{
  "id": "alan-wake-control",
  "title": "Alan Wake / Control",
  "description": "The Remedy Connected Universe: Bright Falls, the Dark Place and the Federal Bureau of Control. Games, expansions, prose, comics, web fiction and live-action stories share one chronology, with nested fictions and uncertain calendar links explained.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "rcu",
      "label": "Alan Wake / Control — connected history",
      "note": "One connected history, including Alan’s written escape attempts and officially collaborated crossover fiction. Dark Place time is not a reliable Earth clock. Broad overlapping windows express uncertainty without inventing extra universes; Max Payne and Quantum Break are discussed in the scope ledger, not silently merged into this history."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "bright-falls",
      "title": "Bright Falls — Episodes 1–6",
      "type": "Web series",
      "date": "est. spring 2010; days leading into Alan’s arrival",
      "order": 2010.01,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2010",
      "description": "Jake Fischer’s reporting trip turns into a nightmare.",
      "note": "Continuous six-part prequel, grouped together. Its ending approaches the Wakes’ arrival; exact episode days are not independently verified.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "bright",
        "bright-inventory",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. spring 2010",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.nate-able.com/bright-falls",
      "productName": "Watch on creator’s site",
      "productMatch": "Creator’s page contains all six original episode Vimeo embeds. Full uninterrupted playback not certified; no verified Amazon release or official complete YouTube upload found.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on creator’s site",
      "storyGroup": "bright-falls"
    },
    {
      "id": "alan-wake",
      "title": "Alan Wake — Episodes 1–6 / Remastered",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "2010; spring Bright Falls crisis",
      "order": 2010.1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2010 / 2021 remaster",
      "description": "Alan searches for Alice as his manuscript becomes dangerous reality.",
      "note": "Continuous main adventure at its 2010 position. Earlier New York memories remain within the game; the 2021 remaster is not a new adventure.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "aw",
        "aw2",
        "remaster"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GWPL7XB",
      "productName": "Alan Wake Remastered — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Contains original story, The Signal and The Writer; does not contain American Nightmare, the two PC bonus comics or The Alan Wake Files.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "departure"
    },
    {
      "id": "alan-wake-novel",
      "title": "Alan Wake — Rick Burroughs novelization",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "2010; same Bright Falls story",
      "order": 2010.1,
      "canon": "Licensed retelling",
      "release": "2010",
      "description": "The licensed prose adaptation retells Alan’s search.",
      "note": "Grouped with the original game. Additional prose perspectives are not automatically facts overriding later games. Full novel interior not inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel",
        "aw"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765328437",
      "productName": "Alan Wake — Rick Burroughs paperback",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition. Confirm platform, language and edition at the retailer; stock is not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "departure"
    },
    {
      "id": "flashback",
      "title": "Alan Wake: Flashback — Fortnite experience",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "2010; retelling of the first game",
      "order": 2010.1,
      "canon": "Licensed retelling",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "A playable condensed return to the Bright Falls mystery.",
      "note": "Epic / Remedy collaboration retells the original story. October 2023 release is not its story year; cosmetic skins alone are not separate stories.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "flashback",
        "aw"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.fortnite.com/@epiclabs/3426-5561-3374?lang=en-US",
      "productName": "Play official Fortnite experience",
      "productMatch": "Exact official island; a Fortnite installation is required and continuing island availability is not guaranteed. No Amazon substitute.",
      "actionLabel": "Play official Fortnite experience",
      "storyGroup": "departure"
    },
    {
      "id": "night-springs-comic",
      "title": "Night Springs: An Alan Wake Story",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "2010; overlaps the Episode 5 emergency",
      "order": 2010.15,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2011; wider digital distribution 2013",
      "description": "Frank Breaker responds to the town’s coded warning.",
      "note": "Parallel to the main game, not a sequel set in the comic’s distribution year. The Episode 5 relationship is cross-checked in bibliography; original pages remain inaccessible here.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "bonus",
        "comics",
        "night-comic"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Legal Steam edition located; readable interior not acquired. No claim of inspected captions or exact day.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/268560/Alan_Wake_Bonus_Materials/",
      "productName": "Read via Steam bonus materials",
      "productMatch": "Exact legal containing download for the comics. Requires the original Alan Wake on Steam; no verified standalone Amazon comic product, and the remaster is not substituted as if it contained them.",
      "actionLabel": "Read via Steam bonus materials",
      "storyGroup": "night-springs-comic",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "psycho-thriller",
      "title": "Psycho Thriller: An Alan Wake Story",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "2010; Cauldron Lake Lodge / first-game aftermath",
      "order": 2010.2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2011; wider digital distribution 2013",
      "description": "Emil Hartman faces the darkness around his ruined plans.",
      "note": "Placed in the first crisis’s aftermath window. Secondary sources describe the aftermath differently; exact alignment with Episode 4–6 and the shoebox’s journey needs direct page inspection. No precise day asserted.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "bonus",
        "comics",
        "psycho-comic"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Legal Steam edition located; readable interior not acquired. Summary is used only for qualified placement, not certification of an undated interior.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/268560/Alan_Wake_Bonus_Materials/",
      "productName": "Read via Steam bonus materials",
