Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Game
Game2012
Alan Wake
Developer Remedy Entertainment
Alan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game was released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, with a Windows version following in February 2012 and a remastered version released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows in October 2021, as well as a Nintendo Switch version in October 2022. The story follows… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
928 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
87
LovedLoved
392 positive · 61 negative
95% range 83–89%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 392 | 61 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 136 | 28 | 244 |
| Lemmy * | 9 | 5 | 23 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 1 | 25 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
20,159 of 22,774 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
87% recommend · 238 yes, 37 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 275 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (54,190 of 60,288 positive).
Players widely praise the story and atmosphere as the game's strongest elements. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticize the combat as repetitive and the controls as poor. [1][4][5] Some players find the gameplay tedious but still recommend the game for its narrative. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [15]
- Advice - If you ARE going to play it, play on Easy (which is Normal on Xbox), just read the manuscripts online at the end of each episode, and don't worry about the coffee thermoses because they don't unlock anything. - review - This game wouldn't have been so annoying if I'd known the difficulty levels were renamed for PC. - What's "Easy" on PC is "Normal" for consoles. - What's "Normal" on PC is "Hard" for …
- [1]
Play on easy. Combat is by far the absolute worst, most grueling part of this game and there's no shame in just turning it down to get to the good stuff: The story and atmosphere. And there's plenty of that.
- [2]
Alan Wake Review Overview Alan Wake has been sitting on my list for a long time, and I finally decided to play it. I also went for all the achievements, and overall I had a phenomenal experience. It is obviously an older game and some parts show their age, but the story, characters, atmosphere, and simple gameplay still hold up really well. It is not perfect, especially when it comes to repetitive combat and the …
- [3]
It feels like playing through a dark TV series. You follow Alan Wake, a writer who gets pulled into a strange, supernatural story. The atmosphere is the best part—creepy, tense, and really well done. Using light to fight enemies is a cool idea, though the combat can get a bit repetitive after a while. Overall, it’s a great pick if you enjoy story-focused games with a thriller vibe. (4/5)
- [5]
The story is genuinely one of a kind a writer trapped inside his own horror manuscript. The atmosphere is just perfect. The environments, the eerie silence, the vibe nothing else feels quite like it. The gameplay does get repetitive though. Flashlight, shoot, repeat. By the midpoint it starts feeling like a chore. But for the story it's worth it.
Summarised from 34 of the 439 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
87% of the 275 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Alan Wake. The complaint that keeps coming up: repetitive combat. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Alan Wake received "generally favorable" reviews on both platforms according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Michael Plant from The Independent gave the game a score of 5/5. He praised Alan Wake for its "flawless pacing", which "ensures a compulsive experience". The editing and plot were also received very positively, making the game "the kind of experience the current console generation was made for." The Daily Telegraph rated the game 9/10 with editor Nick Cowen being impressed by its "stunning" look, stating the town of Bright Falls and its surrounding environment to be "authentic" in terms of architecture, vegetation, weather and lighting. He described the atmosphere as being…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 928 · most liked firstRemedy: Alan Wake 2 sales exceeded 2 million units and the game started to accrue royalties Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake and FBC: Firebreak are in full production. Control 2 entering full production this month investors.remedygames.com/releases-and...
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW: Remedy's next big game, Control 2, will be developed with a smaller budget than Alan Wake II It's part of a refined approach at Remedy, as the studio learns from some recent harsh lessons Remedy's CEO tells me: "We are moving from surviving to succeeding.” www.gamefile.news/p/remedys-ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →Started Alan Wake 2! And I think I have half this game solved already! I’ll QRT once I finish the game to see if I was right or wrong 🤪
neutral · AI labelView post →The wonderful game director of Alan Wake 2 confirmed the first time this conspiracy went around that it is completely untrue. Sweet Baby Inc is a Narrative & Writing company and the backlash against our team has only ever been rooted in paranoid racism. Tell your friends. I’m tired of this shit.
neutral · AI labelView post →🛠️ Alan Wake 2 has received an update on all platforms which addresses a number of bugs and issues in the main game and expansions. #AlanWake2 Find the update notes here: www.alanwake.com/story/alan-w... Please allow for some time for the update to propagate on all platforms!
neutral · AI labelView post →Today, a deep dive into Alan Wake 2 on PS5 Pro. Enhancements vs the standard PS5 game, ray tracing compared to PC, PSSR stacked up vs DLSS. Strap yourself in - this is a big one: youtu.be/5FEcHH8avvo
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished The Lake House, and gotta say, I will miss Alan Wake until the next time his universe comes around from that perspective. What a phenomenal game.
