After teasing the return of horror novelist Alan Wake in Control, at tonight’s The Game Awards, the developers of Remedy have finally announced a full sequel. Alan Wake 2 will launch in 2023, and this time Remedy says it will be a survival horror game, not an action game. Also, does Alan look a bit like Jake Gyllenhaal now? Check out the trailer below.
“This will be Remedy’s first survival horror game, we’ll take on the genre,” said Remedy moderator Sam Lake. “The first game had a horror element, but it was an action game and we felt that it was the perfect genre to bring story and gameplay closer together than ever before, because the story — the horror story — is at the heart of this and it’s a deep, layered, psychological mystery to dive into.”
Remedy plans to start talking more about Alan Wake 2 in the summer of 2022, then launch the game in 2023. It’s published by Epic Games and yep, obviously that means this is an Epic Games Store exclusively on PC. It will also be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox.
They released an emulator version of the first game earlier this year, although it doesn’t offer much value for double dipping.
“Given Alan Wake’s newfound involvement in Remedy’s Connected Universe, it’s well worth the trip back to Bright Falls for this classic third-person horror shooter, but the remake has very little in it. appeal to PC players compared to the original Steam release,” Katharine said in our Review of Alan Wake Remastered.
The remedy tried to make Alan Wake 2 before, reveal some of their failures many years ago. Now, they’re confident they’ve got it.
We’re staying up late covering the upcoming PC game from tonight’s lavish marketing: our hit Game Award tag everything.
