With Management, Alan Wake 2, and their respective expansions (or, extra particularly, their respective second expansions), Treatment Leisure has firmly established the Treatment Linked Universe these previous few years. With Management 2 now in growth and the way forward for Alan Wake additionally trying fairly safe, clearly the developer intends to maintain increasing on this shared universe, and talking not too long ago with IGN, artistic director and author Sam Lake steered the exact same.
When requested a few potential endgame that the Treatment Linked Universe’s overarching story is likely to be constructing in direction of, Lake acknowledged that the shared universe is just “simply getting began” proper now, and that as such, it’s “too early” proper now to speak about how issues would possibly conclude.
“I really feel we’re simply getting began, so I really feel it’s too early to start out speaking about an endgame,” he stated. “I like tying this stuff collectively. I like making it deeper and increasing on the lore. It actually seems like this type of alternative to take these strands that we’ve got put there, broaden, and entertain totally different concepts. It feels actually thrilling.”
Based on Lake, the objective for Treatment is to make sure that every sport seems like it will probably stand by itself toes, whereas additionally having loads of materials and expanded lore for followers of the bigger universe to dive into.
“The way in which we’re taking a look at it, each sport must be pleasant by itself and stand by itself toes,” Lake stated. “However then, for our followers, for individuals who have been taking part in different Treatment video games, we need to put in loads of content material for them to find for the continued universe story. And likewise, we really feel hopeful that now there’s a universe and a catalog of video games that we’ll be increasing as we go, hopefully for any individual taking part in their first Treatment sport, they’ll proceed within the universe and take a look at the opposite video games as properly, and dive deeper into that rabbit gap.”
At the moment, Treatment Leisure is engaged on Management 2, whereas a multiplayer spinoff, FBC: Firebreak, can be within the works. The developer can be engaged on Max Payne 1 and a couple of Remake, although that’s unlikely to be a part of the Treatment Linked Universe.
