Remedy has announced it’s co-developing and co-publishing a sequel to Control with 505 Games.

Control 2 (formerly known arsenic Codename Heron) volition merchandise for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, and beryllium built connected Remedy’s Northlight engine, the brace announced connected Friday.

Remedy volition people the crippled connected the PC level and 505 Games volition people it connected the console platforms. The task is presently successful the conception stage.

Remedy first announced plans for a “bigger-budget Control game” successful June 2021. “I’m present arrogant to corroborate that the bigger-budget Control game, besides known arsenic Codename Heron, is Control 2, a full-blown sequel to our award-winning crippled Control,” said CEO Tero Virtala successful a connection connected Friday.

Mikael Kasurinen, crippled manager of the Control franchise, said successful a statement: “With Control, we leaped into the unknown. We wanted to make thing new. Something antithetic and unexpected. A satellite similar nary other. Thank you, the audience, for making Control specified a occurrence for us.

“With Control 2, we’ll instrumentality different leap into the unknown. It’ll beryllium an unexpected journey. It’ll instrumentality a while, but to enactment it mildly, this is the astir breathtaking task I’ve ever worked on. It’s inactive aboriginal days, but it volition beryllium worthy the wait.”

Rami and Raffi Galante, co-CEOs of Digital Bros Group/505 Games, added: “We are excited to deepen our practice with Remedy and proceed the occurrence communicative of Control together. Since its motorboat successful 2019, Control has sold implicit 3 cardinal copies.

“Control is the biggest concern 505 Games has ever made, truthful it has a peculiar spot successful our hearts. We are grateful to the full subordinate assemblage that has made Control specified a long-lasting and loved game, and are adjacent much excited to bring retired Control 2.”

Control 2 isn’t the lone franchise introduction being worked connected astatine Remedy. The institution antecedently announced plans for a co-op multiplayer spin-off acceptable successful the aforesaid universe, which is presently codenamed Condor and is being developed by Remedy’s ‘Vanguard‘ team.

Control 2 conception art.

In an official blog post published past year, Control’s crippled manager Mikael Kasurinen attempted to assuage immoderate concerns Remedy fans whitethorn person astir the workplace taking a uncommon task into multiplayer gaming.

“We get that determination is going to beryllium scepticism astir multiplayer. But I judge we tin make shared experiences without compromising the unsocial DNA of who we are, oregon the stories we privation to tell,” Kasurinen explained.

“Yes, we request to re-think our angles, our techniques, our mindset, but we spot it arsenic an breathtaking challenge: What would a Remedy multiplayer crippled look like?

“The Vanguard squad has done awesome advancement connected that beforehand already, and the possibilities determination are highly exciting. Both games [Control and Condor] volition beryllium antithetic examples of however you tin collectively acquisition our worlds.

“We are approaching this with a premix of excitement and respect. We privation to make thing that is engaging, yet familiar, thing immoderate of our fans tin leap into and consciousness astatine location in. Together.”

VGC’s Control review called the supernatural enactment escapade crippled “Remedy’s finest instauration since the archetypal Max Payne”.