Control Resonant, Remedy’s first foray into hacky and slashy character action, has a release date: it’s September 24th 2026, and there’s a new story trailer to prove it. Another case of the games industry playing Dodge the GTA 6? Maybe, maybe not, though this September is getting awfully crowded, with Konami just announcing that Silent Hill: Townfall is out on the very same day.
Either way, dates are okay and everything, but I’m more concerned with Control Resonant’s system requirements, which have quietly appeared on the game’s Steam page with no apparent mention elsewhere. And, well, hope you’ve got 100GB of free SSD space.
That storage requirement alone demands more than twice the gigabyte legroom of the original Control, and while that was famously a vanguard of the ray tracing, hyper-fidelity movement, Resonant’s PC needs are on another level altogether. 16GB of memory isn’t the worst demand imaginable, but the GTX 1070 and RX 5600 as minimum GPUs – with the RTX 3070 and RX 6700 needed for recommended performance – put it way above current averages. The recommended CPU suggestion of a Ryzen 7 3700X feels pretty steep, too.
We also know, from past Nvidia announcements, that Resonant will pack DLSS 4.5 and path tracing support, so you’ll need at least a GeForce RTX 40 series card to get the most out of its more advanced PC features. In other words, it is very much in keeping with Remedy’s last game Alan Wake 2, prioritising the spectacle of its effects over the ability for low-end rigs to join in.
Is that the wrong thing to do? Not necessarily – almost every game needs to choose a cut-off point where it will no longer run well on older kit, and so far, Resonant’s flashy man vs. monster fights do have an impressive pageantry to them. By any standards, though, these are high requirements, and don’t bode terribly well for the Steam Deck, a device that can handle Control rather well. I’ve contacted Remedy for clarification on Resonant’s handheld support.
Update: Per Remedy’s PR rep, I’m told the Steam Deck will be supported. Interesting!
