Control Resonant Guides
Every page in this section answers one searched question, with the sources listed at the bottom of the page.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Point of No Return: A Spoiler-Light Checklist
Before you follow the next story objective, check what can wait, what needs care and how to keep your current progress safe. No ending or final boss spoilers.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Best Builds: Forms, Abilities and Talents
A beginner setup, a way to plan ability builds, and a checklist for finding the weak link in your combat loop. Artifact recipes have their own guide.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant: All You Need To Know
Release date, platforms, price, story setup, combat, world structure, progression and editions for Remedy’s Control sequel.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Story, Explained
What Control Resonant is about, who Dylan and Jesse are and where it sits on the Control timeline, spoiler-free, followed by a clearly marked spoiler section on the plot and the ending.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant: The Deserter Boss, and the "Underwhelming" Label
How the Deserter fight actually works, the opening that ends it, and where the "underwhelming" criticism comes from.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant: How Long To Beat
Main story, thorough run and completionist timings, who stated them, and where the extra hours actually go.
Official · RemedyShould I Play Control Before Control Resonant?
The short answer is no, plus the three concepts newcomers need and what the original actually adds.
Official · RemedyIs Control Resonant a Soulslike? Combat and Difficulty Explained
Remedy’s own answer, the push-forward combat loop behind it, and the Assist Mode sliders that let you set the challenge in either direction.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Dog Toy Locations
Where the Mysterious Dog sits in each of the seven zones, where her plush dragon toy is, and the route to carry it back to her bed.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant The Last Taxi: All Locations & Puzzle Solutions
All seven taxi locations with routes, and every taxi puzzle solved by the clue it shows.
DiagramControl Resonant Washing Machine Puzzle Solution
The on/off combination for all seven rows of machines in the Central laundromat, which row is which, and the Secret Hideout it opens.
DiagramControl Resonant Power Lines Walkthrough: Every Station Puzzle
Where every Calibration Unit is, where it goes and how to move the power at Perimeter, Factory and East Park stations, then Platform A and Platform B in the Vanished Station.
DiagramControl Resonant SHÜM Arcade: All Cabinet Locations & Rewards
Where all eight Shum III arcade cabinets are, the zone level and abilities each needs, its challenge type, and the leaderboard rewards.
DiagramControl Resonant Update 1.4 Patch Notes, Explained
What Hotfix 1.4.2, Game Update 1.4.0 and Hotfix 1.4.1 changed, sorted by what you will actually notice: quest blockers, New Game++, combat balance, UI and PC performance.
DiagramControl Resonant: How to Get to the Unknown (and Get Around It)
How the story takes you to the Unknown, how to return, the Pope’s Research balloons that open its Gravity Wells, both Hedron Links, and the Co-Director boss.
DiagramControl Resonant Freeze Frame: All 14 Camera Locations
Where the Instant Photos and both cameras are in each of the seven zones, the route that gets you behind each one, the Downtown finale and the reward.
DiagramControl Resonant Maintenance Protocol Walkthrough: Every Bulb Fixed
How the quest starts, the Oldest House door in the Underpass, all three light bulbs with their fixes, the final projection and the dialogue that gets you out.
DiagramControl Resonant Cash Register Codes and Secret Hideout Solutions
The two cash register codes (Urban Fresh Mart and Atlantis Cafe), how each clue works, and the solutions to all six Secret Hideouts with their Health Upgrade rewards.
DiagramControl Resonant A New Directive Walkthrough: Finding Fred
Where the radio calls come from, who Fred (Fra) is, every step at the Field Office, the furniture layout for the containment unit and the reward.
DiagramControl Resonant Best Artifacts and Builds
Which Artifacts to run early, late and in New Game+, what each one costs to craft, the trade-offs on the risky ones, and where the Untapped versions come from.
DiagramControl Resonant Difficulty Settings and Assist Mode Explained
Why the game has no difficulty menu, every Assist Mode option Remedy has named, how to make combat harder, recommended values and what it does to trophies.
DiagramMikael Kasurinen Interview: Every Control Resonant Quote
What Control Resonant’s co-creative director has said in interviews and podcasts since reveal: guidance, RPG design, optional bosses, the sequel’s development and starting from scratch.
DiagramControl Resonant Voice Cast and Characters
Who voices every main character in Control Resonant, which actors return from Control and who is new — including Frankie Kevich as Zoe.
DiagramControl Resonant Art Gallery Puzzle Solution
Where the Evacuation Zone gallery is, how the “Paintings Sold This Month” note maps to the four walls, and the Secret Hideout it opens.
DiagramControl Resonant Testing Facilities: Soda Dispenser & Power Core Puzzles
All six Unsupervised Science labs, how the soda dispenser and Power Core puzzles work, what each lab pays and the safe route through the Threshold.
DiagramControl Resonant Dream House and All Sketchbook Locations
The Dream House solution piece by piece, then every one of Dylan’s 11 Sketchbook scenes by zone, with the objects to place and the Work-Life Balance trophy.
DiagramControl Resonant Trophy Guide: How to Get the Platinum
Difficulty, time, the one semi-missable trophy, a two-step roadmap and every trophy grouped by what you need to do, with links to the collectible guides.
