InAstro Bot,your DualSense is responsible for quite a few things - besides literally controlling the character, we mean. Along with Astro, you’ll see your controller appearing in the game, with Astro using it totravel in space, and your controller is also responsible for storing rescued bots and recovered ship parts.
Since your controller also appears in the game, Team Asobi went one step further and created skins for it, allowing you to customize your controller with quite a few color choices that range from golden versions to multicolored options filled with neon light and even a retro pick for the old-schoolers.
Updated on June 03, 2025, by Lucas Olah:Since its release, Astro Bot has had quite a few surprises. Along with the Game of the Year award and speedrun levels, we also got a Christmas-themed level with a bunch of presents to find. These presents came with extra bots, costumes, and DualSense colors, which is the reason for our update here. Four more options were added, so we must now decide where they’ll rank on our little list. And you get to see the new options, of course.
20Shimmering Silver
Very Shiny
The DualSense gets a beautiful silver variation with blue lines for its details here. All in all, it’s quite a simple design, but it is a fun choice if you want to vary the controller’s looks a bit.
Still, this design is sadly not the best the game has to offer, as you’ll see in the other entries. The reflectiveness looks great, though.
19Snowglow
With Pretty Lines
This controller has a very simple aesthetic that resembles the default color but without blue parts, making it completely white. Well, almost completely, as it has multicolored lines around the touchpad, analogs, and wings.
Though the lines are a great addition, the controller still feels too much like the basic skin but not as colorful since all its multiple colors appear in thin lines.
18Champion’s Gold
Fancy
A common and popular type of skin in many games is to just paint things gold. Astro Bot does that both for the character and the DualSense, as they both have their gold variations.
Though being something rather simplistic, the design looks cool due to its reflection. Plus, you’re able to match your controller and the character.
17Cyber Canary
Make It Yellow
Cyber Canary is a mostly yellow controller with many green lines all over it, along with a bit of gray on the sides, just to mix things a bit.
While the design looks good, there’s just a bit too much yellow here. Perhaps a different color for the lower part of the controller would’ve made a difference.
16Striking Scarlet
Make It Red
Striking Scarlet follows the same logic as our previous pick and simply changes which colors the skin focuses on.
Here, we have red as the main color, with the lines now being blue, and finally, a bit of white on the sides. It has the same problem as the Canary does, but the color choices are better.
15Jet Black
Does It Come In Black?
Jet Black is a beautiful rendition of the real-life black DualSense, but it’s also a bit more colorful than the real deal, thanks to the same multicolored lines we see in the Snowglow skin, around the same parts, including the wings - which the real controllers sadly don’t have.
The lines, we mean, not the wings, even though it would be cool if they had wings. This skin also works well if you’re wearing something a bit darker with Astro as well, such as the Bloodborne skin.
14Hyper Lime
Make It Green
This skin focuses on adding a new main color, similar to the Canary and Scarlet skins, but it does a better job of not exaggerating the new color.
Though here it only adds green and white, the white sub-color prevents the whole controller from just going completely green, making this one look a lot better.
13Polygon Polychroma
Lines
We’re back with a black controller, but with more details on it. And by details, we mean many lines all over it, giving it a nice old-school style to it and making it look like a flying optical illusion of sorts.
There’s not much else going for it, and you may even argue that it’s not as detailed as most here because all it has are the lines, but they do a good job of making this skin quite unique.
12Original
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
We’re usually quick to dismiss the default because it’s the one we have since the beginning, and we want to see what else the game has available to us. However, the basic design with Astro’s iconic white and blue works well.
You also have the perk of having a DualSense skin that matches with one of Astro’s skins - the default one - which makes both options tempting. It’s nice to match your outfits, after all.
11Urban Dash
Make It Yellow, Again, But Better
If you like yellow, you’re in luck; there’s another option for you, and it looks cooler than Cyber Canary. While it misses the neon lights, the yellow tone is better, and there’s more.
It also has more details on the sides, with red lines over it, and even Team Asobi’s logo on the wing, making it look a bit like a racing car or similar.
