Alan Wake II is an adventure developed by Remedy Entertainment, released 27 October 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 24.7 hrs to finish.
What Alan Wake II is
Alan Wake II is an adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in 2023. It was published by Epic Games Publishing. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Northlight Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Alan Wake II holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 17 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 90, across 337 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 24.7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 42.3 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Alan Wake II launched on 27 October 2023, within three weeks of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Forza Motorsport and The Talos Principle II. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Forza Motorsport, The Talos Principle II.
Cheats and codes
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