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Control 2019

Released
August 27, 2019
Genres
Shooter · Adventure
Platforms
Google Stadia · Xbox Series X|S · PlayStation 4 · PC · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One
Developer
Remedy Entertainment
Publisher
505 Games
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Where to buy

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$5.99 $39.99 -85% as Control Ultimate Edition on GOG The lowest price we've seen on GOG since September 2026 More deals on GOG, and in Adventure
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Is it still worth playing?

Remedy Entertainment's 2019 third person action adventure for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One, played alone. You play Jesse Faden, the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret agency whose headquarters has been invaded by the Hiss, a hostile otherworldly entity. Inside the Oldest House, a building with four sectors explored in a nonlinear order like a Metroidvania, your Service Weapon changes forms, two equipped at a time. Powers such as Launch, Evade, Shield, Seize and Levitate run on cooldowns separate from the weapon, so you alternate between them. There is no cover system, and defeated enemies drop health, which keeps you moving. Control Points serve as fast travel hubs and healing points. Each of its shifting, brutalist rooms leads to a fight, and powers on cooldowns beside a weapon that changes form still keep those fights moving today.

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