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Control is an action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published

by 505 Games. The game was released in August 2019 for Microsoft Windows,
PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in February
2021. A cloud-based version for the Nintendo Switch was released in October 2020,
and for Stadia in July 2021. It was available on Luna when the service released to
the general public in March 2022. Two paid expansions were also released for the
game.

The game revolves around the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), a secret U.S.
government agency tasked with containing and studying phenomena that violate the
laws of reality. As Jesse Faden (Courtney Hope), the Bureau's new Director, the
player explores the Oldest House – the FBC's paranormal headquarters – and utilizes
powerful abilities in order to defeat a deadly enemy known as the Hiss, which has
invaded and corrupted reality. The player gains abilities by finding Objects of
Power, mundane objects like a rotary phone or a floppy disk imbued with energies
from another dimension, that have been at the center of major paranormal events and
since recovered by the FBC. In addition to Hope, further voice work and live-action
footage is provided by James McCaffrey, Matthew Porretta, and Martti Suosalo, while
the band Poets of the Fall provided additional music.

Control is inspired by paranormal stories about the fictional SCP Foundation


created by an online collaborative-fiction project, based on the genre of the new
weird. The environments of the Oldest House are designed in the brutalist
architecture, common for many governmental buildings created around the Cold War
era and which served as a setting to show off the game's destructive environmental
systems. The core game includes many allusions to Alan Wake, one of Remedy's prior
games with similar themes of the paranormal, and Control's AWE expansion was a
crossover between these two series, which Remedy said forms part of the Remedy
Connected Universe. Control was one of the first games released to take advantage
of real-time ray tracing built into the hardware of newer video cards.

Upon release, Control was met with positive reviews from critics, with several
gaming publications naming it among their top games of 2019. The game was nominated
for numerous video game awards, winning several related to the game's art and
design. An unnamed sequel and a separate four-player co-operative spin-off,
codenamed Condor, was announced in June 2021.

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