genemangControl is such a stylish game, damn! It goes so hard on that midcentury corporate aesthetic and the lighting is consistently gorgeous
I also love that Jesse is basically a Steven King protag plopped into an SCP setting. Her backstory is sooo King coded, with the dung monkeys and melting dog boys and disappearing parents. Really fun way to connect her to the King inspired Alan Wake games
And it also puts a really strong narrative engine in the game’s SCP inspired setting. Makes it so much more balanced than the first Alan Wake game. That also had a very distinct style (aesthetically and mechanically) but in the service of a story I found so much less compelling. Fingers crossed they deploy what they learned with Control in Alan Wake 2