Control

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1505 Ratings

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  1. Midyen
    Jun 1, 2023
    3
    Based on the gameplay, graphics, sound, content, and originality of the game, I will give it a rating of 3.
  2. BoltActionBacon
    Feb 19, 2023
    3
    Unplayable. Every 4-6 seconds its drops to 1 fps for about 2 seconds. Tried every different sort of setting possible, its even doing it in the main menu. Only game that i own that is doing this. Im on a multi thousand dollar new PC as well with everything up to date. Please fix, i feel like this would be a 8-9 game easy if i could actually play it.
  3. TheAlgerian
    Oct 27, 2022
    4
    The combat's awful and boring and there's a LOT of it.
    You can't go 20 seconds without a bunch of enemies spawning on top of you.
    Thought the story would make up for it since I loved Quantum Break and Alan Wake's, but even that is basically just the same piece of exposition on a loop for 6h. This is the one that gets all these praise and Quantum Break is the one that got trashed? I    The combat's awful and boring and there's a LOT of it.
    You can't go 20 seconds without a bunch of enemies spawning on top of you.

    Thought the story would make up for it since I loved Quantum Break and Alan Wake's, but even that is basically just the same piece of exposition on a loop for 6h.

    This is the one that gets all these praise and Quantum Break is the one that got trashed?
    I guess that one's story was too challenging for the average gamer.    … Expand
  4. vova22379
    Aug 21, 2022
    2
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  5. Ratingss
    Jul 26, 2022
    4
    The game looks fine but its full of stupid things that just tick me off, like the infinite ammo gun that takes forever to reload, the powers are all overpowered, the janitor that speaks in gibberish, the goddamn red lights, the same stupid enemies ripped straight from Quantum Break. And on top of that the PC port is a mess that just freezes whenever it wants.
  6. Maitrify
    Jul 18, 2022
    0
    This game has a fascinating story, good characters and an interesting setting for everything in the game. The SCP-style elements are done very well and the way that you interact with them in-game is done relatively well too. Overall, the story of the game is incredibly enjoyable as is the overall presentation of the story too.

    You might be wondering why I gave this a 0? Because it's    This game has a fascinating story, good characters and an interesting setting for everything in the game. The SCP-style elements are done very well and the way that you interact with them in-game is done relatively well too. Overall, the story of the game is incredibly enjoyable as is the overall presentation of the story too.

    You might be wondering why I gave this a 0?

    Because it's all moot.

    There is no difficulty slider and the game itself is FRUSTRATINGLY hard. Due to a combination of cheap enemies, attacks, no difficulty slider, no real ability to defend yourself outside of 'kill them before they kill you' and damage-sponges for enemies (SPECIALLY the bosses who often 1/2-shot you), it's all moot and thus this game gets a 0. The story would easily rate as an 8 or above but due to the inability for LOADS of players to actually get further . . . it invalidates itself.

    Read the synopsis/wiki/watch youtube instead of spending money on this game. The developer needs to learn to include basic concepts like a difficulty option.    … Expand
  7. napoxog
    Jul 12, 2022
    2
    This is the 1st review I post here.
    This game just made me mad.
    I'm setting 2 of 10 only because of graphics. this is the most stupid game design I've seen for decades. (I'm 43) It is so secondary to Star Wars in terms of "powers".... no guidance in some places - is the feature? get lost. Stupid dialogs... Useless resources in the begging wit no clue for future use... Useless but    This is the 1st review I post here.
    This game just made me mad.
    I'm setting 2 of 10 only because of graphics.
    this is the most stupid game design I've seen for decades. (I'm 43)
    It is so secondary to Star Wars in terms of "powers"....
    no guidance in some places - is the feature? get lost.
    Stupid dialogs...
    Useless resources in the begging wit no clue for future use...
    Useless but rare mods....
    shooting is ok. but no sex.
    The setting is some kind of mashed X-Files with Twin Peaks in a bad way... Unclear and boring, unlike these two...
    This one is a waste even with discount...    … Expand
  8. ARGX
    Apr 14, 2022
    1
    The game would be good if it weren't for those invisible hisses. They completely spoiled my enjoyment of the game. Opponents who kill you in one hit are never a good idea
  9. dotrem
    Apr 12, 2022
    4
    I don't know why people were so hyped about this mediocre game. There are more minuses than pluses.
    Plot is a Mario-like story. "Oh no Jesse, Dylan in other casle. Jesse go next department". And when it was finnished with "Jesse where fk are you? Dynal has already came home." i just fking laugh.
    With very beggining i thought that game about modern Mary Sue, but i hope that devs not so    I don't know why people were so hyped about this mediocre game. There are more minuses than pluses.
    Plot is a Mario-like story. "Oh no Jesse, Dylan in other casle. Jesse go next department". And when it was finnished with "Jesse where fk are you? Dynal has already came home." i just fking laugh.
    With very beggining i thought that game about modern Mary Sue, but i hope that devs not so idiotic to put such a character in AAA product. Well after i finished the game waht can i say. Well only one thing - i hope Control's script writter never ever write a single page of text in his life.

