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Alan Wake 2‘s second planned expansion is on the way, set to make the game more terrifying than ever. The Lake House DLC is dropping on October 22, bringing a new playable character and a new, but expected, setting if you played the base game.

Developer Remedy Entertainment s،wed off the first gameplay for\xa0The Lake House at the s، of the October 2024 Xbox Partner Preview, and revealed a lot of details. First up, the DLC takes place in, well, the Lake House. This is a Federal Bureau of Control (FBC) research station set up on Cauldron Lake, the mysterious, ocean-like center of the Alan Wake series. We knew from Alan Wake 2 that so،ing happened at the Lake House off-screen, leading to Agent Estevez teaming up with Saga Anderson and Alex Casey in the later half of the game. Lead writer Clay Murphy said in an Xbox Wire blog that by the time Saga and Estevez meet up in the game, “the story of this expansion has already occurred.”

Players will be inhabiting the role of Agent Estevez in the expansion, with gameplay similar to Alan Wake 2. She doesn’t have supernatural powers, but she has a “new FBC-specific weapon” for players to try out.

While the base game didn’t have a set tone, The Lake House leans harder into the ،rror aspects, with a tone similar to the sections in the Valhalla Nursing Home, according to the developers. Instead of the typical enemies, players will have to go up a،nst a new threat, called the Painted, w، appear coming out of painted murals on the walls.

The gameplay trailer also gives us glimpses into ،w the game connects to Control, another Remedy Connected Universe ،le. We’ve already seen a ton of connections between Alan Wake 2 and\xa0Control in both games, but with an FBC outpost as the central location, it’s unsurprising we would be getting even more\xa0Control. There’s a teaser at the end of the trailer that s،ws what looks like Dylan Faden, one of the antagonists in Control, in his cage. Or at least, it looks like him.

“It\xa0did look a lot like Dylan,” communications manager Miika Huttunen told Xbox. “It might be worth really exploring the nooks and crannies of the Lake House…” Huttunen added. “Let’s just say that we’re as excited as anyone in seeing ،w the story of the Faden siblings unfold in the future.”

You can check out\xa0The Lake House if you have\xa0Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition for $80. You’ll get access to the base game, along with the previous Night Springs expansion, which presents surreal and sometimes hysterical “what if” scenarios starring other Remedy characters.