{"id":802179,"date":"2026-10-14T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802179\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:36:18","slug":"82-hours-in-control-resonant-and-the-remedyverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802179\/","title":{"rendered":"82 hours in Control Resonant and the Remedyverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I meant to review one game. I\u2019ve wound up here reviewing three. Or is that seven? Several of them are very good, one of them in a way I didn\u2019t see coming.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be as quick as I can about it. But I am going to tell you about seven years\u2019 worth of interconnected games from one excellent game studio.<\/p>\n

First, for a moment, please jump back with me to this past August. It\u2019s a month before the release of Control Resonant<\/a>, the next game from the highly esteemed Finnish development house Remedy Entertainment.<\/p>\n

It dawns on me that I\u2019ve never played more than an hour of its predecessor, the original 2019 hit game Control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also recall that Alan Wake 2,<\/a> Remedy\u2019s 2023\u2019s game of the year contender<\/a>, had included references to Control. I wasn\u2019t sure how many, because, as of August, I\u2019d only played Alan Wake 2 for about three hours three years ago. I knew the games were connected, but not really how.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d long known Remedy as a game studio. I had covered<\/a> the them<\/a> plenty<\/a>. I just hadn\u2019t kept up playing their games, not since 2016.<\/p>\n

Now, ahead of reviewing Control Resonant, I was going to do some light catch-up. <\/p>\n

That was the idea. Just a peek at the recent stuff.<\/p>\n

Instead, I\u2019ve been sucked into the Remedyverse. I\u2019m hooked. I don\u2019t want to leave. Today, I\u2019m sharing my dispatches, in case you\u2019re interested in taking the journey, too.<\/p>\n

Since August, between reporting<\/a> the<\/a> news and reviewing<\/a> new<\/a> games<\/a>, I\u2019ve been on a Remedy kick, discovering\u2014belatedly\u2014the magic of a company that is in a groove of trading off making games about Control and Alan Wake, roughly their equivalents to the X-Files and Twin Peaks.<\/p>\n

The games are all connected, even retroactively with some older Remedy releases. And the dynamic is like this: Control games are about the Federal Bureau of Control, a kind of FBI for the supernatural. Alan Wake games are about some very specific supernatural events, which have been investigated by the FBC. Control is the zoom out; Alan Wake is the zoom in.<\/p>\n

Because of all this, what was going to be a Game File review of Control Resonant (it\u2019s good!) is now a set of reviews of several pieces of the Remedyverse, including the one that really shocked me\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I meant to review one game. I\u2019ve wound up here reviewing three. Or is that seven? Several of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}