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When the wife of the best-selling writer Alan Wake disappears on their vacation, his search turns up pages from a thriller he doesn’t even remember writing. A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

Presented in the style of a TV series, Alan Wake features the trademark Remedy storytelling and pulse-pounding action sequences. As players dive deeper and deeper into the mystery, they’ll face overwhelming odds, plot twists, and cliffhangers. It’s only by mastering the Fight With Light combat mechanic that they can stay one step ahead of the darkness that spreads across Bright Falls.

With the body of an action game and the mind of a psychological thriller, Alan Wake’s intense atmosphere, deep and multilayered story, and exceptionally tense combat sequences provide players with an entertaining and original gaming experience.

Enhanced for the PC

  • Includes Alan Wake Special Episodes “The Signal” and “The Writer”
  • Experience Alan Wake’s Pacific Northwest in higher resolutions and higher fidelity than the Xbox360 version.
  • Fully configurable mouse and keyboard support, or if you prefer to play with the Steam or Microsoft gamepad connected to your PC, you can do that too!
  • Lots of customizable graphics settings and support for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios!
  • Multithreaded engine that takes advantage of quad core CPUs.
  • Additional features our fans have sought after such as field of view adjustment as well as “hide HUD”.
  • Works with AMD Eyefinity 3D 3-screen mode.
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How To Play Alan Wake on macOS

Playable

Great news, Alan Wake can be played on macOS using any of the methods below:

  1. Parallels is virtual machine software that lets you run Windows on macOS. You can play Alan Wake using Parallels with a Windows guest operating system.

See game reports below for details.

Game Reports

See how well this game plays on macOS.

Alan Wake is not natively supported on macOS. See below for ways you can play it that have been tested.

Playable
2 Game Reports
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Excellent
50%
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MacGamer

Excellent 1080p < 1 Hour Played 35 FPS

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Tahoe, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    Parallels (Windows)

    v20.4.1

  • Launcher Steam
  • Graphics Preset Low

MacGamer

Poor 1080p < 1 Hour Played

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Tahoe, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    v25.1.0

  • Launcher Steam
  • Graphics Preset Low

Additional Information

The frame rate feels like it's around 20.