Slime Rancher 2 Gyroscopic Motion Controls Guide

PS4 controllers
steam://controllerconfig/1657630/2868783940

Touch the right half of the touchpad for motion controls, click the lower part to jump or the upper part to pulse. The left pad mirrors the left thumbstick. All other controls function as normal, changes only made to pad. Button prompts may display a question mark instead of Xbox type glyphs while using motion controls. Gyro sensitivity of 1:4.

Steam Controllers
steam://controllerconfig/1657630/2868858132

Touch Right Pad for gyroscopic motion controls, swipe to look around. Jump/Interact on grips. All other controls function as in the official configuration. Gyro sensitivity of 1:4, swipe sensitivity of 360° per full swipe.

PS4 controller
steam://controllerconfig/433340/2869822954

Switch Pro Controller
steam://controllerconfig/1657630/2868863549

Press and hold either bumper (L1/R1 on PS controllers, L/R on Switch controllers) for motion controls, press briefly to select item slots. Other controls function as normal. Emulates a mouse and keyboard, use Mute/Share/Capture (circle-in-square) button to toggle to normal gamepad buttons to learn button prompts.

• Library (Steam pane)
• Slime Rancher (right click game entry in list)
• Manage – Controller Layout (drop menus)
• Browse Configs (button at bottom of screen)
• Community (side tab)
• Locate the setting you want in the list and apply it

If you use one of the links, each one opens in the Steam client and the configuration is then displayed there for you to accept or reject. These profiles use only Steam and no additional software to run, so you should have Steam running and have the controller you want to use switched on when you click the link you want.

Please save any custom controller layouts made in Steam’s controller layout configurator before clicking the link for a setting. When the link is opened in Steam any unsaved custom controller layout is immediately lost and replaced by this layout if accepted, otherwise it will load the default configuration if the new one is rejected.

• All button icons will indicate mouse and keyboard functions instead of gamepad functions. To remedy this, read up on the keybinds from the game’s menus or press Mute (PS4/PS5) or Capture (circle-in-square button for Switch controllers) or Select/Back (Steam Controller) to toggle between mouse and keyboard behavior with motion controls, and gamepad behavior without motion controls.
• The left thumbstick functions as an 8 way movement control. This can be remedied with the toggle described in the above drawback, although this will largely defeat the point of using any of these control schemes.
• There are no known issues to troubleshoot specific to this game. For general tips on various issues that might be encountered, refer to this guide which applies to motion controls in general as well as those made with Steam Input or by me specifically.