Alan Wake
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
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A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode!
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a action, adventure and horror game
developed and published by Remedy Entertainment.
Released on May 22nd 2012 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 10 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Russian.
It has received 8,450 reviews of which 6,253 were positive and 2,197 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.78€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Alan Wake's American Nightmare into these genres:
Action
Adventure
Horror
Third Person
Singleplayer
Third-Person Shooter
Thriller
Psychological Horror
Mystery
Atmospheric
Arcade
Shooter
Cinematic
Survival Horror
Story Rich
Detective
Supernatural
Survival
Short
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Windows
- OS *:Windows XP SP2
- Processor:Dual Core 2GHz Intel or 2.8GHz AMD
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:DirectX 10 compatible with 512MB RAM
- DirectX®:10
- Hard Drive:8 GB HD space
- Sound:DirectX 9.0c compatible
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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare is a pretty fun game, especially if you liked the original Alan Wake. I enjoyed the mix of shooting, exploring, and the creepy atmosphere. Playing as Alan and using the flashlight to weaken enemies before taking them down never gets old. The story is interesting, and the different locations give the game a nice change of pace. It’s more action-focused than the first game, which I actually liked. It’s also not very long, but that makes it easy to finish without feeling repetitive. Overall, it’s a fun little Alan Wake experience that I’d recommend to fans of the series.
people in the reviews here are calling this game "lazy and repetitive" so i had to write my own review disputing that. i think this game is really fun! short and sweet, great story (with great characters), fairly satisfying (if simple and easy) combat, expands the alan wake universe in an exciting and interesting way. sure, it's repetitive in certain ways, but i'm impressed by how engaging it is even within the limited setting. if there's a game you should be calling repetitive, it's alan wake 1, with its endless meaningless combat and too-long levels...
TLDR; Alan Wake: American Nightmare is Alan Wake 1.5. It improves the gameplay heavily, reduces collectibles and has fun achievements. It picks up from the last game story wise, but doesn't add too much honestly. It's very short - less than 4 or 5 hours. It shines for the exact opposite reasons that Alan Wake did. OVERALL: 74.65/100 - Play it! 1. GAMEPLAY : 6.8/10 Gameplay Loop - 2/2.5 Massively improved gameplay from 2010's Alan Wake. Same concept, but improved dodge, gunplay and difficulty resulting in a much more fun gameplay experience! The Arcade mode is fantastic and just pure fun! Combat - 1.8/2.5 Improved greatly from Alan Wake. Atmosphere / Immersion 1/2.5 Not nearly as atmospheric as the first game. Bad Dialogue also takes you out. But, still a cool setting. Responsiveness / game feel 2/2.5 Overall, movement is better than Alan Wake 1. Dodge still needs work, other than that, it works and feel good! 2. STORY : 2.7/10 Plot 0.5/2 Only 4 hours and It's pretty bad the entire way through. It does have some redeeming qualities though. Coming off the high that was Alan Wake, I just wanted to know what happened next. This does tell you, but it is more of a "side mission" Alan Wake goes on in the dark place rather than continuing the main plot forward. Only redeemable quality is Mr. Scratch, the Villain. He's fantastic, and hope to see more of him. Characters 1/2 Other than Alan Wake and Scratch, the characters suck. But, theres only like... 5 total. So 2/5 are stellar, lol. Dialogue 0.5/2 This ain't it either. Pretty bad Dialogue obviously written just to push the plot forward. Again, except for Mr. Scratch's cutscenes! Writing 0.5/2 Nope. Not great. Basically the main story makes you repeat the same 3 tasks in a time loop until the story ends. Uninspired and boring. ONCE AGAIN only getting points for Scratch. Emotional Impact 0.2/2 Other than the ending cutscene, no emotional or thought-provoking story bits. 3. GRAPHICS : 8/10 Visual Quality 2.5/2.5 It obviously runs in the same engine as Alan Wake, but fixes my only main issue with the graphics from that game. Art Direction 2.5/2.5 Animations 1/2.5 Very little put into animations for cutscenes since all the important ones are live action. Far cry from Alan Wake's at least attempt on decent animations. Lighting 2/2.5 Overall okay. Indoor settings are wayyy overlit imo. But, fine for 2012 truthfully. 4. SOUND : 5/10 Soundtrack 1/3.5 Other than one decent song, this soundtrack is garbage compared to Alan Wake 1. Sound effects 2.5/3 Gun sounds are improved from Alan Wake 1. Voice Acting 1.5/3.5 Pretty bad voice acting (could also be because of the bad dialogue writing) for all characters except Scratch. (Yes even Alan Wake, which makes me think it was just the bad writing given he knocks it out of the park for Scratch). Props to the live action Actor for AW/S even though he doesn't provide the voice. 