Three Remedy Games to Play After Finishing Control Resonant

If you've been playing Control Resonant nonstop since it launched, there's a good chance you're nearing the end. That bittersweet feeling is familiar to anyone who has finished a game by developer Remedy Entertainment — the knowledge that nothing else quite scratches the same itch. Love it or hate it, Control Resonant is a wholly unique action RPG that's hard to follow, but the studio's back catalogue offers a lifeline for players craving more Federal Bureau of Control lore and those distinct paranormal vibes.

Remedy has spent years quietly building an interconnected universe that links seemingly disparate games together. Whether you're looking for direct narrative bridges to the Control storyline or just want another brainy action game with that unmistakable Remedy atmosphere, three titles stand out as essential follow-ups. Each feeds a different appetite, from horror mastery to combat DNA to institutional world-building.

Alan Wake 2 — The Narrative Bridge

At a glance, the horror game about a novelist trying to write himself out of an alternate dimension doesn't seem very related to Control at all. In reality, Alan Wake 2 is very closely linked with that series, to the point where it includes direct references to the Federal Bureau of Control, especially in its The Lake House DLC. The expansion contains critical information that sets up Control Resonant, making it arguably the most important narrative companion piece for anyone invested in the overarching mystery.

Beyond its connective tissue, Alan Wake 2 stands as Remedy at its creative peak. It's a strange and subversive horror game that features plenty of oddball surprises and the kind of cinematic storytelling that Remedy does better than any other studio working today. For players who appreciated Control Resonant's unsettling atmosphere and meta-narrative layers, Alan Wake 2 delivers that same confidence in abundance — just filtered through a survival-horror lens rather than a bureaucratic-action one. The game is available on PS5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.

Quantum Break — The Combat Ancestor

Though Control Resonant is a direct sequel to Control, in many ways it feels like a continuation of ideas established in Quantum Break, the dark sheep of Remedy's catalogue. Released in 2016, Quantum Break punctuated its third-person action gameplay with a full season of live-action TV starring Shawn Ashmore, Aiden Gillen, and the late Lance Reddick. While main character Jack Joyce primarily runs and guns, many of his powers — including the shield, blast, and rush abilities — feel like they'd fit naturally into the toolkit of Resonant protagonist Dylan Faden.

Both games necessitate zipping around battlefields to survive, and the connective tissue emerges most clearly when you're in the thick of a fight. There are of course narrative and tonal distinctions — Resonant is matter-of-factly a more unsettling game, borderline horror at times — but the combat DNA is unmistakable. As Ari Notis put it, "Very Remedy, if you think about it."

"Very Remedy, if you think about it."

Ari Notis

Quantum Break runs on Windows PC and Xbox One, and while it’s the least widely available title on this list, it’s still a must for firepower fans.

FBC: Firebreak — The Institutional Perspective

Okay, hear me out. As an ill-fated live-service shooter that struggled to get off the ground in 2025, FBC: Firebreak is a rare misfire for Remedy. It was the studio trying to dip into a trend that clearly wasn't in its wheelhouse, and that left players with a shallow co-op shooter that is no longer receiving updates. All that said, it's still a great bit of world-building that will only help you appreciate Control Resonant more.

FBC: Firebreak puts you in the shoes of the Joe Schmoes of the Remedy universe: the paper-pushers and cleaners inside the FBC. That perspective not only puts you into a goofy office comedy where sticky note monsters roam free, but it also helps explain why things went so badly wrong in The Oldest House. It paints the FBC as a madhouse, run by people who simply weren't competent enough to deal with the forces they were messing with. Don't expect much out of it as a multiplayer game with limited depth, but it might be the best one to revisit in light of Resonant just to understand exactly why the Manhattan situation got so out of control under the FBC's watch. The game is available on PS5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.

Remedy's interconnected universe rewards curiosity more than most. Alan Wake 2 gives you the narrative keys, Quantum Break shows you where the combat language started, and FBC: Firebreak — for all its flaws as a game — hands you the institutional context that makes Control Resonant's chaos make sense. If you've finished Resonant and feel that void, any of these three will fill it in ways a generic action game never could. The studio's next move remains unwritten, but the breadcrumb trail is there for anyone willing to follow it.