diff --git a/services/wolf.sh b/services/wolf.sh
index 2e7c322..416d29d 100644
--- a/services/wolf.sh
+++ b/services/wolf.sh
@@ -2384,12 +2384,27 @@ CATALOG = {
                 f'{games}/retroarch:/home/retro/.config/retroarch:rw',
                 f'{games}/esde-custom-systems:/home/retro/ES-DE/custom_systems:rw',
                 f'{games}/esde-settings:/home/retro/ES-DE/settings:rw'],
+        # Steam Input needs /dev/uinput for the SAME reason the esde entry
+        # below needs it for AntiMicroX: it does not hand a game the raw
+        # controller device at all — it grabs the raw device exclusively for
+        # itself and creates its OWN synthetic virtual controller via uinput,
+        # then hands that synthetic device to the game. Confirmed live:
+        # without this, Steam's own controller test screen reads the raw
+        # device fine (it does not need uinput for that) and shows a correct
+        # Gamepad template, but every actual game — Steam title or non-Steam
+        # shortcut alike — sees no controller at all, since Steam Input can
+        # never create the virtual device it is supposed to hand off. Same
+        # devices= grant pattern as esde below: GOW_REQUIRED_DEVICES alone
+        # only gets the base image's entrypoint script to bind-mount the
+        # node; the container also needs Wolf's own create-time device grant
+        # to actually open it.
         env=['PROTON_LOG=1', 'RUN_SWAY=true',
-             'GOW_REQUIRED_DEVICES=/dev/input/* /dev/dri/* /dev/nvidia*'],
+             'GOW_REQUIRED_DEVICES=/dev/uinput /dev/input/* /dev/dri/* /dev/nvidia*'],
         cap_add=['SYS_ADMIN', 'SYS_NICE', 'SYS_PTRACE', 'NET_RAW', 'MKNOD', 'NET_ADMIN'],
         security_opt=['seccomp=unconfined', 'apparmor=unconfined'],
         ipc_mode='host', ulimits=[{'Name': 'nofile', 'Hard': 10240, 'Soft': 10240}],
         privileged=False,
+        devices=['/dev/uinput:/dev/uinput'],
     ),
     'esde': dict(
         name='WolfES-DE', title='EmulationStation',
@@ -4813,13 +4828,28 @@ CATALOG = {
                 f'{games}/retroarch:/home/retro/.config/retroarch:rw',
                 f'{games}/esde-custom-systems:/home/retro/ES-DE/custom_systems:rw',
                 f'{games}/esde-settings:/home/retro/ES-DE/settings:rw'],
+        # Steam Input needs /dev/uinput for the SAME reason the esde entry
+        # below needs it for AntiMicroX: it does not hand a game the raw
+        # controller device at all — it grabs the raw device exclusively for
+        # itself and creates its OWN synthetic virtual controller via uinput,
+        # then hands that synthetic device to the game. Confirmed live:
+        # without this, Steam's own controller test screen reads the raw
+        # device fine (it does not need uinput for that) and shows a correct
+        # Gamepad template, but every actual game — Steam title or non-Steam
+        # shortcut alike — sees no controller at all, since Steam Input can
+        # never create the virtual device it is supposed to hand off. Same
+        # devices= grant pattern as esde below: GOW_REQUIRED_DEVICES alone
+        # only gets the base image's entrypoint script to bind-mount the
+        # node; the container also needs Wolf's own create-time device grant
+        # to actually open it.
         env=['PROTON_LOG=1', 'RUN_SWAY=true',
-             'GOW_REQUIRED_DEVICES=/dev/input/* /dev/dri/* /dev/nvidia*'],
+             'GOW_REQUIRED_DEVICES=/dev/uinput /dev/input/* /dev/dri/* /dev/nvidia*'],
         cap_add=['SYS_ADMIN', 'SYS_NICE', 'SYS_PTRACE', 'NET_RAW', 'MKNOD', 'NET_ADMIN'],
         security_opt=['seccomp=unconfined', 'apparmor=unconfined'],
         ipc_mode='host',
         ulimits=[{'Name': 'nofile', 'Hard': 10240, 'Soft': 10240}],
         privileged=False,
+        devices=['/dev/uinput:/dev/uinput'],
     ),
     'esde': dict(
         name='WolfES-DE', title='EmulationStation',