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Control Resonant is confirmed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Mac, and GeForce NOW. The digital release is worldwide on September 24, 2026; physical editions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S follow on October 15, 2026. The PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC versions all arrive digitally on the September date; the Mac version follows later in 2026. For a wider summary of the game, see the Overview; for a beginner-facing primer, see Getting Started.

Confirmed Platforms

The sequel is current-generation only. There are no announced versions for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, or Switch 2. The PC release ships through two storefronts simultaneously, and the Mac release does the same, though Mac arrives after the September 24, 2026 launch rather than on day one. On Steam the game carries App ID 3669870.

Release Window

Control Resonant launches digitally worldwide on September 24, 2026. The date was confirmed during a PlayStation State of Play presentation in early June 2026, alongside a story trailer and the opening of pre-orders. The PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) versions all unlock at the same moment: both the PlayStation and Xbox storefront listings give the release timestamp as 14:00 UTC on September 24. That single global unlock is why the official FAQ carries a New Zealand footnote. New Zealand sits far enough ahead of UTC that the same instant falls in the early hours of September 25 there, so the local date reads a day later. It is the same release, not a delayed one.

The Mac version is the one exception to the September 24 date. Remedy has confirmed that Mac arrives later in 2026 through Steam and the Mac App Store, so Mac players should expect a separate, later launch rather than a same-day release.

Physical copies are on a separate schedule too. Disc editions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, including the SteelBook Edition, reach retail on October 15, 2026, three weeks after the digital launch. There is no physical release on PC or Mac.

Engine and Performance Target

Resonant runs on Northlight, Remedy Entertainment's proprietary engine, which also powered Alan Wake 2 and Control. The studio has stated a 60 FPS target on console during destruction-heavy combat sequences, supported by an expanded draw distance, more simultaneous on-screen enemies, and a broader lighting palette than the first Control could push. PC and Mac performance options have not been detailed at this stage.

Announcement and Reveal Timeline

The path from a vague Remedy roadmap entry to a named, dated sequel took roughly four and a half years. The table below tracks the public milestones leading into the 2026 release window.

Supported Languages

The Steam listing currently advertises localization for fifteen languages at launch. The full list spans the major European, East Asian, and Slavic markets that Remedy has historically targeted, with both Iberian and Latin American Spanish supported and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese supported.

Not every language gets a dub. Eight of the fifteen ship with full voice acting: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Simplified Chinese. The remaining seven, Korean, Spanish (Latin America), Traditional Chinese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian, are subtitle and interface only. Remedy has described Resonant as the most localised game the studio has made, with Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese audio both new additions for a Remedy title.

Steam Features

Confirmed Steam-side features at this stage are intentionally limited because the storefront page is still pre-launch. The features below are the ones explicitly listed on the Steam page rather than guesses.

• Single-player only

  . Resonant does not include cooperative or competitive multiplayer modes. The studio's separate cooperative project, FBC: Firebreak, is a different game and is not part of this release.

• Steam Family Sharing

  is supported, allowing the Steam library entry to be shared between family members on the same account network.

• Steam tags

  currently include Action, Adventure, RPG, Action RPG, Hack and Slash, Story Rich, Atmospheric, Sci-fi, Surreal, Post-apocalyptic, Third Person, and Singleplayer. These tags are user-curated and may shift before launch.

• Steam Deck support is confirmed at launch. Remedy has said Resonant will run on Steam Deck on day one. Valve has not published a Deck Verified or Deck Playable rating for the game yet, so the studio's own statement is the only support claim on record.

Self-Publishing and Funding

Remedy Entertainment is self-publishing Resonant, which is a structural change from the original Control. In February 2024, Remedy bought the full Control intellectual property from 505 Games for approximately seventeen million euros, which made it the sole rights holder going into the sequel. In August 2024, Remedy announced a co-financing and co-production partnership with Annapurna Pictures that also covers film and television adaptation rights for the franchise. The total project budget has been publicly cited at around fifty million euros, with the studio noting that roughly three to four million units sold would be needed to break even.

Editions and Pre-Orders

Pre-orders are open on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and the Epic Games Store, for both digital and physical formats. The game ships in standard and deluxe tiers. The table below summarizes the announced editions and their headline contents.

The two physical tiers do not ship alongside the digital ones. Both the disc edition and the SteelBook Edition reach retail on October 15, 2026, three weeks after the September 24 digital launch, and both are PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S only.

Every edition includes the same pre-order bonuses: the Hiss Corruption Outfit for Dylan Faden and the Pickpocket's Tool Artifact, both of which unlock at the end of Act 1 rather than at the start of the game. Pre-orders placed on PlayStation 5 add an additional platform-exclusive Occult Outfit. The standard edition is priced at 59.99 USD (59.99 EUR / 49.99 GBP), and the deluxe and SteelBook tiers are priced at 69.99 USD (69.99 EUR / 59.99 GBP).

