I finished CONTROL Resonant at 3 a.m., sat back, and felt the itch—what if I could do it all again with everything I already earned? You probably felt that same pull the moment the credits faded. I’ll walk you through what Remedy actually built and what it still needs.
I’ve played both runs and tested the loose edges. Read on and you’ll know whether it’s worth firing up a New Game Plus today on Steam, PlayStation, or Xbox.
On my commute home with the map open: How does New Game Plus work in CONTROL Resonant?
Short answer: yes. Remedy added a formal New Game Plus so you can run the main campaign again as Dylan with your combat kit intact.
Here’s how it behaves in practice: New Game Plus creates a separate save slot, so your original post-campaign world stays untouched. Your combat abilities, passive Talents, Aberrant upgrades and resources carry over, which means you can immediately try builds you skipped the first time.
Enemies scale up, but you usually won’t notice the step-up until the final zones. To help, New Game Plus grants a fourth Artifact Slot. It’s a subtle change, but it opens build patterns—think of it as adding a second coat of paint to the same room: everything’s familiar, but the vibe shifts.
How does New Game Plus work in CONTROL Resonant?
When starting NG+, you keep most progression that affects combat and character power. The game nudges difficulty higher as you advance through zones, so the pacing of power matters more than raw numbers.
At the bench outside a café after a side quest: What carries over in New Game Plus in CONTROL Resonant?
You’ll keep the tools that matter for playstyle, but not every trophy from your first run. The game removes key items and some traversal abilities that you gained through faults, while preserving the meat of your combat kit.
Carried over
- Combat abilities and Talents
- Aberrant upgrades and passives
- Source, crafting resources, and reset items
- Resonant Token from the specific Unknown Zone side quest
- Zone progress, vendor level, cosmetics, and Arcade challenge progress
Left behind
- Key story items
- Side-quest completion flags (your rewards remain)
- Secrets marked as completed (you keep the reward, but not the completed flag)
What carries over in New Game Plus in CONTROL Resonant?
If you want to hit a different build—say heavy Falter or a pure damage route—NG+ gives you the headroom to experiment without replaying the entire grind. Think of the fourth Artifact Slot as a swiss army knife for builds: small, but capable of surprising shifts.
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Outside Remedy’s offices after a dev tweet: What comes next—“New Game Plus Plus”?
Remedy shipped a functional New Game Plus at launch, but the studio has signaled plans for a broader update called “New Game Plus Plus” due in October. That build will remove the one-run limit and let you replay the story indefinitely.
Why that matters: infinite replays will reset zones, respawn secrets, and bring back world events. That changes NG+ from a second run into an ongoing progression loop for completionists and speedrunners—ideal for players who want to push zone levels to the max or re-snag missed rewards.
Does CONTROL Resonant have New Game Plus?
Yes: it’s in the live build and already usable across platforms. Remedy did note a known issue—some traversal key items don’t carry as expected—and promised fixes. Keep an eye on official Remedy channels and patch notes on Steam or the PlayStation Blog for updates.
I prefer replaying with a plan: pick the build you were curious about, run NG+, then use the October update to clear leftovers. It shortens the time between experimentation and results.
Are you going to replay Control Resonant right away and chase every secret, or save the second run for when the New Game Plus Plus patch lands?