Pre-alpha. Nothing is released yet.
Your couch. Everyone's controller.
Kouch turns your PC or Steam Deck into a couch console for the emulators you already have — up to 8 players, every one with motion, one controller press to join.
What Kouch never does
- No games, BIOS, firmware or keys — ever. You bring your own.
- No driver required.
- No tracking without your permission.
How it works
Your controllers
Every controller in the room, read through Steam Input, including motion.
Kouch
One hub that keeps every seat straight and never needs a driver to do it.
Your emulators
The emulators you already have, or ones Kouch installs from their own releases, launched with your own games — Kouch never bundles either.
Everyone gets a seat
Eleven things Kouch does today, and what's still on the way.
Up to 8 players, one press to join
Everyone on the couch plays at once, every seat motion-ready — no per-emulator controller setup.
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A Quick Menu inside every game
Hold Select + Start to pause, manage players, save state, or quit — without leaving the game.
ShippedEvery seat gets motion
Not just the first controller — all 8 seats can tilt and turn a game that uses it.
ShippedPoint at the screen with a controller
Turn and tilt a controller with motion to point at Kouch's screens, in your own colour and number.
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Bring your own emulators
Works with the emulators you already trust, configured the way you like.
ShippedNo driver required
Controllers reach your emulators over a local network protocol they already understand.
ShippedLAN play
Lend controllers from another Kouch PC in the house — no internet involved.
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Transfer to another PC
Copy saves, states and settings to another Kouch PC with a one-time pairing code — home network only.
ShippedKeyboard and mouse everywhere
Full parity for navigating Kouch, and the keyboard can join as its own seated player.
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Netplay between testers
Each player runs the game on their own PC — Kouch carries the connection through Steam, no port forwarding.
Shipped · between testers
Themes, mods and plugins
Reshape colours, sounds and backgrounds — themes are data-only, plugins are sandboxed.
ShippedWorkshop sharing: coming
Connect a controller
Move the stick: here in your browser it moves your own cursor, in your colour and number. In Kouch, a controller with motion points at the screen by turning and tilting it.
Press any button on a controller to join.
- No controller connected yet.
In the app: two players pointing at once.
Runs in Game Mode
Kouch is newer on the Deck than on Windows — the same Quick Menu, the same seats, a keyboard and mouse as a player, its own controller keyboard for typing, and controllers handed straight to Flatpak emulators.
Automatic graphics reads the handheld and sets each emulator for its screen, again at every launch.
Large libraries can still drop a few frames while we keep tuning it.
Promises
Kouch never downloads, shares, sends or bundles games, BIOS, firmware or keys. Not from the internet, not over your network, not in a .kod file, not through Steam. You bring your own games and your own system files.
Kouch never needs a driver. Controllers reach emulators over a local network protocol they already understand.
No tracking without your permission. Today, Kouch sends nothing about you or your games — it goes online only for things you can see.
Still coming
Everything here but performance reports waits on Kouch's own Steam app id.
- Steam WorkshopComing
- Steam Cloud savesComing
- Remote Play TogetherComing
- Rich presenceComing
- Steam's own “Join game” buttonComing
- Performance reportsComing, opt-in
Frame rate, your system's specs and the settings in use — to find the best settings for everyone. Opt-in, off until you say yes.