Control Resonant Arcade Cabinets and the SHÜM! Trophy

Looking for the rest of Manhattan’s side activities? Our Control Resonant 100% checklist page puts them all in one place, and every cabinet on this page was tracked down by Vlad Susanu during his Map Master playthrough. The table has each machine’s score to beat, so the sections below focus on unlocking them and what winning is worth.

How SHÜM Arcade Cabinets Unlock: Zone Levels and Extra Gates

Each cabinet opens once its zone reaches a set level. The West Incursion Zone interactive map has the lowest bar at Zone Level 3, Central and The Park follow at 4, the Underpass and Unknown at 5, and the Control Resonant Downtown map and the Evacuation Zone at 6. Zone XP comes fastest from the Control Resonant World Feats in each zone.

Five cabinets add a second lock. Downtown’s needs Reach from The Subway Fault; the one in the Evacuation Zone interactive map is behind a door opened by Arish’s Level 2 Keycard, and West Incursion’s also wants Shift and Reach. The Control Resonant Park map has its machine past a fire-gated Ability Barrier, and the Underpass cabinet opens during Maintenance Protocol.

Start with Central, since it and the Unknown’s Parkour machine are the only story cabinets with no gate beyond Zone Level, and Central’s needs the lower Zone Level of the two. For first place on the combat machines, give the zone a few more levels first, because the enemy waves get noticeably tougher than the Parkour courses.

SHÜM Arcade Cabinet Challenges: Parkour, Entropy, Defend, and Clocked

Three cabinets run Entropy, a long fight with random events where speed raises your score. Two are Parkour courses with a 56-second target, and Downtown’s Defend run, the Underpass Clocked run on the Underpass map, and the post-game Severed Circle 2 are one of a kind.

Each mode rewards a different habit. Parkour adds a time penalty for every hit, so a clean run beats a fast, sloppy one. Clocked adds time for kills and executions, which makes aggression the way to finish with more than its 34 seconds left, and Defend scores the shipment’s remaining health rather than Dylan’s.

Severed Circle 2 plays differently from the rest. It’s a fixed set of encounters in Dylan’s Apartment, opened by finishing The End and defeating Hedron, and taking fewer turns to clear them raises the score, so plan each fight instead of rushing it.

SHÜM Arcade Rewards: What First Place Is Worth

The seven story cabinets share one prize ladder: a cosmetic for third, a Power Upgrade Point for second, and a Reset Item for first. A first-place finish also pays the two prizes below it, and the cosmetics range from the Stubble beard to the Armored Helmet M1.

Severed Circle 2 raises the stakes, with the Novelty Magnet Artifact for first, a Health Upgrade Point for second, and a Power Upgrade Point for third. The Unknown interactive map is the only zone with two cabinets, so the post-game sweep there pays twice.

Winning all eight adds up to 8 Power Upgrade Points, two-thirds of the 12 the Astral trophy asks for, plus 7 Reset Items and a Health Upgrade Point. The other points come from crates in our Power Upgrade locations.

Do You Need to Win an Arcade Cabinet for the SHÜM! Trophy?

No. The SHÜM! trophy only asks you to play one level on any cabinet, so a losing run still counts, and placing on a leaderboard is purely for the prizes. Central’s machine, at Zone Level 4 with no other gate, is the quickest way to earn it, and the rest of the activity trophies are in our full list of Control Resonant achievements.

No arcade cabinet is missable. You can return to any machine to beat your own score, and the Unknown’s post-game cabinet only appears once the story is over, so every leaderboard stays open for a full cleanup run. That makes Severed Circle 2 a natural last stop on the way to 100%.