Hiya!

The game is single-player, it starts with a tutorial so that children can understand the mechanics of the game, it is designed to be the ideal game to get started in videogames.

As for the controller, the game requires a controller to be played, the developers thought that the experience for the little ones would be better with the controller.

Thanks for your interest. 😊❤

Have one of those smaller switch pro controllers set up for xinput and it wasn't being detected properly, so I just rebound the keyboard keys to the controller and my son had a better/easier time with the controller than that keyboard.

Input prompts show up as keyboard, but he got used to the controls after telling him what did what. Shame that more developers don't allow button prompt changing through the menu. Switch and Playstation are the most sold consoles, hence have a huge controller attach rate but it's only always xinput devices.

I think it works better and simpler with a controller, I used an Xbox controller to finish it...although I could also see it also as a way to teach kids how to game with a keyboard