In addition we’re also told that, following this announcement, Remedy are going to go dark again. Conversely, it seems, this sequel will lean full-on into the survival horror aspects. While the previous game had scary elements, Lake called that entry an action game. Perhaps most intriguingly, developer Remedy refers to the game as “our very first dive into the survival horror genre”.
Of course, Alan himself will be returning, and we’ll be diving into his nightmares which seem to have gotten even creepier than the last game. There, Remedy head honcho Sam Lake treated us to a scene-setting teaser and some initial info. The news was revealed during last night’s The Game Awards ceremony. Back in 2015, Polygon chronicled some of that story, detailing how an earlier, abandoned prototype of Alan Wake 2 would help form the foundation of Remedy’s 2016 action game, Quantum Break.Remedy Entertainment has announced that it’s working on Alan Wake 2, a sequel to supernatural adventure Alan Wake, which it intends to launch in 2023. The effort to get an Alan Wake sequel is a long story of canceled prototypes, reverting publishing rights, and struggles to secure funding.
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What we do know is that Control’s AWE expansion, which fully knits the two series together in the so-called “Remedy Connected Universe,” ends with Alan delivering a simple warning, seemingly from two years in the future: “It’s happening again.” What else is there to know? If recursive reality rewriting isn’t “layered and psychological,” I don’t know what is. And I haven’t even mentioned the possibility that Alan was himself written into reality by another writer in the first place. Likewise, the trailer’s “Monsters wear many faces” tagline and the brief shot of the cackling, bloody face of a potential alternate-Alan are strong indicators that evil clones remain a concern. While the American Nightmare follow-up showed Alan writing his escape back to the real world and destroying an evil doppelganger, it’s heavily implied that the standalone game took place in his imagination while he’s still trapped in the Dark Place. At the end of Alan Wake, Alan banished himself and the Dark Presence that was threatening the town of Bright Falls into the Dark Place, a shadowy otherworld beneath the town where reality can literally be rewritten. Alan’s current situation is a little fuzzy.
What can we expect from Alan Wake 2’s story? Probably with a different pace, though.Īnd, given what I know about the survival horror genre, I’d start mentally preparing to scrounge around for batteries if I were you. Since Alan’s holding what looks like a homemade flashlight in the reveal trailer, we can safely hope to see something similar in the sequel. If you’re aware of Alan Wake at all, you’re probably aware of its flashlight combat mechanic, where light could dispel the Dark Presence that possessed Alan’s enemies and leave them vulnerable to gunfire. Here, those horror elements will be center-stage: the genre shift will hopefully let Remedy better explore what they’re calling a “layered, psychological story.”īeyond that, we can only speculate about what the gameplay will involve. While the first Alan Wake and its downloadable follow-up, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, had their share of horror elements, they were action games at the end of the day. There aren’t any announced specifics, but we do know that Alan Wake 2 is being designed as Remedy’s first survival horror game.
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