Control Ultimate Edition

Control Ultimate Edition Review: All of Control for $4.99, on the Right iPhone

The Oldest House, Both Expansions, and a Weapon That Is Everything

The game is the one that won Remedy its awards in 2019, complete: Jesse Faden walks into the Federal Bureau of Control looking for her brother and becomes its Director, with a Service Weapon that shifts between forms and abilities — Launch, which throws desks, forklifts and chunks of wall, is the one people remember. The Ultimate Edition adds The Foundation and AWE, the two story expansions, plus Expeditions, the timed challenge mode, and Photo Mode. Remedy's account of the port is specific: touch controls built for it, a reworked interface, aiming and puzzles adjusted for the screen, MetalFX upscaling and frame interpolation, and ray tracing on iPads with M3 or newer chips or an A19 Pro with 10 GB of memory. Engadget's Nathan Ingraham, April 22, 2026, found it smooth on an iPad Air M4 and noted one quirk — sprint needs L3 held, not toggled. English only, rated 17+.

Touch That Works, a Pad That Mostly Works, and 45 GB of System Data

The App Store reviews, 311 of them at 4.0, are a port-quality log. A May 27 four-star calls it an excellent port and a steal at $5 — great performance on an iPhone 16, frame generation that looks fantastic, solid touch controls for a console game — and lists the costs: an immense 45 GB and no cloud saves. A September 16 review says ray tracing on a phone looks great despite anti-aliasing rough spots, with MetalFX at 60 fps. The bug that defined launch month was storage: assets downloaded as System Data that uninstalling did not remove; the May update added a Delete Asset Packs on Next Run switch and the May 27 reviewer marks it fixed. Controller notes are mixed — an August 14 review on an iPhone 17 Pro finds Backbone sprinting sporadic — and an April 25 iPad reviewer wants the keyboard and mouse the Mac build has.

$4.99 Once, No Cross-Save, One Save Slot, and a High Hardware Bar

The purchase is the simplest on this site: $4.99 on the App Store, universal across iPhone, iPad and Mac, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking listed — Gadget Hacks noted at launch that Remedy had announced $9.99, and the store shows $4.99. What it does not include is a shared save: August 17 and 28 reviews report no iCloud cross-save between iPhone and Mac, and a September 17 five-star names the one real flaw as a single save slot — a second playthrough wipes the first. An August 14 three-star is stuck in the AWE dimension after quitting mid-quest. The hardware line is firm: iOS 26.1 and an A17 Pro or later — iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max and every 16 and 17 — or an iPad with an M-series chip, 595 MB for the app and about 45 GB after the asset packs. Prices are regional.