The game boots up fine, during the opening credit style menus I can press esc and skip a couple but once the game gets to the title it won't register [return] or the controller button to get to the menu.

what game?

In addition to providing the name of the game in question, would you please state whether you are running the game natively, or, via the Windows compatibility layer (Wine)? : )

With native versions of some Unity engine-based games, I have had similar issues. I had determined that the cause had been related to the lack of _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK support within my window manager (dwm).

Unpaid support team, here to help.

Yes, do you plan to tell us any details?

Even the output of Fastfetch would be a starting point.

If it's Moonlighter, press "J".

(So utterly boneheaded and undiscoverable.)