Alan Wake 2 launched final October following years of anticipation and was immediately met with widespread crucial acclaim, being deemed by many to be among the best video games in a historic yr for the medium. Treatment Leisure has now additionally introduced gross sales figures for the survival horror title, and its business success is reflecting its crucial acclaim.
The developer as introduced that Alan Wake 2 has offered 1.3 million items worldwide throughout all platforms as of early February, which makes it the studio’s fastest-selling recreation to this point. On the finish of December, its gross sales stood at 1 million items offered, so clearly the sport is exhibiting lengthy legs. Earlier in December, analysts estimated that the sport had offered roughly 850,000 items on consoles.
Treatment is anticipating the sport to maintain on promoting nicely for the foreseeable future. “An excellent recreation can generate wonderful lengthy tail gross sales, and we anticipate this to be the case with Alan Wake 2 as nicely,” the developer says.
Curiously, Treatment has additionally revealed that in its first two months, Alan Wake 2 offered 50% greater than Management did in its first 4 months, whereas its digital gross sales had been greater than thrice as excessive. The place digital gross sales are involved, nevertheless, it’s price remembering that, in contrast to Management, Alan Wake 2 is a digital-only recreation.
“We’re pleased with the beginning of Alan Wake 2’s gross sales,” stated Treatment CEO Tero Virtala. “The worth level has additionally remained at a excessive stage, and the sport has already recouped a big a part of the event and advertising and marketing bills. We are going to proceed to develop the sport to serve present followers and entice new gamers and anticipate the sport to proceed promoting nicely.
“The profitable launch of Alan Wake 2 has supported our different recreation tasks: Condor, Management 2, and Max Payne 1&2 remake have all elevated improvement tempo because of the personnel launched from Alan Wake 2, and we anticipate these tasks to succeed in their subsequent improvement phases in the course of the first half of 2024. We now have two established franchises: Management and Alan Wake, that are linked by means of the Treatment Linked Universe. Rising and increasing these franchises will probably be a key a part of our future.”
Treatment has launched quite a few updates for Alan Wake 2 since its launch, including new options like New Recreation Plus and chapter choose, and the developer says it plans on releasing extra. As well as, as beforehand introduced, two paid expansions are additionally deliberate for this yr.
In our assessment of Alan Wake 2, we awarded it a rating of 9/10, saying, “Alan Wake 2 is a unbelievable horror recreation with some wonderful environment and an extremely attention-grabbing story. Whereas it does make use of soar scares that really feel downright pointless, fortunately, the opposite horror facets of the sport are greater than as much as the duty of creeping you out. Simply just be sure you at the very least learn up on the plot synopsis of the unique Alan Wake earlier than leaping in.” Learn our full assessment by means of right here.
The survival horror title was additionally GamingBolt’s Recreation of the Yr for 2023.
Alan Wake 2 is on the market on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC. Treatment Leisure has additionally supplied up to date gross sales figures for Management, which has crossed 4 million items offered.
