CONTROL Resonant

CONTROL Resonant

Fair · RPG · 2026

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17

Fair at $47.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2026. Buy it now if you want it.

Cost per hour▼
$2.02/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 20,822
Genre rank
Top 7% RPG

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 21% off ($47.40) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Score at full price

Fair$59.99

Score today

−20%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at $47.40 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
23.8h
To 100%
43.7h 1.8x the story
Achievements
49

Price and sales

Sales
1 on record
Typical cut
20% off
Steam low
$47.99 November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $42.95 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
3,130 now
Recent reviews
92% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

97% start to 11% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
3,130 when we last checked, on Nov 5, 20:46 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

The value story

The value story

The lowest price on record is $47.99, set in November 2026. It has gone on sale once in the 5 months tracked here, most recently in November 2026.

Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alan Wake ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats CONTROL Ultimate Edition ($39.99, scores 53).

More about CONTROL Resonant

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2026 to November 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,105 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 8 of 431 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 740 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.02/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $2.52/hr
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds9 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in this thrilling action-adventure RPG. Unleash the extraordinary powers of Dylan Faden as he fights for his humanity and our survival against a reality-bending cosmic threat.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 1070 / Radeon RX 5600 XT / Intel Arc A580, 120 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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CONTROL Resonant scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3669870/control-resonant
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperRemedy Entertainment
PublisherRemedy Entertainment
GenreRPG
Released2026
Achievements49