      "productMatch": "Exact legal containing download for the comics. Requires the original Alan Wake on Steam; no verified standalone Amazon comic product, and the remaster is not substituted as if it contained them.",
      "actionLabel": "Read via Steam bonus materials",
      "storyGroup": "psycho-thriller",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "war",
      "title": "War — Poets of the Fall official video",
      "type": "Music video",
      "date": "est. 2010 story imagery; symbolic retelling",
      "order": 2010.21,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2010",
      "description": "Alan appears amid the song’s forest-nightmare imagery.",
      "note": "Official narrative imagery belongs near its source adventure. Not treated as a literal extra rescue of Alice, or given an invented later year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "war",
        "war-creator"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_hewSrAH4",
      "productName": "Watch on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Original official artist upload; no unrelated product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on YouTube",
      "storyGroup": "war"
    },
    {
      "id": "signal",
      "title": "Alan Wake — Special 1: The Signal",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "est. 2010 onward; Dark Place captivity begins",
      "order": 2010.3,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2010",
      "description": "Alan struggles through an unstable nightmare with a guiding signal.",
      "note": "Follows Episode 6; the Dark Place does not supply a dependable day count. First of the two continuing special episodes.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "remaster",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010+",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GWPL7XB",
      "productName": "Alan Wake Remastered — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Contains original story, The Signal and The Writer; does not contain American Nightmare, the two PC bonus comics or The Alan Wake Files.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "signal"
    },
    {
      "id": "writer",
      "title": "Alan Wake — Special 2: The Writer",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "est. 2010 onward; continuing Dark Place captivity",
      "order": 2010.31,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2010",
      "description": "Alan confronts his divided self and tries to regain authorship.",
      "note": "Direct continuation of The Signal, not a separate Earth year. Both specials are included in the linked remaster.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "remaster",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010+",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GWPL7XB",
      "productName": "Alan Wake Remastered — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Contains original story, The Signal and The Writer; does not contain American Nightmare, the two PC bonus comics or The Alan Wake Files.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "writer"
    },
    {
      "id": "alan-wake-files",
      "title": "The Alan Wake Files — Clay Steward’s investigation",
      "type": "Book",
      "date": "est. 2010–2012 frame; includes much older records",
      "order": 2011,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2010 print / 2012 digital",
      "description": "Clay Steward assembles evidence of the Bright Falls mystery.",
      "note": "Working compilation window after the disappearance. Historical clippings, The Creator’s Dilemma and Bright Falls history excerpts are nested evidence, not proof every section occurs in the frame year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "files",
        "files-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010–2012",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/108726/Alan_Wake_Collectors_Edition_Extras/",
      "productName": "View official PDF edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact digital containing edition for The Alan Wake Files; requires the original Steam game. No standalone Amazon edition verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official PDF edition",
      "storyGroup": "alan-wake-files",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "errand-boy",
      "title": "The Errand Boy — prose excerpt in The Alan Wake Files",
      "type": "Short story",
      "date": "Modern era; fictional story inside Steward’s dossier",
      "order": 2011,
      "canon": "In-world fiction",
      "release": "2010",
      "description": "A sample of Alan’s earlier crime writing appears in the dossier.",
      "note": "Embedded fiction indexed with its containing book. Date of fictional publication is not proof of the story’s internal calendar; not counted as an extra published novel.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "files",
        "files-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "Modern era",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/108726/Alan_Wake_Collectors_Edition_Extras/",
      "productName": "View official PDF edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact digital containing edition for The Alan Wake Files; requires the original Steam game. No standalone Amazon edition verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official PDF edition",
      "storyGroup": "alan-wake-files",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "american-nightmare",
      "title": "Alan Wake’s American Nightmare",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "est. 2012 frame; nearly two years after the disappearance",
      "order": 2012.05,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2012",
      "description": "Alan battles Mr. Scratch through a repeating Arizona night.",
      "note": "The two-year clue supports the Earth frame; the Night Springs scenario loops and its apparent resolution do not erase Alan’s later captivity.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "an",
        "an-clock",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2012 · +2 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/202750/Alan_Wakes_American_Nightmare/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Exact digital game; no verified current Amazon product match. Not included in Alan Wake Remastered.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "american-nightmare"
    },
    {
      "id": "house-of-dreams",
      "title": "This House of Dreams — dated posts & poems",
      "type": "Web fiction",
      "date": "22 February – 29 July 2012; older poems embedded",
      "order": 2012.1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2012",
      "description": "Samantha’s new home contains a shoebox with disturbing connections.",
      "note": "Dates are printed on the actual narrative blog posts and were read directly. The poems’ older authorship and dreams are not forced into the 2012 present.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dreams",
