Last verified 2026-09-22 by ReviewGamers Editorial
Remedy Entertainment’s Control Resonant reaches Steam on 24 September 2026, just three days away as of 21 September, at A$89.95. The listing’s headline number is not the graphics card but the 120 GB SSD requirement. This is what the Steam page and Remedy’s published spec sheet confirm ahead of launch, and what is still open.
Release date, price and platforms
Steam lists Control Resonant for release on 24 September 2026 at A$89.95 in Australia for the Standard Edition. Remedy Entertainment is both developer and publisher. On Steam it is Windows only, with full controller support, and carries the Action, Adventure and RPG genre tags.
Three edition tiers are available: the Standard Edition at A$89.95, the Digital Deluxe Edition at A$107.95, and The Siblings Collection bundle (which includes the Ultimate Edition and is offered at a 10% discount for A$142.10). Pre-order buyers receive the Hiss Corruption Outfit and Pickpocket’s Tool Artifact as bonuses. PC Gamer’s 9 September report on the spec sheet also lists an Epic Games Store release. Console and Game Pass details were not part of our source check and are not covered here.
Steam Achievements, Trading Cards and Cloud saves are enabled for the game. Family Sharing is also supported.
What the game is
Keeping to the Steam description: an action-adventure RPG set in a warped Manhattan, with Dylan Faden as protagonist facing a paranatural threat. Dylan Faden is the sibling of Jesse Faden, protagonist of the first Control game. The Federal Bureau of Control releases Dylan to help contain an escaped extradimensional entity that has taken control of downtown Manhattan. The story emphasises characters who fall through society’s cracks and explores Dylan’s relationships with Jesse and his handler Zoe.
Gameplay and exploration
Control Resonant shifts the focus toward melee combat, departing from the first game’s third-person shooter model. Dylan’s primary weapon, the Aberrant, is a shapeshifting armament that transforms into a variety of arms during combat. Remedy describes the game as open-ended, allowing exploration of large, distinct zones filled with side activities, hidden encounters and optional discoveries. Dylan’s supernatural abilities navigate spaces that no longer obey regular physics, such as Gravity Anomalies where gravity and orientation shift entirely. There is no campaign score, no difficulty metric, and no leaderboard mechanic mentioned in the Steam listing.
PC requirements
Minimum, per the Steam page:
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- Core i5-8500 or Ryzen 5 3500
- 16 GB of RAM
- GeForce GTX 1070, Radeon RX 5600 XT or Intel Arc A580
- 120 GB of storage, SSD required
Recommended:
- Core i7-10700 or Ryzen 7 3700X
- 16 GB of RAM
- GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Radeon RX 6700 XT or Intel Arc B580
- 120 GB SSD
What those tiers are meant to deliver: the minimum configuration targets 1080p at 30 fps, whilst the recommended tier targets 1440p at 60 fps. For higher framerates and resolution, Remedy’s specs cite an RTX 3080 or RX 6800 XT for 4K at 60 fps with High graphics and Performance-mode upscaling without ray tracing. Path tracing at 4K requires an RTX 5080 paired with an Intel Core i7-10700 or Ryzen 7 3700X.
Two things are notable about the list. The recommended tier stays at 16 GB of RAM rather than stepping up, and the GPU floor is a GTX 1070, RX 5600 XT or Arc A580, older mid-range parts rather than anything current.
The 120 GB problem
Storage is where planning matters. Steam lists 120 GB with the SSD marked as required rather than merely recommended. On a 1 TB system drive that already holds Windows, that is a meaningful slice, and it stacks up quickly against other current releases: The Blood of Dawnwalker’s Steam page asks for 60 GB and WARDOGS for 50 GB. Those three games alone account for 230 GB. If your SSD is a 512 GB unit, expect to uninstall something.
Graphics and upscaling technology
Control Resonant supports NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 and AMD FSR 4.1 for both upscaling and frame generation, along with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction. These techniques allow lower-end hardware to run the game at higher resolutions and framerates than the GPU alone would achieve, which is relevant given the large performance gap between minimum and high-end configurations.
Accessibility and features listed on Steam
Steam’s feature list for the game includes HDR support, DualSense support, adjustable difficulty, subtitle options, a keyboard-only option and colour alternatives. The game supports 15 languages with full audio and subtitle options in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish variants, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian. Steam notes it carries a content warning for “Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content”. These are Steam’s category tags rather than a detailed accessibility menu, so the depth of each option is not yet known.
Steam Deck status
Valve’s compatibility report shows no rating for Control Resonant as of 15 September; the store page marks it as not yet rated. With a GTX 1070 minimum and a 120 GB install, no conclusion should be drawn either way until Valve publishes a result. The Steam Deck hub will carry the rating once it appears.
What is and is not confirmed
Confirmed by the Steam page: the 24 September date, A$89.95 price, Remedy as developer and publisher, the full minimum and recommended specs, and the feature tags above. Confirmed by PC Gamer’s report of Remedy’s sheet: the preset targets and the Epic Games Store release. Not yet confirmed: any console or Game Pass arrangement, the Steam Deck rating, and any detail about how the game plays beyond the Steam blurb.
If you are planning September’s PC spending, our coverage of The Blood of Dawnwalker’s hotfixes and WARDOGS’ early access launch covers the two releases already out, and the PC hub has the rest.