Control: Ultimate Edition

Control is an action-adventure video game that is played from a third-person perspective. The player assumes control of Jesse Faden, who is searching for her missing brother, as she arrives at the Oldest House, a featureless Brutalist skyscraper in New York City that houses the headquarters of the fictional Federal Bureau of Control (FBC). Most enemies in Control are human FBC agents who are possessed by the Hiss, an otherworldly force that is attempting to cross through a dimensional barrier into this reality. Enemies range from firearm-carrying humans to heavily mutated variants with superpowers.

To combat these threats, Jesse is equipped with the "Service Weapon", a modular firearm that can shapeshift into five forms: Grip, Spin, Shatter, Pierce, Charge, and Surge. Each form has unique gameplay properties, ranging from a close-range, shotgun-like blast to a long-range, sniper-like form. Players can equip and swap between two weapon forms at any given time. Jesse also interacts with Objects of Power to gain psychokinetic abilities.

S. government agency that investigates supernatural Altered World Events (AWEs). These AWEs affect the human collective unconscious and have "paranatural" effects, including manipulating reality through extradimensional spaces called Thresholds, and the creation of archetypal but powerful items called Objects of Power. Objects of Power are connected to the Board, a black, pyramid-shaped entity that exists within the Astral Plane, an alternate dimension.

The individual chosen by the Board to wield the Service Weapon, an Object of Power, is considered by default to be the director of the FBC. Control takes place within the Oldest House, a Brutalist skyscraper in New York City that houses the headquarters of the FBC. The Oldest House is a Place of Power with several paranatural characteristics: it resists being noticed by anyone other than FBC members and individuals with an innate sensitivity to the paranatural, its interior is larger than its exterior, and its internal architecture is prone to shifting and rearranging in unpredictable ways. The FBC can stabilize portions of the Oldest House for its use by harnessing nexuses of resonance called Control Points.

Control was developed by Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment as its first major release since its 2017 initial public offering (IPO) and separation from Microsoft as a publishing partner. Control was developed using more efficient development strategies to reduce costs and development time. The game was completed within three years with a €30 million budget, a lower cost than that for a typical triple-A game. Control was directed by Mikael Kasurinen, who worked on Alan Wake as lead gameplay designer and Quantum Break as lead director; and Sam Lake was the writer and creative director. Lake created the game's story and characters during the pre-production stage, and narrative lead Anna Megill developed its content.

Control was developed using Remedy's proprietary Northlight Engine, which was first used on its previous game, Quantum Break. Control was one of the first major games to be released after the introduction of graphics cards that support real-time ray-tracing through DirectX Raytracing, and was the first major game with a nearly full implementation of all available Nvidia RTX features and support for Nvidia's DLSS for resolution upscaling on supported graphics cards.

According to review aggregator website Metacritic, Control received "generally favorable" reviews from critics for most platforms, except for the Nintendo Switch version, which received "mixed or average" reviews.

Ben Reeves from Game Informer described Control's setting as "bizarrely fascinating" and an "eerie, dreamlike experience" players will remember even after finishing the game. Andrew Webster from The Verge similarly lauded the game's unsettling atmosphere, writing the Oldest House feels both surreal and authentic, and commended Remedy's world-building. Peter Brown from GameSpot praised the game's art direction, writing it instills a sense of dread and awe. Sam Loveridge from GamesRadar called the Oldest House a "captivating" and innovative setting that serves as a "character of its own".

In June 2021, Remedy announced an agreement with 505 Games for a multiplayer spin-off and a "bigger-budget" project to further expand the Control series. In February 2024, Remedy acquired full ownership of the Control series from 505 Games. In August, Remedy partnered with Annapurna Pictures to adapt existing Remedy games, including the Control series, for film and television.

The "AWE" expansion of Control established the "Remedy Connected Universe". Lake said each game in the shared universe will be a standalone experience, but they will also serve as "a doorway into a larger universe with exciting opportunities for crossover events". Ahti and FBC agents appear in Alan Wake 2, while Dylan Faden and the Oldest House briefly appear in its downloadable content (DLC) pack "The Lake House", which sets up a sequel to Control. Control Resonant, an action role-playing video game whose protagonist is Dylan Faden, entered full production in February 2025 and released in September 2026.