XJoy

XJoy can only bring joy to those users who are still dreaming about a way to play with their Switch controllers on a computer and have them act as an Xbox gamepad. Yes, this is exactly what this application does, and it manages to do it without intruding or filling your PC with countless applications and drivers. What the user requires is one solo driver, mainly the ViGEm Bus Driver and its dependencies which are common and might already be on your machine.

Although one can already connect the Joy-Cons to a PC without any help, the bottom line with this particular application is you'll be able to use them much better in an Xbox controller scheme, rather than whatever it is your OS assigns to these gamepads. The program itself doesn't even include an interface. It runs in the classic Windows Terminal, meaning you'll not be met with lots of bells and whistles.

The best part is you will always know if the connection and system are up and running. The terminal will display various messages that range from successfully connected to connection error and any number of notifications between these two. The above mentioned driver is crucial to the impeccable functioning of this app and its proposed system, so keep that in mind as well.