Meh – Shadow PC Review

This app needs a virtual joystick (at least.). Most of the crappy MFi controllers don’t support 16 buttons so just about every PC game you’d want to stream through this service ends up as a lackluster crippled experience. I just doesn’t matter how good the streaming service is if you can’t play the game because you are missing buttons. The “best” MFi controller out there is the miserable SteelSeries Nimbus that only has 14 buttons. It’s missing analog stick clicks (r3 and l3) as well as missing a back / start button. So if you want to play most modern games using controllers in this app, you can’t melee, sprint, change views, or some other critical gameplay feature. Additionally, without a back / start button you can’t access things like maps, or menus, or many other features in quite a few games. Total dealbreaker for this kind of service. Finally. The keyboard needs to be rewritten to be an onscreen transparent keyboard. Lose the crappy built in iOS keyboard as it’s totally useless for this kind of application. So close to being good, yet so far. Definitely not worth $35 a month without these basic features. Get these features added and in parallel reach out to some MFi controller manufacturers to get them on board with supporting the basic standard for game controllers since the ps2 (2000) and the original Xbox (2001). 16 buttons or none at all.
Review by ClockParadoX on Shadow PC.