Control Confronts Us With A Very Specific Type of Horror: A Lack of Control

Remedy’s Control is a game about recognizing our inability to have a firm grip on an indifferent universe, yet reaching out to grab it anyway. It is a game about items closely connected with our world but which are still off: Something gnaws at the edges of what we know, scratches at the corners of what we can know, and whispers of a layer of brutality and cold indifference we refuse to acknowledge blankets all existence.
It is a game about existential dread, and this constant awareness of