Surely the best easter eggs are the ones that anticipate the entire game, but that you'd never notice on first viewing; Baldur's Gate 3 did it with the music, BioShock did it with the resurrection system, and I think Alan Wake 2 did it, too. There are still spoilers for Alan Wake 2. One avid fan of "Alan Wake 2" noticed that the identity of Alan's evil doppelganger, Scratch, is revealed early in "Alan Wake 2". Remember, Scratch is the product of an evil "dark entity" that impersonates Alan. More precisely, he possesses Alan: in the course of AW2, it was discovered that Scratch lives in his head.

Normally, finding out this is a huge surprise, but a player named WillieTPJ on Twitter noticed that when he hovered over the prompts surrounding Alan's picture in the early Mind Place, the game started playing a creepy dark presence sound .

Seems pretty convincing to me, but a skeptic might say that WillieTPJ is reading too much into simple sound cues. Well, let's not be cynical: Remedy sound designer Josh Adam Bell tells fans that the sound cues are "100% intentional." In fact, he seems a little surprised it took people this long to notice. Someone finally noticed," he wrote, followed by an emoji of, I don't know how to quote it, a sweaty, weeping emoji."

In other words, Remedy has been trying to tell us all along, but it took them this long to notice. "Alan Wake 2" was one of the best games released last year and received an 88% high score from Robin Valentine in his review of and that "Remedy is more confident and independent than ever. The review of "Alan Wake 2" also found Remedy to be "more confident and independent than ever before."