        "dreams-author"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "Feb–Jul 2012",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Original dated posts read directly, including opening and final entry, dreams, shoebox material and title page.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://thishouseofdreams.blogspot.com/",
      "productName": "Read the official story",
      "productMatch": "Original freely accessible narrative blog. No Amazon edition verified; this is the actual story rather than a product substitute.",
      "actionLabel": "Read the official story",
      "storyGroup": "house-of-dreams"
    },
    {
      "id": "visions",
      "title": "Alan Wake Remastered — Visions 01–03",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "est. 2012–2023; years into the Dark Place captivity",
      "order": 2018,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2021",
      "description": "Three QR-linked monologues anticipate Alan’s later writing struggle.",
      "note": "Placed in the supported captivity window, not assigned a 2021 Earth date because of release. The third vision points toward the sequel; the group can overlap AWE and Initiation.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "visions",
        "visions-clock",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2012–2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d40Bk1z1I8w",
      "productName": "Watch on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Original Remedy Vision 02 linked from the QR-code record; all three shorts are indexed together. No Amazon-only requirement to see the web film.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on YouTube",
      "storyGroup": "visions",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "control",
      "title": "Control — main campaign & side stories",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "2019; Hiss invasion of the Oldest House",
      "order": 2019,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019",
      "description": "Jesse Faden becomes Director during a containment catastrophe.",
      "note": "2019 derives from the documented FBC chronology, not just the release year. Thresholds, reports and Hotline memories can concern much earlier history. Ultimate Edition retells this same crisis.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "control",
        "control-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SZ6GRX6",
      "productName": "Control Ultimate Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Includes main game, Foundation and AWE. Tokui availability depends on installed update / platform; original PS4 standard discs did not include that mission.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "control"
    },
    {
      "id": "tokui",
      "title": "Dr. Yoshimi Tokui’s Guided Imagery Experience",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "2019; during Jesse’s Research Sector access",
      "order": 2019.02,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019; wider availability 2025",
      "description": "Jesse follows a recording into an altered guided-imagery experience.",
      "note": "Bonus narrative mission overlaps the main campaign. The 2025 update unlocked it for more editions; it did not advance Jesse’s calendar by six years.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "tokui",
        "control-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SZ6GRX6",
      "productName": "Control Ultimate Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Includes main game, Foundation and AWE. Tokui availability depends on installed update / platform; original PS4 standard discs did not include that mission.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "tokui",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "expeditions",
      "title": "Control — Put a Record On / Expeditions",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "2019 onward; ongoing Oldest House lockdown",
      "order": 2019.04,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019",
      "description": "The Jukebox leads Jesse into the Formation for dangerous expeditions.",
      "note": "Introductory mission and repeatable expeditions grouped. Optional operations overlap the late campaign / post-game; no fixed years assigned to repeat attempts.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "expeditions",
        "control-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2019+",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SZ6GRX6",
      "productName": "Control Ultimate Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Includes main game, Foundation and AWE. Tokui availability depends on installed update / platform; original PS4 standard discs did not include that mission.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "expeditions",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "awe",
      "title": "Control — AWE",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "2019; late campaign / continuing lockdown",
      "order": 2019.06,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2020",
      "description": "Jesse investigates Hartman and the sealed Investigations Sector.",
      "note": "Available after mission seven. Its relationship to The Foundation is flexible; the later Bright Falls alert is a warning about the future, not the date of Jesse’s whole visit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "awe",
        "awe-clock",
        "control-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SZ6GRX6",
      "productName": "Control Ultimate Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Includes main game, Foundation and AWE. Tokui availability depends on installed update / platform; original PS4 standard discs did not include that mission.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "awe",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "foundation",
      "title": "Control — The Foundation",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "2019; after Take Control",
      "order": 2019.1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2020",
      "description": "Jesse investigates the damaged roots of the Oldest House.",
      "note": "Official prerequisite establishes a post-campaign position. Marshall’s fate and Ash’s logs concern older events; the expansion’s 2020 release is not a proven year-long gap.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "foundation",
        "control-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SZ6GRX6",
      "productName": "Control Ultimate Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Includes main game, Foundation and AWE. Tokui availability depends on installed update / platform; original PS4 standard discs did not include that mission.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "foundation"
    },
    {
      "id": "night-springs-dlc",
      "title": "Alan Wake 2 — Night Springs: Number One Fan / North Star / Time Breaker",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "est. 2010–2023 captivity frame; fictional worlds have their own clocks",
      "order": 2022.9,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Three escape scripts transform familiar faces into strange protagonists.",
