Summary
At long last,Alan Wake 2has started generating royalties for Remedy Entertainment, more than a year after its widely acclaimed launch in October 2023. This important feat forAlan Wake 2comes in the midst of the Finnish developer concurrently working on multiple major projects.
Being one of the most ambitious and most expensive games produced by Remedy,Alan Wake 2’s release had high hopes attached to it. In retrospect, it looks safe to say that the survival horror title managed to meet those expectations for the most part, as it earned rave reviews followed by numerous award recognitions. Commercially, it bagged the distinction of being the fastest-selling Remedy title in history, dethroning the 2019 action-adventure hitControl. Despite such a strong display,Alan Wake 2was revealed to have still not recouped its budgetin an earnings update in November 2024. However, things have apparently changed for the better since then, with the Sam Lake-directed title finally breaking even.
In its latestfinancial statement, Remedy announced thatAlan Wake 2has sold over two million copies and made back the money spent on the latter’s development and marketing, enabling the studio to accrue royalties from the game’s sales. According to the update, theEpic Games-published titleturned profitable near the end of Q4 2024, thanks to the combined boost received from the arrival of its physical edition, its PS5 Pro-specific update, andThe Lake HouseDLC during that period. Given that the latest of these events, the PS5 Pro patch release, took place in November, it is suggested thatAlan Wake 2generated its first profits a full year after it first hit the stores.
Alan Wake 2 Milestone Comes Amid Continued Progress on Certain Major Future Releases
Remedy’s long-awaited achievement withAlan Wake 2comes around the same time when the developer is also focused on multiple heavyweight IPs from its portfolio, fromMax PaynetoControl. In its new statement, the veteran studio shared that the forthcoming remake of the first twoMax Paynegames is making “steady progress” in the full production stage, with help from publisher and IP owner Rockstar Games. On the flipside, theControlsequelalso entered full production in February 2025, with further plans of “scaling up” the process. Remedy’s next game, theControlspin-offFBC: Firebreakis also taking strides in production, having concluded a closed technical test in December 2024.
While Remedy’s two biggest projects right now are still some time away from release,FBC: Firebreakis scheduled to arrivelater in 2025. With that, the Finland-based developer is set to debut its first multiplayer game ever in the year of its 30th anniversary.
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A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.Alan Wake, a lost writer trapped in a nightmare beyond our world, writes a dark story in an attempt to shape the reality around him and escape his prison. With a dark horror hunting him, Wake is trying to retain his sanity and beat the devil at his own game.Anderson and Wake are two heroes on two desperate journeys in two separate realities, connected at heart in ways neither of them can understand: reflecting each other, echoing each other, and affecting the worlds around them.Fueled by the horror story, supernatural darkness invades Bright Falls, corrupting the locals and threatening the loved ones of both Anderson and Wake. Light is their weapon—and their safe haven — against the darkness they face. Trapped in a sinister horror story where there are only victims and monsters, can they break out to be the heroes they need to be?
