Hello everybody, I’m Mikael Kasurinen, Co-Inventive Director at Treatment Leisure. I’m actually excited to lastly share what our staff has been engaged on: Control Resonant, the extremely anticipated sequel to our critically acclaimed and fan-favorite Control from 2019. Test out the reveal trailer beneath, which debuted as we speak at The Recreation Awards.
It feels becoming to share this primary look right here, as a result of Control discovered such an unimaginable viewers on PlayStation, and your help has meant the world to us. Thanks for serving to flip that unusual, paranatural world of shifting structure and unattainable areas into such a success. Now it’s time to return – to a very totally different form of chaos.
The primary sport advised Jesse Faden’s story – her seek for her lacking brother Dylan contained in the Federal Bureau of Control’s mysterious headquarters, the Oldest Home. Resonant is Dylan’s story – the opposite half of that sibling story.
After years in confinement, Dylan is now being deployed by his former captors on the peak of a supernatural crisis. The Federal Bureau of Control is struggling to comprise a world-ending risk as Manhattan turns into the new battleground – a warped metropolis the place cosmic forces twist actuality, bend gravity, and reshape the skyline into one thing unrecognizable.
Dylan isn’t simply combating to save the world. He’s looking for redemption – and for Jesse – whereas making an attempt to perceive his personal harmful connection to the chaos consuming town.
Control Resonant is our boldest step but in increasing the Control universe. It’s a third-person, open-ended action-RPG set in a fashionable but paranaturally ravaged Manhattan.
Gamers can discover expansive zones throughout town, every hiding branching missions, encounters, and occasions to deal with in any order. This world is alive, unusual, and replayable – stuffed with discoveries that reward curiosity and exploration.
Once we say action-adventure RPG, we imply freedom: the power to form how Dylan grows, fights, and survives. His supernatural powers and weaponry evolve by way of a deep development system, permitting a number of fight kinds and approaches to exploration. Whether or not you depend on uncooked power, manipulation of your environment, or exact timing and mobility, Resonant helps you to play your approach.
On the middle of all of it is the Aberrant, a shapeshifting melee weapon that transforms on demand, from a heavy two-handed hammer to swift twin blades and extra. Mixed with Dylan’s evolving powers, it creates quick, bodily, and unpredictable fight that feels distinctly Control.
Each encounter is an experiment in chaos. Upgradeable weapons, talents, and buffs enable you to customise your playstyle and tackle otherworldly enemies in surprising methods.
You don’t want to have performed the primary Control to expertise Resonant. It’s a new story and a recent entry level into Treatment’s world of the Federal Bureau of Control – although returning gamers will acknowledge acquainted echoes of Jesse’s path and the mysteries binding these two siblings collectively.
Each video games stand firmly on their very own, like two siblings, that includes distinctive and impartial journeys by way of a unusual, ever evolving paranatural universe. Resonant can simply be your first step into the world of CONTROL.
Our aim with Resonant is to broaden what Control will be: a extra open, dynamic expertise that blends motion, exploration, and participant alternative – all whereas maintaining the thriller, environment, and pressure that outline Treatment’s storytelling.
That is our probability to take the surreal, brutal fantastic thing about Control and push it additional – into a sprawling, reality-warping Manhattan stuffed with hazard, discovery, and paranatural surprise.
Control Resonant is the most important sport now we have ever made and might be launched in 2026 for PlayStation 5. We are able to’t wait to share extra about it within the months forward.
Issues are going to get weirder.