Alan Wake 2 - New Game Plus Ending (Final Draft DLC) 

god i love the symbolism here. the bullet hole, representing his sacrifice that represents him embracing collaboration and connection instead of sole authorship and isolation, forms a third eye, a symbol of enlightenment, which lines up perfectly with this part of the Hero’s Journey. can’t wait for the DLC/Control 2/Alan Wake 3/whatever else remedy and sam lake put their insane genius minds to doing

Alan's final lines refer to Joseph Campell "Hero's Journey", where in Return the Hero comes back after the adventure "with wisdom or spiritual power over both worlds", but here he says many worlds

“The master of many worlds” I wonder if that’s gonna play into what Mr. Door was talking about earlier, where Alan “keeps opening doors, peeking in”

It definitely brought a tear to my eye. After 13 years of dreaming and wishing to see some conclusion to Alan's story finally happened. I gotta thank Remedy that they never gave up on finishing this story....

When Alan Wake dropped in 2010, I was 15. My parents had moved to Florida. I was on my own from there on out, I was working under the table while living with friends of my family, and bought the first one and played it. The ending had always stuck with me, I’m 29 now, in the 13 year gap, myself, like many others went through their trials in life, I figured out what I wanted to do, and wanted to be. I just wanted to be a working man, and be a father. My son was born January 23rd 2023, and then I had gotten this game October of the same year. I work full time, have my own place, and am being the best father I can be to my son. I always found it a funny coincidence that I had reached where I wanted to be in life the same time Alan Wake 2 dropped, makes me feel a special connection to the series. We all have our Departures, we all have our Initiations, and we all have our Returns. We’re truly all on our own Hero’s Journey.

I can't even put into words how happy this ending makes me, just for Saga alone 😭

He makes it out of the dark place that’s a good ending

Really loved Alice in this game. I thought her acting on those videos were fantastic, and some of the best parts of the game for me. Really enjoyed seeing her having a much greater purpose in bringing some level of resolution to the spiral.

It's not a Lake. It's a Sam Ocean.

This ending was perfect for Alan finally escaping to make it back and Saga to hear her daughter is alive. Best ending ever.

Pretty sure that mr. Door is Saga's dad

This was the best ending they could give us. You finally get confirmation that Logan is alive and it looks like Alan is leaving. Still some unanswered questions, but considering we don’t know when we’ll get a third game it’s perfect.

Just finished the ending and i love how we're pretty much directly where we were from the beginning, with alice in the dark place. It fits the 'its not a loop, its a spiral' so well, because we might be where we were 13 years back but were on different ground, different circumstances that will allow for some interesting things later down the line.

I think the ending is intentionally delayed. As for me, I just finished the game today and immediately came looking for this ending. When you finish the game for the first time, the credits role and Alan awakes and says “it’s not a loop, it’s a spiral”. I think the intention was to have the final draft playable right when you finish. Alan processes the whole thing as the final scene is playing. “We’ve met here before”. The fact that it’s a spiral, they wrote the ending that would finish it all and it had to be played out one last time to take effect. Hence, the Final Draft.

"Thank you my love" - Tom Zane

I was a drunk and a drug addict for years.. I've been clean for a while now.. This game, in part, seems an allegory for fighting addiction.. The revelation at the end, that it is not a loop, it is in fact a spiral, is a revelation that many cured addicts can attest to.. Along with the strange, dark and ominous journey that Alan has gone through, this too is very much juxtaposed with fighting demons within.. A more poetic display of this war, I have not seen in this medium.. Bravo...

Either there will be an AW3 or no, this ending fits perfectly for both options.