      "note": "All three episodes kept in the connected history as authored attempts. Coffee World’s Sibling is not automatically pre-Control Jesse; the Actor’s multiverse does not make Quantum Break officially RCU canon. Exact interleaving with Alan’s other scripts remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "ns",
        "faq",
        "aw2",
        "boundary"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010–2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6FP8Q4J",
      "productName": "Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact listing and contents checked: main game, Night Springs, The Lake House and a Remastered digital voucher. Used-copy vouchers may be redeemed; check region, updates and seller contents.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "night-springs-dlc",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd-alan",
      "title": "Dead by Daylight — Alan Wake chapter & survivor story",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "est. 2010–2023 captivity frame; Entity realm time unmeasured",
      "order": 2022.95,
      "canon": "Official crossover",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Alan’s escape writing leads him from the Dark Place into the Fog.",
      "note": "Remedy supplies this narrative premise. Kept alongside the captivity stories; release in 2024 does not make it a post-Final Draft Earth sequel. Exact point and return to the RCU remain unestablished.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dbd"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010–2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://deadbydaylight.com/chapters/alan-wake/",
      "productName": "View official crossover",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official chapter page. Requires Dead by Daylight and the appropriate chapter; the standalone base game does not itself guarantee Alan’s content.",
      "actionLabel": "View official crossover",
      "storyGroup": "dbd-alan",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd-revision",
      "title": "Dead by Daylight — Tome 18: Revision, Alan Wake memories",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "est. 2010–2023 captivity frame; recollections span earlier life",
      "order": 2022.96,
      "canon": "Official crossover",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Archive memories expand the writer’s encounter with the Entity.",
      "note": "Additional narrative, distinct from the chapter’s survivor introduction. The Tome also covers Deathslinger; his unrelated full chronology is outside this franchise scope.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "tome",
        "dbd"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010–2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://deadbydaylight.com/news/tome-18-revision-release/",
      "productName": "View official archive story info",
      "productMatch": "Official Tome information, not an assertion that the expired cosmetic Rift pass is needed to read permanently available archive lore.",
      "actionLabel": "View official archive story info",
      "storyGroup": "dbd-revision",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lake-house",
      "title": "Alan Wake 2 — The Lake House",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "October 2023; parallel to Saga’s Bright Falls investigation",
      "order": 2023.01,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Agent Kiran Estevez confronts a failed FBC research project.",
      "note": "The official FAQ explicitly places it parallel to Alan Wake 2. Sorts beside the opening investigation, not after the ending as a 2024 sequel. Exact chapter-by-chapter intersection is not certified here.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "faq",
        "lake",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "Oct 2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6FP8Q4J",
      "productName": "Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact listing and contents checked: main game, Night Springs, The Lake House and a Remastered digital voucher. Used-copy vouchers may be redeemed; check region, updates and seller contents.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "lake-house",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "alan-wake-2",
      "title": "Alan Wake 2 — Return / Initiation",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "October 2023 Earth frame; thirteen years after 2010",
      "order": 2023.02,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "Saga investigates ritual murders while Alan writes toward escape.",
      "note": "Alternating perspectives and non-linear echoes share one story position. No single straight calendar can order every Dark Place scene; use the Earth frame and in-game chapter order within each thread.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "aw2",
        "faq"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "Oct 2023 · +13 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6FP8Q4J",
      "productName": "Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact listing and contents checked: main game, Night Springs, The Lake House and a Remastered digital voucher. Used-copy vouchers may be redeemed; check region, updates and seller contents.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "aw2"
    },
    {
      "id": "final-draft",
      "title": "Alan Wake 2 — The Final Draft",
      "type": "Game DLC",
      "date": "October 2023 frame; a further turn of the spiral",
      "order": 2023.02,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "New pages, scenes and a changed ending develop the same ordeal.",
      "note": "Grouped with the base adventure, with the distinct narrative ending acknowledged. A new spiral is not a new conventional year or evidence for a separate continuity selector.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "draft",
        "faq"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "Oct 2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6FP8Q4J",
      "productName": "Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact listing and contents checked: main game, Night Springs, The Lake House and a Remastered digital voucher. Used-copy vouchers may be redeemed; check region, updates and seller contents.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "aw2"
    },
    {
      "id": "herald",
      "title": "Herald of Darkness — official music video",
      "type": "Music video",
      "date": "2023 story frame; Alan’s In the Night musical",
      "order": 2023.02,
      "canon": "Narrative performance",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "The Old Gods perform Alan’s life story as a surreal musical.",
      "note": "Same performance context as Initiation’s musical sequence, with its own viewing link. Not another adventure dated by the video’s upload.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "herald",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxs_HYw_mLk",
      "productName": "Watch on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Original official music video. The containing game is separately linked in this story group.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on YouTube",
