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Control:Override

B-Deshi Interactive · Brain Station 23 Ltd. · 2021-04-20

SteamGOGMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Apr 20, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 09, 2024 (Xbox One)

Control:Override is a puzzle game where you must share control between the environment and yourself. Defy Physics. Solve puzzles . Terminate the rogue AI. And perhaps confront the truth about why it went rogue.

Control:Override is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game priced at $2.99 and released in 2021, with Positive sentiment (92% of 12 reviews) and an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners.

0
playing now
92%
positive of 12 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 04:00 UTC (census sample)

You play as a hacker who has hacked into an rogue AI to terminate it. Delve into a virtual cyberspace inside a rogue AI that YOU created in the past. Solve puzzles. Break through the AI's security layers. Reach the core. Terminate the AI. But Should You?(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 93% of 28,692 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

Current store prices

GOG$2.09-30%
Microsoft Store$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Steam (2025-09-16) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 20 of 66 observed days · $1.35 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320212026Week of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.742021-04-202026-10-142021-04-20 — best price $2.692021-11-06 — best price $2.542021-12-22 — best price $2.242022-06-23 — best price $2.242022-11-22 — best price $2.392023-03-16 — best price $2.242023-07-31 — best price $2.092023-12-22 — best price $2.092024-03-31 — best price $3.992024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-02-21 — best price $2.992025-04-28 — best price $2.992025-07-10 — best price $2.992025-10-06 — best price $2.992026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-06-17 — best price $2.992026-08-03 — best price $0.742026-08-29 — best price $2.992026-09-02 — best price $2.992026-09-06 — best price $2.992026-09-10 — best price $2.992026-09-14 — best price $2.992026-09-18 — best price $2.092026-09-22 — best price $2.092026-09-26 — best price $2.992026-09-30 — best price $2.992026-10-04 — best price $2.992026-10-08 — best price $2.992026-10-12 — best price $2.092026-10-14 — best price $2.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
60.7%
earned "Completed 10 levels."
16.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DFunnyLogicCasualPuzzleSci-fiHackingSokobanSurrealAbstract

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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