CONTROL Resonant Editions & Preorder Bonuses

CONTROL Resonant sells at two prices — $59.99 for Standard and $69.99 for Digital Deluxe — across five purchasable configurations. The $10 step up buys cosmetics, consumables and media, plus, on PlayStation only, 48 hours of early access. Preorders opened June 2, 2026 for both digital and physical editions.

There is one genuinely platform-dependent detail worth knowing before you buy: PlayStation preorders get a cosmetic that Steam and Xbox preorders do not. Here’s the full breakdown.

Every CONTROL Resonant edition and price

Remedy’s June 2 press release lists five configurations at two price points, in four groupings: digital standard, digital deluxe (with a PlayStation variant), physical standard and physical SteelBook.

Edition	Price	Contents
Standard Edition (Digital)	$59.99 / £49.99 / €59.99	Base game only
Digital Deluxe Edition (Steam, Epic, Xbox)	$69.99 / £59.99 / €69.99	Base game, AWE Mission Outfit, Untapped Artifact (Wallet), Starter Resource Bundle, Digital Artbook, Original Soundtrack
Digital Deluxe Edition (PlayStation)	$69.99 / £59.99 / €69.99	All Digital Deluxe content plus 48-hour early access
Standard Edition (Physical)	$59.99 / £49.99 / €59.99	Base game on disc
SteelBook Edition (Physical)	$69.99 / £59.99 / €69.99	Base game, SteelBook Case, 3 Fine Art Prints, Key Art Poster

Two structural notes. Steam carries only two SKUs — its package list shows exactly “CONTROL Resonant - $59.99” and “CONTROL Resonant Digital Deluxe Edition - $69.99,” nothing else. And there is no Collector’s Edition, no Ultimate Edition and no season pass tier announced as of August 25, 2026. The Xbox listing displays the base price as “$59.99+,” not a flat figure; the Standard Edition itself is $59.99.

What the extra $10 actually buys

All three digital storefronts list the same six Digital Deluxe items. Steam’s page reads, verbatim: ”- Main Game - Digital Artbook - Original Soundtrack - Untapped Artifact (Wallet) - Starter Resource Bundle - AWE Mission Outfit.” Xbox lists the identical six. The PlayStation Store lists the same six and adds “48 hour early access starting 22nd September 2026.”

The Deluxe upgrade is entirely cosmetics, consumables and media. An outfit, an artifact, a resource bundle, an artbook and a soundtrack. There is no gameplay content, no extra missions and no expansion in that $10 — on PS5 it also buys two days of playtime, which is the only difference between Standard and Deluxe that changes when or how you actually play.

If you only want one piece of it, Xbox additionally sells the Deluxe components as separately listed items — “CONTROL Resonant Original Soundtrack and Digital Artbook,” “CONTROL Resonant AWE Mission Outfit,” “CONTROL Resonant Starter Resource Bundle” and “CONTROL Resonant Untapped Artifact (Wallet).”

The Expansion Pass claim is wrong

Several preorder guides state that the Digital Deluxe Edition “includes an Expansion Pass.” None of the three storefronts list an Expansion Pass, all three list the same six items, and Steam returns no DLC entries for the app at all. The storefronts are the publisher’s own listings. Treat the Expansion Pass claim as unsupported, and don’t pay the Deluxe premium expecting future content. Post-launch DLC plans have not been announced by Remedy either way.

Preorder bonuses: the Occult Outfit is PlayStation-only

The June 2 press release lists three preorder bonuses applying to all editions: the Pickpocket’s Tool Artifact, the Hiss Corruption Outfit for Dylan, and the Occult Outfit for Dylan, which it labels “(PlayStation Exclusive).”

The storefronts bear that out exactly:

Preorder bonus	Steam	Xbox	PlayStation
Hiss Corruption Outfit	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pickpocket’s Tool Artifact	Yes	Yes	Yes
Occult Outfit	No	No	Yes

Steam’s preorder box reads, verbatim: “Pre-order CONTROL Resonant now to unlock: -Hiss Corruption Outfit -Pickpocket’s Tool Artifact.” The Xbox preorder bonus pack carries the identical two-item wording. The PlayStation Store lists three items — Hiss Corruption Outfit, Occult Outfit, Pickpocket’s Tool Artifact — and the Occult Outfit appears on both PlayStation SKUs, standard and Deluxe.

That is three independent confirmations of the same asymmetry: named as a PlayStation exclusive in the press release, present on both PlayStation SKUs, absent from the Steam and Xbox preorder listings.

What “exclusive” does and doesn’t mean here

Be precise about this, because most coverage isn’t. The only defensible statement is the cross-platform one: the Occult Outfit is exclusive to PlayStation preorders relative to Steam and Xbox preorders.

What nobody has confirmed is whether any of these three bonus items — Occult Outfit, Hiss Corruption Outfit or Pickpocket’s Tool Artifact — can be earned in-game after launch, or sold separately later. Steam says only “Pre-order … to unlock.” The Xbox bonus page carries no post-launch availability language. Neither do the PlayStation listings. So don’t buy on the assumption these are gone forever if you skip preordering, and don’t skip preordering on the assumption you’ll unlock them later. Both claims are currently guesses.

One further circulating claim: that preorder bonus items “unlock at the end of Act 1” rather than at the start. No first-party source says this. It appears only in aggregator preorder guides. Treat it as unverified.

Physical editions ship October 15, not September 24

This is the single most important thing for disc buyers. On August 18, 2026, Remedy announced via its official @ControlRemedy account that the game had gone gold and that the physical release moved to October 15, 2026, while the digital release holds at September 24. The stated reason was simply needing a little more time to deliver the physical version; Remedy did not report a problem with the finished build.

Two caveats. First, that announcement came from the official X account and news coverage of it, not from a remedygames.com newsroom post — the newsroom carried no August 2026 entries as of August 25. Second, whether both physical SKUs slip is not stated in any source. Remedy’s post referred to the physical release date for the game as a whole, without breaking it down by Standard disc versus SteelBook Edition, or by territory. (The exact wording of that post is reproduced differently by different outlets, so treat any word-for-word version of it with caution.) Nor has anyone published guidance on whether existing retail preorders carry over automatically to October 15 or need re-placing.

Storefronts had not caught up as of August 25: the PlayStation and Xbox listings still show 9/24/2026, but those are digital SKUs, which do release that day.

Does the SteelBook Edition get the preorder bonuses?

Unclear, and the sources disagree. The June 2 press release presents the three preorder bonuses as applying to all editions. At least one preorder guide reports that the SteelBook listing does not show them and advises confirming with the retailer. The press release is the publisher’s own word and should carry more weight, but the retail reality is genuinely uncertain — if the bonuses matter to you, ask your retailer before ordering the SteelBook.

Which one to buy

If you’re on PS5 and want in early, the Digital Deluxe is the only route to September 22 — Steam, Epic and Xbox Deluxe buyers start September 24 alongside standard buyers. If you’re on PC or Xbox, the $10 buys you an artbook, a soundtrack and three cosmetic or consumable items and nothing else, so it’s a straightforward taste question rather than a value calculation.

If you want the disc, the SteelBook Edition costs the same $69.99 as the Digital Deluxe but trades the in-game items for a SteelBook case, three fine art prints and a key art poster — and arrives three weeks later.

Preordering matters most on PlayStation, the only platform where it adds an item the other storefronts don’t offer. On Steam, pre-purchased games appear in your library and unlock automatically on release day.