      "storyGroup": "aw2"
    },
    {
      "id": "yoton-yo",
      "title": "Yötön Yö / Nightless Night — film inside Alan Wake 2",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "2023 viewing frame; purported older film exists inside the fiction",
      "order": 2023.02,
      "canon": "In-world fiction",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "Thomas Seine’s strange film echoes the surrounding nightmare.",
      "note": "Embedded film indexed at its viewing point. The story’s claims about its filmmaker and production era are not independently verified Earth history; no standalone 1970 adventure invented.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film-credit",
        "aw2"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2023",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6FP8Q4J",
      "productName": "Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact listing and contents checked: main game, Night Springs, The Lake House and a Remastered digital voucher. Used-copy vouchers may be redeemed; check region, updates and seller contents.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "aw2",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "writer-in-cabin",
      "title": "Writer in the Cabin — original in-game films",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "2010 viewing frame; Dark Place writing",
      "order": 2010.1,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2010",
      "description": "Alan’s recorded monologues reveal the writing behind the crisis.",
      "note": "Embedded sequences indexed with the first game. Recording and discovery can occupy different moments; the remaster includes this same narrative material.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "bonus",
        "aw"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2010",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GWPL7XB",
      "productName": "Alan Wake Remastered — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Contains original story, The Signal and The Writer; does not contain American Nightmare, the two PC bonus comics or The Alan Wake Files.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "departure",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "writers-journey",
      "title": "The Writer’s Journey — Alan Wake 2 films",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "2023 viewing frame; memories and Dark Place writing",
      "order": 2023.02,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "Live-action monologues chart Alan’s writing and identity.",
      "note": "Embedded Journey collectibles grouped with Alan Wake 2. The recollected past does not move all recordings into the same discovery day. These are distinct from the original game’s Cabin films and the remaster’s three QR shorts.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "aw2",
        "faq"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2023",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6FP8Q4J",
      "productName": "Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Exact listing and contents checked: main game, Night Springs, The Lake House and a Remastered digital voucher. Used-copy vouchers may be redeemed; check region, updates and seller contents.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "aw2",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "firebreak-training",
      "title": "Surviving the Workplace — Introduction & five job films",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "est. 2025; about six years into lockdown",
      "order": 2025,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Jerry Standish trains Firebreak volunteers using improvised puppets.",
      "note": "Continuous six-part job-training series grouped. Opening dialogue gives about six years in lockdown; later in-game edits are versions of these films, not extra events.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "training",
        "six-years",
        "firebreak"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "est. 2025 · +6 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_umhMcILI",
      "productName": "Watch on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Original Remedy Introduction film linked from the source transcript. Six-part series also appears, in shorter edits, in the Firebreak media viewer. No Amazon product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on YouTube",
      "storyGroup": "firebreak-training",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "firebreak",
      "title": "FBC: Firebreak — jobs, Breakpoint & Rogue Protocol",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "2025 onward; six years after Control",
      "order": 2025,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025 / updates 2025–2026",
      "description": "Bureau volunteers respond to disasters during the prolonged siege.",
      "note": "One ongoing operations window. Launch jobs Hot Fix, Paper Chase, Ground Control, Frequency Shift and Freezer Duty, plus updated crises / Endless Shift, do not acquire new Earth years solely from patch dates.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "firebreak",
        "six-years",
        "breakpoint",
        "rogue"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2025+ · +6 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.playfirebreak.com/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher game site and purchase choices. No verified Amazon edition substituted; online service access and current platform conditions should be checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "firebreak",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "resonant",
      "title": "CONTROL Resonant — campaign & New Game+",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "2026; seven years after Control",
      "order": 2026,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "Dylan Faden enters a transformed Manhattan in search of Jesse.",
      "note": "Seven-year story interval comes from the director’s interview, separately from development time. Already released September 24, 2026. New Game+ stays with the campaign; planned mode changes are not invented as released narrative DLC.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "resonant",
        "seven-years",
        "resonant-release",
        "resonant-modes"
      ],
      "continuity": "rcu",
      "railLabel": "2026 · +7 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3WQP7C6",
      "productName": "CONTROL Resonant — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding physical edition identified on Amazon. Check selected edition, platform and region; no unverified future expansion pass included.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "resonant"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "aw",
      "title": "Remedy — Alan Wake",
      "url": "https://www.remedygames.com/games/alan-wake",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official game and premise. Original / remastered versions are the same main adventure."
