I seem to remember running in circles kiting a lot in the dlc area.

I really loved Control, one of my favourite games I think.

It's worth playing just for the Ashtray maze section near the end all on its own, but the rest of the game is also great.

Your Control screenshots all look like you've taken actual photos of a bunch of minis in lovingly created dioramas. I'm not sure what it is that is so different from other games that look like either plain screenshots or actual hyper realistic photos of life sized people, but all of these just look like incredibly detailed miniatures to me. I played a little bit of Control and I don't remember the game having that effect while playing.

It's lovely and interesting and I'm curious if anyone else sees it too.

How did I know this was Control? I just looked at it, and my thought process went, "that's weird, maybe it's Control".

I'm really beginning to regret giving up on it. I didn't get very far, either. And now I can't remember where I started or how far in I got. Steam says I own Control Ultimate Edition and that I have 1.5 hours on record. So, not very far at all, I think.

What's funny is, I don't have a PC anymore. I have Macs. And Control is Mac compatible. So I really don't have any excuse to not install it. I think I'd rather play it on Xbox (I have a Series X), but I don't own it up there. Like Cyberpunk 2077 is Mac compatible, but it looks and plays like ass on my Mac (M2 Pro, 16GB RAM). I think my computer is roughly equivalent to an 11th or 12th-gen i5, but the Apple GPU is a bit better than the onboard one on an Intel chip. But it's no replacement for a dedicated GPU, like a Radeon or GeForce card.

I'm installing it now, but I won't have time to play it right away. I need to see if it's playable on my computer. There's also the issue of Apple removing Rosetta (their translation layer for the previous generation of Macs) next year, so if Control isn't built for Apple Silicon (i.e. if it's built for Intel Macs), it won't be playable in macOS 28. So I may have some stacked reasons to seek it out on Xbox.

As a side note, Noita is a pixel simulator (so very CPU intensive!) and it runs perfectly on my Mac via Heroic, which is emulating it via WINE, or something like that. It ran on my last PC, which was a 4th gen Xeon with 16GB of RAM and a 3GB Radeon 280. It's not for everyone. It's a roguelike, and it's very hard to master, and I honestly don't think it's been beaten yet. There are multiple win conditions (and I've achieved the easiest one, lots of people have), I just don't think they've all been found. Look it up — if it's your kind of game, you might do well with it. If you like to look up games from streamers, FuryForged is one I watch on YouTube who covers the game, mostly focusing on the mysteries surrounding it.

I actually enjoyed playing the game on easy more. The trick was to not take a single health upgrade. Enemies mostly died in one or two hits. But so did you.

What I did in combat was use the rocket/sticky bomb modes and go for splash damage while flying backwards. I had enough damage mods equipped that most enemies died to one or two explosions, and when I ran out of ammo I'd throw debris to buy time until the gun recharged.