CONTROL Resonant Walkthrough: All 16 Main Missions in Order

How many missions does CONTROL Resonant have?

16 main story missions, structured as three questlines rather than one straight line:

• Contain the Crisis — the main spine, prologue through epilogue
• Search for Jesse — the Jesse Sightings missions inside the Dimensional Faults, which unlock the traversal abilities the story depends on
• Defeating Resonants — the zone boss fights, one Resonant per zone (the full roster is on the Resonants page)

The story does not run in a straight line: IGN’s walkthrough hub warns that “not all Main Story missions occur in order,” and PowerPyx notes you tackle quests in “varying order” — when one questline’s objectives run out, the game is pointing you at another main quest or a Resonant fight. For where to physically go, see the zone order route.

Contain the Crisis: the full mission list

Per PowerPyx’s quest guide, in order:

1. Orientation (Downtown)
2. Welcome to Manhattan (Downtown)
3. Evacuation Procedures (Evacuation Zone)
4. Arish’s Briefing (Central)
5. Notes: Plan of Attack — requires Power Lines and Into the Sinkhole
6. Power Lines (Central)
7. Into the Sinkhole (Evacuation Zone)
8. Enemy of My Enemy — requires the Central and West Incursion Zone Resonants
9. Recursions and Iterations (Underpass) — midway requires Jesse Sightings: The Subway Fault
10. The House in Distress — midway requires Jesse Sightings: The Underpass Fault
11. The Hedron Link
12. Sever the Hedron Links — requires the Pope’s Research side quest to enter The Unknown
13. Rebuild
14. Fight the Core
15. The End
16. The Beginning (epilogue)

The endgame runs through the Hedron — the story boss apart from the zone Resonants, covered on the bosses page.

Search for Jesse: the Jesse Sightings missions

Three standalone missions send Dylan into Dimensional Faults: The Incursion Fault (West Incursion Zone), The Subway Fault (Evacuation Zone) and The Underpass Fault (Underpass). There are five faults in the game, but only these three get standalone missions — the other two are folded into Orientation and The House in Distress.

Do these early and do them when they open. Two reasons: the faults “unlock new traversal abilities” needed to progress (IGN), and the West Incursion Zone Resonant — the Dancer, source of the Push or Ground Slam choice — cannot be fought until The Incursion Fault is done. Your fast travel network also grows fastest while fault-hunting.

What should you do alongside the story?

The launch-window consensus: clear each zone’s content as you pass through it. KeenGamer’s trophy advice — set Assist Mode to your comfort level, complete Dimensional Faults as they appear, clear side content per zone — doubles as the efficient route, because zone activity feeds the Zone Levels that pay for your best talents. Each Resonant kill also banks a trophy on the road to the Platinum.

For how much time any of this takes — story versus everything — see how long to beat, and for the kit you carry through all 16 missions, the best weapons breakdown.

Sources

• IGN — Control Resonant Walkthrough
• PowerPyx — Control Resonant Walkthrough: All Quests
• KeenGamer — trophy and achievements guide