    },
    {
      "id": "remaster",
      "title": "Alan Wake Remastered — official contents",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.com/remastered/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Confirms inclusion of The Signal and The Writer. No additional sequel date inferred from the remaster’s 2021 release."
    },
    {
      "id": "aw2",
      "title": "Alan Wake 2 — official story",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Alan’s thirteen-year captivity links the 2010 and 2023 main stories. Dark Place experiences can overlap that Earth interval."
    },
    {
      "id": "faq",
      "title": "Alan Wake 2 — expansion FAQ",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.com/story/alan-wake-2-faq/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Read: The Lake House unfolds parallel to the main game; Night Springs characters are written variants, not simply the original people at new dates. Physical Deluxe contents confirmed."
    },
    {
      "id": "ns",
      "title": "Night Springs — Remedy’s story explanation",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.com/story/night-springs-unraveling-mysteries-in-alan-wake-2s-first-expansion/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Three scripts are Alan’s escape attempts. Article identifies Number One Fan, North Star and Time Breaker. It does not give a single shared Earth year for their internal worlds."
    },
    {
      "id": "draft",
      "title": "Remedy — The Final Draft",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.com/story/unveiling-the-final-draft-new-game-plus-for-alan-wake-2/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "New ending and narrative collectibles: not dismissed as a cosmetic replay. Grouped with the same spiral-shaped adventure."
    },
    {
      "id": "lake",
      "title": "Xbox Wire / Remedy interview — The Lake House",
      "url": "https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/10/17/alan-wake-2-the-lake-house-expansion-xbox-partner-preview/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Expansion and integration into the base story verified. Release in 2024 is not a 2024 story setting."
    },
    {
      "id": "an",
      "title": "Remedy — American Nightmare",
      "url": "https://www.remedygames.com/games/alan-wakes-american-nightmare",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Officially after Alan Wake; Arizona story with Mr. Scratch. Not excluded because of its Night Springs framing."
    },
    {
      "id": "an-clock",
      "title": "American Nightmare — manuscript / dialogue walkthrough",
      "url": "https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/xbox360/652999-alan-wakes-american-nightmare/faqs/63803",
      "kind": "Secondary / game walkthrough",
      "note": "Nearly two years since Wake’s disappearance reported in the game walkthrough; gives an estimated 2012 frame, not a precise day."
    },
    {
      "id": "control",
      "title": "Control — official Ultimate Edition contents",
      "url": "https://legacy.controlgame.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Main adventure plus Foundation and AWE in Ultimate Edition. Edition release dates are kept separate from story years."
    },
    {
      "id": "awe",
      "title": "Remedy / 505 — AWE FAQ",
      "url": "https://legacy.controlgame.com/awe-expansion-faq-guide/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "AWE is available after main mission seven, The Face of the Enemy. Availability is a lower narrative bound, not proof of a mandatory exact interleaving with The Foundation."
    },
    {
      "id": "foundation",
      "title": "Remedy / 505 — The Foundation FAQ",
      "url": "https://legacy.controlgame.com/the-foundation-expansion-out-now-on-xbox-one/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Requires completion of Take Control, the final main mission. Thus follows the base campaign, despite later release formats."
    },
    {
      "id": "tokui",
      "title": "Remedy — March 2025 Control update",
      "url": "https://legacy.controlgame.com/control-march-2025-update-notes-pc/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual update note read: Dr. Yoshimi Tokui mission is unlocked through the Research Sector tapes; previously PS4 Digital Deluxe exclusive. Its wider availability is not a new story set in 2025."
    },
    {
      "id": "expeditions",
      "title": "Remedy / 505 — Expeditions announcement",
      "url": "https://legacy.controlgame.com/author/webmasterevermade-fi/page/7/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official blog inventory identifies free Expeditions update. Repeatable Jukebox challenges are not separate years or separate canons."
    },
    {
      "id": "control-clock",
      "title": "Control — documented in-game chronology",
      "url": "https://control.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline",
      "kind": "Secondary / file references",
      "note": "Secondary chronology indexed from FBC files: 2002 Ordinary incident and 2019 Hiss invasion. Original full game files not directly inspected in this audit; exact invasion day not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "awe-clock",
      "title": "AWE — Hartman and future-alert cross-check",
      "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/what-controls-awe-dlc-tells-us-about-alan-wakes-story/1100-6481849/",
      "kind": "Secondary / game inspection",
      "note": "Reviews the Investigations Sector evidence and Hartman’s earlier containment. The future Bright Falls warning does not move Jesse’s whole expansion to the date of the warned event."
