Control Resonant is officially Remedy Entertainment's fastest-selling game to date, and the financial impact is stark: the launch tripled the studio's quarterly revenue, per PC Gamer's report on the company's latest earnings.

It's a landmark result for a developer whose critical reputation has long outrun its commercial one. Remedy games — from Alan Wake to Control to Alan Wake 2 — have been awards-season fixtures that rarely topped sales charts, and the studio has spent years diversifying its funding model to keep its auteur-flavored projects viable. Resonant breaking the studio's sales records at this pace suggests the Control universe has crossed from cult favorite to mainstream franchise.

The revenue tripling matters beyond bragging rights. Remedy has multiple projects in flight, and a self-funded hit of this size gives the studio leverage and runway it has rarely enjoyed — less dependence on publisher deals, more control over its connected-universe ambitions.

As PC Gamer put it, 'countless sickos of a certain vintage just breathed sighs of relief.' Remedy's weird streak now has a blockbuster balance sheet behind it.