Over a year after its highly lauded October 2023 release, Alan Wake 2 has finally begun to generate royalties for Remedy Entertainment. This significant accomplishment for Alan Wake 2 coincides with the Finnish developer working on several other significant projects at the same time.
The arrival of Alan Wake 2, one of Remedy’s most ambitious and costly games, was greeted with high expectations. In hindsight, it appears safe to say that the survival horror game mostly succeeded in living up to those expectations, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews and multiple accolades.
In terms of sales, it became the fastest-selling Remedy game ever, surpassing the 2019 action-adventure blockbuster Control.
Despite this impressive performance, a profitability update in November 2024 showed that Alan Wake 2 had yet to recover its budget. The Sam Lake-directed film has finally broken even, though, suggesting that things have improved since then.
Remedy said in its most recent financial statement that Alan Wake 2 has sold more than two million copies and recovered the costs of its production and promotion, allowing the studio to receive royalties from the game’s sales.
The update claims that the introduction of the physical edition, the PS5 Pro-specific update, and the Lake House DLC at that time all contributed to the Epic Games-published game becoming profitable by the end of Q4 2024. Game is assumed that Alan Wake 2 made its first profits a full year after game was first released, since the most recent of these events—the PS5 Pro patch release—took place in November.
Remedy’s eagerly anticipated success with Alan Wake 2 coincides with the developer’s attention being drawn to several of its flagship properties, including Max Payne and Control. The seasoned company revealed in a recent statement that, with assistance from publisher and intellectual property owner Rockstar Games, the upcoming remake of the first two Max Payne games is making “steady progress” in the full development stage.
Conversely, the Control sequel also started development in full in February 2025, with intentions to “scale up” the process going forward. After completing a limited technical test in December 2024, Remedy’s upcoming game, the Control spin-off FBC: Firebreak, is likewise making progress in production.
FBC: Firebreak is expected to be released later in 2025, but Remedy’s two largest projects to yet are still a ways off. That means that in the year of its 30th anniversary, the Finnish firm will release its very first multiplayer game.
