Alan Wake
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $1.34/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compatible with 512MB RAM, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in May 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. The nearest things to it, Alan Wake's American Nightmare ($8.99, scores 37) and Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut ($17.49, scores 17), are both worse buys on this math.
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 4,509 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
11.2 hours to finish it, 27 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
83% start to 27% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
165 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Alan Wake Review Overview Alan Wake has been sitting on my list for a long time, and I finally decided to play it. I also went for all the achievements, and overall I had a phenomenal experience. It is obviously an older game and some parts show their age, but the story, characters, atmosphere, and simple gameplay still hold up really well. It is not perfect, especially when it comes to repetitive combat and the...
Alan Wake is a third person adventure game. 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. Played this on my Lenovo P15 with UHD 630 graphics and Quadro T1000...
So take aim and fire away I've never been so wide awake No, nobody but me can keep me safe And I'm on my way
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Alan Wake scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/108710/alan-wakeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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