Control: Resonant Announced by Remedy for 2026 Release | The Game Awards 2025

Remedy Entertainment has announced Control: Resonant, the follow-up to IGN’s 2019 Game of the Year, Control astatine the 2025 Game Awards. It’s owed retired successful 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S, and it aims to beryllium thing but a straightforward sequel.

For starters, you’re not playing arsenic Jesse Faden anymore. Instead, it’s 7 years aboriginal and you’ll instrumentality power of her younger brother, Dylan. He was taken by the Federal Bureau of Control astatine property 10, ending up successful a coma aft being inflicted by The Hiss. And speaking of The Hiss, it’s escaped The Oldest House wherever the archetypal Control was set, spilling retired onto the streets of Manhattan and turning it into a precise bizarre spot (as you tin spot successful the trailer), overrun and virtually twisted and folded by supernatural forces.

But the protagonist and mounting aren’t the lone important departures for Control: Resonant. The benignant of combat differs arsenic well. You won’t beryllium wielding Jesse’s transforming Service Weapon. Instead, Dylan gets up adjacent and idiosyncratic with a crude, transforming melee limb called the Aberrant, which volition beryllium augmented by Dylan’s supernatural peculiar abilities. At archetypal glance, it reminds maine a spot of the lightsaber/Force powers combo successful Respawns Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor games. I asked Remedy astir the combat consciousness of Control: Resonant, and originative manager Mikael Kasurinen told me: “Our combat is rather unique, and it has that Control DNA. It's push-forward, fast, and proactive. You maestro the operation of limb blows and supernatural abilities, and pursuit enemies down. Dylan is nimble and airy connected his feet; question is integral to our combat loop.

“Preparation is besides crucial, creating a physique that clicks with you; and a immense portion of the acquisition is tactical thinking: How to harvester shape-shifting melee attacks with supernatural abilities portion successful motion.

“There are intricacies to however you signifier your character, and a batch of antithetic progression systems that let you to go much versatile, and stronger.”

So yes, you’ll beryllium capable to customize your builds. You’ll besides brushwood broadside quests and different factions to contend with. Meanwhile, enemies volition person paranatural attacks, and they tin traverse the situation arsenic rapidly arsenic you can.

Remedy says that you don’t person to person played the archetypal Control to recognize the communicative here, and that the 2 games are, well… siblings.

"This is not a harmless sequel," Kasurinen promises.

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Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of some IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, arsenic good arsenic our monthly(-ish) interrogation show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.