During last night’s The Game Awards 2025, Remedy Entertainment announced Control: Resonant, a sequel to 2019’s Control. Rumors had been swirling for a while now, but the trailer and live platform pages reveal that it’s coming in 2026.
The game features a new setting and a brand new protagonist. The trailer offers viewers both a cinematic peek at the story and a smattering of gameplay action.
Control: Resonant features
- Experience Humanity on the Brink: Uncover the motivations of characters and entities throughout a ravaged Manhattan. Guide Dylan as he seeks to re-establish his identity, dig deeper into the inner workings of the FBC, and reveal the horrors threatening humankind.
- Forge a Path to Unrivalled Power: Channel the raw experiences of Dylan’s past to help understand his present. Tap into the power he must learn to master and make choices to shape how his abilities manifest and grow. Explore a deep progression system to define how Dylan adapts to emerging dangers. Forge connections crucial to Dylan’s fight to retain his humanity as he journeys from former test subject to paranatural superweapon.
- Wield the Power, Become the Weapon: Meet constantly evolving threats head-on, utilising the environment, deploying elemental abilities and using the raw force Dylan’s shapeshifting melee weapon, the Aberrant. Wield the Aberrant in its many deadly forms. Deliver bone-crunching blows with a two-handed hammer and flow seamlessly into the swift precision of dual-wielded blades as this supernatural weapon morphs on demand to meet each new challenge.
- Delve into a Fractured Reality: Explore multiple areas of Manhattan in an expansive, unfamiliar, and exciting world as an invading cosmic force reshapes the environment, defiles natural law and distorts gravity, reordering our reality as a geophysical nightmare. Traverse perception-bending locations, and travel beyond the material world into a mysterious metaphysical space representing Dylan’s troubled psyche.
Check out the Control: Resonant Steam page for further details.
