Alan Wake II

Alan Wake II

Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Main Game

Platforms:

Xbox Series X|S PC (Microsoft Windows) PlayStation 5

Genres:

Shooter Adventure

Game Modes:

Single player

Themes:

Action Horror Survival

Player Perspectives:

Third person

Ratings

User Rating

86.9
Based on 219 ratings

Critics Rating

92.6
Based on 5 ratings

Total Rating

89.8
Based on 224 ratings

Summary

Alan Wake 2 marks Remedy Entertainment’s first foray into the survival horror genre. Ritualistic murders in a small town. A writer trapped in a nightmare. An FBI agent looking for answers. Two realities. Two hero characters. One horror story that wants them dead.

Storyline

Alan Wake went missing in 2010. He was a bestselling writer based in New York City. On a vacation in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Alice Wake, he came face to face with a force of supernatural darkness. It brought Wake’s writing, a horror story, to life. He fought this dark presence and managed to banish it back to where it came from, a nightmarish dark place hidden under a caldera lake outside the small town of Bright Falls. Wake wrote an ending to his horror story and with that freed his wife from the darkness under the lake but became trapped there himself.

Alan Wake is not dead, although he has wished he was many times. For 13 years he’s been a prisoner in the Dark Place, where his nightmares, his fears, and his stories manifest as reality around him. For 13 years, he has been fighting to stay sane and write a story that would change reality around him in order for him to escape. So far, he has failed.

Saga Anderson is an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases. She arrives in the small-town community of Bright Falls in the Pacific Northwest to investigate a string of ritualistic murders.

Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that start to come true around her and suggest disturbing links to Alan Wake, a writer who went missing in the area over a decade ago.

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Involved Companies

Remedy Entertainment

Role:
Developer

Epic Games Publishing

Role:
Publisher

Game Engines

Northlight Engine

Keywords

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Alternative Names

AW2 AWII Alan Wake 2

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