Welp, looks like I won’t be needing this for my games anymore.

We’re looking forward to spending some time with Dangerous Golf, the destruction-focused, ball-bouncing “simulation” that just launched on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 courtesy of some veteran developers from Burnout Paradise-maker Criterion Games. Still, we’re a little surprised by a prominent missing feature from the PC version. As the game’s Steam page now notes quite prominently, “Dangerous Golf requires a controller to play.”

A lack of keyboard and/or mouse support is more than just a rarity in PC games; it’s practically unheard of. Even when games are specifically designed for a handheld controller on another platform, the PC port usually offers some sort of option for the two input methods that have been standard on practically every home PC for the past two or three decades. Console games that would be functionally impossible to control or feel incredibly compromised without a controller (EA’s Skate series comes to mind) usually just don’t end up with PC ports in the first place.

Aside from some recent virtual reality games (which might as well be considered a separate platform), the only PC game we can think of that absolutely can’t be controlled with a mouse and/or keyboard is Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. That game was explicitly designed to use a console controller’s dual analog sticks to allow for simultaneous, separate control of two protagonists. It would at the very least be extremely awkward to control without those sticks. Dangerous Golf, on the other hand, could probably have implemented the same basic keyboard/mouse-based control scheme that dozens of other PC golf games has used for decades without too much trouble.