Treatment Leisure has introduced that Alan Wake 2 has bought 1.3 million copies as of February 2024. In a press launch shedding extra mild on the sport’s post-launch efficiency, Treatment stated that the sequel bought 1 million models by December 2023 and is now the fastest-selling recreation launched by the developer.
“Alan Wake 2 bought over 50% extra copies and over 3 times extra digital copies in its first two months than Management did in its first 4 months,” Treatment defined. “Since its launch in 2019, Management has bought over 4 million models, producing internet revenue–shareable income between Treatment and a publishing companion, excluding taxes and platform fees–of roughly 100 million Euros. A fantastic recreation can generate wonderful lengthy tail gross sales, and we anticipate this to be the case with Alan Wake 2 as properly.”
Curiously, Alan Wake 2 is not worthwhile yet–it launched as a digital-only recreation with an MSRP of $50 on PC and $60 on consoles in October 2023–but Treatment CEO Tero Virtala defined “the sport has already recouped a major half” of its improvement and advertising and marketing bills. “We now have two established franchises: Management and Alan Wake, that are linked via the Treatment Related Universe. Rising and increasing these franchises will likely be a key a part of our future,” Virtala stated.
Virtala added that Alan Wake 2’s efficiency has helped to assist Remedy’s different tasks like Management 2 and its Max Payne remakes. Alan Wake 2 acquired its new recreation plus mode in December 2023 and can broaden sooner or later with two expansions. The primary one is targeted on Evening Springs, the sport’s Twilight Zone-inspired TV present, and the second will hyperlink up with Remedy’s Management.
A important hit, Alan Wake 2 was considered one of GameSpot’s greatest video games of the yr, incomes a uncommon rating of 10. “Alan Wake 2 achieves just about all the things developer Treatment Leisure got down to do,” Mark Delaney wrote in GameSpot’s Alan Wake 2 assessment. “It’s a recreation that feels novel and dangerous that’s executed with confidence and a readability of imaginative and prescient.”