Alan Wake (game)

Alan Wake (game)
Release	2010

Alan Wake is a video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in 2010.

Alan Wake exists in a shared universe with Control, and there exist multiple allusions between the two. Alan Wake is a character mentioned on numerous occasions in Control. Expansion 2: AWE is implied to be focused on Alan Wake.

Control allusions

References to Alan Wake in Control

• Dylan Faden mentions that in one of his dreams, he saw many worlds, including one where "a writer wrote a story about a cop," and another where "the cop was real" - a dual reference to Alan Wake and Max Payne.
• A Bureau file details their plans to revive the cancelled Night Springs TV series - which was featured prominently in Alan Wake - in order to monitor the public perception of the paranatural.
• One of the Altered World Event case files in the game details a recurring AWE occurring in Bright Falls, Washington, including a summary of the game's events. Multiple documents refer to this AWE.
• One of Jesse's therapy sessions includes her reciting a poem by Thomas Zane: "Beyond the shadow you settle for, there is a miracle illuminated."
• After she visits him in the Foundation, Ahti gives Jesse his cassette player, which includes the song "Take Control" performed by Old Gods of Asgard, a fictional band who were major characters in Alan Wake.
• Two Altered Items are related to Alan Wake: the Typewritten Page and the Oh Deer Diner Coffee Thermos, both located on the fifth level of the Panopticon. When the Page is approached, an apparition of Alan Wake will appear, and he will recite the text from the page.
• One of the doors in the Oceanview Motel (the spiral) is implied to lead to the Dark Place, an alternate dimension from Alan Wake.
• A whiteboard in the Central Research area of the Research Sector details information about a shoebox recovered from a woman named Samantha in Ordinary. These events were previously depicted in the Alan Wake blog "This House of Dreams."
• The tango that Ahti listens to, when translated, appears to be a ballad about Alan's experience trapped within the Dark Place.