5. LEVEL/WORLD DESIGN : 5.5/10 Level layout 2/2 No problems here. Improved from Alan Wake. Better spawns, open designs. Exploration 0.5/2 Again just like Alan Wake, no need to explore except for collectibles (another aspect they greatly improved from Alan Wake). Environmental Variety 0/2 It's kinda all the same. Desert with a town or building. The story literally makes you repeat the same areas three times as well. World Building 1/2 Not as much as Alan Wake. But does a good job of telling you what's happening to the other characters outside of The Dark Place. It also fleshes out Scratch well. Navigation 2/2 Awesome. Mini-map even gives you collectibles now! 6. PERFORMANCE / TECH : 9.9/10 FPS 3.5/3.5 Actually better FPS than Alan Wake 1. Stability 3.4/3.5 Had one crash over ten hours. Technology included 3/3 7. VALUE : 10/10 Short story, but still got 10 hours out of the game. For like... a dollar. 8. DIFFICULTY : 8.5/10 Balance 3/3.5 GREATLY IMPROVED! You have better weapons, movement and dodge ability. Honestly, in story it's skewed in your favor heavily. Ammo is not a problem, ever. However, the amazing Arcade mode is balanced very very well. AI ability 2.5/3 AI can now throw grenades, transform into birds to dodge your attacks, flank you intentionally. Much improved from Alan Wake 1. Challenge 3/3.5 The main story is too easy. Nightmare mode is actually FUN! In arcade, it's the ideal way for me to play. Seriously good time. 9. ACHEIVEMENTS 9.75/10 Require a NG+? 3/3 NO NIGHTMARE 2ND PLAYTHOUGH REQUIRED!! Collectibles 3.25/3.5 Collectibles are reduced incredibly AND every single one has value! Easy enough to find too! Still, 50+ for a 4 hours story though, lol. Difficulty / RNG 3.5/3.5 These achievements were perfect. They were challenging enough to feel like an achievement, while not being too grindy nor relying on RNG. Good job Remedy! 10. OVERALL ENJOYMENT 8.5/10 I liked the main story, even if it was bad. It does have some good moments. The game is just more fun though overall. Achievements enhanced the experience like they are meant to imo, and the arcade mode was bliss!
Okay... here we go So from what I understand this is a game that takes place in the game Alan Wake, Written by Sam Lake, and in this game you play as Alan Wake who plays Alan Wake in a movie directed by Alan Wake based of a book that Alan Wake wrote, the same book that Alan Wake, the game, is mimicking in which you search for your wife who fell in a lake all while writing a book for an evil fan obsessed with Alan Wake, but its different to this game in which you also are searching for your Wife but instead of writing another book, you are fighting Alan Wake, a different Alan Wake of course; some sort of evil version of Alan Wake who also wants your wife. But then of course it turns out that the evil Alan Wake is just the bad parts of Alan Wake that Alan Wake wrote about in a book, the same book this Alan Wake game is adapting into a movie and of course the book Alan Wake, the game, mimics. And of course both Alan Wake games are written by Sam Lake in real life but if you look closely you'll discover that Sam Lake is just real life Alan Wake, because Sam Lake also looks like Alan Wake in real life, so the real life cutscenes in Alan Wake are played by the real life Sam Lake so really in real life its Sam Lake writing a game featuring Sam Lake about a book written by Sam Lake adapted into a movie directed by Sam Lake who in real life is really Max Payne- and hey, are you getting all this?
I actually enjoyed it, and thought it was quite a fun addition to the existing Alan Wake game. It’s slightly different, a bit more modernised with different weapons, you only have 3 maps and you go through them a couple of times in order to beat the villain, which some might find repetitive, but I think the game does things well to mitigate that. Honestly, is it required to play? Probably not at all. I think you can get the game as a bundle with Alan Wake? Either way, it’s a nice little short experience for those looking for a bit more action and a nice conclusion to the original Alan Wake plot.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam.
No, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 8.79€ on Steam.
Yes, Alan Wake's American Nightmare received 6,253 positive votes out of a total of 8,450 achieving a rating of 7.24.
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare was developed and published by Remedy Entertainment.
Yes, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is not playable on MacOS.
No, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Alan Wake's American Nightmare does not support VR.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a single-player game.
No, Alan Wake's American Nightmare does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Alan Wake's American Nightmare does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, Alan Wake's American Nightmare supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Alan Wake's American Nightmare is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
39
Developer
Remedy Entertainment
Publisher
Remedy Entertainment
Release
22 May 2012
Platforms
Remote Play
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