I couldn’t help but smile finally hearing Logan answer. But I can’t help but feel this just isn’t even close to being over. Scratch might be gone but that was just The Dark Presence creating something to mess with Alan. That resonance is still out there creating noise. It’s not just as simple as getting rid of the stage one boss when the mastermind is still out there. The Dark Place still exists and there’s no way it’s completely shut off. We have seen what happens when it combines with The Hiss with Heartmans story…it’s still connected to at least The Oceanview motel in many thresholds if not by other means like Cauldron Lake or minor Overlaps we used in AW2 or worst the projector in Control with a slide that may just yet be discovered. We have won the battle and this is a great calm but the war isn’t over and the true storm hasn’t even started. That scares me. What happens when The Hiss gets out of The Oldest House, spreads like wildfire with The Darkness still being able to cross realities? What if Northmore breaks out or worse gets infected by The Hiss and The Dark Presence?! Some writer struggling to control his own stories, Jessie and Polaris are not equipped to fight such things. What is Alex Casey going to detective his way into slow mode shooting at it while the FBC is trying to do damage control not even knowing what Mr. Door is even trying to do outside of all this mess? Dr. Darling…we need you back buddy. You are one of our only hopes. The trilogy has been finished, however that was only the first few chapters of this Space Oddity Odyssey.

Better ending than original loved everything went good at the end

He finally figured out how to write the ending. With the help of so many. Can’t wait to see where he and Saga go in the future of this world.

Wait, the phrase Master of Many Worlds was on Tim's board! I thought this was supposed to be the title for Mr. Door?

Alan goes into the Dark Place to save Alice. Alice does the same back in return for Alan. So now we're back to square one.

10/10 ending ❤

You know what is neat here... the fact that you get NEW stuff from NEW game + Another loop, or better yet after another trip down the spiral. A bit of meta thrown in. Love the detail :D

"The master of many worlds". I have a feeling he meant all Remedy's games's worlds by that cuz we know they're connected. But...what about Alice? Did she stuck in the Dark Place...AGAIN? Or did she die? I hope they give answers in the DLCs.

Master of many worlds! So we are getting Max Payne, Quantum Break, and Control all together under the Remedy Banner, nice!

Thank you for posting this, I just finished my playthrough a couple of days ago, and i was so heavily emotionally invested in the game that the ending left me feelings emotionally exhausted...and when I went to play the Final Draft I realized the game just repeats itself and I just wasn't ready to replay it just yet...but I had to know what happened to Logan, to Alice, to Alan...goodness. I might replay it soon on Final Draft, especially now that I know the Final Draft ending is so much more fulfilling and satisfying than the original! What an intense but amazing game!

I just hope Sheriff Tim makes it home!

Finally my boy Alan gets some closure

This ending gave me goosebumps, thanks for this unbelievable game. This optional ending was all I could ask for!

I had chills when Logan finally answered that phone

Did anyone notice Casper Darling had an extended scene in Oceanview Hotel? That was awesome

The ending Music is Great bro Becoming Batman . You seem to have good music choice

There was something that just felt so, fulfilling about the ending. Waiting the weeks to get ng+. Seeing all the new clues and messages. Watching Alan realise sooner than he did the first time around. To finally getting a good ending to alans story. I cannot wait to see what control 2 has in store

Giving some much needed closure but just enough room for questions with no answers. Anticipation man! I was lucky to have discovered the first game by finding stuff about the second, and it’s been a huge spiral (hehe) from there on out. The Alan Wake games have become one of my top favoirte games of all time. Right up there with Twilight Princess and Red Dead Redemption2! I do wish we saw a scene after the Final Draft credits of Alan and Alice reuniting, or just confirmation that he’s on his way back to her, or maybe she’ll meet him along the way. Either way, I’m a writer myself. I’ll make those scene in my head for now lol

This was awesome, but I was not about to play all that all over again lol. Thanks for posting

Thanks for this. Not going to go through the spiraling loop because it was tiring.

