Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One
Release date: August 27, 2019

The next game from Remedy Entertainment is a weird one, and we mean that in the best way possible. Control fuses elements of Max Payne's gunplay with Alan Wake's surreal, thoroughly creepy atmosphere. You play as Jesse Faden, a woman lured into an underground facility called  The Oldest House, where the Federal Bureau of Control offices have been taken over by otherworldly forces. You'll have to fight off mind-controlled soldiers and trans-dimensional entities using a morphing pistol known as the Service Weapon and some supernatural abilities you'll gain over time, Metroidvania-style. With its ethereal visual effects and unsettling vibe (inspired in part by SCP Foundation fiction), Control is a headtrip perfect for anyone who wants to shoot at Lovecraftian horrors which humanity can't even begin to understand.