    Gunplay is os woody and monotonus that i can't call this game a shoter. First every time what i need to switch gun in fight i want to turn off game instead. Can't say that i switch guns very ofter, but anyway that fact that i need to go to put game on pause, go to inventory and switch guns freaked me out. Again i switch not often that couse there are not many situations when you want to use something besides default weapon form(Grip). Every thing else just much more weaker.

    Music? Nah who cares. But once i died in labyrinth couse did't hear flying bomb guys couse annoying song. So i rather remove all music away from the game.

    Leveling system has a standart for casual rpg-like games problems. You actually don't need all those levels and skill points. I finished with 40 free points. And i feel that not much changed if i didn't put a single point in HP.
    Same problem with crafting material and mods. There are too many of them, and you don't need them. Natural weapon leveling is way to strong so you just don't need all those high-level mods. And with this knowlege i want to touch game's "regular-grind activity". I don't know whay expeditions and events even exists, you get the same mods and crafting materials as a reward for events. So you don't need to spend time on it. Same with hidden places. You probably don't want to find them for loot and skill points but only for chance to find another file.

    Enemies AI is just a pepega. Smartest enemies are guys who rush in you in suicide attack and shot you with rocket launcher in very close range that kill themself and take half of your HP bar.

    Well lets stop to be so negative. Lets talk about good things in the game.
    First i like the main idea about bureau. So they took a SoyCP and lifted it from creepypasta level to human readdable level.

    I like media in Control. Dr Darling presentations and Threshold kids so good that it feels like it take a half of game's buget.

    What else? I like hovering(flying) mechanic. Very smooth moving.

    In conclusion i'd way taht game has a countless flaws. It's not good as a shooter/action game. It's mediocr as a storytelling/adventure game. It's maybe ok as a RTX promotion game(never turning on rtx anyway lol).

    It's not a level of old Remedy. But sadly the other games in last years not much better.

