Remedy Entertainment

Remedy Entertainment was founded in 1995 in Espoo, Finland, growing out of a demoscene collective whose members wanted to make commercial games. Its first release, the top-down combat-racer Death Rally, funded the studio's ambitions, but Remedy quickly set its sights on something more cinematic.

That vision arrived in 2001 with Max Payne, a hard-boiled neo-noir third-person shooter that introduced mainstream players to bullet-time - slow-motion gunfights lifted from Hong Kong cinema and The Matrix - wrapped in graphic-novel panels and a rain-soaked New York tragedy. It was a landmark, and its sequel deepened the studio's reputation for marrying action with mood and narrative. Remedy then spent years crafting Alan Wake, released in 2010, a psychological thriller about a novelist trapped in a nightmare in the Pacific Northwest, steeped in Stephen King and Twin Peaks influences.

Remedy became known for technically ambitious, auteur-driven games with strong central characters and unusual structures, including the time-manipulating Quantum Break, which blended gameplay with live-action episodes. In 2019 it released Control, a supernatural action game set inside a shifting government building, which won wide acclaim and established the studio's shared fiction - the Remedy Connected Universe - explicitly linking Control and Alan Wake. The long-awaited Alan Wake 2 followed in 2023 to strong reviews.

Now a publicly traded company still headquartered in Finland, Remedy has grown from a small demoscene team into one of Europe's most respected narrative-focused developers, working on its own franchises alongside partnerships with major publishers. Its identity - moody, literary, visually inventive and unmistakably authored - has made it a rare studio whose games are recognized as much for their storytelling and atmosphere as for their mechanics, and one of the flagbearers of the Nordic games industry.