The campaign uses three main headings rather than one linear list: Contain the Crisis, Search for Jesse, and Defeating Resonants. Side Stories sit beside those tracks and can unlock travel or completion progress without replacing the main route.
Contain the Crisis mission chain
The primary chain runs through Orientation, Welcome to Manhattan, Evacuation Procedures, Arish's Briefing, Notes: Plan of Attack, Enemy of My Enemy, Recursions and Iterations, The House in Distress, The Hedron Link, Sever the Hedron Links, Rebuild, Fight the Core, The End, and The Beginning epilogue.
Notes: Plan of Attack closes through Power Lines and Into the Sinkhole. Later entries deliberately stop for work in the Jesse and Resonant tracks, so a quiet primary objective does not mean the campaign has ended.
Search for Jesse missions
Notes: Jesse Sightings groups three Fault routes: The Incursion Fault, The Subway Fault, and The Underpass Fault. These are campaign-critical because they grant or exercise the traversal tools used by later story areas.
The Incursion Fault is the Shift route. The Subway Fault unlocks Reach. The Underpass Fault is required during The House in Distress if it has not already been completed.
Defeating Resonants missions
The regional list covers West Incursion Zone, Central, Underpass, The Park, and Unknown. The Artist appears during the mandatory prologue; Hedron is the separate final boss rather than another regional Resonant entry.
These fights are more than optional combat tests. Central and West Incursion rewards can remove exploration barriers, and specific Resonant clears are prerequisites for Enemy of My Enemy.
Where Side Stories fit
Side Stories are optional narrative and activity files distributed across the regions. Some can be progressed in pieces, as with The Last Taxi, while others provide practical access. Pope's Research is specifically required to travel through Unknown during the late campaign.
Do not use the absence of a Side Story marker as proof that no activity exists nearby. Several begin from a local object, call, or environmental event rather than arriving automatically in the log.
How to use this list without spoilers
Use the three headings to identify the kind of blocker you have, then open only the relevant route guide. Mission names reveal progression structure, but the walkthrough hub avoids story outcomes and late narrative explanations.
For a first playthrough, follow available objectives rather than trying to complete every item in the order shown. The game supports variation as long as the major ability and boss gates are eventually cleared.
How this guide was checked
CONTROL Resonant Quest List was independently summarized from current launch-week quest, boss, and progression references. The page separates confirmed dependencies from route advice and avoids treating one build choice as universally correct.