Highlights

  • Alan Wake 2 is Remedy Entertainment's fastest-selling game ever, boasting 1.3 million copies sold. Two story DLCs titled "Night Springs" and "Lake House" will expand on the game's narrative in 2024.
  • The Lake House DLC in particular may focus on expanding the Remedy Connected Universe and setting up Control 2, as its titular lake house is home to an FBC outpost.
  • This would give Lake House a similar role to Control's AWE DLC, and just like how that content featured Alan prominently, perhaps Jesse from Control will appear heavily in Lake House.

Now officially confirmed to be Remedy Entertainment's fastest-selling game ever, it seems fair to say that Alan Wake 2 has been rather successful, maybe more so than Remedy ever thought possible. While it's not raking in GTA Online money, Alan Wake 2's 1.3 million sold copies is still incredibly impressive and puts Remedy in a very nice spot for its future.

Announced a little ahead of its release, Alan Wake 2 will receive two story DLCs in 2024. Titled "Night Springs" and "Lake House," not much is known about these two Alan Wake 2 DLCs, though their titles do suggest a general direction for each expansion's story based on the events of Alan Wake 2's narrative. Specifically, anyone who's played through Alan Wake 2 will know that the Lake House is the location of the Federal Bureau of Control's outpost near Cauldron Lake, which is name-dropped several times during Alan Wake 2's main story. With this in mind, it seems likely that Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC will revolve around the FBC in a major capacity, which could end up repeating some recent Remedy DLC history.

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Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC Could Have The Same Purpose As Control's AWE DLC

Alan Wake 2 Was Set Up In Control's AWE DLC

Released in August 2020, Control's AWE DLC acts as a substantial story expansion for the base game, a refresher of the events of the original Alan Wake, and a direct set-up for the events of Alan Wake 2, a total of three years before its eventual release. With Jesse Faden now acting as the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control, she's tasked with reclaiming a long-abandoned area of the Oldest House, the Investigations Sector, which is said to be infested with an unknown threat.

Closed off from the rest of the Oldest House, the Investigations Sector acts as a gateway between FBC headquarters and a number of Altered World Events, often shortened to AWEs. Players soon discover that one of these AWEs comes from the town of Bright Falls, the primary setting of the Alan Wake series and the site of a paranatural Threshold that allows the Dark Presence to enter reality. Over the course of Control's AWE DLC, players will face off against the Dark Presence, briefly visit Bright Falls, and see visions of Alan Wake himself.

During Control 's AWE DLC, Jesse Faden sees visions of Alan Wake whenever she's in the Oceanview Motel and walks up to a door marked with a mysterious spiral symbol. This symbol goes on to have an incredibly important meaning in Alan Wake 2 .

While the AWE DLC was still very much centered around Control and its base game characters and mechanics, it still did a good job of setting up Alan Wake 2, confirming that the writer is still alive and trapped in the Dark Place and hinting at the FBC's future involvement in the Remedy Connected Universe. The AWE DLC even ends with Jesse receiving an incident report from Bright Falls dated several years in the future, teeing up Alan Wake 2 directly.

Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC Could Set Up Control 2

Now, it seems like the time has come for Alan Wake 2 to return the favor. Though it's still in its very early proof-of-concept stages of development, Control 2 is on its way, and Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC is the perfect place to tease some upcoming story or character beats. A great way to do this would be having Jesse Faden play a major role in the DLC, either as the DLC's main playable character or as a cameo on a similar level to Alan Wake in Control's AWE DLC.

However, it should be noted that while Alan Wake 2's Lake House DLC has the perfect opportunity to tease Control 2, Remedy's Sam Lake has stated that the DLC won't set up the sequel directly, saying that the Lake House is "not looking to repeat [AWE's setup of Alan Wake 2] exactly". But at the same time, Lake did state that The Lake House will focus on the FBC, and that "there will be hints about things to come in the Control sequel."