Hytale is only available on PC at the moment, but that doesn't mean you can't hook up a controller and start playing.
Hytale doesn't officially support controllers and won't do for some time, fortunately you can use Steam to play the game ...
Before the Xbox 360 arrived in 2006, using a gamepad on PC was a pretty annoying experience. You'd have to manually configure buttons, games wouldn't detect the controller or show the correct icons, ...