DiagramControl Resonant Mission List: All Main Quests and Side Stories
The main story in order, the three Jesse Sightings, every Resonant boss, all named side stories with where they start, World Feats like Pattern Break, and FBC Tasks.
DiagramControl Resonant The Party Won’t Stop: Karaoke Answers
Where the karaoke apartment is, how to get past the locked door, the nine lyric picks in order with their directions, and the trophy a single miss locks out.
DiagramControl Resonant New Growth Walkthrough & Underhill Choice
How New Growth starts, the keycard and apartment key, the sewer lab, where Specimens A, B and C are, the three ways to end it, and the Carbon Copy quests that share its trophy.
DiagramControl Resonant Abilities: Every Power and How to Unlock It
Every traversal ability and the Fault that gives it, every combat ability and the Resonant that offers it, how the either-or picks work, and the token that gets you one more.
DiagramWill Control Resonant Have DLC?
What Remedy has actually announced after launch, what has already shipped, why there is no Expansion Pass, and how that compares with Control and Alan Wake 2.
DiagramControl Resonant The Complete Set: All Speaker Locations
Where the side story starts, the four speakers and the subwoofer in order, the keycard from Langston, the ritual placement for each piece, and the choice at the end.
DiagramControl Resonant Outfits: All Clothing and How to Unlock It
Every outfit by source: story missions, side stories, Testing Facilities, SHÜM leaderboards, vendors, edition and pre-order bonuses, Twitch Drops and newsletter rewards, plus the two outfit trophies.
DiagramControl Resonant Bosses: All Resonant Locations and Fights
All six Resonants and the final boss in the recommended order: where each one is, what you need to reach it, the attacks that matter, and the abilities and Source it pays out.
DiagramControl Resonant Rebuild Walkthrough
The late-game main mission that turns into a top-down pixel-art RPG: the letter puzzle, the bully fight, the Dump slides, Sled Hill Cave, the four memory shards and what follows.
DiagramControl Resonant Gym Puzzle: Pulse Fitness Solution
The Pulse Fitness gym puzzle in the Unknown: where to find the workout board, the five steps in order, the vending machine break and what the hidden hideout gives you.
DiagramControl Resonant Redeem Codes: Is There a Working Code?
We list no Control Resonant redeem code until one is confirmed in game. Here is where Enter Redeem Code sits in the options menu, and which rewards (NVIDIA cap, Twitch Drops) need a different route.
DiagramControl Resonant Coffee Shop Puzzle Solutions
There are two café puzzles: a four-letter cash register code in the Park and an appliance order in Downtown. How to read each clue, what the guides’ answers were and what you get.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Combo Finishers: Unlocks and Best Order
How the finisher tab in the Gap unlocks, what all six finishers do, their top upgrades and the order guides recommend for your first Living Shards.
DiagramControl Resonant Panopticon Service Request Walkthrough
How to start the side story, repair the containment terminal, work out the real cell ID from the mislabelled plates, catch the right radio broadcast and claim both rewards.
DiagramControl Resonant Urban Survival Walkthrough
Every Urban Survival objective in order: the trap-setter, the Hiss waves, Granny, Olivia, the car key, the Survivalist’s brother and the photo you bring back.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Main Character: Who Is Dylan Faden?
The protagonist of Control Resonant, how he links to the first game, the weapon he fights with, who guides him over the radio and where Jesse fits.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Photo Mode: Release Window and Roadmap
Photo Mode was not in the launch build. Here is what Remedy has said about it, where it sits on the roadmap and what else is planned.
Official · RemedyControl Resonant Switch Attack: Input and Fixes
What a Switch Attack is, the input that triggers it, the unlock it depends on and how to tell whether it actually fired.
DiagramControl Resonant Underpass Fault Walkthrough
How to reach and finish the Underpass Fault on the island of orange pipes, and why it can feel blocked.
DiagramControl Resonant: Where to Find Matthews
The unmarked search for Matthews: the building, the room, the dialogue order and the call with Zoe.
DiagramHow Many Resonants Are in Control Resonant?
The Resonant count, one zone at a time, and why the numbers in guides differ.
DiagramControl Resonant FBC Task Board: Unlock and All Locations
The unmarked NPC that starts FBC Tasks, the seven boards and the trophy count.
DiagramControl Resonant New Game Plus: Differences and Carry-Over
How to start NG+, what you keep, what resets and what is different on a second run.
DiagramControl Resonant Sever the Hedron Links Walkthrough
Main mission 10: getting back to the Unknown, the Pope’s Research step that opens the islands, both Hedron Link bosses and what the mission pays.
DiagramControl Resonant Ignite or Inferno: Which Should You Pick?
The Deserter’s two fire powers side by side: what they do, how much Power they burn, which build each suits and how to undo the choice.
DiagramControl Resonant FBC Terminal Answers and Rewards
Where to find the terminal, the three yes-or-no questions, the answers guides agree on, what you get and the trophy it unlocks.
DiagramControl Resonant Underpass Resonant: Astral Keys & the Physicist
How to reach the top of the Spire, where the three Astral Keys hide on the Astral Plane, how the Physicist fights and what to take as your reward.
DiagramControl Resonant Ending Explained
Full spoilers: the final fight with the Hedron, the twist in The End, Jesse’s fate, the epilogue and the questions the game leaves for a sequel or DLC.