I verified that my controller’s rumble worked fine, yet I had no controller rumble in Silksong. I fixed it by forcing Proton 9.0-4 in Silksong’s settings:

  1. Navigate to: Steam Library>Silksong>right-click>Properties>Compatibility
  2. Check “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool”
  3. Select “Proton 9.0-4” from the dropdown.

It seems that Silksong has inherited the same controller rumble issue as Hollow Knight with the native build [1].

References
  1. Type: Post. Author: “Cobwebblocks”. Publisher: [“ProtonDB”. “Howllow Knight”.]. Published: ~2025-08. Accessed: 2025-09-05T06:41Z. URI: https://www.protondb.com/app/367520#q_spejhJmH.

    No rumble on native version

  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    I never had an issue on hollow knight. Both on PC Linux and steamdeck. Might be an older issue?

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I never had an issue on hollow knight. Both on PC Linux and steamdeck. […]

      I’m not sure what the exact replication bounds are for the bug; maybe your configuration simply doesn’t experience the issue? Or perhaps you inadvertently configured Steam to force proton somewhere?

      • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Actually, I remembered that on PC at least (arch btw) it wouldn’t even launch natively, so I forced proton.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      […] Might be an older issue?

      For reference, the source that I cited was a report from last month [1]. Also, I personally verified that, in Hollow Knight, controller rumble worked with Proton enabled, and didn’t work with it disabled.

      References
      1. Type: Post. Author: “Cobwebblocks”. Publisher: [“ProtonDB”. “Howllow Knight”.]. Published: ~2025-08. Accessed: 2025-09-05T06:41Z. URI: https://www.protondb.com/app/367520#q_spejhJmH.

        No rumble on native version