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

    • mat@linux.communityEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Yes, but OP makes it sound like the Hollow Knight issue is not fixed either. I didn’t even know HK had rumble, but I def felt the Silksong haptics when I played it at Gamescom. I wonder how we can make Team Cherry aware of this, or whether they are already aware?

        • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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          10 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
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            10 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
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      10 days ago

      Despite that, the game has been extremely stable for me so far. I currently have about 8 hours of playtime, and this controller thing has been pretty much the only bug/issue that I’ve encountered.