I’ve finally returned to Alan Wake II (Remedy Entertainment), which I started playing in October 2024. Since it had been a few years since I last played, I decided to start over from the beginning (and switch the game over to easy mode).

FBI Agent Saga Anderson and her partner Alex Casey journey to Bright Falls to investigate a ritualistic murder. The two agents quickly find themselves in a situation much stranger than they bargained for, when they realize the death is connected to a murder cult, the corpse suddenly returns to life, people become possessed by darkness, and they begin finding manuscript pages that seem to be about what’s happening to them. Meanwhile, Alan Wake is trapped in the Dark Place and is trying to write his way free.