The game gets stuck waiting for an "UP" input but neither the joysticks, D-pad, or anything else is recognized. I had to Alt+F4 to exit the game and unplug the controller, game is working fine now with keyboard controls.
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Hey there, we actually retired controller support earlier this year because of the vast variety of problems with making it work. If you'd like to use controller, my advice would be to start the game without the controller plugged in, then plug it in and use Joy2Key to convert controller inputs into button presses.