Honeycomb: The World Beyond Controls & Best Settings

Frozen Way has not published a full key list. These are the controls shown in launch videos and discussed on the Steam forum; default bindings may differ on your setup.

Keyboard and mouse

Key	What it does	Source
WASD, Space, Shift	Move, jump, sprint (sprint is taught first and unlocks jumping)	Tutorial, developer reply
Tab	Status (conditions like the starting headache), quests and inventory	ProRogueBear
T	Quick AR overview of where to go	ProRogueBear
O	Read notes	ProRogueBear
E / left click	Interact; hold left click to pick up	ProRogueBear; forum
X	Placement mode while holding an item	Developer reply
Q	Track a quest; also adds items to the tool wheel (reported buggy)	ProRogueBear; forum
Middle mouse	Needed for an early tutorial step; cannot be remapped	Forum
Number keys	Hotbar slots for tools and consumables	ProRogueBear

Common confusion: left click and E both interact, and the context menu is on left click rather than right click. Tools cannot be put away quickly, which a Steam reviewer called “awful”.

Controller

Full controller support is listed on Steam. Players on the forum report:

No button opens the map directly, and scrolling the map with a stick is slow.
Placed furniture cannot be moved; dismantle it for a full refund.

Steam Deck

Valve rates it Playable: default controls and performance pass, but some text is small. A player asked for a Deck control layout; none had been shared by 10 September 2026.

Settings that help

Ray tracing off: the biggest FPS gain (ProRogueBear: 40-45 to about 120 at 4K).
Blur effects off: “disable all the blurring related effects and then the game will look great” (Steam review). Bloom has its own toggle and motion blur a slider to zero, added after the 2024 demo.
DLSS 4.5 is supported.
HUD: can be trimmed down to nothing.
Arachnophobia mode: turns insects into white orbs.
Photo mode: poses, filters, lighting and stickers.

Camera

First person only. The developer said there are “some moments of 3rd person for whenever you’re using vehicles”. Several players asked for a third-person option because of motion sickness.

Crashes and bugs are covered in known issues.

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