I'm glad to hear from you guys that it's more Control than survival horror. I'm not really any expert on genre or someone who gets too caught up in those questions for games, but I'm not a huge fan of horror and have never played the classic games people like to point to, but I thoroughly enjoyed Control (even though it whooped my ass repeatedly) and also TLOU 1 and 2.
Never played the first game, but the setting/story and Control connections are hugely intriguing to me, so appreciate the reports. I am pretty confident that I am going to buy this soon, though I might drag my feet for a sale, since I'm gonna be playing Spiderman 2 for a while and then likely after that Persona Tactica. I doubt a sale happens all that fast, but this might be the winter game that gets me through January.
That said, the more I'm seeing, the more tempted I am to just pull the trigger now.