positive · AI labelView post →Day 827 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing. Today’s game is Portal 2. In the background I finished up Assassin’s Creed 3 Remastered. Turns out I had missed an achievement about playing Fanorona and I’ve just been putting off beating that. I got that done though. And decided to swap it out with Portal 2. Make that my current “Project” game. There’s some challenges/achievements I’d like to do so I’m picking this up.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 done. Including Final Draft. What a good game and incredible experience @remedygames.com
positive · AI labelView post →Sam Lake (Alan Wake/funny dances) said he woule like to make a game based on the Moomins. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sam-lak...
neutral · AI labelView post →Kah fucked up and called it Alan Weight Gain instead of Alan Wake Game and now we both have brain worms and cant say it properly.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's really fucking good. Control is my favorite game ever. And this one is right up there. > Alan Wake 2 took over a year to turn a profit despite being a genuine Game of the Year contender Yeah it was Epic exclusive so no surprise there.
positive · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 The perfect game for October imo 🙂↕️
positive · AI labelView post →Control and Alan Wake are essentially confronting the same kind of threat but because Jesse is Built Different, Alan's story is a horror game and Jesse's is a power fantasy. It fucking owns.
positive · AI labelView post →Cute, but deadly 🌹💀 #rosemarigold #alanwake #cosplay
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally, roll credits on Alan Wake 2. What an impossibly special game, a miracle of light and storytelling. We're so lucky it exists.
positive · AI labelView post →See you tomorrow on Twitch! Alan Wake 2 tomorrow & our Indie Game Showcase is Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island, trailer below!
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s really funny that Alan Wake 2 won best game direction, best art direction and best narrative but was not game of the year
neutral · AI labelView post →Alan Wake is the best 6.5 game I've ever played. #Vtuber
neutral · AI labelView post →REVIEW: A couple of months ago, I realized I hadn't played through any Remedy games since 2016's Quantum Break. With Control Resonant on the horizon, I'd peek at what I missed I became obsessed The result: A review of two Controls, Alan Wake 2 and four expansions www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 770 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing. Today's game is Control. I went back through the Ashtray maze today and got a series of photos i really like. I did a lot of stuff with lines and light which i really like how they turned out. I'm just gonna quickly dump them here because there's not a lot i have to say about them other than "I think they look cool".…
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm playing the Alan Wake remaster and oh my god, the early 2010s "sad man in a tweed jacket" game vibes are simply immaculate. I love it, don't get me wrong, but it's funny how the sheer artistic brilliance of Alan Wake 2 genuinely made me forget what an Xbox 360-ass game the original was lmao
positive · AI labelView post →Next game has been decided. 🫡 I really enjoyed Control on PS4, but some areas had severe fps drops and I never played the DLCs. Excited to do so now to see how it connects to Alan Wake. This might very well make me start up Alan Wake II after. Never did play that. 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →Alan Wake thread: I have no idea what this game is but it was 20$ for both I and II on humble, so here I go I guess
neutral · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 Blown away by the beauty in this game
positive · AI labelView post →- Advice - If you ARE going to play it, play on Easy (which is Normal on Xbox), just read the manuscripts online at the end of each episode, and don't worry about the coffee thermoses because they don't unlock anything. - review - This game wouldn't have been so annoying if I'd known the difficulty levels were renamed for PC. - What's "Easy" on PC is "Normal" for consoles. - What's "Normal" on PC is "Hard" for consoles. When the credits were rolling and the achievement popped for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Modeled, printed, and painted in 3 days. I couldn't think of a better theme for Alan Wake 1 than Diver's Isle. This was an incredibly fun set to make. Also I just love the first game outfit. @remedygames.com @samlakewrites.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 is a game everyone should play.
positive · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 is utterly mind-bending. One of the best games I've ever played. I'm left speechless, jaw-dropped. Can't believe a game has me this stunned. And I'm playing it for the 2nd time 😂🤯
positive · AI labelView post →Playing Alan Wake and man this game scares the shit outta me.
positive · AI labelView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to grab their free game every week until I realized I was only putting shit into a library I will never touch It is currently the Alan Wake 2 Hostage Holding Application
negative · AI labelView post →Tried it. Just isn't for me. Story checks out, it's interesting. But not interesting enough for me to battle with terrible camera, movement, shooting.... literally anything tied to game action. If this were a book, I'd read it right now. As a game, pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The fact I called the game out, and it literally went *BET* in 5 seconds... 🎮 Alan Wake Remastered
neutral · AI labelView post →Play on easy. Combat is by far the absolute worst, most grueling part of this game and there's no shame in just turning it down to get to the good stuff: The story and atmosphere. And there's plenty of that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I keep forgetting pics but Alan Wake Remastered is such a beautiful game!! Should be wrapping up the DLC today 🔦
positive · AI labelView post →dont play for the combat, that part sucks. The story is suuuuper cool though
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“We Sing” in Alan Wake 2 is one of the greatest video game chapters i have ever played through.
