About Alan Wake
Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller developed and published by Remedy Entertainment. The best-selling writer Alan Wake travels with his wife to the small town of Bright Falls for a vacation, but she disappears soon after they arrive. As he searches for her, he starts finding pages from a thriller he does not even remember writing, and the events they describe begin to come true around him. A Dark Presence stalks the town and the surrounding forests, pushing Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save the woman he loves.
The story is presented in the style of a TV series, complete with episodes, recaps, plot twists and cliffhangers, and it carries the trademark Remedy storytelling. As you dive deeper into the mystery, the line between the manuscript and reality grows thinner, and the quiet Pacific Northwest setting of lakes, mountains, logging roads and dense woods turns threatening once night falls. Exploration rewards attention, since manuscript pages and other details fill in the background of Bright Falls and its residents and hint at what is waiting further ahead.
Survival depends on the Fight With Light combat mechanic. Enemies possessed by the darkness are protected by it, so you first burn it away with the beam of your flashlight before your gun can harm them. Flares, flashbangs and other light sources become precious tools when you are surrounded, and street lamps and generators offer brief safe havens. Batteries and ammunition are limited, so every encounter becomes a tense balance of aiming the light, dodging attacks and choosing when to run. It is only by mastering this system that you stay one step ahead of the spreading darkness.
This PC edition includes the special episodes The Signal and The Writer, which continue the story after the main game. It lets you experience the Pacific Northwest in higher resolutions and higher fidelity, offers fully configurable mouse and keyboard controls or gamepad play, and adds many graphics settings with support for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios, a field of view slider and an option to hide the HUD. The multithreaded engine takes advantage of quad-core processors. The GOG version runs on Windows and offers ten languages, ideal for fans of story-driven thrillers.
Key Features
- Psychological action thriller – From Remedy Entertainment.
- Bright Falls mystery – A missing wife and lost pages.
- Fight With Light – Burn away the darkness.
- TV-series structure – Episodes, twists, cliffhangers.
- Two special episodes – The Signal and The Writer.
- PC enhancements – Higher resolutions and fidelity.
- Flexible controls – Mouse, keyboard or gamepad.
- Custom graphics options – FOV, hide HUD, aspect ratios.
PC Version and Compatibility
The game runs on Windows. The minimum setup is Windows XP SP2, a dual-core 2 GHz Intel or 2.8 GHz AMD processor, 2 GB of RAM, a DirectX 10 compatible graphics card with 512 MB and 8 GB of free storage space. Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Global Activation & What You Receive
This GOG key unlocks the full game Alan Wake. It is a Global key that can be activated worldwide. Sign in to your GOG account, open gog.com/redeem, enter the code and the game is added to your library, where you can download it directly or through GOG Galaxy.
Why Buy This Game?
Why buy it? A gripping Remedy thriller in Bright Falls with TV-series storytelling, tense Fight With Light combat, two special episodes and many PC options.
Related Games
Bright Falls survivors who crave more of the writer’s ordeal can follow him to Arizona as he hunts his evil double Mr. Scratch through Night Springs in Alan Wake's American Nightmare, a standalone action thriller. Cinematic storytelling devotees can guide Jack Joyce as he bends time with newfound powers in Quantum Break, another Remedy action game mixing gameplay and live-action episodes. Hardboiled noir lovers can step into the shoes of an NYPD cop seeking revenge with slow-motion bullet time in Max Payne, the 2001 Remedy shooter. Patient detectives can investigate the disappearance of a boy as Paul Prospero in Red Creek Valley in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter GOG.COM Key Global, a story-driven mystery from The Astronauts.
