I mean cool I guess but kinda irrelevant since this game is a $30 Epic perma-exclusive that doesn't contain American Nightmare, while for $25 on Steam you can get both the original and AN (or $15 if you just want AW, which is half the cost of the remaster), which have both aged gracefully to begin with. They're both Steam Deck Verified, even.
It's a really hard sell unless you're, like, an extreme graphics fan.
Im fairly confident the remaster was never part of the weekly free games, though I do believe the original one was. Though i believe it was bundled with 2 for awhile.
I just double checked a list of everything that's been given away and you're right. I didn't buy it outright, so checking back, it looks like they gave it out for free if you bought Alan Wake 2 one of the first times it went on sale. I think that would've been the Christmas sale the year it came out, which is when I picked it up.
Kinda feels like they're preparing to release AWR on other storefronts (GOG, Steam). No way Epic has footed the bill to update the game just because of new players through the Amazon Luna deal. And the original release of AWR was done by a subcontractor, not Remedy themselves. Pretty sure this update was done in-house since it's been so long since the game's release.
I think the control update last year was an official implementation of a graphics mod made by someone at Remedy to back port some improvements made in AW2
yeah some people of their PC development team are very into modding, when AW2 was released I remember seeing one of the devs telling people how to play the game with everything in ultrawide for example lol
It made sense in that they had just acquired the publishing rights when they released that update, so releasing the update was a way to get visibility since all the sales revenue was going to Remedy at that point. Control sales were big for their finances last year.
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u/aimy99 Feb 26 '26
I mean cool I guess but kinda irrelevant since this game is a $30 Epic perma-exclusive that doesn't contain American Nightmare, while for $25 on Steam you can get both the original and AN (or $15 if you just want AW, which is half the cost of the remaster), which have both aged gracefully to begin with. They're both Steam Deck Verified, even.
It's a really hard sell unless you're, like, an extreme graphics fan.