Control
Control is a third-person action-adventure game set in the Federal Bureau of Control, a secretive U.S. government agency that studies paranormal phenomena. Players control Jesse Faden, who arrives at the…
Control is an adventure developed by Remedy Entertainment, released 27 August 2019 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $5.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 21.3 hrs to finish.
What Control is
Control is an adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in 2019. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Northlight Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After a secretive agency in New York is invaded by an otherworldly threat, you become the new Director struggling to regain Control. Control is Jesse Faden’s story and her personal search for answers as she grows into the role of the Director. The world of Control has its own story, as do the allies Jesse meets along the way. Jesse works with other Bureau agents and discovers strange experiments and secrets.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 67 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Control holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 978 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 21.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 31.1 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $5.99, that works out to about $0.28 per hour of the main story, or $0.19 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 42GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at GOG, 85% below its usual price. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: Pakistan is the cheapest region we track at $1.29 (about $1.29), while Germany pays €3.99 — 3.5 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 1 on Steam, which is about $1.29.
What it launched against
Control launched on 27 August 2019, within three weeks of Borderlands 3, GreedFall, Gears 5 and Blasphemous. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Borderlands 3, GreedFall, Gears 5, Blasphemous.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Control yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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