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The game is free. The hardware is where most players actually spend money — and where most frustration comes from. These buying guides solve specific problems: a dead guitar controller, a keyboard that drops chords, a wireless guitar with no receiver, and a song library that took hours to build.
Buying guides
- Best Guitar Controllers for PC Rhythm Games — CRKD Gibson Les Paul Pro vs PDP Riffmaster vs used Guitar Hero guitars
- Best Keyboards for Frets on Fire (NKRO) — the ghosting fix, not a settings tweak
- Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver Guide — get wireless 360 guitars working on PC
- How to Back Up Your Custom Song Library — pCloud and local backup for data/songs and themes
- From Plastic Guitar to Real Guitar — the honest next step after rhythm games
One warning that runs through every guide: no controller is “officially supported” by vanilla Frets on Fire itself. Controllers are supported by Clone Hero, YARG and Fortnite Festival; in vanilla Frets on Fire, support is generic keyboard/joystick mapping and must be tested per device.