay was also demoed using bespoke touch controls, and the Project xCloud team noted that we might see a couple of games with these features hit the preview ahead of the game streaming service's official launch this September.
Interested in playing your Xbox games with touch controls? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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Comments 7
Playing Hellblade like this is so surreal! But cool.
Interesting... when i saw the headline i was just expecting "a gamepad drawn on the screen", not that they were going to implement game-specific touch control layouts... thats going above and beyond!
Good to see individual controls for different games. Also pleased the GUI isn't just a joystick design but an eyeball for camera and person for moving. Nice visual to back up what you're actually doing
I can't wait until they give it a proper name. This one is so stupid.
I think that most people will just use the standard Xbox controller, but this seems to be an ok replacement
Interesting. I would think this would work fine for some games (like a walking sim a la “What Remains is Edith Finch” or a turn-based RPG like Civiliazation or the South Park rpgs), but not most. Might be a nice way to get some simple puzzling in when on the go. But I’ll pass on touch controls for most games.
This is a fantastic idea.
Touch controls don't interest me to be honest but considering it's gonna be tablets and phones people will be using to run xCloud it makes perfect sense.
It fits perfectly with their focus on accessibility
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