Hey everyone!! I have a quick question that I hope someone can answer. Is it possible to play GOG games with a controller? I have been looking at different games on this site but see nothing about controller support. I hope I am just missing something, and controller support is available, but am not sure about how this all works. Can someone please help me? Any and all help is appreciated!! Thanks so much!!

Go to the game's page, like this for example, scroll down a bit and look at the right side. It looks like on my screenshot attached to this post.
On the right side under "game features" it says if controllers are supported along with some other stuff :)

Unfortunately the game features section is not always reliable.
In the case of Maid of the Dead for example, there is no mention of controller support yet it is fully supported ingame.

That's right, but the OP said he never found controller support on several games, so maybe he didn't know where to look :)

Most of the games here have controller support and also show that on the game card!

In addition, it is also possible to filter games by controller support when searching/browsing the store. It's one of the checkboxes under the subheader "Features."

There is no universal answer to that. Sometimes you can, and sometimes you can't.

Usually with modern games that were made for consoles, which is most modern games (or so it seems to me), you can, though.

Most likely if the games you are interested in work with a controller, then it will list "Controller Support" as a feature for the GOG store pages of those games.

Conversely, if "Controller Support" is not listed on a game's store page, then controllers probably don't work with that game.

GOG probably doesn't mark games which have e.g. DirectInput gamepad support, as having gamepad support. Those games will still probably run "fine" with modern gamepads which support both XInput and DirectInput, but at the same time those games are also from the era where gamepad support was often just an afterthought in the PC versions, and you were really expected to play the game with the keyboard (and maybe the mouse).

Then there are borderline cases like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time which, at least last time I tried it, is not fully playable with modern analog gamepads, even if they have DirectInput mode. Reason being that with modern PC gamepads the area of movement is round (just like in consoles), while with the old DirectInput gamepads it was quite often, or even usually, a square. That means you can't reach the diagonal maximums in games like Prince of Persian, meaning that if you run and start turning ("running in a circle") by pushing the analog stick diagonally, suddenly you end up just walking in a circle because the game does not register you pushing the stick diagonally all the way.

(I am not sure if some of the modern gamepads can take that into account somehow, adjusting how the gamepad registers all the analog extremes. That problem existed at least with Logitech F310 which has both DirectInput and XInput modes.)

In such cases, I think it is just better to play the PC version with keyboard+mouse.

EDIT: Well what do you know? Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time does currently list as having controller support? Maybe I need to test it again whether it now works fully with either Logitech F310 or 8Bitdo SN30 Pro+ (both gamepads support both XInput and DirectInput), and you can run in circles now. Maybe it nowadays works ok even with XInput gamepads (like the MS XBox gamepads which don't have DirectInput support)?

Thanks to everyone who responded to this post!!! I really do appreciate it. The reason I am looking to see if games have controller support is because I am looking to play these games on my Smart TV via an HDMI cord connecting my PC to my TV. Since I would be sitting in front of my TV and not at my PC, a controller would be ideal, but I do have a wireless keyboard & mouse just in case. Simple enough. Thanks to everyone who responded to my post!! Happy gaming!!

Depending on which game(s) you play, KB and mouse might be the better option, anyway.

Sounds great!! Thanks to everyone who participated in this thread!! Happy Gaming!!

List of games with controller support:

https://www.gog.com/en/games?features=controller_support


:)

Even if a game doesn't have controller support, you can use AntiMicroX (or similar software) to map keyboard keys to your gamepad.

As mentioned above, the tags are quite unreliable, making that a very partial list.