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 Epic Games Publishing announced that "The Final Draft", Alan Wake 2's  New Game Plus mode, will be available for all platforms on December 11th.

"The Final Draft" features a new ending to Alan Wake 2's story that is sure to spark speculation and theories from dedicated fans. New story elements can also be found in the form of videos and manuscript pages that have been added to the New Game Plus experience. Unlocking New Game Plus mode and experiencing “The Final Draft” requires one playthrough of Alan Wake 2 . Players retain all weapons and character upgrades earned during the first game. They come in handy as players try to meet the extreme challenge of the new Nightmare Difficulty. Players must prepare themselves for more powerful enemies that will push their skills to the limit.

Alan Wake 2's a New Game+ includes:

• Retain all unlocked weapons and upgrades.
• New Nightmare difficulty level.
• New alternative narrative, including new Manuscript pages and new video content.

Alan Wake 2 won Best Director, Best Storytelling and Best Visual Design at The Game Awards, and was the most nominated game at the event.

At the event, the domestic Poets of the Fall performed as a fictitious Old Gods of Asgard band, performing their super popular song Herald of Darkness from Alan Wake 2 . Alan Wake Actors Ilkka Villi and Matthew Porretta took the stage to perform together with Remedy's creative director Sami Järve and actor David Harewood, reenacting a memorable scene from the game itself.

Alan Wake will also be getting two premium DLC expansions later in 2024.

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.