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Visions and dreams. Fiction is written and coming true. Fiction collapses and remains just words on a page. These are those stories... in Night Springs. Play as several familiar characters from the world of Alan Wake and experience the unexplainable in multiple self-contained episodes of Night Springs, a fictional TV-show set in the world of Alan Wake. - ― Official description.
Night Springs is the first of two expansions for Alan Wake 2. It was released on June 8, 2024, where it contains three self-contained stories featuring Rose Marigold, Shawn Ashmore, and Jesse Faden as playable characters in the format of the "Night Springs" television show, similar to Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Synopsis[]
Night Springs features what are supposedly three episodes of the TV show "Night Springs" written by Alan Wake in collaboration with Warlin Door as failed attempts to escape from the Dark Place before the events of Alan Wake 2. This is similar to Alan Wake's American Nightmare and Control DLC AWE, in which Alan seemingly repurposed old scripts he wrote for Night Springs to help him escape back to reality.
Number One Fan[]
- The Waitress, who bears a striking resemblance to Oh Deer Diner's waitress Rose Marigold, must save her idol, the Writer, from the danger her finds himself in. To do so, she must confront the Writer's critics, and the Bad Boy who is the Writer's evil twin.
- ― Number One Fan official synopsis.
- A fan. The dictionary definition of the word is: An enthusiast, a fervent devotee. An abbreviation of fanatic. What comes across to an outsider as a dangerous obsession or even madness, is something entirely different from the point of view of the fan herself. To be a fan is a joyous existence, one filled with the happiness that stems from knowing with utter clarity the purpose of your life. But what if that purpose could be more still? If you could be lifted out of the flock as your idol’s chosen one? The only one who could decipher his secret messages. What lengths would you go to save the object of your obsession in... Night Springs. Tonight’s cult-classic episode: Number One Fan.
- ― Warlin Door's intro
North Star[]
- The Sibling, an unknown woman who bears a striking resemblance to FBC Director Jesse Faden, is trying to find her missing brother, who is being held captive at Coffee World.
- ― North Star official synopsis.
- A young woman on a mission to save a missing loved one. Desperately trying to stay one step ahead of the shadowy government agents hunting her, agents from the very same agency that took the only person she cares about. On her quest, she is guided by her mysterious alien guardian angel. Her guiding star shows her the way, as it always has. She does not know what strangeness awaits her, as she follows its unwavering light to the small town of... Night Springs. Tonight’s dream-like episode: North Star.
- ― Intro by Warlin Door
Time Breaker[]
- The Actor, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Bright Falls sheriff Tim Breaker, is a multiversal hero in the game "Time Breaker." His character must track down the Master of the Many Worlds and prevent him from murdering the multiversal hero's difference selves across parallel universes.
- ― Time Breaker official synopsis.
- We often look back and wonder, what if? What if the path not taken had in fact been our charted course? Would we be happier? Or are we, with our set of choices behind us, the lucky ones? And what if, nothing would be different? What if for some us, our destiny, across an endless number of versions of ourselves, has been defined and locked beyond any causality of circumstance, beyond the forces in any one reality, but across all realities. For one man, the magnetic pull of destiny is so great it breaks time and space. We join this lone operative, many versions of him in fact, as he chases his nemesis, a dangerous being known as the Master of Many Worlds, across the multiverse, across the many versions of a city that is always the same, yet always different, in... Night Springs.
- ― Warlin Door's intro
Trivia[]
- From leaks posted on YouTube, characters Kiran Estevez and Alex Casey were supposed to have their own episodes as well. However, Casey's episode was scrapped likely due to James McCaffrey's passing. It's unknown why Estevez's episode was also scrapped.
- One line of dialogue recorded by McCaffrey and an unused Jass track from the Casey episode are reused for a small tribute for the voice actor upon completing all three episodes.
- Aside from accessing them through the main menu, the individual episodes can also be found across the Dark Place through TVs that Alan can interact with during normal playthroughs.
- While each episode always appears in the same area, the exact TV in which the episode appears seems to be randomized between playthroughs, as each area has a number of TVs scattered around.
- The DLC has its own seperate save slot, meaning that starting an episode both from the manu or during a playthrough won't cause significant changes or limitations on the normal saves and autosaves.
Behind the scenes[]
The game files for Alan Wake 2 include some internal codenames for the three episodes of Night Springs. "Number One Fan" is codenamed "Turnip," "North Star" is codenamed "Pepper," and "Time Breaker" is codenamed "Potato."
Gallery[]
Promotion[]
"Love Will Hurt" cover tweeted out with the message "LOVE WILL HURT, the newest book from the Writer's crime thrill-ogy, hits the shelves tomorrow, June 7th! 💔🔫 Secure your copy wherever good books are sold... in Night Springs."
"JOIN US: MAKE THE WORLD COFFEE" tweeted out to promote Night Springs with the message - "Dark Triangle Coffee. Just coffee, nothing else. Have a sip at Night Springs' One and Only Coffee World. Join the percolation on June 7th... in Night Springs."
"Nite's Diner: "The best" in... NIGHT SPRINGS"
Official Screenshots[]
Videos[]
Alan Wake 2 – Night Springs Expansion Trailer - Summer Game Fest 2024