Alan Wake 2 just announced a Night Springs expansion during Summer Game Fest. Extra good news — it drops tomorrow. The first expansion to Alan Wake 2 will be available June 8, on PlayStation 5. According to the official PlayStation blog, “In its three self-contained episodes, the Night Springs expansion presents three ways Alan Wake attempted to find his way out of the endless loops of the Dark Place. You will get to play as three characters from the world of Alan Wake.” Watch the full announcement video below.
Night Springs will include 12 new challenges as players fight and puzzle their way through familiar, yet transformed locations. The expansion promises more dream logic, twists and turns that only a sci-fi adventure written by Alan Wake can provide, and even more experimenting with different types of media, like a playable arcade game and a comic book.
In Alan Wake 2, the titular writer is trying to escape the Dark Place, a shifting, nightmare version of New York, by penning pages and pages of different escape attempts. And some of those stories are set in… Night Springs.
Put yourself in the shoes of the Number One Fan, who bears a striking resemblance to the waitress Rose Marigold, and fight the shadows in pursuit of truth and love with your trusty shotgun by your side. As the Actor, who may be called “Shawn Ashmore” in some realities and “Sheriff Timothy Breaker” in others, you will take on the mantle of the Time Breaker and defeat the villain hunting for you. And in the North Star episode, unravel coffee-based secrets and cosmic caffeine mysteries as the Sibling, who may seem familiar to those who know Jesse Faden, director of the Federal Bureau of Control.
How to get your hands on this? Night Springs will be available with the Alan Wake 2 Expansion Pass, which is included in both the digital Deluxe Edition and the upcoming physical Deluxe and Collector’s Editions of Alan Wake 2. PlayStation players who would like to pre-order either of the physical editions can do so starting June 8. If you own the digital Standard Edition, you have the option to upgrade to the Deluxe Edition to access the expansions.
But wait, there’s more. Night Springs is not the end for Alan Wake. The Lake House will be the second and final expansion to Alan Wake 2, following the story of a mysterious government facility on the shores of Cauldron Lake, and the time the secret research conducted there went terribly, terribly wrong. Stay tuned for the Lake House expansion later this year. For more details, visit the PlayStation blog.
And check out the six titles Blumhouse Games just announced at Summer Game Fest, including one created by Brandon Cronenberg! Here’s the full Alan Wake 2 Night Springs announcement.
