Yet despite its positive reception and the implications of a post-credit tease, Until Dawn never felt like it warranted a traditional sequel. Alternatively, you could channel the scientists from The Cabin in the Woods and try to exploit genre tropes in a way that guaranteed the grisliest ends for your adolescent cast.
If you’re the type of person who can’t get through a scary movie without yelling instructions at the actors on-screen, then this was an opportunity to put your money where your mouth is and prove your superior survivalist instincts to the world. Suffice it to say, it was an intoxication power trip. Direct control over the characters’ decision-making was placed entirely in your hands, and you were also made responsible for their reflexive actions.Īs such, you were able to cherry-pick which clichés you wanted to indulge in, decide if there would be any deviations from the typical slasher formula (maybe premarital sex isn’t a death sentence in your version, or the final girl could be the first to go) and choose who lived. While that might sound like a spectacularly unremarkable set-up, the USP was that players actually got to influence how things would proceed from thereon.
Supermassive Games thrusted you into an achingly familiar horror scenario, in which a bunch of hormonal teenagers (each snuggly fitting into the most stereotypical of stereotypes) were left stranded in a remote location to be menaced by a rarely-glimpsed serial killer. The appeal was quite ingenious yet simple. Alan Wake 2 is currently in development for 2023.įor gore hounds and connoisseurs of shlock alike, 2015’s Until Dawn was an unexpected treat.
In the meantime, Remedy has revealed the aforementioned concept art, which you can see below. We don’t want to take the team away from that focus, so we’re going to keep going and making a great game experience, and unfortunately, you’ll have to wait a bit longer for a demo and trailer.” “We feel that we have momentum going, and we want to make sure we are creating the best, and first, survival horror game for Remedy. “To create a proper, polished demo or a trailer takes a lot of effort, and it’s several months of work that could take away from development,” Lake continues. “But we’ve been talking for the past couple of months and have come to the decision here at Remedy, along with our wonderful publisher Epic Games, that we will not be showing anything big this summer.” However, there’s a bit of a snag for those hoping to see more of the game later this summer. We are deep in production, have a lot of material, and a great deal of the game is playable,” said Remedy’s Sam Lake. Lastly, Remedy took the opportunity on Alan Wake‘s 12th anniversary to drop a new video, as well as new concept art for the upcoming Alan Wake 2! “Everything with Alan Wake 2 development is going really well. According to Remedy’s communications director, Thomas Puha, the adaptation still has “a long way to go” before production begins, but it’s at least a good starting point.
More info about the port will be released in the coming months.Īs for the Alan Wake TV series, Remedy has teamed up with AMC to finally bring the series to life.
The Switch version will be digital-only, and run natively on the hardware. In addition, for those who have been waiting on that Alan Wake TV series, Remedy has finally snagged a deal to bring the series to fruition.įor starters, Epic Games Publishing and Remedy will release Alan Wake Remastered for the Switch via Nintendo eShop this fall. Along with news on Alan Wake 2, Alan Wake Remastered will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. Remedy has dropped a whack of Alan Wake related info as part of the game’s 12th anniversary.