https://www.gamespot.com/articles/alan-wake-remastered-listing-leaked-reportedly-launching-october-5/1100-6495949/?utm_source=gamefaqs&utm_medium=partner&utm_content=news_module&utm_campaign=homepage

So a possible remaster has been leaked for an October 5 release. So far this listing is for console release.

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/alan-wake-remastered-officially-confirmed-by-remedy

IT is official now, however they only list Epic Game Store so it looks like it will be a timed exclusive on PC like Control was.

It's a trend.
The first Alan Wake was exclusive by Microsoft for the Xbox 360.

Kind of Sad GOG doesn't have all the Max Payne games, Quantum Break, both versions of Death Rally, and for the hell of it make Agents of Storm and offline PC game. I realize Max Payne 3 is by Rockstar. I'm a completionist.

I was actually interested in checking it out as I loved the original until I heard about the exclusivity bullshit. By the time it hits the other stores I won't care enough to purchase it anymore.

There are so many games that I can only get on Steam, that I stoped being angry about it. I just don't buy them, end of story (well, in most cases. I did make an exception lately for the last Lego Star Wars game and the Voodoo Vince remaster).

Same here. It's all about a mindset/conditioning. To me, no other stores exists. So if a game ain't coming to GOG it doesn't exists for me. I'm not buying anything I don't own. Therefore I have ZERO plans in paying for DRM games. If it ain't DRM-FREE it just doesn't exists to me. The End!

That I can absolutely understand.

If it's just about DRM:
I can play most of my games on Epic without the launcher (of course I didn't try all of them, they gave hundreds of games away so far). In most cases it's enough to add "EpicPortal" to the .exe call, in The Sinking City "-epicapp=MiddleMist" has to be added.
Death Stranding works both online and offline (without launcher), but then it's not possible to (indirectly) interact with other players.

True, to download them, the launcher is needed, but it's not needed to play tham.
List on Wiki

edit: In the I also got some DRM free game from Humble, but they are not much more than Steam key sellers these days.
Some good ones you can also find on zoom-platform and fireflowergames.


ps: I would love to buy Stubbs the Zombie Remake on GOG, so I can remove my Epic-Version, but the GOG Version never got the latest update and it's more than a year now. Something important? No, not at all, just an option to remove the green filter. But still the devs don't bother to update the GOG version.

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