Remedy Entertainment's Alan Wake 2 was released in October 2023, and went on to be one of the most acclaimed games of the year, winning in three categories at The Game Awards 2023, including Best Narrative, and currently sitting at a 92 Metacritic score. After a 13-year gap between the original, Alan Wake 2's continuation of its eponymous author's trials and tribulations trapped in the alternate reality dimension known as the Dark Place by the powerful and malevolent Lovecraftian Dark Presence was widely considered to be Remedy's most polished accomplishment to date.