The best games like Control Resonant depend on which part you want to keep. Play Control Ultimate Edition for more of the Faden story and paranatural world, Scarlet Nexus for telekinesis mixed with close-range combat, or Devil May Cry 5 for a deeper version of the shapeshifting-weapon action.

Resonant is doing several things at once: aggressive melee combat, supernatural abilities, build choices, large connected zones, and Remedy's particular brand of weird fiction. No other game carries all of it. These six each match a real piece rather than borrowing one tag and hoping for the best.

Match the part you want more of

1. Control Ultimate Edition

If Resonant was your first Control game, go backward before looking sideways. The original follows Jesse Faden through the Oldest House, explains what happened to Dylan, and establishes the Federal Bureau of Control, the Hiss, Objects of Power, and much of the language the sequel expects you to recognize.

Combat is the main difference. Jesse uses the transforming Service Weapon at range and combines it with Launch, Levitate, and other powers. Dylan's Aberrant makes Resonant a much more physical game. You still get the reactive environments and paranormal improvisation, but not the same close-range rhythm.

The Ultimate Edition includes The Foundation and AWE expansions. It is the obvious choice for the world, not the best substitute for the sequel's melee combat.

Skip it if: You finished it recently or specifically want another combat system like the Aberrant.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch via cloud streaming.

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2. Scarlet Nexus

This is the cleanest mechanical match. Yuito and Kasane fight at close range while using psychokinesis to throw scenery, slam objects into enemies, and extend combos. The game also lets you borrow abilities from teammates through the SAS system, giving combat the same pleasant problem of deciding which power belongs in the current mess.

The resemblance ends at presentation. Scarlet Nexus is a heavily anime-styled action RPG with long dialogue sequences, party relationships, two protagonists, and a much more conventional mission structure. Its story can also become dense with invented terminology.

Pick it if the fun of Resonant was alternating between weapon strikes and whatever piece of the room looked throwable.

Skip it if: Anime melodrama, social-bond scenes, or replaying the story from a second perspective sounds like homework.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S.

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Dylan Faden swinging the two-handed Aberrant weapon at Mould enemies in Control Resonant
Official Control Resonant screenshot © Remedy Entertainment and PlayStation

3. Devil May Cry 5

Choose Devil May Cry 5 when the Aberrant's different forms, launchers, dodges, and combo finishers mattered more than the paranormal mystery. Its three playable characters approach fights differently, and the combat keeps rewarding experimentation long after the basic controls make sense.

It is more linear than Resonant. There are no large Manhattan zones to pick through, fewer environmental puzzles, and little reason to stop fighting so you can read a suspicious government memo. It is also less interested in RPG builds than in what you can do with a character's existing tools.

That narrower focus is the reason to play it. If Resonant made you want a game that spends even more of its energy on expressive melee combat, this is the one.

Skip it if: You need exploration and a serious mystery to carry you between encounters.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S.

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4. Prototype 2

Prototype 2 is older and rougher, but it gets one part of Resonant unusually right: moving through a damaged city as something far more dangerous than the enemies chasing you. James Heller can sprint up buildings, glide across streets, hijack military hardware, and switch between biological weapons built for different kinds of destruction.

The story and world are blunt compared with Remedy's work. New York Zero is a playground first, and the missions repeat themselves more than Resonant's handcrafted zones. The reward is freedom. Few games let you cross a city and turn a fight into debris this quickly.

The modern console release comes in the Prototype Biohazard Bundle with the first game. On PC, check current compatibility reports before buying; this is a 2012 release rather than a carefully rebuilt remaster.

Skip it if: Dated presentation, repetitive side content, or technical fiddling with an older PC game will stop you cold.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One; console versions are playable on compatible newer hardware through backward compatibility.

5. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Jedi: Survivor is a good fit when you want melee forms, supernatural-looking powers, traversal upgrades, and large areas that remain directed rather than becoming a checklist continent. Cal can swap between lightsaber stances, use the Force in combat and puzzles, and return to earlier spaces with new ways to move through them.

Its tone is straightforward Star Wars adventure, not institutional horror. It also borrows the meditation points and lost-experience penalty associated with Soulslikes, although its difficulty options let you reduce that pressure. The PC version requires the EA app even when bought through Steam or Epic.

Pick this for the structure and toolset: authored zones, optional discoveries, close combat, and powers that work both inside and outside a fight.

Skip it if: Checkpoint-based enemy respawns or platforming sections were already your least favorite parts of Resonant.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S.

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6. Quantum Break

For another Remedy action game about reality failing in an organized corporate facility, play Quantum Break. Jack Joyce uses time powers to freeze enemies, dash through danger, and turn ordinary gunfights into small physics accidents. Remedy's interest in live-action footage, documents, branching story details, and impossible events is all over it.

It is a shorter, more linear third-person shooter from 2016. The gunplay has less flexibility than Resonant's melee builds, and the live-action television episodes between acts will either feel ambitious or make you wonder why the controller is on the table.

Treat it as a Remedy cousin rather than required Control canon. It is still the recommendation here that most clearly shows the studio working toward the storytelling and power-driven combat that followed.

Skip it if: You want modern melee combat, open exploration, or have no patience for full live-action episodes.

Platforms: PC and Xbox One; playable on Xbox Series X|S through backward compatibility.

What about Alan Wake 2?

Play Alan Wake 2 if the connected Remedy universe and stranger narrative are the priority. It is an excellent companion to Control's fiction, but a poor mechanical match for Resonant: this is slower survival horror built around limited resources, investigation, and vulnerability. Go in for the shared ideas, not for another Aberrant.

The shortest answer

Start with Control Ultimate Edition if you somehow reached Resonant first. Otherwise, choose Scarlet Nexus for the nearest mix of powers and melee, Devil May Cry 5 for better combat depth, or Prototype 2 when wrecking a city with excessive force is the whole request.

If none of those sound right, tell the game recommender which specific part of Control Resonant you want repeated. That will work better than asking it for another “supernatural action game” and receiving six games that merely contain ghosts.

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