Alan Wake 2 Sales Top 2 Million Units, Remedy Starts Earning Royalties - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 February 2025 / 6,716 Views
Remedy Entertainment announced Alan Wake 2 has sold over two million as of the end of 2024.
The developer also states it is now earning royalties on the game as development and marketing costs have been paid off.
"By the end of 2024, Alan Wake 2 sales exceeded two million units," said Remedy. "The game had also recouped the development fees and marketing investments, meaning Remedy started to accrue royalty income from the game sales.
Alan Wake 2 released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Epic Games Store in October 2023.
Remedy also revealed Control 2 has now "entered full production" and Max Payne 1&2 Remake is "making steady progress in full production."
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Wonderful news! Hopefully their next big project after Control 2 is Alan Wake 3. I don't want to wait over a decade again for a sequel and I don't think they do either.
Agreed I just hope they keep it going in some way shape or form. I'm in the middle of AW2 right now and loving it. AW1 was one of the highlights from my 360 days and one of the reasons I loved the console so much. I've played all of their games minus crossfirex and death rally.
Agreed! Alan Wake 2 was my personal Game of the Year for 2023.
Well deserved congrats remedy and keep it up!
its only going to get harder to make money on lots of the AAA games
Amazing news, I hope it continues to sell well, since Alan Wake is one of my favorite franchises ever.
Although I can't help but to think that no Steam version really hurted it's sales...
There's no question avoiding Steam hurt their sales. I love Remedy but I hate how they are constantly beholden to these publishers who want to limit the reach of their games. Remedy is to niche for that they need their games to be in every single store possible.
They did have absolutely no choice this time though. Microsoft had the publishing rights to Alan Wake for a decade and even they wouldn’t finance a sequel, at the time when basically anything could get financed.
It was Epic or Go Home basically.
Oh I know they are basically being forced to do these things because of financial reasons I just hate it. Then they are doing this GAAS game which IMO is a waste of time and is only going to hurt them more than anything. I'm hoping the Max Payne games blow up and get them in a comfortable place.
It absolutely hampered sales by not releasing on Steam. It's actually impressive they managed these numbers without Steam. Let's face it though, there may not even be an Alan Wake 2 if not for Epic publishing so it's a worthwhile trade off.
Thats awesome news since i played the game last December and loved it a lot.
Incredibly artistic and creative.. especially for an AAA game.
Can’t wait to explore the lore further with Control 2 when it comes out.
Seems like a fair deal for everyone involved then: Remedy got to make the game risk-free and now proceeds to make money, gamers finally got the game, and Epic is also making money on their investment. I'm only sad that it had to be Epic that ended up funding the game, but it's better than not getting the game at all.
