Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $8.99.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 83% over the last 30 days against 74% all-time.
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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.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.89. That was July 2025. 69 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 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.
It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Alan Wake ($14.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut ($17.49, scores 17).
Players rate it 74 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 83 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,091 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.6 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.4 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
78% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
21 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
Wake definitely got inspired by Fight Club before writing this Night Springs episode but won't ever admit it
people in the reviews here are calling this game "lazy and repetitive" so i had to write my own review disputing that. i think this game is really fun! short and sweet, great story (with great characters), fairly satisfying (if simple and easy) combat, expands the alan wake universe in an exciting and interesting way. sure, it's repetitive in certain ways, but i'm impressed by how engaging it is even within the...
Trying to play Alan Wake 2 in the Epic Games Store was such a hellish experience that it has soured my opinion on every single game Remedy has ever made.
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's American Nightmare scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/202750/alan-wake-s-american-nightmareThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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