Download Control Ultimate Edition for macOS

Launch is the first ability that really messes with your head. Jesse walks into a room, and the walls start shifting. It's not a cutscene — the Oldest House just decided to rearrange itself, and now you're dealing with floating office furniture as well as hissing guards. The Ultimate Edition bundles everything that came after that moment, all running natively on Apple Silicon.

Everything packed into one download

• The Foundation — a full story expansion that takes you deep beneath the Bureau into caverns that make the base game feel almost normal.
• AWE — Remedy ties this universe to Bright Falls and Alan Wake, with a dark investigation wing and a monster that hates light.
• The Expeditions mode — endgame challenges where you race through altered sectors for high-tier mods and crafting materials.
• Photo Mode — freeze a debris-filled shootout, tweak the angle, and grab a shot of a vending machine mid-flight.
• All post-launch updates — extra outfits, assist mode sliders, and the Shield Rush ability.

Runs cool on M1 MacBook Air despite physics

This build is optimized for M1 and later, and on a MacBook Air it runs surprisingly cool given how much physics is flying around. Combat mixes a transforming Service Weapon with telekinesis — you rip chunks of concrete out of the floor and hurl them while a boss shatters the pillars you were hiding behind. Weapon customization lets you tweak forms between punchy shotgun blasts, rapid fire, and a charged sniper mode. Voice work comes in four languages, and the interface covers thirteen, which helps when a collectible's environmental text is actually a clue rather than background noise. Jesse's search for her missing brother threads through a building that refuses to stay still, and the DLC zones double down on the strangeness.

What a fan of slow-burn mysteries gets out of this

Someone who reads every collectible and refuses to sprint past a redacted memo will live in this building. I spent an hour just backtracking through Central Executive after unlocking Levitate, finding notes I'd walked right past earlier. The Oldest House rewards that kind of patience — a whiteboard scrawl in a dead researcher's office connects to a Threshold Kids episode, which connects to a containment breach you triggered three hours ago. Telekinesis makes the backtracking feel fresh because you're seeing rooms from angles you didn't have before, and the Service Weapon forms give you excuses to replay areas just to hear how the altered items react differently.

Physics chaos versus tight melee and linear horror

Stacked next to Lies of P, Control trades tight parry-based melee for physics chaos — one is a dance, the other is a demolition. Compared to Resident Evil 4's Mac port, Control asks more of your attention outside combat. Leon's campaign is a rollercoaster; Jesse's investigation gives you rooms that exist only to be puzzled over. The Ultimate Edition also sidesteps the episodic "buy the rest later" feeling of something like Life is Strange: True Colors — all the DLC sits in the same install, and The Foundation feels like a proper third act rather than a side note. On Apple Silicon, the HDR and ray tracing support on M3 and M4 chips pull it closer to a current-gen look than either of those comparisons, especially in the Black Rock Quarry where light behaves like a cast member.

The Mac build arrives with everything already settled in. Here is what the current version ships with:

• Mac build label is Control Ultimate Edition 1.31 MAS.
• A Russian voice mod build is included — Control - Русская озвучка от GamesVoice.

• macOS 14.0 or later
• Apple M1 chip or later
• Tested on macOS Sequoia, MacBook Air (M1, 2020)