Remedy Entertainment confirmed during today’s State of Play that Control Resonant launches on September 24, 2026. One of our most anticipated games of the year, the sequel is coming to PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, PC, and Mac, and the studio released a new story trailer alongside the date.
In Control Resonant, Manhattan has been warped by paranatural forces, with impossible architecture, shifting realities, and monstrous entities born from a new kind of resonance. Dylan Faden, the younger brother of Jesse Faden, is the sole playable character this time (or so Remedy Entertainment claims). As he pushes deeper into the city, he encounters Resonant manifestations and hostile forces that require him to master his evolving abilities and his shapeshifting weapon, the Aberrant.
Dylan was the “face of the enemy” in the original Control, and Resonant turns the dynamic around by putting him in the lead while Jesse, the central figure of the first game, steps back. Jesse remains central to the story and still has a presence, but Dylan is the one moving it forward. Both games center on the Faden siblings confronting their destinies, with each sibling’s arc shaping the other’s.
Resonant goes further into the Fadens’ past. As a child, Dylan was taken by the Federal Bureau of Control and raised inside an institution that tried to dictate his life, which ended in tragedy and left him contained for years. When a paranatural force called the Hiss tore through the Oldest House, the Bureau’s headquarters, it took Dylan over and triggered the largest paranatural disaster the FBC had known, killing hundreds. Jesse stopped him and cleansed him of the force, but he fell into a coma for years. He is now awake in an unfamiliar world, with Jesse missing.
Preorders are open now, and the Digital Deluxe Edition includes 48 hours of advance access.
