Alan Wake is a best-selling thriller novelist suffering from writer's block. After he moves with his wife to the Northwest town of Bright Falls, his wife is abducted by a mysterious force. Alan wakes up a week later, confronted with strange monsters that attack him as he tries to piece together what happened in the missing week - who took his wife, and where she is, all while dealing with the FBI, the police and his agent, Barry Wheeler.

In this unique Stephen King-inspired shooter, players use a combination of flashlight and firearm to weaken and destroy supernatural forces in a horror setting that threatens to claw away at Alan Wake's psyche as much as at his skin.