Alan Wake has a fantastic narrative and a very frightening immersion, but the game loses a lot of points in gameplay, which is the main point of a game. At times it's no exaggeration to say that the game abuses the repetition of combat and enemies.

Something that the game does very well is to hold the player, it's a simple story but very well written and given the time it came out, you could say that it's a good game for its time, but one that wouldn't appeal nowadays