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Alan Wake II

Action

Horror

Thriller

Survival

Mystery

Shooter

Adventure

Alan Wake 2 marks Remedy Entertainment’s first foray into the survival horror genre. Ritualistic murders in a small town. A writer trapped in a nightmare. An FBI agent looking for answers. Two realities. Two hero characters. One horror story that wants them dead.

4.5

External Ratings

307 ratings
Release Date:

27 Oct, 2023

Last Updated:

21 Jun, 2026

About this game

Alan Wake 2 marks Remedy Entertainment’s first foray into the survival horror genre. Ritualistic murders in a small town. A writer trapped in a nightmare. An FBI agent looking for answers. Two realities. Two hero characters. One horror story that wants them dead.

Storyline

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 hi...

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platform

Platforms:

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

release date

Release Date:

27 Oct, 2023

mode

Modes:

Single player

theme

Themes:

Action, Horror, Thriller, Survival, Mystery

genre

Genres:

Shooter, Adventure

perspective

Player Perspectives:

Third person

IGDB

IGDB Website:

Alan Wake II

IGDB Rating

4.4 ;
IGDB User Rating

4.4

User Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

302

User Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

88%

Rating %

Critics Rating

4.5 ;
IGDB User Rating

4.5

Critics Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

307

Critics Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

90%

Critics Rating %

Main Developers

Remedy Entertainment

Supporting Developers

-

Publishers

Epic Games Publishing

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