Regional Edition Content

One outfit is region-specific. At ChinaJoy 2026 the studio revealed the Robe of the Expert from the Ministry of Immaterial Objectives, a China-exclusive cosmetic whose description presents the Ministry as an official Chinese agency that finds and contains supernatural phenomena to keep public order, an in-fiction counterpart to the Federal Bureau of Control. The same showing carried a trailer with the game’s first Chinese dub. The outfit has not been announced for other regions.

Pre-Order Momentum

The studio published commercial signals alongside its half-year reporting on August 11, 2026. Resonant had passed 1.5 million wishlists across platforms, and the studio’s own analytics placed it among the top three pre-ordered games on PlayStation in the United States, Germany and Brazil during the campaign window after pre-orders opened. Marketing spending ramped through the second quarter and is set to accelerate again ahead of launch.

Age Rating and Content

The game is rated for mature audiences, and most of the major boards have now issued a classification. The ESRB rates it M for Mature 17+, citing Blood and Gore, Strong Language and Violence, and lists that rating against Windows PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. PEGI rates it 16 for violence and language, a figure carried on both the PlayStation and Xbox storefront listings. Germany's USK also rates it 16, Korea's GRB rates it 18, Indonesia's IGRS rates it 18 for violence, horror and language, and the Australian Classification Board rates it MA 15+. Japan's CERO has still not issued a rating. Brazil is the one open question: the console storefront listing carries a DJCTQ 16 while the Steam listing shows a lower figure of 14, and the two have not been reconciled.

First Public Playable Build

Resonant is playable in public for the first time at gamescom 2026, running August 26 to 30 at Koelnmesse in Cologne. Remedy announced the appearance on July 28 and confirmed the placement when the show opened: the build sits in Hall 6, hosted on the Level Infinite booth. Anyone with a show floor ticket can queue for it at any point across the five days; there is no separate booking window. The studio has not said which section of the campaign the demo covers or how long a session runs.

A separate community meet-up is scheduled for August 28 in Cologne, where members of the development team are meeting players in person. Meet-up tickets have been released in waves, with a further wave issued on August 10 after demand outstripped the first; a meet-up ticket is required but a show floor ticket is not, and attendance is restricted to visitors aged 18 and over. Before gamescom the game had only been shown hands-off, in press sessions and trailers, so this is the first chance for players outside the studio to hold a controller.

Altered State Trailer and Capsule Collection

The show carried the game's newest trailer as well as its first playable build. Altered State premiered during gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25 and runs to "Omen" by The Prodigy, the first licensed track from an outside act to appear in the marketing rather than a piece written or arranged for the game. Alongside it the studio announced a five-piece, made-to-order apparel capsule collection produced with ZA/UM Atelier and styled after the Federal Bureau of Control's institutional wardrobe, displayed at the show across the same five days. The same announcement is where the October 15 physical date was first given.

Unconfirmed Details

Several pieces of pre-launch information that readers commonly look for have not yet been disclosed. They are listed here so that the absence is explicit rather than implied.

This page will be updated as the studio confirms Mac system requirements, the remaining age rating, and any post-launch plans.

Performance Targets

Resonant targets 60 frames per second at launch on every supported platform, including PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC. Mac performance targets have not been broken out separately.

PC Tech and NVIDIA Features

On PC, Resonant ships with NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 and full path-traced lighting on day one. The published feature list also includes Ray Reconstruction, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, and RTX Mega Geometry, all built on the same Northlight tech that powered Alan Wake 2's path-traced mode. Tatu Aalto, Remedy's Technical Director of Graphics, has publicly described path-traced lighting as the visual lift that takes Resonant a generation past the original game. Remedy published an initial set of PC system requirements on the Steam store page; the minimum and recommended tiers are detailed in the section below, and the studio has said a fuller performance-target breakdown will follow before launch.

PC System Requirements

Remedy released an initial set of PC system requirements when the September 24, 2026 date was confirmed. These are described as initial targets: a more detailed breakdown, including frame-rate and resolution targets and the requirements for ray tracing and path tracing, is expected closer to launch. The storage figure is fixed at 100 GB across both tiers.

Mac system requirements have not been published. The Mac version of Resonant arrives later in 2026 through Steam and the Mac App Store, and its hardware targets are expected nearer that release.

Xbox Play Anywhere and Handheld Support

Resonant is an Xbox Play Anywhere title at launch. A single purchase covers Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, and supported Xbox-compatible gaming handhelds, with cross-device saves, achievements, and add-ons. The build is also labelled Resonant Handheld Optimized, indicating that Remedy has tuned performance and controls for handheld form factors rather than expecting the desktop build to run unmodified.