Alan Wake 2 Is Now Playable 'From Start to Finish', Says Remedy

It's not a lake... it's an ocean

by Khayl Adam Mon 13th Feb 2023

Alan Wake 2, the increasingly angsty follow-up to the original Alan Wake, is playable from start to finish... provided you are a developer at Remedy and have access to the latest build.

That's according to Remedy CEO Tero Virtala, who shared the news through the company's latest financial results report, stating that "Alan Wake 2 is in full production. The game will soon have all content in place, and it is playable from start to finish."

Alan Wake 2 was announced for release on PS5 sometime in 2023, and it sounds like development is going apace, with the focus now shifting to bug fixes and polishing. We look forward to seeing how deep the psychological rabbit hole goes when the sequel is released.

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[source investors.remedygames.com, via eurogamer.net]

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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BeerIsAwesome
Mon 13th Feb 2023

Alan Lake you say?

2
Allfather
Mon 13th Feb 2023

I am awake on a lake with Alan Wake

Word up, dad.

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NeThZOR
Mon 13th Feb 2023

Very glad to hear. But just be cautious: fully playable from start to finish means nothing if the 'game' currently stands at 1 hour playtime. But of course they don't mean that. And of course fully playable doesn't mean 'we have sorted out the 15fps drop issues in these 50 places'.

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PegasusActual93
Mon 13th Feb 2023

@NeThZOR
Fully playable means "you can play the game from start to finish we just need to polish it up" it doesn't mean "we have developed a 20 percent chunk of this game so far that you can play through".

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Ken_Kaniff
Mon 13th Feb 2023

Really excited for this. Can't wait to see some gameplay.

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SamMR
Mon 13th Feb 2023

Hope Sony would help them with marketing the game

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NeThZOR
Mon 13th Feb 2023

@PegasusActual93 "But of course they don't mean that"

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DiscoStuUK
Mon 13th Feb 2023

Great news, I thought this was waaaaay further off than it sounds. Maybe an early 2024 release?

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PegasusActual93
Mon 13th Feb 2023

@NeThZOR
"But just be cautious: fully playable from start to finish means nothing if the 'game' currently stands at 1 hour playtime".

Why would you even say that if you already know for a fact that's not what that term means?

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dschons
Mon 13th Feb 2023

The first one was the main reason for me back then to buy a 360 and I didn't regret it. I remember buying the Collector's Edition at a local electronics chain. It came in a cover looking like a thick book. When I was checking out, the cashier looked at it, then at me and said: Do you really want to read all of this? I then explained to her what it really was and she just shook her head and gave me a look like "That's super weird" 😁

I ended up really loving that game back then for its mysterious atmosphere but it felt a lot like an action game first and foremost. Remedy taking the survival horror approach is a change I'm welcoming.

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Luna-Harmony
Mon 13th Feb 2023

Alan Woke 2 Yay

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Mad001
Mon 13th Feb 2023

Hot dang we can't leave Alan in the dark free him from the cabin on the lake. I Wana hang with Barry again Barry rules, Alan wake reminds me of a late 90s horror I would love to see the same again. I will be ordering this for ps5 , Xbox and PC.