# Control by Remedy Entertainment

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Control by Remedy Entertainment and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Praised for early comprehensive ray tracing, striking art direction and level design; one critic found the cloud version totally unplayable.

## Why people recommend it

- Comprehensive ray tracing on dynamic objects (3 comments): "Control was basically the first game with a good, comprehensive RT implementation that had a massive positive impact on the graphics" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672554)) "The most impressive part of Control's RT (on PC at least) was that it very much applied to (most) dynamic objects" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675582)) "Control is the last title I picked up where I really felt like I was pushing the graphics capability of my rig." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927451))
- Strong art direction and level design (2 comments): "The maze level on the original game has to be an all-time best level design." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675657)) "the art direction in that game is something else." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674698))
- Acclaimed, consistently strong Remedy games (3 comments): "Remedy's Control / Alan Wake franchise (both original IPs)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186312)) "Remedy does deserve every award they got with Control" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677031)) "release fantastic works of art every time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188452))
- Unusual storytelling, plot and folklore (2 comments): "shooting like Control or Alan Wake 2 are driven by unusual story telling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410428)) "Great game with lots of related plot, mechanics, and folklore" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46269466))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Control by Remedy Entertainment", https://hackerapproved.com/p/control/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).