Remedy's Alan Wake, released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, was a Twin Peaks-flavoured thriller about a novelist fighting shadows with a flashlight. It launched the same week as Red Dead Redemption and became a slow-burning cult classic.
- Developer
- Remedy Entertainment
- Publisher
- Microsoft Game Studios
- Released
- 14 May 2010
- Platforms
- Xbox 360
- Genre
- Action-thriller
- Kind of game
- console
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