Alan Wake 2 - Night Springs & The Lake House | Games of the Year 2024
It's been over a year since I fell down the Remedy rabbit hole, and I'm happy to report there's no end in sight.
Since the launch of Alan Wake 2 in October 2023, I've played nearly every game in Remedy's catalogue, in some cases more than once (I'm lovingly looking at you, Control and Max Payne 2). All those wonderful games left almost no space for anything else this year.
That's not to say I haven't experienced any new releases in 2024. Little Kitty, Big City stole my heart, Thank Goodness You're Here had me in stitches, and Star Wars Outlaws gave me a much-needed dose of nostalgia. Baldur's Gate 3 is also a fresh experience that I've managed to put in over 120 hours in 20 days.
Alas, Remedy just had to continue releasing content for Alan Wake 2, which came in the form of two expansions: Night Springs and The Lake House.
Night Springs arrived on June 8, consisting of three episodes centered around characters from Remedy's connected universe. Night Springs itself is a homage to The Twilight Zone, and appears as an actual TV show throughout 2010's Alan Wake.
This was expanded in 2012 with Alan Wake's American Nightmare, which is framed as a Night Springs episode written by Alan as a means to escape The Dark Place – an alternate nightmare dimension he's been trapped in for 13 years.
The Night Springs expansion follows the same premise, with Alan using characters from Remedy games as a means to escape.
One is based on the overarching plot of 2019's Control, following its protagonist Jesse Faden – the director of a secret government agency called the Federal Bureau of Control. In Night Springs, she is simply known as The Sibling and is looking for her brother at a theme park that appears in Alan Wake 2.
The other is a head-spinning trip through parallel universes, where players take on the role of actual actor Shawn Ashmore. He portrays Sheriff Tim Breaker in Alan Wake 2 as well as protagonist Jack Joyce in 2016's Quantum Break. But in this episode, he plays an unnamed hero in
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