Deal | First-time 85% discount: Supernatural action game with 80+ awards is now only $5.99 on Steam
This one kind of slipped under the radar - but if you’ve ever wanted to throw desks at people using your mind, Control: Ultimate Edition is sitting at 85% off right now on Steam, bringing the price down to only $5.99 - and that includes both of its major expansions: The Foundation and AWE. This is the lowest recorded price as per SteamDB and the sale runs until June 9.
If you’ve somehow dodged this game till now, here’s the pitch: you’re Jesse Faden, who walks into a nightmare of an office building to find her missing brother - only to end up as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Control, a paranormal agency where the walls shift, the enemies levitate, and nothing stays still for long. Also, your gun is alive. And none of this is explained upfront.
Control’s biggest strength is how much it commits to being strange. It mixes shooter mechanics with telekinetic powers, wrapped up in one of the most visually distinct game worlds in recent memory. You’re flinging filing cabinets through glass walls one minute, dodging shadow monsters the next. It’s basically Inception meets X-Files, with the pacing of Half-Life 2 and the weirdness dialed way up.
Remedy didn’t pull this off quietly either - Control racked up over 80 award wins and nominations. It took home "Best Art Direction" at The Game Awards, "Best Setting" from PC Gamer, and scored multiple nods from IGN including "Game of the Year" and "Best Action-Adventure." The writing, setting, and use of environmental storytelling are consistently praised - even by players who say they didn’t fully understand the story. And that’s fair. Half the fun is being confused.
The Ultimate Edition includes both story expansions, one of which (AWE) connects the Control universe with Remedy’s other major game, Alan Wake. There are also endgame modes like Expeditions and photo mode if you want to wander around and just soak in the design.
It’s worth noting that this game isn’t exactly light on hardware. The minimum requirements ask for 8 GB of RAM and a GTX 780, while recommended specs push toward 16 GB of RAM and a modern mid-tier GPU. But the payoff is a technically polished experience with full support for G-Sync, ultrawide, and uncapped frame rates. The Steam Deck (curr. $805 on Amazon for the OLED variant) can run it as well.
At $5.99, there’s not much left to think about. You’re getting a full single-player campaign, two expansions, a whole bunch of endgame content, and what’s arguably one of the most unique game worlds built in the last few years.
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