Remedy Entertainment used Summer Game Fest 2026 to drop a fresh trailer for Control Resonant, framed around a “Paranatural Manhattan” and the ominous suggestion that the Oldest House has fallen.
The sequel to 2019’s Control appears to ditch the brutalist confines of the Federal Bureau of Control’s HQ and push the action out into a warped, supernatural version of New York City. Where the first game trapped players inside a shape-shifting skyscraper, Resonant looks ready to let the crisis spill into the streets.
The trailer hints that the Hiss, the resonance-based force that corrupted the Bureau in the original game, has broken containment. If that’s the case, the FBC’s worst-case scenario is now playing out across an entire city.
Control Resonant is being treated as a direct sequel to Control. Expect returning ideas like Objects of Power, Altered World Events, and the Federal Bureau of Control, with the action now potentially spread across Manhattan rather than locked inside the Oldest House.
Do you need to play the first one
Yes, probably. Resonant is positioned as a direct continuation of Control‘s story, and Remedy’s connected universe has only grown tighter since Alan Wake 2 and its The Lake House DLC, which pulled the FBC deeper into Alan Wake‘s orbit. Newcomers can survive without an Alan Wake refresher, but Control is essential homework.
Control Resonant will launch on September 24, 2026. Pre-orders bonuses are available for those who can’t wait to dig into this new paranatural version of Manhattan.
