Control Ultimate Edition for macOS

Description

Finding a native Mac build of Control that doesn't choke on an M-series chip used to be a non-starter. The Ultimate Edition changes that. It's a proper Apple Silicon port of Remedy's strange, brutalist shooter, and it arrives with a few Mac-specific tricks.

What do I need to run it?

macOS 14.0 or later and any Mac with an M1 chip. We've had it running on a base M1 MacBook Air on Sequoia. MetalFX upscaling is supported, which helps keep things smooth. If you're on an M3 or M4 Mac, you also get hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

Aiming and telekinesis feel precise on keyboard and mouse

Yes. The third-person controls translate directly. Telekinesis and weapon switching feel precise once you dial in your sensitivity. A controller works out of the box too.

What's the performance actually like?

Apple claims the game is optimized for Apple Silicon, and the MetalFX upscaling does the heavy lifting on lower-end machines. On a base M1 Air, expect a stable experience at reduced settings. M3 and M4 owners can push things further with ray tracing.

Faster sector transitions and fewer texture pop-ins

The current build is labelled 1.33.1 fix. In day-to-day play, this patch tidies up a few rough edges that shipped with the initial Mac release. Loading transitions between Bureau sectors are snappier now. We stopped seeing the occasional texture pop-in that used to hit during fast telekinetic pulls in the Research Sector.

Audio mixing got a quiet adjustment too. Dialogue no longer gets buried under environmental hum in the Executive Sector corridors — a small thing that makes following the story much less irritating.

One task: clearing a Hiss cluster in Central Research

You drop into Central Research with a routine objective — reach the Parapsychology wing. The main atrium's got a fresh cluster of Hiss guards and a warped Ranger. Here's a reliable way through it.

1. Read the room from the upper balcony. Stay near the entrance door. Identify the floated Hiss orbs first — they'll heal other enemies if you leave them alone.
2. Launch a desk at the nearest orb. One solid telekinetic hit usually pops it. Don't bother with the Service Weapon yet; save ammo for the armoured guard on the left walkway.
3. Shatter, move, shatter. Grab debris between shots. Concrete chunks stagger the warped Ranger long enough to land two headshots. Keep moving — the balcony railings are not reliable cover.
4. Claim the Control Point. Once the room is clear, cleanse the point behind the circular desk. It gives you a fast-travel anchor and refills your health. Then push on to Parapsychology.

A run like this takes about four minutes. On an M1 Air with MetalFX active, the particle-heavy shatter effects hold steady enough that you won't lose a firefight to a frame drop. For anyone who grabbed a Control Ultimate Edition Mac torrent and wants to see the port flex in combat — it does.

What’s new

The Mac build is labelled Control Ultimate Edition 1.31 MAS. A Russian voice mod is also available under the name Control - Русская озвучка от GamesVoice.

Requirements

• macOS 14.0 or later
• Apple M1 chip or later
• Tested on macOS Sequoia and MacBook Air (M1, 2020)