Developer Remedy Entertainment has been on a long journey to tie together each one of their offbeat shooters - from Max Payne to Alan Wake and Quantum Break to Control - in a metatextually linked Remedy Connected Universe.
But head honcho Sam Lake says it's too early to even think about how it's all going to end. Remedy games always had easter eggs and mysterious references to other stories in the studio's gameography, but the connection was made 'canon' in Control's AWE DLC, which either stands for Alan Wake Expansion or Altered World Event depending on who you ask.
Last year's excellent Alan Wake 2 then fleshed out that interlocked story further, and even unofficially (for probably legal reasons) tied it to back Max Payne and Quantum Break - both of which are owned by Rockstar Games and Xbox respectively.
But when asked about if there's an endgame in sight - an Avengers Endgame type of conclusion, if you will - Sam Lake told IGN that the studio are "just getting started" and "it's too early to start talking about an endgame." "I love tying these things together," he said. "I love making it deeper and expanding on the lore.
It really feels like this kind of opportunity to take these strands that we have put there, expand, entertain different ideas.