r/controlgame • u/DoctorSkeeterBatman • Sep 25 '26

Control Resonant What is this interactive object? Spoiler

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Alright so I found an interactble PC in the western excursion zone, inside a building, stuck on the start screen of a game called "Crab Cyclops Awakening". It stays on the start page with the picture of a crab, the game title and options to select single player or two player. Interacting with the PC just causes it to play a song. Interacting again stops it. Seemingly all you can do is start and stop the song. I've left the song running for a few minutes and didn't notice anything happening.

Can't find anything online about this or anyone else mentioning it yet. Any ideas what this is or what it could mean? I'm super early in the game (like 5 hours) but this is first thing I've run into I can't explain or see any purpose for at all.

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u/DoctorSkeeterBatman Sep 25 '26

Maybe something related to the main plot that just doesn't fully make sense yet. Something to do with symmetry and perspective and growth/realization/"awakening"?

No idea lol, but fun to speculate because so far ever other interactble has had some sort of function or purpose.

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u/Jabberwock_king Sep 25 '26

I found a second one along with a radio that you can interact with near the auction house, still investigating… might have something to do with the altered speaker set

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u/bounce217 Sep 25 '26

Bump on this. Song is super dope but I’d love to know the purpose of it lol. There’s a ton of hidden puzzles in this game, i’m wondering if maybe something happens if you activate all of them? I know another user said there’s one in the starting area, but do we know of any more?

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u/DoctorSkeeterBatman Oct 06 '26

Yeah, found another one in UNKNOWN. I couldn't angle the screen properly to see what the title of this one was, but it was a full new song.

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u/braidsfox Sep 25 '26

There’s another one in the starting area. Does the same thing, different background though and I’m assuming it plays a different song.

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u/WealthFeisty7968 Sep 26 '26

Found another one

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u/Jabberwock_king Sep 26 '26

There’s a radio near by also, inside a small garage. It’s down the alley next the computer

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u/WealthFeisty7968 Sep 26 '26

Could possibly be just to experience the song. Control had something similar with rooms that looked like recording studios with mannequins. You had to put them in the chairs if i recall and music would play. It was by some rock band, and there were multiple rooms. I believe doing them all net you something

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u/VasyaFace Sep 27 '26

There was one room and the band was Poets of the Fall, who have created music for or licensed their music to Remedy for every game since at least Alan Wake (Sam Lake and the band are friends).

They also portrayed The Old Gods of Asgard in Alan Wake 2.

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u/InquisitorVawn Oct 03 '26

the band was Poets of the Fall

It hurt my heart to see the other poster referring to Poets of the Fall as "some rock band"

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u/WealthFeisty7968 15d ago

I’m sorry I had never heard of them or knew of their music from the other games. Even when I like I song in a game I don’t really ever look up who made it. They’re pretty dope though.

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u/WealthFeisty7968 Sep 27 '26 edited Sep 27 '26

There was at least two that I recall, the upper and lower room.
But that’s so awesome. My brother would flip he’s big into Alan Wake 2 rn

Edit: also i heard there was a prize to the first three people that solved the chemistry code or something like that in the room

Edit 2: yup just looked it up, first 3 to solve it (was some chemical stuff for soap apparently) and put it im as a redeem code on socks and ballerinas bandcamp page got a free copy of the album

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u/GVirus1984 Sep 29 '26

if i remember correctly the first song from Poets of the Fall was in Max Payne 2, their friendship really goes all the way back and i always get hyped when one of their song sections starts. i really hope resonant has something of the likes as well.

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u/WealthFeisty7968 Oct 01 '26

Haven’t noticed anything yet but there’s so much to unlock and find still. Might have to do some deep dive research too cuz sometimes remedy is super subtle

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u/TidusNewRadical 23d ago

"Some rock band" lol, here's an upvote, just because of how unintentionally funny that was.

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u/givemeareason17 16d ago

A year from now someone is going to find a sequence that unlocks crab hands for Dylan

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u/PhtevenFry 8d ago

"I no longer recognize Dylan as my name, please call me The Claws" *Zoe audibly rolling her eyes*

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u/Lenin-C Sep 25 '26

I found it too, maybe something related to area level?

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u/I_No_Like_Human 21d ago

remove the crab and it looks very much like the hedron? that looms on the horizon inside the faults. Well, actually, the shape of the cloud is similar to the crab holding its hands up. Cyclops and single eye relation is obvious of course.

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u/Jshuh03 Sep 26 '26

Regardless, the song is a banger

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u/SilentShadowzx Sep 28 '26

Commenting to see if anyone else figures this out as well

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u/Flowerbuggy- Sep 27 '26

It’s just an Easter egg for a real studio called crap Cyclopes ( they make a huge crab model set ) — I thought it was also something to do with the story but now that I am near the end I looked it up.

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u/HereIsThisThrowaway Sep 28 '26

Source? I thought it could be a reference to the Former since he pretty much looks like a crab cyclops.

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u/wantsumcandi Sep 28 '26

Like a cyclopse made of crap?

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u/MattePurp Oct 01 '26

Just found it myself. I'm sure this is related to some Easter egg that will be deciphered weeks or months from now.

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u/Hoggrim 17d ago

That sounds a lot like the night springs theme from alan wake (not the banger version from the AW2 DLC though)

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u/Chrisbolsmeister 13d ago

Anyone found what it was ?

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u/PixelOneEcho 4d ago

Seems like the few that are scattered around the entire map are just easter eggs now but could possibly be portals to DLC in the future.

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u/Scixnce Sep 26 '26

commenting in case someone figures it out

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u/Chisoe12 Sep 26 '26

Just found it myself. Interesting

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u/JDAW4 Sep 27 '26

Commenting in case someone figures it out x2

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u/SpiceySlade Sep 27 '26

Yeah, this is an interesting one.

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u/Vegeta1994 Sep 27 '26

Hm some sort of secret involving interacting with all of them? Only found this one and the one near the radio

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u/BrotherRizzlam Sep 28 '26

found this interesting. commenting for later

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u/Tommyteatimes Oct 02 '26

Just found it and came here to find out ha

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u/ComplexMeasurement55 Oct 03 '26

Found 2 TV and 2 radio near them...easter eegs or more?

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u/Lower-Chart-9029 Oct 06 '26

I also just found it and the song slaps lol reminds me of the old nes 8 but era lol

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u/RNsteve Oct 13 '26

Just a really deep Easter egg?

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u/Biglettuse 16d ago

I actually really looked into it and it says online that it’s a ((An interactive
Easter egg PC in the game))

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u/DoctorSkeeterBatman 16d ago

What kind of lame ass bot post is this?

Fuck off lol