It's happening now, and we know the community is as passionate as we are about seeing Alan Wake's next chapter unfold. 'It's no secret that we have passionately pursued an opportunity to return to Alan Wake's story for years. His writing has finally affected his reality. It's been a long journey, but Sam Lake's persistence has finally paid off. The tenacity and resolve of Remedy to pursue the continuation of this universe for a decade is impressive – an independent studio reclaiming IP rights from a major platform holder is unheard of, but it reflects the desire at Remedy to build on the world it created a decade ago. That same year, the studio signed a publishing deal with Epic Games, where it revealed it had a 'AAA' game in pre-production and a 'smaller-scale project' set in the same universe it's likely that this was Alan Wake 2 and the recently released Alan Wake Remastered.Īnd so we are finally going to receive the long-awaited continuation of Alan Wake's story in 2023, developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games. In 2020, Remedy released the AWE expansion for Control, which established that the two games exist in one shared Remedy Connected Universe. Remedy acquired the rights to Alan Wake from Microsoft in 2019, setting all of this in motion. If anything, we grew more determined as years passed,' Lake continues, adding that 'Alan Wake 2 is finally happening based on our latest iteration of the concept, and not the ones that came before that.' It's likely little of that original prototype remains in the game that is being developed today. Lake further added that players will not need to play the previous games in order to understand Alan Wake II. But getting a large game project funded and greenlit is a complex effort that depends on many things, some of which are beyond our control. According to Sam Lake, the game will be powered by Remedy's own Northlight Engine, and will be a survival horror game as opposed to Alan Wake, which is an action game with horror elements. '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.

But Lake never abandoned this world, even as Remedy turned its attention to other corners of the universe. Remedy later released a video of the prototype (opens in new tab), confirming that elements of it ultimately ended up in Alan Wake's American Nightmare – a standalone, downloadable story that launched in 2012.

The studio pitched a follow-up shortly after Alan Wake released in 2010, but Xbox didn't bite, forcing the team to move on. A sequel never seemed certain, if at all likely. Sam Lake and Remedy Entertainment walked a long and winding road to get here.

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