Alan Wake 2 will be a truly next-generation experience.  Not only that, but Alan Wake 2 also turns up the level of dread as our very first dive into the survival horror genre, so expect a chilling experience with familiar psychological horror elements.

Whereas the first Alan Wake had horror elements in it, it was an action game. Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s first survival horror game. Their take on the genre and an opportunity to truly connect the gameplay and the story, making it a deep, layered mystery.

With Control, released in 2019, Remedy established its Connected Universe, where both Control and Alan Wake exist in the same universe. AWE, the second expansion of Control, builds a crossover event between the two games, and hints of things to come. Playing Remedy's games is not required in any way to fully enjoy Alan Wake 2, but to those interested it will add to the backstory of it.

Remedy Entertainment and Finland’s biggest music phenomenon, Fried Music, have joined creative forces to produce the Alan Wake 2: Chapter Songs, a compilation of seven unique tracks specially crafted for Alan Wake 2.

Today, fans can look forward to listening to the first single of this collection, “Follow You into the Dark (featuring RAKEL)” on Spotify, Apple Music, and other selected streaming platforms.

The Alan Wake 2: Chapter Songs is a one-of-a-kind, artistic collaboration between Remedy Entertainment’s creative team and Fried Music. All seven tracks in this collection have been created from the ground up by Finland’s leading music producer, Jukka Immonen, alongside Finland’s finest musicians and composers. Every song and lyric is brand-new and specially crafted to fit within the world of Alan Wake 2 in collaboration with the game’s Creative Director, Sam Lake. From setting the mood to being filled with lore and mystery, the songs from this collection play a significant role in Alan Wake 2’s storytelling and plot.

“Alan Wake 2 is an ambitious work of art where different mediums merge together to form a unique experience. We have specifically focused on music and worked to create many custom songs to enhance the story,” said Sam Lake, Creative Director at Remedy Entertainment. “We are extremely excited to collaborate with Fried Music, and we are very proud of the fact that Finnish musicians are playing such an integral role in an internationally released game. It is a privilege to have such talented and amazing artists bring a taste of Finnish culture to the world.”

The Alan Wake 2: Chapter Songs features several of Finland’s most popular artists, composers, and producers from Fried Music. Artists SANNI, costee, Teemu Brunila, ROOS+BERG, Paleface, Jurek, and RZY appear alongside international talents RAKEL, Jean Castel, and Mougleta.

For Fried Music’s Creative Director, Jukka Immonen, this has been a groundbreaking collaboration: "Working with the gaming industry in such a unique concept has been amazing. Finnish music and video games have never been brought together in this way before. The challenge this collaboration posed for us as musicians was exciting, and there were no limits set on how creative we could be. This really was a unique opportunity for us to showcase the quality of Finnish music globally."

The complete Alan Wake 2: Chapter Songs will be released alongside the game’s worldwide launch on October 27.

Complete Track List for Alan Wake 2: Chapter Songs

Follow You into the Dark featuring RAKEL

Writers: Teemu Javanainen, Jussi Tiainen, Sindri Már Sigfússon, Sam Lake

Producers: Heviteemu, Sindri Már Sigfússon

Wide Awake featuring Jaimes

Writers: Yasmeen Semaan, Teemu Brunila, Antti Riihimäki, Sam Lake

Producer: RZY

Superhero featuring Mougleta

Writers: Jurek Reunamäki, LenoxBeatmaker, Yasmeen Semaan, Sanni Kurkisuo, Sam Lake

Producers: Jurek, LenoxBeatmaker

Lost at Sea featuring Jean Castel

Writers: Jean Castel, Jurek Reunamäki, Jussi Tiainen, Pierre-Antoine Melki, Sam Lake

Producers: Jurek, Nius

Dark, Twisted and Cruelfeaturing Paleface

Writers: Jean Castel, Jurek Reunamäki, Jussi Tiainen, Pierre-Antoine Melki, Sam Lake

Producers: Jurek, Nius

No One Left to Love featuring ROOS + BERG

Writers: Christel Roosberg, Jori Roosberg, Joalin Loukamaa, Sam Lake

Producers: ROOS+BERG

Night Springs featuring Keira

Writers: Yasmeen Semaan, LenoxBeatmaker, Jurek Reunamäki, Sanni Kurkisuo, Sam Lake

Producer: Jurek

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. 

Alan Wake 2 is coming to PC (Epic Games Store), PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 27, 2023.