Here’s a reminder not to buy games too soon close to Black Friday.
The Epic Games Store has launched its yearly Black Friday sale, and with it comes the Epic Coupon, a generous offer from the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine that allows customers to grab many games from the store at a 33% discount.
Those would include Alan Wake 2, the new sequel from Remedy Entertainment that only came out on October 27, but is now available at the historically low price of $33.49. This is over $16 cheaper than the MSRP of the game, which is $49.99.
Here’s what Epic has to say about the Epic Coupon, which will be active throughout its Black Friday sales event, from now until November 28, 2023, at 10:59 a.m. ET:
Your Epic Coupon will be automatically applied during the individual purchase checkout process or within the shopping cart when you make an eligible transaction. Each eligible product will independently receive 33% off the price during checkout. This means that two eligible products in a single eligible transaction will each receive 33% off their individual price and so on. There is a 50 product limit to shopping cart purchases at this time.
The 33% Coupon can only be used on products, excluding pre-purchases, priced at, or combining to, $14.99 or more after any sale discounts have been applied. Taxes and other fees do not apply toward the minimum purchase requirement. This coupon cannot be used on pre-purchases, non-game purchases such as add-ons (like DLC or season passes) or in-game purchases (such as in-game currency, like V-Bucks in Fortnite, or upgrades like Save the World mode) or these specific bundles: EA SPORTS FC 24 Ultimate Edition, Madden NFL 24 Deluxe Edition, and F1 23 Champions Edition.
And here’s the game description for Alan Wake 2, which, while having received plenty of positive reviews, kind of fails in the PC options department due to its lack of an FOV slider:
A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.
Alan Wake, a lost writer trapped in a nightmare beyond our world, writes a dark story in an attempt to shape the reality around him and escape his prison. With a dark horror hunting him, Wake is trying to retain his sanity and beat the devil at his own game.
Anderson and Wake are two heroes on two desperate journeys in two separate realities, connected at heart in ways neither of them can understand: reflecting each other, echoing each other, and affecting the worlds around them.
Fueled by the horror story, supernatural darkness invades Bright Falls, corrupting the locals and threatening the loved ones of both Anderson and Wake. Light is their weapon—and their safe haven — against the darkness they face. Trapped in a sinister horror story where there are only victims and monsters, can they break out to be the heroes they need to be?
As noted on the PCGamingWiki, Alan Wake 2’s FOV can be changed by going into one of the game’s .ini files, but this has to be edited back every time a save game is loaded, or after traveling in a car.
For a more permanent fix, users can download Flawless Widescreen, which now includes Alan Wake 2 under its list of FWS Plugins.
Steam’s Autumn Sale also started today, but Gabe hasn’t felt a need to introduce his own global coupon offer yet.
There’s also no word on when Alan Wake 2 might show up on Steam, if ever. (The game was published by Epic Games.)