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Spoilers for the Cafe Mold scene: A current walkthrough reports that Dylan eats a sample in a Mold-covered cafe in The Park, experiences a brief green vision, and survives long enough to answer Zoe. The scene reportedly unlocks three more Mold-eating objectives. Remedy’s official materials do not confirm the specific dialogue or outcome, so treat those scene details as walkthrough-reported rather than officially verified.

Where to find the Cafe Mold

The walkthrough places the sample in a Mold-covered cafe in The Park, during the The Park Resonant quest. Its reported HUD direction is to search Park Valley for new Mold strains. Inside, look for an illuminated round table near the counter and a warning sign; the item on the table is labeled “Piece of Delicious Mold.”

These location details come from one walkthrough, not an official map or transcript. The official PlayStation Blog overview discusses Control Resonant’s systems but does not identify this cafe or sample.

What happens before Dylan eats it

After Dylan discusses the sample’s smell with Zoe, the walkthrough reports that she warns him not to eat it. It describes smell comparisons including fresh bread with butter and jam, gummy bears, popcorn, and honey. The first reported response wheel has four choices:

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  • STEP INTO A WARPED REALITY: Explore multiple areas of a ravaged Manhattan in an expansive, unfamiliar, and exciting world. Traverse perception-bending locations and grapple with gravity anomalies that distort the vertical and horizontal plane, adding additional dimensions to puzzles and new tactical decisions to combat. Meet faces old and new on a path fraught with risk but rich in opportunity as the cityscape is reshaped and reality is redefined by a godlike force.
  • MASTER THE PARANATURAL: Channel the raw experiences of Dylan’s past to help understand his present and dig deeper into the inner workings of the FBC and reveal the horrors threatening humankind. Tap into power he must learn to master and take choices to shape how his abilities manifest and grow. Explore a deep progression system to define how Dylan adapts to emerging dangers. Forge connections crucial to Dylan’s fight to retain his humanity as he journeys from former test subject to paranatural superweapon
  • THE FIGHT SHIFTS. YOUR WEAPON SHIFTS WITH IT: Meet constantly evolving threats head-on, utilising the environment, deploying elemental abilities and using the raw force Dylan’s shapeshifting melee weapon, the Aberrant. Wield the Aberrant in its many deadly forms. Deliver bone-crunching blows with a two-handed hammer and flow seamlessly into the swift precision of dual-wielded blades as this paranatural weapon morphs on demand to meet each new challenge.
  • SHARED LEGACY. NEW THREAT: FBC Director Jesse Faden's lockdown is no longer holding. A paranatural catastrophe has spilled beyond the Oldest House and onto the streets of Manhattan, and the Bureau's grip on containment is failing. Jesse Faden walked into the Oldest House to confront the threat within. Now Dylan must walk out of it to contain the threat beyond.
  • Top: “For Dr. Darling”
  • Right: “I could just smell it”
  • Bottom: “Yeah, yeah, you’re right”
  • Left: “It’s calling to me”

After Dylan responds, the objective reportedly changes to “Eat the Cafe Mold.” The guide does not establish whether choosing a particular response changes later events.

Does Dylan survive eating the Cafe Mold?

According to the walkthrough, Dylan picks up and eats the sample, then experiences a short green vision. During it, a second response wheel reportedly offers “Protect” at the top, “Search” on the left, and “Grow” on the right; the guide also reports the line “Spread swell.”

Dylan reportedly returns from the vision and answers Zoe. He says he could not stop himself, says he is still himself, and continues to sense the Mold’s call. Zoe is surprised he survived, tells him not to answer that call, and refuses further taste tests. The account describes survival through this immediate scene; it does not establish broader consequences beyond it.

What the scene reportedly unlocks

The walkthrough says three additional objectives appear after the Cafe Mold interaction:

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  • The action RPG sequel to Control, developed and published by Remedy Entertainment.
  • Eat the Gym Mold
  • Eat the Pizzeria Mold
  • Eat the Minimart Mold

It does not confirm whether the earlier dialogue selections affect these objectives or later story events.

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What official sources confirm—and what they do not

Remedy’s Miika Huttunen describes the game’s dialogue as a “seamless dialogue system” that can unfold during exploration in the official PlayStation Blog article. The article also discusses Mold Turrets, which attack independently and apply harmful status effects, and branching choices tied to some Resonant abilities. That is context about the game, not confirmation of the Cafe Mold scene, its menu text, or its outcome.

A Game Informer Gamescom preview broadly corroborates that preview gameplay showed Dylan eating Mold and encountering dialogue choices. It does not identify the Cafe Mold options or explain what happens afterward. For the exact cafe sequence, the available account is the NerdsChalk walkthrough, updated September 25, 2026; its details should not be mistaken for an official transcript.

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