Alan Wake 2 is the latest entry in the Alan Wake franchise that players have been waiting for almost a decade. The game is expected to bring far more scares than the previous horror games developed by Remedy Entertainment as it will be expanding over the world and characters and other aspects of its predecessors.
For the first time in the franchise’s history, Alan Wake 2 will let you play as Alan Wake or Saga Anderson in two separate story modes, which you can play in any order you want to. Seeing all this, there is a lot of hype surrounding Alan Wake 2 and thus we even have the Steam Deck owners who are looking forward to playing the game on their handheld.
In the wake of that, we are here to talk about whether you can play Alan Wake 2 on Steam Deck or not while going over a few other related details.
Can you play Alan Wake 2 on Steam Deck?
No, the game will not be available on the platform, Steam Deck, currently. Since Remedy Entertainment is launching the game under Epic Games Publishing, it seems that the game will be launched on the Epic Store on PC. So, we would not expect it to come on Steam anytime soon.
Further, it has been officially confirmed that the game will be released on the platforms PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Microsoft Windows, for now.
However, if you somehow manage to get Epic Games Store on your Steam Deck, then you can play Alan Wake 2 through that, on Steam Deck. Therefore for the time being, if you want to play the game on PC, it should be via Epic Games Store only, since it is being exclusively released on Epic Store.
Is it worth playing Alan Wake 2 on Steam Deck?
No, even if you find a way to get Epic Store on Steam Deck and make the game run on it, still the game has some heavy requirements. So, maybe the game won’t work the way you want it to, due to its requirements, and also because the game is not even Steam’s own.
Further, maybe playing the game on Steam Deck won’t give you the kick you’ve been waiting for. However, if you really have the urge to play it on the handheld platform Steam Deck, you can always give it a shot.
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