    },
    {
      "id": "bonus",
      "title": "Remedy — legal Alan Wake bonus materials",
      "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/268560/Alan_Wake_Bonus_Materials/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher-distributed comics and bonus PDFs. Requires the base game. No local installed copy found at checked Steam-library locations; no readable legal comic pages obtained, so interior dates remain unverified."
    },
    {
      "id": "comics",
      "title": "The Sudden Stop — comics publication / placement record",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.info/2013/05/4th-may-2013-alan-wake-comics.html",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporary bibliography",
      "note": "Contemporaneous article, updated with official Steam access, identifies Night Springs around Episode 5 and Psycho Thriller’s Hartman story. Illegal scan links on that page were not followed. Dates from file metadata are not story dates."
    },
    {
      "id": "night-comic",
      "title": "Night Springs — comics bibliography",
      "url": "https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/night-springs-an-alan-wake-story",
      "kind": "Bibliographic",
      "note": "Frank Breaker story set during the first game; cross-check of title, creators and relationship. Not an interior inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "psycho-comic",
      "title": "Psycho Thriller — comics bibliography",
      "url": "https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/psycho-thriller-an-alan-wake-story",
      "kind": "Bibliographic",
      "note": "Hartman story reported after the first game. Main 2010 aftermath window retained; no exact day claimed without pages."
    },
    {
      "id": "files",
      "title": "Remedy — The Alan Wake Files digital book",
      "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/108726/Alan_Wake_Collectors_Edition_Extras/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official 130-page illustrated PDF: Clay Steward investigates Wake and Nightingale. Contains fictional evidence and older material; not an unrelated making-of art book. Base game required. Full interior not acquired."
    },
    {
      "id": "files-clock",
      "title": "Clay Steward — evidence / frame cross-check",
      "url": "https://alanwake.fandom.com/wiki/Clay_Steward",
      "kind": "Secondary / game and book references",
      "note": "Steward’s investigation and later compilation distinguish the narrator’s frame from old documents; around 2010–2012 is a working bracket, not the book’s publication date."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel",
      "title": "Tor / Macmillan — Alan Wake by Rick Burroughs",
      "url": "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765328434/alanwake/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Licensed prose adaptation, paperback ISBN 9780765328434. No complete readable interior inspected; deviations are not asserted to replace the games."
    },
    {
      "id": "bright",
      "title": "Bright Falls — production designer’s series page",
      "url": "https://www.nate-able.com/bright-falls",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Creator portfolio inspected directly: all six episode embeds identified (Oh Deer, Time Flies, Lights Out, Local Flavor, Off the Record, Clearcut), alongside a separate case-study film. Embedded players located; uninterrupted full playback not certified."
    },
    {
      "id": "bright-inventory",
      "title": "Bright Falls — contemporary six-episode release record",
      "url": "https://www.shacknews.com/article/63821/alan-wakes-live-action-prequel",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporary release record",
      "note": "Six-part live-action prequel. Original distributor video links are historical; no currently playable official complete YouTube upload verified in this audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "dreams",
      "title": "This House of Dreams — actual dated story posts",
      "url": "https://thishouseofdreams.blogspot.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Original narrative text read directly, including Introduction on 2012/02/22, Tour of the House on 2012/02/23 and final post on 2012/07/29, shoebox poems, dreams and RETURN title page. February archive opened separately to verify the opening date."
    },
    {
      "id": "dreams-author",
      "title": "This House of Dreams — creator attribution record",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.info/2012/06/4th-june-2012-this-house-of-dreams.html",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporary record",
      "note": "Contemporary fan-site record; later comics article reports Sam Lake’s authorship confirmation. Control and Lake House references support connection."
    },
    {
      "id": "visions",
      "title": "Remastered Visions — legal original video inventory",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.info/2000/08/alan-wake-remastered-qr-code-2.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Embedded QR-linked Remedy video and monologue transcription read. Site’s artificial year-2000 archive URL is not the story date or the release date."
    },
    {
      "id": "visions-clock",
      "title": "Visions — game inspection / time clues",
      "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/alan-wake-remastered-secrets-guide-new-hidden-qr-codes-hint-at-alan-wake-2/1100-6496820/",
      "kind": "Secondary / game inspection",
      "note": "Three new QR videos involve years of Dark Place writing and point toward the sequel; not simply events in 2010 because the QR code is in a 2010 adventure."
    },
    {
      "id": "war",
      "title": "Poets of the Fall — War official video",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_hewSrAH4",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Artist’s original upload identifies Ilkka Villi as Alan Wake. Symbolic video chronology is not a newly confirmed rescue of Alice."
    },
    {
      "id": "war-creator",
      "title": "War — director interview",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.info/2018/08/6th-august-2018-behind-scenes-of-poets.html",
      "kind": "Primary creator interview / fan-site host",
      "note": "Director describes the Remedy / Poets collaboration; distinguishes a connected visual interpretation from literal game events."
