In Alan Wake's American Nightmare, players go straight into an episode of Night Springs as Alan Wake awakens after 2 years of being missing from the world. While his evil alter-ego Mr. Scratch is heralding the advance of a powerful darkness, it is up to Alan Wake to rewrite his plans and save reality - if it even exists.

In this bizarre standalone expansion to Alan Wake, players once again fight the darkness of Mr Scratch, this time in the town of Night Springs, where their adventures take them through reality and into strange psychological paradoxes.