The next game from Remedy Entertainment will somehow tie into the universes of Control and Alan Wake, the developer confirms. Remedy began teasing its new project just a day after announcing Control's AWE DLC expansion, which brings back Alan Wake.
In a post on the company's official site, Remedy Entertainment's creative director Sam Lake detailed something called the "Remedy Connected Universe." This "crazy" idea said Lake, is that the stories of Remedy's games "would be connected to each other, a connected world of stories and events with shared characters and lore." While each Remedy game is a standalone title, they'll each feature a "doorway" into each other, and allows the developer to create crossover events like Control's AWE DLC.
Lake also says that the Remedy Entertainment team has been thinking of the Remedy Connected Universe idea for more than 10 years and that it has been "planning and plotting to make this a reality" behind the scenes. However, the AWE DLC is the first "concrete" step in making the universe happen. This sounds like Quantum Break, which was the biggest-selling new Xbox IP of the Xbox One generation when it released in 2016, may not be part of the connected universe plan.
The Remedy Entertainment boss calls this a "humble beginning" for the Remedy Connected Universe too, and teases future plans for it. The game developer is "hard at work on a future Remedy game that also takes place in this same universe," Lake said. In May, a secret Remedy Entertainment game with the codename BigFish leaked and this could be the same Remedy Connected Universe game that Lake is talking about.
The game could also potentially be Control 2, which was teased in Remedy job listings. With those job listings talking about the "Control universe" and with Lake confirming that this next game will be in that same universe, it does seem likely that these titles are one and the same.
While the Remedy Connected Universe has only just been announced, it could potentially blossom into something bigger. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, which features solo movies like Captain Marvel and bigger crossover events like The Avengers movies, has been hugely successful. Fans who want to learn more about the wider universe choose to watch movies about heroes that they typically wouldn't have cared about. It remains to be seen whether this will happen with Remedy and if it could positively affect its sales, but the possibilities are exciting.
Source: Remedy Entertainment