    I really wanted to give the game 5/10 but i started Foundation DLC and instantly remember one thing. Red. Red color. In every freaking battle my screen dims in red. And i can't see a fck. I can't see what hits me, i can't see where to move. If game doesn't give me to play it - game is garabage.    … Expand
  10. Gaeons
    Mar 10, 2022
    4
    The story is so linear, it doesn't have any plot twist is just the good guys vs the bad guys and thats it. If you only play the main mission you will only fight just one truly boss the other ones have the same model and abilities than normal enemis just with more health.
    The difficulty is really low there is almost no challenge at all.
    The only good thing are the graphics and how you can    The story is so linear, it doesn't have any plot twist is just the good guys vs the bad guys and thats it. If you only play the main mission you will only fight just one truly boss the other ones have the same model and abilities than normal enemis just with more health.
    The difficulty is really low there is almost no challenge at all.
    The only good thing are the graphics and how you can interact with the environment.
    As an action game is kinda fun at the begging but the linear story and the missing bosses that are crucial in any action game, kill the total experience of the game.    … Expand
  11. Satanski666
    Jan 26, 2022
    2
    At first, story feels intriguing, but at some point it become clear that writers didn't really put much effort into creating interesting and detailed game universe. Gunplay is not bad, visuals with RT pretty impressive but lacking variety. What i found the worst and offensive, is blatant female chauvinism. Every man character in the game is at best is either weak, irresponsible, or both,At first, story feels intriguing, but at some point it become clear that writers didn't really put much effort into creating interesting and detailed game universe. Gunplay is not bad, visuals with RT pretty impressive but lacking variety. What i found the worst and offensive, is blatant female chauvinism. Every man character in the game is at best is either weak, irresponsible, or both, while women are complete opposite. Is this women version of equality, they want to enforce on us? Looks like it more and more, lately.… Expand
  12. ancoder123
    Jan 15, 2022
    0
    This game is unfair.I've died so many times just fighting with the first boss,the power in this game is weak as hell,keep throwing some objects at your enermy ,shooting and NOTHING ELSE.
  13. CrafTED
    Sep 20, 2021
    1
    I turned grain off from settings but i realized this grains come from problematic game engine. It can't even calculates GI !. Boring story and unstandable puzzle sections (Don't clone maxpayne's psychological sections anymore!)
  14. sonicmrsumo
    Sep 14, 2021
    1
    I really wanted to give this game a higher rating as it's so much fun to play...when it actually works. Unfortunately it rarely works. It either won't let you past the title screen or it crashes whilst loading / saving. I did try and stick with it but it just got too frustrating so didn't finish and uninstalled.
  15. Coldhyll
    Aug 28, 2021
    0
    Unplayable on Game Pass PC.
    Game either crashes or doesn't go farther than "press enter to start"
  16. F3T1W
    Aug 27, 2021
    4
    Stuffy jester, with a finished plot, good colors, excellent physics, i'd not reccomend
  17. Sopota
    Jul 12, 2021
    0
    Great story but awful storytelling, you have to constantly pause to read all the random stuff you pick up, sometimes great, but a lot of times pointless bureaucratic garbage that gets annoying very fast. You can't even hear the audio recordings while playing. This is a game from 2019, Remedy.

    Full of 2 hit death attacks, no one is suspicious that a lot of times you get hit for 99% of    Great story but awful storytelling, you have to constantly pause to read all the random stuff you pick up, sometimes great, but a lot of times pointless bureaucratic garbage that gets annoying very fast. You can't even hear the audio recordings while playing. This is a game from 2019, Remedy.

    Full of 2 hit death attacks, no one is suspicious that a lot of times you get hit for 99% of your health? Even maxing health only partially avoids this. The bosses are the worst offenders, full of bodyguard fodder. When the hardest part of a boss fight is not the boss itself...

    Horrible sound design, no enemy footsteps and crappy positioning audio means that you can't use your ears in a fight, if you hear a loud scream you better smash your evade button because you don't know from where its coming. At least in Alan Wake you can see your flanks with a wider third person view.

