Not a very technical person, but is there a way to use a controller for this game instead of the keyboard? if there is please tell me without having to pay for xpadder if that even works. thanks in advance

Add the exe file on steam as a non steam and you can take advantage of steams controller config tool, works with Xbox/PS4/Switch controllers.

How do you do that?

Load up steam, in the top menu look for add game to steam or something like that (don't have a pic in front of me) and then go to this games install folder and pick the .exe and it will add the game to steam.

You can Google it for better instructions.

Also you can add controller support to basically any pc game with a program called pinnacle. It's been around for almost 20 years, still gets updated and has a big community that makes controller profiles for basically everything