

Alan Wake Remastered offers the complete experience, with the main game and its two story expansions - The Signal and The Writer - in stunning new 4K visuals. His nightmarish journey to find answers to the mind-bending mystery he faces will lead him into the terrifying depths of the night. He has no choice but to confront the forces of darkness armed only with his flashlight, a handgun and what remains of his shredded mind. Wake is soon forced to question his sanity, as page by page, the story comes true before his eyes: a hostile presence of supernatural darkness is taking over everyone it finds, turning them against him. Following her mysterious disappearance from the Pacific Northwest town of Bright Falls, he discovers pages of a horror story he has supposedly written, but he has no memory of. Ready to be excited about all the new games coming in the next couple of years? Check out our list of new games for 2022 and beyond.In this cinematic action-thriller, troubled author Alan Wake embarks on a desperate search for his missing wife, Alice. "It is easy to feel happy and excited now that Alan Wake 2 is finally happening based on our latest iteration of the concept, and not the ones that came before that." The post also suggested this process included versions of Alan Wake 2 that will never see the light of day. "For over a decade, after Alan Wake, in between every project we have made, I have eagerly worked on Alan Wake 2 with a small core team, dreaming up different incarnations of the concept." In his PlayStation Blog post, Lake also explained that the studio has never really stopped playing with ideas for the sequel between other projects. "We feel that especially for this kind of experience where atmosphere and stylization are more important than ever before, is that we know Northlight so well we can focus on certain things and push certain things forward." Remedy Entertainment is developing Alan Wake 2 with its proprietary game engine Northlight, and Lake told IGN (opens in new tab) that the game would be "the best-looking, most beautiful Remedy game ever." The studio has also used the engine for its previous games, like Control.

"David Lynch has said: 'Ideas are like fish.

"Leading up to the announcement, our internal codename for the sequel has been Project Big Fish," says Lake. In the subsequent DLC episodes - "The Signal" and "The Writer" - Alan learns more about the logic and motivations of the Dark Place, and ultimately frees himself by confronting a version of himself called Irrational Alan, and then writes a novel called Return. Could that novel be a part of what Alan faces in the sequel? Remedy is staying coy on the exact details, but it sounds as if it plans to tackle some big ideas in the game.
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Spoilers ahead for the original Alan Wake: At the end of the first game, Alan allowed himself to be trapped in a world known as the "Dark Place" to free his wife. According to Lake, the game is a "deep, layered mystery" and "Remedy’s first survival horror game." The studio considers the original more of an action game with horror elements. Here's the little we know so far about the return of Alan Wake.

We are deep in production, have a lot of material, and a great deal of the game is playable. "Everything with Alan Wake 2 development is going really well. The reason? The studio wants to continue working on the main game, rather than shift resources towards a polished demo. Remedy was expected to showcase the first Alan Wake 2 gameplay during Summer 2022, although the developer ultimately postponed the big reveal for an as to-be-determined date.
