Det bliver en tætpakket oktober måned, hvor Alan Wake 2 står overfor to sværvægtere i form af Assassin's Creed Mirage og måske særligt Marvel's Spider-Man 2, to langt mere etablerede brands, der desuden favner en del bredere genremæssigt.
Alan Wake 2 er en bizar gyserfortælling, der tilbyder kortere spilletid og mindre frihed, men intet af det bekymrer Remedy selv. I et interview med VGC fortæller medinstruktør Kyle Rowley, at de ikke rigtig tænker over det:
"You know, we already knew that Assassin's Creed Mirage was going to be in the fall, we knew that Sony had already said that Spider-Man 2 was going to be in the fall, so we kind of already knew that they would be around us. We feel that we're proud of the game that we built, and I think the people who resonate with that kind of game... whether they buy Alan Wake 2 or Spider-Man 2 isn't really what we're thinking about. We just want to put forward our game and present it to the players. You know, one is an adventure game, one is a horror game."
Desuden slår Rowley fast, at det er rart ikke at udgive fysisk, eftersom de ikke skal konkurrere med de to førnævnte titler i retail.