    And the cherry on top is the awful and uninspired crafting system. I say it again Remedy, this is a game from 2019.    … Expand
  18. abadonna302b
    Jun 18, 2021
    0
    Possible epileptic seizures warning is here in place. This game is 90 percent based on 2013 vintage Remember Me engine (also stuffed in DmC for ex.) So what are you 10 stars raters trying to tell me? This game engine is old, some pityful RTX tricks (where you can see product of this old engine mirrored on the floor, for gods sake, what an innovation) wont make it any better. FlashyPossible epileptic seizures warning is here in place. This game is 90 percent based on 2013 vintage Remember Me engine (also stuffed in DmC for ex.) So what are you 10 stars raters trying to tell me? This game engine is old, some pityful RTX tricks (where you can see product of this old engine mirrored on the floor, for gods sake, what an innovation) wont make it any better. Flashy nonsense and storyline trying to make you feel like you are digging into something that requires intelligence that you always secretly thought you have (but why others didnt?) its pathetic. There are hundreds of game with below 5 rating and some of them more than 10 yrs old that are better than this.… Expand
  19. rocksoldier
    Jun 17, 2021
    2
    This game is bad, very bad. The only good thing is graphics, all other elements are terrible:
    -Story is terrible
    -gunfights are chaotic and not interesting
    -character is totally flat and not existent
    -setting does not make any sense and it doesn't even look cool
    -most of the time you don't know where to go
    -anything you can think of that it's not graphic is bad
  20. RMDsilva
    Apr 25, 2021
    4
    High level production resulting in a vaguely interesting combat system... and a story and ambience that tries very much to be something, but is really just a generic shooter with a poor plot trying to justify whatever.
    I'm not even sure there was a good idea there at some stage.
  21. hexava6294
    Apr 15, 2021
    0
    It was a bold decision to give the main character no personality and a haircut indicating she would like to speak to the manager. Perhaps in some future DLC, the protagonist will make a decision not motivated exclusively by the men in her life. Perhaps we'll even see a bit of character development. Hopefully not too much, though. It's unclear if 505 Games is just incapable of creating aIt was a bold decision to give the main character no personality and a haircut indicating she would like to speak to the manager. Perhaps in some future DLC, the protagonist will make a decision not motivated exclusively by the men in her life. Perhaps we'll even see a bit of character development. Hopefully not too much, though. It's unclear if 505 Games is just incapable of creating a single interesting, believable, or remotely human character, or if the studio is just plain old sexist, giving their female protagonist no interiority or development and relegating her to the role of a cold exposition machine who exists to serve other characters.… Expand
  22. Ted_Tris
    Mar 13, 2021
    0
    Boring.
    There is no idea in it.
    The gameplay is max payne 5.0 (max payne 2-mp1 2.0, alan wake -mp1 3.0, quantum break-mp1 4.0. The animation system is awful (you run into something and run in a place, as you slide walking, not to mention jumping). The sounds of the usual quantum breakes a rumble whisper. The music is detto Typical remedy games copy-paste waste. Gfx 7 Sound 6    Boring.
    There is no idea in it.
    The gameplay is max payne 5.0 (max payne 2-mp1 2.0, alan wake -mp1 3.0, quantum break-mp1 4.0.
    The animation system is awful (you run into something and run in a place, as you slide walking, not to mention jumping).
    The sounds of the usual quantum breakes a rumble whisper.
    The music is detto
    Typical remedy games copy-paste waste.

    Gfx 7
    Sound 6
    Gamplay 1
    Idea 0
    All 1/10    … Expand
  23. nurii29
    Feb 13, 2021
    0
    its bored me to death i dont give any little **** about storty wtf is this gameplay i would excuse it if this garbage came out 2010 **** this
  24. Ugh_Its_Angel
    Feb 8, 2021
    4
    Repetitive gameplay, awful story, awful dialogue, buggy, pretty graphics, lots of running in an "open-world"(You know the types of games that are story-driven and linear but have a large open world with absolutely nothing in it, and its a chore to run to one end and the other, this is one of them). The game doesn't tell you what's going on and expects you to care about what's happening,Repetitive gameplay, awful story, awful dialogue, buggy, pretty graphics, lots of running in an "open-world"(You know the types of games that are story-driven and linear but have a large open world with absolutely nothing in it, and its a chore to run to one end and the other, this is one of them). The game doesn't tell you what's going on and expects you to care about what's happening, for hours. If I had less of a brain and could just state at a screen without asking "Why am I here?" while my spit drips into my slobber pan in my lap then I could see how "interesting" the story is. Maybe I should huff paint before playing all video games.… Expand
  25. GustaCNXFL
    Dec 26, 2020
    0
    muito ruim o gráfico foi feito de maneira preguiçosa e precisou do Ray tracing pra ficar bonito ate jogos da geração passada tinham uma iluminação melhor do que a do control sem RTX Historia chata e protagonista desinteressante só piora tudo não vale o preço de 100 reai
  26. MCmetacritic
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    Never before has such lazy writing been delivered in the form of such mediocre voice acting. It's hard to imagine that there was ever a second attempt at a single line of dialogue. It feels like a high school theater production, but with even more self-involved performers.
  27. Nemos
    Nov 3, 2020
    4
    An extremely convoluted story presented slowly paced but very beautiful for the eyes. Repetitive, and frankly, fairly poor game mechanics.
  28. Hurrikhan
    Sep 20, 2020
    4
    The game is pretty. The RTX can give some nice reflections until the game crashes systematically (for me a boss fight) and you have to switch to DX11.
    The music are very very nice too. I'd love to hear the Bowie-like one that was played in one of the very few great moments of the game.
    Because of these good points, I've rated this a 4. What follows is why I don't want to give more that    The game is pretty. The RTX can give some nice reflections until the game crashes systematically (for me a boss fight) and you have to switch to DX11.
    The music are very very nice too. I'd love to hear the Bowie-like one that was played in one of the very few great moments of the game.

