Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a standalone expansion to the psychological horror action-adventure game Alan Wake, developed by Remedy Entertainment. The story shifts to an alternate reality where Alan Wake…
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is an adventure developed by Remedy Entertainment, released 22 February 2012 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.49 at WinGameStore. The main story takes about 5.7 hrs to finish.
What Alan Wake's American Nightmare is
Alan Wake's American Nightmare is an adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and released in 2012. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on The Alan Wake Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The plot of American Nightmare is framed by the narration of an episode of the fictional TV show, "Night Springs," which follows the style of The Twilight Zone and appeared on television screens throughout the original Alan Wake. Alan Wake's friend and manager, Barry, is asleep in a motel room. The narration explains that Alan is attempting to chase down the "herald of darkness", Mr. Scratch, who is Alan's evil doppelganger created by a dark force. Scratch is determined to take away everything Alan loves, including his wife, Alice. Alan, as the "champion of light," has the ability to rewrite reality, and was able to write his escape from Cauldron Lake in Washington. He ends up near the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Alan Wake's American Nightmare holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 277 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $1.49, that works out to about $0.26 per hour of the main story, or $0.15 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core 2GHz Intel or 2.8GHz AMD, 2 GB RAM and DirectX 10 compatible with 512MB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.49 at WinGameStore, 83% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Alan Wake's American Nightmare launched on 22 February 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Alan Wake's American Nightmare yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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