Drag'n Wash Controls & Settings: Controllers, Invert-Y and Motion Sickness

Yes, controllers are supported — and not just nominally. Steam lists full controller support plus DualShock 4 and DualSense support, alongside Steam Cloud and Family Sharing. The settings that matter most for feel arrived in the launch hotfix: the options menu now has a motion-sickness reduction toggle for the sprayer and an invert-Y mouse option, and the game menu gained an “Unstick Kobold” button for when a character gets wedged in the geometry.

Input and platform features

That last row matters. itch.io delivers Windows, macOS and Linux installers directly, and your purchase includes a Steam key, but the page does not itemise cloud saves or controller support. This page therefore will not claim the itch.io build lacks them — only that you should verify it yourself there.

What the three new toggles fix

Motion-sickness reduction. Continuous first-person spraying with a moving camera genuinely bothers some players. The announcement states plainly that the option lives in the options menu.

Invert-Y for the mouse. You spend the whole game moving the camera up and down to reach backs, wings and heads, so a Y axis that fights your instinct slows everything down. The developer only added the mouse inversion and asked whether the sponge controls should invert too, so expect that part to keep evolving.

Unstick Kobold. A rescue button in the game menu for characters stuck in the environment. The same patch also fixed glitchy graphics on the native Linux build with Nvidia GPUs, so if you see visual corruption on Linux or Steam Deck, check the patch is installed before blaming your hardware.

What to change first when something feels wrong

Queasy while spraying — turn on the motion-sickness toggle, then break long sprays into shorter bursts.

Camera moves the wrong way vertically — enable invert-Y. Note that only the mouse side is implemented so far.

Dragon or player wedged in the scene — use “Unstick Kobold”. If it happens during the ending credits, players report not to press it there; restarting is safer.

Controller unresponsive — on Steam, check Steam’s controller settings and Steam Input first. On itch.io, confirm drivers and system permissions, then check whether the game detects the device at all.

Visual corruption on Linux or Deck — confirm the build includes the launch hotfix; that entry specifically covers Nvidia graphics on Linux.

Honest gap: there is no official keybind list

Neither a full keybind table nor a complete options list has been published. This page therefore does not invent key mappings — any “press X to swap tools” claim you find elsewhere has no primary source behind it. In-game prompts are the reliable reference.

Ultrawide (21:9) and resolution: player reports only

No supported resolution list has been published, and the developer has never said anything about ultrawide. So this section can only pass on player reports — and those reports disagree, which is worth knowing before you blame your setup:

• One player hit misaligned UI. In the itch.io comments, someone on a 21:9 1440p monitor said they could only run the game at 16:9 1080p, and at that ratio the button and dialogue hitboxes did not line up with the actual interface, making it easy to click an option they did not want.
• The same player was fine after a restart. They later added that restarting the game fixed it, and suspected the trigger was resizing the window or changing resolution.
• Another player on the same class of monitor is fine. A different player states plainly that they also run 1440p ultrawide and everything works.

Which leaves two safe conclusions: this is not a widespread failure, and if you do hit it, restart the game before you start changing anything — far cheaper than touching system or GPU settings. For which resolutions you can actually pick, trust the in-game options list.

Sources

Input and platform features come from the official Steam store page and Steam’s own API data. The three new options and the Linux graphics fix come from the official Kobold Hotfix announcement. The credits-stage risk of the unstick button, and the ultrawide misalignment and its recovery, come from itch.io comments and are community information. Installer sizes and the included Steam key come from the itch.io store page.