Control is free on the Epic Games Store for the following week. Those who’ve a free Epic Games Store account can declare the acclaimed 2019 action-adventure by Remedy Entertainment till June 17, 2021.

The free provide headlines Epic Games Store’s Mega Sale event, which likewise runs till June 17. The storefront can be touting Genshin Impact, however the motion RPG is already a free-to-play recreation. It launched on the Epic Games Store on June 8.

Next week’s free video games will likely be Overcooked 2, from June 17 to June 24, and Hell is Other Demons, an action-platformer that launched in 2019 on Steam and Nintendo Switch.

Control, like Remedy’s different big-budget video games Alan Wake and Quantum Break, is a supernatural/sci-fi thriller. Protagonist Jesse Faden repels a magical menace with a wide range of weapons and highly effective psychic skills. The free model being supplied is the bottom recreation; it doesn’t embrace the 2 expansions that adopted (and have been bundled into Control: Ultimate Edition final fall, which is $39.99 on the Epic Games Store).

Control earned eight nominations at The Game Awards 2019, profitable one (Best Art Direction) and one other eight nominations on the 23rd D.I.C.E. Awards, profitable three (Art Direction, Game Direction, and Original Music). Nominated for Game of the Year by each awards collection, Control was additionally Polygon’s runner-up for GOTY honors in 2019. The recreation additionally launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2019 (and was upgraded to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X earlier this yr) however in our opinion, the sport’s PC model appears to be like one of the best.