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2012 · Horror · Story Rich · Thriller

How long isAlan Wake?

by Remedy Entertainment

11 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 5 hours and 17 hours

Alan Wake among the 399 action-adventures here

The whole tier list
APlayed tier

#87

of 399

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

52%
got past 2 hours
+11 on the kind's 42%
10%
past 20 hours
−4 on the kind's 14%
70%
launched it
+14 on the kind's 56%
436
libraries own it
1 in 6 of the 2,483 read here
Alan Wake ↓
#1 Grand Theft Auto V Legacy#399
30% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Does Alan Wake hold up?

Grows on people

Grows on you seal

84% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 96% at 50–100 hours played.

Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.

Do the first two hours of Alan Wake tell you?

In the first two hours79%recommend it

After that91%recommend it

10 in 100 said no: 8 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 11 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 5 hours and 17 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 60,300 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 84% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 96% at 50–100 hours.

10% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 79% of those recommend it. After the window, 91% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 79% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 6.5 hours in.

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When would you get there?

11days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 11 hours on Wednesday, November 25.

Half of its reviewers had played between 5 and 17 hours: Nov 19 to Dec 1 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Alan Wake?

The filter

Nordic Walking

26 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Follow the Light and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Follow the LightTake a night course of light education.−1783% hold it
  3. Nordic WalkingTake a walk through the logging area, meet one of the quirky locals.Filtered −2657% hold it
  4. Bright Falls' FinestCall for help.−156% hold it
  5. Under a Thin Layer of SkinDefy the park ranger.−749% hold it
  6. Park RangerEnjoy the sounds and sights of Elderwood National Park.−940% hold it
  7. Wheels Within WheelsMeet the kidnapper.−832% hold it
  8. Perchance to DreamTake a moment to reflect on past events.−329% hold it
  9. Iron HorseEncounter a steam engine.29% hold it
  10. GatekeeperCut the power to the transformer yard.−128% hold it
  11. Heavy MetalSurvive the bulldozer attack.−127% hold it
  12. DepartureComplete the game on Normal difficulty.27% hold it
How this is counted

83% of the players who launched Alan Wake hold Follow the Light, its first story achievement on Steam, and 27% hold Departure, its last. The steepest drop comes between Follow the Light (83%) and Nordic Walking (57%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Where did you leave it?

Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.

No Steam, or played it elsewhere?

Is Alan Wake worth it?

Is Alan Wake worth it? Yes.

  • Good value

    1.8× the hours of a typical action-adventure, for the same money

  • Loved

    91% recommend it after the refund windowmost action-adventures: 89%

  • Gets played

    70% of owners here have played itmost action-adventures: 53%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $14.99, the typical player's 11 hours come to $1.36 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.36 an hour, Alan Wake is cheaper per hour than 422 of 512 action-adventures here: the typical one of 512 action-adventures here charges $2.50, so the same $14.99 buys 1.8× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (action-adventures) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play Alan Wake today?

Almost anywhere

PC, PS5, Xbox Series, Switch and 2 more.

  1. Xbox 3602010
  2. todayPC2021remastered
  3. todayXbox Series2021remastered
  4. todayPS42021remastered
  5. todayPS52021remastered
  6. todayXbox One2021remastered
  7. todaySwitch2022remastered
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Alan Wake came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like Alan Wake?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Alan Wake, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Alan Wake would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with Alan Wake?

  • 1 in 21

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like Alan Wake

  1. 1

    The Evil Within

    Alan Wake, but gorier, and with zombies

    Liked · 85%Games like The Evil Within

  2. 2

    Control Ultimate Edition

    Alan Wake, but sci-fi

    Liked · 86%Games like Control Ultimate Edition

  3. 3

    Resident Evil 4

    Alan Wake, but twice the hours, and even better loved

    Loved · 97%Games like Resident Evil 4

  4. 4

    Resident Evil Revelations 2

    Alan Wake, but co-op, and more divisive

    Mixed · 78%Games like Resident Evil Revelations 2

  5. 5

    The Evil Within 2

    Alan Wake, but open world, and gorier

    Loved · 92%Games like The Evil Within 2

  6. 6

    Dead Space

    Alan Wake, but in space, and gorier

    Loved · 90%Games like Dead Space

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Alan Wake: a kind of game it is that Alan Wake is not, a feature its tags carry that Alan Wake's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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