Control Ultimate Edition Reviews

Regardless of settings, frame rates in this game drop lower and lower the longer the game is played. The patches make this problem worse, not better. At this point in time (3/2025) the game is no longer playable. i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz 16GB RAM Windows 10 Home 64 bit RTX 2060 Super

Best game ever! After Alan Wake 2 release this game is best game ever on steam. Remedy know how to make immersive, narrative, deep: worlds, stories, characters, gameplay, music. For me Remedy is the best dev studio. Their games are truly meaningful. PS As a professional QA i spotted few bugs and found some possible improvements but still this is piece of ART.

It's a great game, if only it would work. Unfortunately it's become utterly unplayable at this point with Ray Tracing on my 5080 & 9800x3d system. The game freezes up for a second or so frequently, and will completely lock up permanently every 30 minutes. I reached out to support weeks ago and never got an answer. Judging by several Reddit posts on the topic, I'm not the only one. It's a real bummer because damn I love the art direction, visuals, sound, everything. It's just... unplayable now due to technical issues, and the recent update has made things significantly worse.

Cool concept and setting, but ultimately disappointing. The characters were cardboard cutouts and the acting was poor all around, with the exception of Darling. Aside from his videos, the hundreds of various video/audio logs and journal entries I had to stop to read were bland and tedious. They made me wish they were part of the game and not just something I was reading about. It's a linear game pretending to be more open, resulting in constant backtracking once the next MacGuffin is mentioned in your mission log. The constantly respawning bullet sponge enemies made traversal a chore. The weapons barely deal any damage compared to the Launch ability, so what could have been an exciting combat system is reduced to hitting enemies with filing cabinets over and over again. Enemy variety is uninspired, with literally every non-boss enemy boiling down to "man" or "slightly deformed man." There is no meaningful character progression, with the entire perk/mod system consisting of minor passive stat boosts with a rare few abilities on the skill tree. There are all sorts of different currencies and side missions that I never understood, but it turns out they don't matter. I think Control would have been much better as a Portal-sized experience. It ran out of anything interesting to say or do after a few hours.

I was in the late stage of the game when I installed this update, and since then the game has been butchered. Graphics that were originally of higher quality on Ultra then became a blurred mess on the same settings. I tried toning the display down to medium because the lag was unbearable, but the lag would kick back in on the occasion. It didn't completely ruin the experience, but I indeed regretted installing this update. Without the March 10 update the game is solid, but until it gets fixed the game shouldn't be bought at the state it's currently in. For me, the DLC will have to be on hold for now. It's a shame, but I do not want to be reminded to purchase Alan Wake 2 every time I open this game. [UPDATE]: The March 13 update slightly improved the game's performance, but only enough to where it's barely playable: lag isn't as much of an issue as it was a few days ago. However, the same issues are still present, now featuring the Hideo Kojima mission which I quite enjoyed.

UPDATE BROKE THE GAME I'm a huge Remedy fan, and Control is a really fun game with a really great story / atmosphere, but the game is just not optimised well for PC. Just play the console version instead. Given that DX12 for this game is broken (constant stuttering / freezing / audio randomly muting), I decided to switch to the DX11 version and was happy to find I had no issues playing the game at all. The new update as of two days ago removed the choice to select which version of the game to play, making the unplayable DX12 version the only option, and I'm now unable to finish the game as even on the lowest graphical settings the game constantly freezes and randomly mutes the audio. (UPDATE, MARCH 15TH, 2025: Have used -DX11 command [credit to @CaptainPumbo] to force-open DX11 on launch, sadly the audio muting issues / stutters are present on this version of the game after the update as they were with DX12.)

Control is a third person action game developed by Remedy. Players take control of protagonist Jesse Faden, an agent who works for the Federal Bureau of Control. The FBC deals with supernatural phenomenon and its setting, and that of the game, is within the eerie and ever shifting building known as the Oldest House. The narrative is cryptic, abstract and often told through conversations and collectables. It can be confusing to follow at times. The gameplay generally consists of a variety of guns mixed with telekinetic abilities that grow more powerful as the game progresses. While the combat can be fun, the missions themselves would often feel redundant. I had a difficult time staying engaged towards the end. The DLC's redeemed this issue to some extent, and were a lot more interesting with more focused plot points. Ultimately while this is not a bad game overall, its complex story, monotonous visuals and repetitive gameplay didn't resonate with me.

Game has an amazing visual style and some amazing scenes The Combat is also pretty easy and the abilities are fun to play with and i just love arti, our trusted janitor

Just started playing this game last week and was really enjoying it, performance and gameplay were solid and I was able to run it at the highest settings without a single hitch, really beautiful looking game too especially with ray tracing on. But after the March update rolled out, I am now suddenly running into major performance issues, the game stutters every other second now since updating, some stutters hang for like 2-3 whole seconds making combat quite difficult, almost impossible even.. it sorta feels like the game is about to crash due to how long these stutters can hang for, makes for quite an unpleasant experience. Never even got the chance to finish this game and probably never will unless another patch rolls through or if I can somehow figure out a way to fix this, I've already been trying for about 4 hours now and I honestly can't justify wasting any more time than I already have trying to fix this nonsense. I have tried just about everything to get rid of these incredibly frustrating stutters including disabling CFG (control flow guard) with no luck at all- and before anyone asks, yes i reinstalled the game and completely wiped the leftover files for Control in the "steamapps" folder since i heard this worked for someone else, no dice there either.. This is currently the only game in my library that runs this way, and it pains me to say it, but I can not recommend this game in its current state, I wish this update would have been optional because I am having a miserable old time trying to get this thing to work properly like it did before, what a headache this has been. If anybody has any suggestions, I'm open to them. I'd love to be able to play this game normally again. If it's any help, I'm running this on an RTX 4090 and Ryzen 9 7900X3D... more than capable of running this game just fine.

Some kindof mix of previous games from Remedy. It takes place in Oldest House a huge skyscraper but some locations like a quarry made an impression on me. Jesse's abilities are awesome and so much fun, I even forgot about Director's Gun. Also Ahti the janitor and music playing in the end of "Finnish Tango" mission left only the best memories about this game. I can't wait for Control 2 and nice to know that it's gonna be an action role playing game, but still would like to see Alan Wake 2 on Steam