Alam Wake is a best-selling novelist who starts to investigate the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in the small town of Bright...
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Remedy Entertainment is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo, founded in August 1995 by members of the demoscene group Future Crew. They are one of Finland's oldest operating game studios, known for cinematic single-player action games with strong storytelling, including Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, and Control Resonant.
Remedy's first game was Death Rally in 1996, a top-down vehicular combat racing game.
Max Payne followed in 2001, known for its film noir influences and for popularizing bullet time in video games. It was Finland's highest-grossing game at the time. Remedy later sold all rights to Max Payne to Take-Two for $10 million in exchange for developing the sequel, Max Payne 2.
Alan Wake spent over five years in development. It is set in the small town of Bright Falls and follows a bestselling thriller novelist whose fictional writings begin coming to life. Time named it the number one game of 2010. It was financially unsuccessful at launch but became a cult classic, and Remedy acquired the publishing rights from Microsoft in 2019.
Alan Wake confused me like nothing else. It was one of the games where I had more questions at the ending of the game than I did at the beginning. Luckily, Control helped make sense of the story.
Quantum Break released in 2016 and mixed a third-person shooter with a live-action TV show, and it was originally an Xbox exclusive. I loved the whole idea of the mixed media game. Plus it had a great cast with Shawn Ashmore and Lance Reddick leading the way.
Control was Remedy's first PlayStation game since Max Payne 2. It follows Jesse Faden, who becomes director of a secretive government agency inside a brutalist skyscraper full of paranormal phenomena. The game won multiple awards and sold over two million units. It connected to Alan Wake through DLC, which began Remedy's shared universe approach.
Control made more sense to me than Alan Wake did, so when Remedy officially made them one universe, I understood Alan Wake much more.
Alan Wake II was published by Epic Games Publishing with a reported budget of 70 million euros, making it one of the most expensive games developed in Finland. It received strong reviews and sold over 2 million units by December 2024. Sam Lake appears as a fictional version of himself in the game.
FBC: Firebreak is Remedy's first self-published game and first multiplayer title. It is a three-player co-op shooter set in the Control universe, and it launched June 17, 2025 to mixed reviews. It failed to meet Remedy's sales expectations, resulting in a €14.9 million write-down. The game hit over one million players in its first ten days, largely through Xbox and PlayStation subscription agreements, but player retention was poor. Remedy released a final major content update in March 2026, confirmed no further content development, dropped the base price to $19.99, and promised to keep servers running. The experience pushed Remedy back toward its narrative single-player strengths.
Control Resonant is the sequel to Control, and it released on September 24, 2026 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. It was announced at The Game Awards 2025, and Remedy self-published it. The story shifts the lead from Jesse Faden to her brother Dylan Faden, who is freed from FBC confinement and sent into a Manhattan overrun by the Hiss.
Remedy now treats Alan Wake and Control as one shared universe. The Control DLC was the first real crossover, and FBC: Firebreak extended the Control side of that setup into multiplayer.
Remedy is a publicly listed company on Nasdaq Helsinki. It does not own Max Payne, since those rights sit with Take-Two, but it does own the publishing rights to Alan Wake after buying them back from Microsoft in 2019.
A partnership with Annapurna Pictures will bring Alan Wake and Control adaptations to film and television. Remedy is also remaking the original Max Payne games.
Alam Wake is a best-selling novelist who starts to investigate the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in the small town of Bright...