I loved it, it’s a pretty unique experience. But to be totally honest, I hated it until I messed with the assist mode settings. So my personal tip, which is definitely not for everyone, is to completely customize those settings as much as you want. Some of the default combat and QOL features are way off in my opinion, and once I got over the shame of changing some fundamental settings, the game opened way up for me and I was able to get completely into the story.

The devs added the settings a year or two after the game’s release, so they must have been getting a lot of feedback.

Enjoy! You’re in for a wild ride.

Read/watch everything. Maybe after dealing with an object of power, there'll be a slightly redacted memo about it. There's inner office politics in other memos.

The world building is absolutely amazing if you choose to be patient and read everything you can.

I never got tired of the basic powers, breaking and throwing stuff always satisfying.

Also, /c/patientgamers

This is one of the few games I’ve played where I’m constantly hoping to find new random scraps of paper. One of the most interesting places to explore.

Control is fantastic! I'm really excited to pick up Resonance soon, and I've been trying not to spoil myself too much on it.

As for tips, a lot of things can be done in any order, so if you find yourself dying over and over to a certain encounter, go look for some side-objectives to do and level up a bit, then come back and take down that thing that was kicking your ass.

hey, looks like a neat game, I should check this out! I've never heard of this game

already in your library

One of the best games of all time. You don't need any tips. Just explore and play. Try different guns. Try different abilities. Look around environments to appreciate how amazing the areas look.

Take! Control! (it will take a while to get there and understand)

The game really rewards being aggressive. There's a reason enemies drop health pickups where they die - keep moving and take advantage of that.

I found the game got more and more fun the further into the game I got, since more abilities started being unlocked that added much more variety to the gameplay.

I really ended up loving it by the time I finished it.

I feel like I'm the only person who didn't like it? I hated not being able to figure out where to go

Control is my favorite game ever.

The sequel just keeps the fun going!

Super late to the party...

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works might be right up your alley!

I don't consider what I'm about to say a spoiler, but some people might.

Control's combat mechanics are made specifically so that enemies hit you less the faster you're moving. So picking up momentum and keeping it as much as you can is a solid strategy. Sometimes I simply run around in circles when low on health, trying to get some easy kill or find more health somewere. It works surprisingly well.

Also, Throw is OP in general. A little trick I only recently learned myself: You can pick up something from behind an enemy and have it hit them as it floats towards you.

Have fun! :)

I've had it on Steam forever, but never played it when I had a PC. It runs okay on my Mac, but kinda looks like ass. I'm hoping for a good sale on Xbox so I can play it in 4K. (If not, the TV will upscale it and my old ass won't care if I can tell the difference.)

The game is awesome, and you can customise the heck out of the difficulty settings. Can make it so you straight up don't take damage if you just want the story. That's wild to me, with so many games punishing people who work full-time... or perhaps they'd say it rewards the time and effort they take to learn the intricate parry/dodge systems... Not a fan of souls-likes. I love accessible gaming. Let people make it as easy or as hard as they want. Bethesda ties it to XP in Starfield — if you want it easy, you're working for less XP. So I pick up all the guns and spacesuits and I buy the cool upgrades for my ship. I got up to level 183 on my first game, I don't need all that.

So yeah... figure out the difficulty/accessibility settings and make the experience yours... then go own it.

Damn, I've had this game sitting at 0 hours played in my library for a while now. Worth giving it a shot it sounds like?

Just started this week. It's fun and atmospheric. But I hate the darkness and screen mobbing of effects. Like it gets so bad that you can't see shit during a fight and somehow fall down endless voids that exist for reasons.

One of my favorite games! The abilities are so cool and they nailed story and atmosphere.

It's in my top 5 games of all time. One of very few games I've played through multiple times. I love the universe, lore, design, characters, feel and everything else. And it's still one of the best looking hames ever made IMO, and one of the few games who used RTX almost perfectly.

You Better Go Now Or You Won't Have To Run With Your Head As Your Third Leg

Pay attention! Remedy is like the Twin Peaks of video game studios so paying attention to the plot as well as reading everything in the appendices and the documents uncover is vital.

Also HIGHLY recommend playing Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2 if you haven’t already. Same studio and a connected universe!

It's so good but I fell out of it and really need to go back and finish it

Fuuuuck I need to finish this. Fell off the wagon HARD.

If you’re playing with a controller, don’t be ashamed to go into the optional settings to make aiming easier. I absolutely suck at fps games on controller, the aim assist was crucial for me to enjoy playing. I’m glad I did because this game is amazing!

Loved Control. Currently playing through the sequel.

I own this game across five storefronts and have never paid for it. I liked it, but ran out of steam and didn't finish.

I heard it's a spooky game, but is it spooky in Silent Hill way or Prey 2017 way?

I only started it a couple of weeks ago and it’s one of the few games I’ve kept going with. Highly recommended it to my daughter who is loving it too.

Hey, better late than never! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Resonant is just as good if not better.

I just finished this a few weeks ago. Amazing game.

Loved this game. Loved Alan Wake 2 even more! Definitely give it a try when you have the chance. AW1 Remastered holds up as well if you haven’t played it.

I felt so bad for getting this game for free on EGS that I ended up buying it when it hit Steam. That's how good this game is.

I stopped playing about 8 hours in. In my experience it was like that review of Pride and Prejudice that said "it's just people going to other people's houses."

I just finished the first game this week. Super great game that I was surprised kept my attention. I've been in a "game funk" over the last couple years where I have not found something that kept my attention. Control did, and now I'm onto the sequel.

I only just played it as well! (At least the main story and one DLC, not entirely done). I also like it a lot. The whole SCP atmosphere is fun, and I loved Ahti especially.

Tip: You should do the quest "My Brother's Keeper" earlier rather than later. I tried doing all the side quests first, but got a little stuck because I was missing something.

Tip: If you bought the DLCs (for example if you got Ultimate Edition), one of them starts rather randomly so if you start seeing Alan Wake, you've entered the crossover DLC. You can do it in between or after the main mission, it doesn't hurt to do it early. The other DLC starts after the last main quest of the main game.

If you haven’t played Alan Wake, it takes place in the same universe.

I’m still playing through this on my phone!

I downloaded the demo for Switch, it let me play up to the point where you are allowed to jump, then it was like no you've seen enough. Never looked at it again. Got it free from Epic so I guess I have no excuse not to try it now.