Okay also if Remedy makes a third game, I think it would be amazing to see Alan and Alice working together/apart to escape a dark place. I love the idea of Alice’s photography capturing moments of time and things. I had this idea, which might be inspired by that Blairewitch game (I think), where Alice takes photos from a certain angle, and if someone where to find that correct angle and raise the printed photo to it, it could reset that scene. Maybe Alice and Alan are like two ships in the night, passing by in overlap-like instances, but kept apart in two separate realities. Maybe, Alan has written something but doesn’t know why or can’t remember, and Alice keeps finding pages on her side. She takes pictures to capture them, then hides the picture and leaves clues for him to find it on his side of things. Just a game where it’s them trying to reach each other but kept at arms length, once in a while maybe breaking through to the other side for a boss fight before getting separated. I love the idea of them being a power couple, cause they got it in them😂

Thank you for this, I don’t have the will for an entire play through just for this but it’s nice to see it. Still what happened to the sherif guy? and the old rockers?

The perfect ending...I love this sooo much!!!!

not gonna lie, that ending with the phone ringing was a 10/10, but still glad "almost" everything is over now, i cannot wait for the sequel, this was easily one of my fav games of the past year

Man this game is so damn good, i love it

Just finished my 8th playthough, final draft. I am the master of many worlds.

Just finished the game, and wasn't really happy with the ending. Found out there's a true ending, but I'm not gonna replay it again for another 20 hours. Ain't nobody got for that lol. This ending is much better.

My god I wouldn’t have played through all of that again for that ending that should’ve been there in the first place

Ok the light bullet part makes perfect sense now to me just beat the game just like 5 mins ago and was really pissed about the base ending glad i looked this up

Alan finally is free 😢 so many years he’s suffered, I never thought I’d get this sequel my life is complete

This is the REAL ending. I was very confused with the stock game one. Not super happy about that, but I'm glad it all makes sense now!

A very good ending ☺️! I just finished it and I left the game now with a smile my face 😊

Best game ive played in a long time

now , the master of many worlds

god this is amazing.. one thing worries me though, does this mean alice is now the one stuck in the dark place? also i feel like this quite ends well alan wake 2, not sure how else this could continue in alan wake 3 like we all thought from the first ending (maybe saving alice or something like that? trying to get rid of the dark place completely?), but also there's many questions still, with tom zane for example

Alan Wake the master of many worlds.

It’s so good they made a game where you didn’t even know you’ve already been through it before from the characters perspective it’s insane

This just save me another playthrough. Thank you

Oh dope so Alan became a threshold by completing his narrative arc. Very good ending, great game, didnt even know about this until now though. I will not replay this game lol

What's the soundtrack that plays in the end? It's so awesome.

Remember, Mr Door: 'the next time we'll meet circumstances will be very different'

The soundtrack bro

Anyone else noticed the mop and wet bucket 😅😅(janitor man)

I am happy with this ending for Saga. Alan isn't done yet. The biggest mystery in this series still hasn't been resolved, and that would be the connection between Thomas Zane and Alan Wake. This game addressed A LOT of the lingering threads from this first one but the Zane plotline is even more unclear now. Especially considering Zane got in touch with Dr. Darling, and that has HORRIFIC implications.

Can I play the new game plus mode as many times as I want to, I want to know if I want to try and speedrun through the game?

Good, I really didn’t feel like replaying this lol

I just finished the game and I wasn't expecting this ending to be in the new game plus. I'm happy, and here I though I won't get to see a good ending for Saga. I started crying when I heard Logan's voice.

The way this sets up as a possible trilogy is practically brilliant. The third game could potentially serve as both a prequel to the first game and a sequel to 2 all at the same time and loop everything back together.

Not gonna lie i shed some tear, alan is free after so long.

Beautiful

So where did thor and odin went at the end? Both of them went in to the dark sea before the ending?

I don't understand anything anymore... I'm going crazy. This is kind of crazy. Help :(

Need more context on this Mr Door guy. Is he Saga's father?

