CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.7h
- Value
- $3.15/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X, 42 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in August 2025. 59 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alan Wake ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Alan Wake's American Nightmare ($8.99, scores 37).
None of the 200 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written in September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 3,064 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.7 hours; clearing it takes 39, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
Still 648 concurrent players, 6 years in.
At 12.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
89% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
648 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game that made me fall in love with Brutalist architecture and introduced me to the wonderous Remedyverse. Control represented a bit of a milestone for my gaming journey. I first played the game in 2019, back when it was only available on the Epic Games Store. It was also the same year I built my first Desktop PC, which housed my first "real" GPU, the Nvidia RTX 2080Ti. This game came bundled with that graphics...
Finally playing through this in preparation of Control Resonant. Fascinating world and lore for anyone who enjoys SCP or these supernatural type media with agencies that track them. Gameplay, writing and characters are about what is expected from a studio we celebrated as Remedy. Is it the absolute best third person action game I've played? No. But it's still very good. They excel so much in atmosphere, world...
< We provide/offer better Bonus Package/Health Plan > < Trippy/Action/Hooked > 8 / 10
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/870780/control-ultimate-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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