positive · AI labelView post →This entire sequence from Alan Wake II? Wow. One of many absolutely brilliant moments in this game
positive · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 is theeeeeeee video game of all time :)
positive · AI labelView post →Control Resonant becomes the fastest-selling game in Remedy's history, outpacing Alan Wake 2 and the original Control www.eurogamer.net/control-reso...
neutral · AI labelView post →[Spoiler-free] Alan Wake is quite a miserable experience, but it got us Alan Wake the Second, so I will let it live. Whopping 7 years after Max Payne 2, Remedy gave birth to Alan Wake, an action-survival horror (YES, HORROR) game telling the story of a writer that simply wanted a peaceful holiday with his wife, away from the shenanigans that come with being a bestseller, yet somehow ended up in a series of tragic and twisted events that result in the disappearence of his wife. Let's start…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →**Alan Wake Review** Alan Wake is a fantastic psychological thriller that blends horror, mystery, and cinematic storytelling into an unforgettable experience. Its dark atmosphere, eerie environments, and intriguing narrative keep you hooked from beginning to end. The flashlight-based combat system makes every encounter feel intense, while the story constantly leaves you questioning what is real and what is fiction. The episodic structure also gives the game the feeling of a TV series, with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game deserves better. Alan Wake 2 remains one of my favorite games of the decade. And if survival horror isn't—or is no longer—your thing, choose the option to kill enemies with a single bullet; it makes the adventure feel more Lynchian.
positive · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 is a very cool story that occasionally breaks out into the most annoying video game I've ever played.
neutral · AI labelView post →I played what I think was the first half of Alan Wake 2 but then I dropped because I had this strong conviction that Alan Wake 2 is a game you can only play at night during winter. And after awhile it was no longer winter. Anyway what I guess I'm saying is I should go back and finish Alan Wake 2 now
neutral · AI labelView post →Alan Wake 2 post game depression hitting so hard, nothing I play right now is sticking with me 😂
positive · AI labelView post →🎮 Alan Wake 2 🛠 PC | Reshade | Photoshop #VirtualPhotography #Fanart #VPRepost #VPsupport
neutral · AI labelView post →I still think about the time they performed “Herald of Darkness” from Alan Wake 2 live at The Game Awards
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished episode 4 of Alan Wake. Ive been enjoying the game, but that "Stage Show" on the farm was ROUGH. Honestly one of my only complaints about the game is that enemies regularly spawn behind you and attack, even mid combat. It doesnt feel tense as much as obnoxious lol
neutral · AI labelView post →SHOW ME THE CHAMPION OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT I’LL SHOW YOU THE HERALD OF DARKNESS LOST IN THE NEVER ENDING NIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT DIVING DEEP TO THE SURFACE
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s not a positive review, it’s a neutral one. I can’t recommend this game and I can’t say it’s not worth playing either. It started great. The atmosphere reminded me of Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone – a mystery, a small town with a complicated history. The soundtrack in this game is on point, so every song matched the environment really well, one of my favourite parts of Alan Wake. I was playing on Steam Deck, and the game looked really nice on a smaller screen. Of course, it’s old now,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I may have spent the entire weekend playing through Alan Wake Remastered and it's DLCs. Game good. A product of 2010s gameplay decisions and some control clunk at times, but game good.
positive · AI labelView post →ALAN WAKE 2 FIRST PLAYTHROUGH DAY 3 THIS GAME IS ACTUALLY GETTING GOOD twitch.tv/parkenharbor youtube.com/live/rL-tV0Q...
positive · AI labelView post →"𝐇𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫." Nothing can stop the power of love, 1 waitress + 1 writer = 4ever ❤️ Rose: moi Alan: yarntastic.cosplay (IG) 📷: @t-dude64.bsky.social Edits by me #alanwake #rosemarigold #cosplay
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy spooky #randomgamesaturday Halloween everyone. This week it’s the game where you need to try and survive from poltergeists and product placement. Tis Alan Wake.
positive · AI labelView post →Damn, Control is a great game, finished the main game, now on post game/dlc. it's Alan Wake E_____ time.
neutral · AI labelView post →sorry but Alan Wake 2 is just a beautiful game
positive · AI labelView post →Souvenir photo from Laval ComicCon with my friend as Alan and myself as Rose from Alan Wake 2! 📖🔦🌹 Alan Wake ~ yarntastic.cosplay (IG) 📷 ~ jean_goulet_photographe (IG) #alanwake #rosemarigold #cosplay #remedyentertainment
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally playing Alan Wake 2 and this game actually a little creepy/scary hell yea
positive · AI labelView post →
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