Control

Control is Remedy Entertainment’s paranormal action-adventure franchise set in the brutalist Oldest House, a skyscraper in New York City that serves as the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret government organization that investigates and contains Objects of Power and Altered World Events. The original game released August 27, 2019, featuring Jesse Faden as the protagonist who discovers she is the new Director of the Bureau following its director’s death. Control sold over five million copies and connected to Remedy’s Alan Wake universe through the AWE expansion. The sequel, Control Resonant, formerly known as Control 2, releases September 24, 2026, following Jesse’s brother Dylan Faden through a paranaturally altered Manhattan.

Control (2019)

Control was developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by 505 Games, releasing August 27, 2019, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows. Creative director Mikael Kasurinen and writer Sam Lake built the game around Brutalist architecture as a visual philosophy, the Oldest House’s concrete geometry shifting and reconfiguring itself as the player moves through its floors. Jesse Faden arrives at the building to find her brother Dylan, taken by the Bureau years earlier following a paranormal event in their hometown. Jesse discovers she has bonded with the Service Weapon, the Bureau Director’s gun that chooses its own wielder, and is therefore the new Director of an organization under siege from the Hiss, a resonance-based force that has corrupted most of the Bureau’s staff and caused reality within the building to fracture.

The game’s combat centers on Jesse’s psychokinetic abilities, grabbing environmental objects and hurling them at enemies while the Service Weapon shifts between different fire modes. The Oldest House’s layout, deliberately disorienting and non-Euclidean, rewards exploration with lore documents, audio logs, and encounters that build the Bureau’s absurdist mythology. Control received strong critical reception and multiple Game of the Year nominations. Two expansions followed, The Foundation and the AWE expansion in 2020, the latter revealing that Bright Falls in Washington had been an Altered World Event and directly connecting Control to Remedy’s Alan Wake universe.

FBC: Firebreak (2025)

FBC: Firebreak released June 17, 2025, as Remedy’s first cooperative multiplayer game, set in the Control universe and following Federal Bureau of Control agents running missions against paranatural anomalies within the Oldest House. The game supports up to four players through procedurally varied missions built around the Bureau’s specific mythology, including Objects of Power and Hiss-corrupted environments. Firebreak was designed as an expansion of the Control universe’s lore rather than a narrative sequel, functioning as a companion to Control Resonant rather than a direct continuation of Jesse Faden’s story.

Control Resonant (2026)

Control Resonant was revealed as the official title of Control 2 at The Game Awards on December 11, 2025, having previously been known internally as Codename Heron. The game releases September 24, 2026, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Windows through Steam and the Epic Games Store, and macOS through Steam and the App Store, making it Remedy’s first major release on Mac and the first Control game available on PlayStation without a delay.

The game follows Dylan Faden, Jesse’s brother, who was held in the Oldest House’s Panopticon following his childhood Altered World Event and the Bureau’s assessment that he was too dangerous to release. Dylan is described as having developed significant paranatural abilities during his captivity and is deployed by the Bureau at the peak of a supernatural crisis in which the threats previously contained within the Oldest House have spilled into Manhattan and are reshaping reality across the city. His primary ability, called Shift, allows him to manipulate gravity anomalies and move dynamically through distorted environments. Mikael Kasurinen returns as creative director, with the game positioned as an action RPG rather than the linear action-adventure structure of the original.

Annapurna Pictures is co-financing fifty percent of the development budget in exchange for rights to develop Control properties into film and television. Remedy is self-publishing Control Resonant after the rights to the franchise reverted from 505 Games in 2025. Control Resonant entered full production in February 2025 and is built on Remedy’s Northlight Engine.