The 2019 game Control is basically the SCP Foundation mixed with Twin Peaks and X-Men , kinda. It takes place entirely within a brutalist building called “The Oldest House,” with impossible geometry and ever-shifting layout. The Oldest House is the home of the Federal Bureau of Control, a clandestine government organization which investigates Altered World Events, Objects of Power, and other such phenomenon at the behest of the Board, which are other-dimensional beings that maybe controls (ha) the entire universe. The game f*ckin’ rips and it captured our collective imagination when it came out and for a long while after. At the 2025 Game Awards, we got our first look at the sequel, Control Resonant , which looks to somehow go even harder.
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