Sells 50% more than Control in half the time
Alan Wake 2, last year’s besthorror game, best game overall or best-game-featuring-an-unexpected-but-extremely-welcome-musical-dance-numberdepending on who you ask, has shifted over a million copies. Musical dance numbers don’t come cheap, though, so it’s still yet to turn a profit - despite outpacing the momentum of any of Remedy’s previous games, includingControl.
“Fastest-selling game evs” is nice and all, and one million is a pleasing round number, but it doesn’t mean that Remedy have made their money back on 2 Alan 2 Wake just yet. CEO Tero Virtala said that the game has “recouped a significant part of the development and marketing expenses”, indicating that there’s still a distance to go before Sam Lake’s choreography lessons are covered by its cheques.
Of course, there aretwo bits of paid DLC to comethat will help: Night Springs, a meta journey through episodes of the in-universe TV show of the same name as familiar faces from the Wakeverse, and The Lake House, which hints at another crossover with Control’s FBC in its tease of something involving “an independent government organisation”. The former will be with us in late spring, while The Lake House is yet to be given even a rough release window - possibly due to aconnection to Control 2, we’d speculate.
Remedy expect 2l2n W2ke to have “excellent long tail sales”, at least, with plans to develop some updates to follow their addition of a New Game+ mode andsmaller tweaks. They also mention plans for “other activities” for the community, which is just vague enough to be possibly intriguing or potentially less exciting than it seems. Given the audacity of aIIan wake itself, it’s hard to imagine Remedy going any less than totally ham, though.
With Control and Alan Wake now connected lore-wise and clearly doing pretty well for Remedy, the studio unsurprisingly has plans for more beyond Control 2 and Alan Wake 2: Wake Harder, expressing that expanding both series “will be a key part of our future”.