This extended ending is happy but hilarious 😂

kinda seems like this ending is a conclusion for AW title, what major plot point could they go with after this? besides having him tie into control

I seriously loved this game and the second ending was perfect got the season pass cant wait fot night springs dlc

Thank god for youtube. I dont have to playthrough again to see the good ending

I would be happy if a series of Alan Wake came out

It seems like this series isn't coming to an end... yet. There are still many other Alan Wakes that is still going through that spiral. One finally escapes, the other has to repeat the loop. I understand now, Alice intentionally mislead Alan to thinking that she was dead, when all this time she decided to be trapped in the Dark Place so that she can assist the other Alans in escaping the Dark Place. Alan Wake has split into two when being shot by the Bullet of Light, present Alan is free, while past Alan has to go back to the beginning. The first playthrough ending shows that Alan is revived from the gunshot, with neither Saga nor Casey present in the writer's room, suggesting that he's back in the beginning of the game and has to rewrite everything in the horror story, also having absolutely no memory of what had happened in the future. Besides, he has the power to change the story because he started it, and the reason why the Bullet of Light splits Alan into two was because to make sure that the Dark Presence that appeared when past counterpart Alan returned to the beginning was to make sure that it won't escape to the real world and to go through this infinite loop with no means to escape, while Alan can find a way. Ahti has hinted this: "A man's a man, but with a tool makes two, Tom." This "tool", supposedly the Bullet of Light, makes (a man) Alan into two. What I've learnt is that this was Alice's doing too, she also seems to have created the Bullet of Light to split Alan into two where she can trap the Dark Presence in the Dark Place, in this loop, infinitely without trying to break out, giving Alan the time he needed to write himself in the story to try and get out.

This should end Alan Wake's Story since the Master of 2 worlds (many worlds) is also the end loop of the hero's journey

ah just as i was looking

Im glad they made the final draft ending worth the reply. I was worried theyd be stingy with it but its a great great ending to the game.

yeah but, who is the real villain? its hinted many times over in the game it isn't scratch

I hated the cliffhanger original ending but this the complete ending is so good! Casey, Saga, and especially Alan have suffered and sacrificed so much throughout the events of the game. They all deserved to come out of it safe and with hope for the future. So yeah, even the "happy" ending is true to the rules of the story i.e. a hero sacrificing something. Dying isn't the only sacrifice you can make

Alan mentioned he is a "master of many worlds" maybe he has a big role in control 2.

Sam Lake and Remedy team, my friends you bow to no one. ❤

I bet the 2 DLC's will be Alan saving Alice, and Saga saving the Anderson Brothers...

Not sure I want to go through the headache of another playthrough just to get this ending and other stuff. Frustrating game with elements that brought some enjoyment down while playing. Having to watch youtube videos, pushing forward while traversing the forest (so damn dark) gameplay mechanics and other nitpicks. While playing with no problems I had a good time, but getting "stuck" and when problems arose the enjoyment meter went way down. Trying to figure things out for at least 20-60min at times, I had to pull out youtube. There were obviously improvements except on the enjoyment factor (imo). The ending, the first one didn't get me emotional or impress me to a degree, the true ending while better still felt the somewhat the same. 7.5/10

Alan: "Master of many worlds" Hatch: "Yeah? I worned you..."

"Its not a loop, its a spiral"

wow 😭💖

OG ending much preferred. Love being left with questions. Reminded me of Inception.

What an ending

I am happy they bring Sam Lake in it

The only thing I don't undersand is what happened to Alice. Was she a literal missing part of Alan the whole time? Is she still alive in the dark place somewhere? Can Alan zap betweem the Dark Place and reality whenever he likes now?

"The Master Of Many Worlds" Possible Sequel?? MAYBE!✨️

Dude this ending was way more satisfying to get to, the line ringing ending had me a bit pissed.

See you on 2036 for a third game. 13 years.

it was amazing

Damn I just finished the game And I just saw this So it seems to be a mostly happy ending for everyone. I still would've preferred the ambiguous ending with them cutting to black, after Saga shoots Alan and ringing up Logan.

We still don’t know a lot about doors, plus we leaver breaker alone in the dark place which easily could be it’s own dlc. Alice is still in the dark place too

So I am left with 3 questions: - Can Alan get Alice back? - Who the F is Mr. Door? - What's going to happen to Tor and Odin who dove after Saga when she went to the Dark Place?

Felt a little cheated that I played through the whole game a second time just to only get an extended cut scene? I was expecting a lot more from this