Control is usually slept on in comparison to other Remedy titles but personally, I'd say this is one their best.

Despite being a story heavy game, the gameplay loop is very fun and addictive. It's almost like a spectacle fighter in respect to the level of destruction you can cause with your powers. It can get repetitive but when that happens it's already over, so I didn't have an issue with that.

The story could be described as a lynchian X-Files with some amazing writing and mythology that reminisce of articles from the SCP Foundation. The bulk of the storytelling, though, is mostly done through documents and audio/video files that you collect. If you aren't willing to seek those out for yourself, it will probably feel very underwhelming and hard to follow.

That said, If you are willing to read and puzzle out the cryptic lore the game kinda hides from you, you'll get one of the best sci-fi stories in gaming. Exploring themes of extra dimensions, consciousness, universal entropy and tackling the theories and philosophies of Carl Jung about archetypes, synchronicity, collective unconsciousness and how subject reality can affect the material world. It's all great stuff that tickles my brain and it's all presented through a very entertaining mystery plot.

(This review was first written on Steam -- 16 February, 2022.)