What carries over in CONTROL Resonant New Game Plus?

Combat progression such as Aberrant upgrades, talents, abilities, and Artifacts typically carries over. Quests and traversal abilities reset.

Game Update 1.4.0 added unlimited chained NG+ runs so you are not limited to a single New Game Plus cycle.

CONTROL Resonant New Game Plus & NG++ Guide

Quick answer: In CONTROL Resonant’s New Game Plus, you carry over Aberrant, your talents, and your artifacts into the next run. Traversal abilities reset, so you’ll need to re-earn that side of your kit. You also gain a 4th artifact slot, giving your carried-over artifacts more room to work with. As of the 1.4.0 update, New Game Plus Plus (NG++) can be repeated an unlimited number of times.

What Carries Over

Three things persist from your previous run into New Game Plus:

Aberrant — carries forward rather than being reset to a default state.
Talents — whatever you unlocked previously stays unlocked.
Artifacts — your collected artifacts come with you into the new run.

This is the core appeal of New Game Plus as a structure: instead of starting from absolute zero, you keep the parts of your progress that reflect long-term investment, Aberrant, talents, and artifacts, while the game still gives you a reason to play through content again rather than simply being handed a finished build on day one.

What Resets: Traversal

Traversal is the one major system that resets when you start New Game Plus. That means however you had expanded your movement options by the end of your first run, you’ll be starting that part of your kit over again. Pairing a traversal reset with everything else carrying over is a deliberate balance choice, it keeps the early hours of a New Game Plus run from feeling completely trivial, even though you walk in with your Aberrant, talents, and artifacts already in hand.

Practically, this means you shouldn’t expect your New Game Plus run to feel identical to a true endgame state from the jump. You’ll have strong combat tools early thanks to carried-over talents and artifacts, but you’ll be re-earning your mobility options alongside everyone experiencing that content for the first time.

The 4th Artifact Slot

New Game Plus also unlocks a 4th artifact slot. Since artifacts are one of the three things that carry over from your previous run, this additional slot means your existing artifact collection immediately has more room to be put to use the moment you start. If you finished your first run with more artifacts than slots to use them in, the 4th slot is where that backlog starts paying off.

This slot increase is also a clear signal of intent from the design: New Game Plus isn’t meant to just repeat the same build you already had, it’s meant to let that build grow further by giving you more room to combine artifacts than the base run allowed.

New Game++ and the 1.4.0 Change

Beyond standard New Game Plus, CONTROL Resonant also has New Game Plus Plus (NG++), the next tier up for players who want to keep going past a single repeat playthrough. As of the 1.4.0 update, NG++ can be run an unlimited number of times. Before that change, repeat runs at this tier were presumably more limited; 1.4.0 removed that ceiling, which matters a great deal for players who treat New Game Plus as a long-term loop rather than a one-time bonus playthrough.

For anyone who finished a full New Game Plus run and wanted to keep pushing their build further, the unlimited NG++ change in 1.4.0 is the single most important update to know about. It turns New Game Plus from a two-step structure, base game, then one Plus run, into an open-ended loop you can repeat as many times as you want.

Should You Start New Game Plus Right Away?

Whether to jump straight into New Game Plus after finishing your first run depends on what you want out of a second playthrough. Since Aberrant, talents, and artifacts carry over but traversal resets, you’re trading a completely fresh start for a hybrid run, strong on combat options, reset on mobility. If that trade-off sounds appealing, and especially if you’re interested in eventually pushing into unlimited NG++ runs after 1.4.0, there’s no real reason to wait.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I lose my artifacts in New Game Plus? No. Artifacts are one of the three things that explicitly carry over, alongside Aberrant and talents. You won’t need to recollect them from scratch.

Why does traversal reset if everything else carries over? Traversal resetting is the one deliberate exception to the carry-over rule. It keeps New Game Plus from feeling completely solved on arrival, even though your Aberrant, talents, and artifacts give you a real head start everywhere else.

How many times can I run New Game Plus Plus? As of the 1.4.0 update, NG++ can be repeated an unlimited number of times, so there is no longer a hard cap on how many times you can push that loop.

Related Guides

Best Artifacts — which artifacts make the most of your carried-over collection and new 4th slot.
Updates — full patch history, including the 1.4.0 change that made NG++ unlimited.