Remedy wants to establish a 'regular cadence of sequels' for Control & Alan Wake
It took a long time to get from Alan Wake to Alan Wake 2 and Remedy doesn't want it to take quite that long again.
Remedy Entertainment hit it out of the park with Alan Wake 2 in 2023, putting up one of the most excellent horror, and even overall, games of the year. It was quite a few years between the first and second game, though, and Remedy wants to streamline its process now that it has quite a few hit franchises on its hands. The company shared that it will be improving its processes to create a “regular cadence of sequels” for the Control and Alan Wake franchises. The leadership at Remedy also briefly spoke to the progress on Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake.
Remedy shared some details about its upcoming plans for sequels via its Full-Year Financial results for 2023. There, CEO Tero Virtala spoke briefly to the future of the developer and its processes.
Source: Remedy Entertainment
Alan Wake 2 won a lot of praise in 2023. Its design and mix of real and surreal elements through the shifting realities of a horror story affecting the world, satisfying combat, and solid investigative elements earned it a high-scoring Shacknews review. Control was a similarly strong release that won plenty of accolades of its own back in 2019. Remedy clearly doesn’t want to see so many years pass between its games though, which might bode well for more content in both the Wake and Control IPs. Remedy also teased that Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake is coming along well in the “production readiness stage”.
With so much momentum behind it and a clear vision of what’s ahead, we’ll look forward to seeing how Remedy continues to expand on the success of Alan Wake and Control. Stay tuned for more reveals and updates here at Shacknews.
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replyTJ Denzer posted a new article, Remedy wants to establish a 'regular cadence of sequels' for Control & Alan Wake
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I'm okay with this. I think they could also get away with shorter, tighter, more frequent games as long as the storytelling and variety with all that is still on the same level.
Still, can't say I'm wanting a ton of sequels of any franchise, Remedy or not. Very excited to have another Control, but after that was really hoping they'd branch out into other games in their shared universe, like an Alex Casey game (RIP James McCaffrey), but they still have more to pull in terms of potential main characters than just Alan Wake & Jesse Faden. They could even do the alt-universe Quantum Break sequel after some of what was set up and seen in AW2 with the Tim Breaker stuff. As long as enough remains changed to skirt the copyrights. I wonder if there's been any talks on acquiring that IP from Microsoft..
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