Its hard to convince people of the utility though. It also has a pretty large ramp-up time.

A friend of mine keeps trying mine out on stuff like cities skylines and determining it's no good. Its somewhat unsurprising, skylines is a very work-table feeling game; replacing a mouse would feel really weird (and take a while to really feel decent).

For me it clicked demoing DOOM mods; it felt great on the controller and I could throw it up on my TV.

Stardew Valley feels pretty good too and while you can play RTS games with it (control groups on the left pad), it won't compare with a mouse anytime soon.

I wanted to return mine. It was the worst controller I've ever used.

I stuck with it after hearing about other people having similar experiences and changing their minds and now I can't go back to using an Xbox controller.

Stardew Valley might not the best example as it was designed to work also with a gamepad. You control the mouse cursor with the right analog stick and the player with the left stick.

Ah, well. I've been playing a lot of it lately. Its the same with the steam controller except the touchpad is a really nice mouse.

The steam controller probably should still work well in scenerioes where a controller is intended. Admittedly, I don't think it's as good for third person games.

I pre-ordered it months before release but have been rather frustrated with being able to use it for anything replacing a right analog stick. It's been barely okay for turn based games like civilization but for something like bioshock infinite it feels woefully inaccurate and difficult to get the feel, even after 2 weeks of solid use (including scores of steam link crashes)

If you're using GNU/Linux, it could be a problem with the nvidia drivers. Mine constantly crashed due to a bug with nvidia-358, updating to 361 fixed it and now I don't think its crashed since.