Control Resonant Hands-On: Giving One Of The Most Consistently Surprising Developers The Benefit Of The Doubt

Kotaku | 20.06.2026 20:00
When Remedy released Control in 2019, it didn’t fit neatly into any existing space. It wasn’t quite a booming AAA shooter, nor quite an indie darling, but rather its own strange little AA joint destined for “cult classic” status. Control‘s winning combination of brutalist aesthetics, mundane everyday items and office spaces, and the weird fiction of urban myths and creepypasta tales quickly carved out its own space, one which would grow in size as adoration for the oddly shaped hit spread.