    Because of these good points, I've rated this a 4. What follows is why I don't want to give more that that.

    The story started well. It's weird, twilight zone style, but when I've reached the end it felt unfinished: like peeling a fruit and finding out it was all peel.

    What I really didn't like though was basically everything else:

    Whoever thought it was a good idea to lose 10% of your "money" for each death should be flogged.

    The fights are boring. They are mostly too easy, but sometimes stupidly difficult.

    An example would be hiding some key points in a (boss) fight in areas way too dark to see where you are killed in one shot.

    Another example would be expecting you to find some items you don't know you need, hidden behind some panels you don't know exist in some dark area while an invulnerable monster teleports to you to one-shot you.

    Yet another example would be to swarm you of monsters where you have no chance of survival if you don't know what spot will keep you "safe".

    How about letting you go in an area where you have no chance to progress? (Giving you a mission for it and closing the door behind you at some point.)
    Of course you don't know this and reaching some obstacle you hope some tricky jump-dodge will get you through. All you get for your trouble is getting killed until you give up.

    The controls do not feel right either.
    The ways you use some powers are unintuitive. Every time I've started the game I had to take two minutes to adjust to it.

    Speaking of the controls: you often need to "grab" an object.
    One would expect the one at the middle of the screen to be the target instead of some random garbage located out of your field of vision when it's not right behind you. Yet another crap that can make you killed.

    Avoid.    … Expand
  29. Deaden
    Aug 25, 2020
    1
    I deleted this game after playing an hour. Just went to watch ending on video channels and I see I got the right decision. It's an ultra boring class game.
  30. Steyraus
    Aug 18, 2020
    2
    Horrible boring badly optimized game that they charger customer again for it to run ok on next gen, The actual game is massively overrated and only Games Journalist liked it because it had a female protagonist and derpy men in the game.
    Its utterly boring, most of the game is runing around ugly arse environment, lost because there is no capable map. Combat is fun for about 1 hr but you    Horrible boring badly optimized game that they charger customer again for it to run ok on next gen, The actual game is massively overrated and only Games Journalist liked it because it had a female protagonist and derpy men in the game.
    Its utterly boring, most of the game is runing around ugly arse environment, lost because there is no capable map. Combat is fun for about 1 hr but you so OP that the only way they could add difficulty is with ranged one hit kills from invisible enemies. I really hated this game and Hate what remedy has become.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#17 Best PC Game of 2019
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#14 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019
82
#82 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    80
    An audio-visual action banquet that will entertain you with physics and flirting with the supernatural. The story could have been better, the enemy line-up can be quite monotonous towards the end, but the great atmosphere overcomes these shortcomings. And most importantly, the gameplay is great. [Issue#298]
  2. Giant Bomb
    Oct 22, 2019
    100
    Control feels like Remedy firing on all cylinders, resulting in a smart and sensational action-adventure.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 11, 2019
    83
    Control takes a while to get in gear, but overall it’s one of the most memorable experiences of the year. [Issue#240, p.36]
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