    },
    {
      "id": "herald",
      "title": "Old Gods of Asgard — Herald of Darkness official film",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxs_HYw_mLk",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official video rendition of the Alan Wake 2 musical. Same story performance, not an additional post-game concert or Earth year."
    },
    {
      "id": "film-credit",
      "title": "Ilkka Villi — Yötön Yö credit",
      "url": "https://actorsinscandinavia.com/actorslist/ilkka-villi/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actor agency confirms 2023 production credit for the film within Alan Wake 2. It does not authenticate Thomas Seine’s in-world 1970 filmography."
    },
    {
      "id": "flashback",
      "title": "Epic — Alan Wake: Flashback",
      "url": "https://www.fortnite.com/@epiclabs/3426-5561-3374?lang=en-US",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official Epic Labs island, code 3426-5561-3374. Reimagines the original adventure; grouped with the story retold. Availability may change."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Remedy — Dead by Daylight collaboration",
      "url": "https://www.alanwake.com/story/dead-by-daylight-x-alan-wake/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official original narrative: Alan’s attempted escape script leads him into the Entity’s Fog. Real-world January 2024 release does not prove a 2024 Earth date."
    },
    {
      "id": "tome",
      "title": "Behaviour — Tome 18: Revision",
      "url": "https://deadbydaylight.com/news/tome-18-revision-release/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official additional Alan Wake archive story; distinct from merely unlocking the playable survivor. No exact Earth calendar supplied."
    },
    {
      "id": "firebreak",
      "title": "Remedy — FBC: Firebreak",
      "url": "https://www.remedygames.com/games/firebreak",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "June 17, 2025 release and Bureau siege premise verified. Official publisher links identify connected Control setting."
    },
    {
      "id": "six-years",
      "title": "Mike Kayatta interview — Firebreak’s six-year interval",
      "url": "https://mp1st.com/news/remedy-and-fbc-firebreak-interview-unraveling-the-oldest-house",
      "kind": "Primary developer interview",
      "note": "Developer interview places the response unit six years after Control. 2019 + six years gives 2025, independently of release-year coincidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "training",
      "title": "Surviving the Workplace — introduction transcript / original video reference",
      "url": "https://fbcfirebreak.wiki.gg/wiki/Surviving_the_Workplace_-_Introduction",
      "kind": "Secondary / transcript and source video references",
      "note": "Dialogue explicitly says about six years trapped inside. In-game edit is shorter than original web release; both are versions of the same training story."
    },
    {
      "id": "breakpoint",
      "title": "Remedy — Breakpoint update",
      "url": "https://www.remedygames.com/article/breakpoint-the-first-major-update-for-fbc-firebreak-is-out-now",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "First major update and content changes verified; update release alone does not establish an elapsed fictional year."
    },
    {
      "id": "rogue",
      "title": "Remedy corporate release — Rogue Protocol",
      "url": "https://view.news.eu.nasdaq.com/view?id=bed4bddacd801cb7e88fff7bf10a90f2e&lang=en&src=listed",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "January 2026 second major update / Endless Shift verified. Included in ongoing Firebreak operations rather than invented as a 2026 sequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "resonant",
      "title": "Remedy — CONTROL Resonant announcement",
      "url": "https://www.remedygames.com/article/remedy-entertainment-reveals-control-resonant-launching-in-2026",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Dylan-led sequel in altered Manhattan, not a separate reboot."
    },
    {
      "id": "seven-years",
      "title": "Mikael Kasurinen — Resonant chronology interview",
      "url": "https://waytoomany.games/2026/05/04/interview-with-mikael-kasurinen-of-remedy-entertainment-director-of-control-resonant/",
      "kind": "Primary director interview",
      "note": "Direct director answer: seven years since the previous game. 2019 + seven gives 2026."
    },
    {
      "id": "resonant-release",
      "title": "Remedy — CONTROL Resonant is out now",
      "url": "https://www.remedygames.com/article/control-resonant-is-out-now",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "September 24, 2026 release confirmed on the current official news page. Not labelled upcoming. Development’s seven years is not used as the story interval; separate director interview supplies that."
    },
    {
      "id": "resonant-modes",
      "title": "Remedy help center — Resonant post-launch state",
      "url": "https://remedy.helpshift.com/hc/ab/5-control-resonant/faq/318-our-initial-post-launch-plans-for-control-resonant-1791228252/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Current New Game+ and future repeat-cycle update distinguished. No unannounced story DLC or speculative ending inserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "boundary",
      "title": "Sam Lake interview — Max Payne / Quantum Break boundary",
      "url": "https://www.gamespot.com/articles/quantum-break-is-not-part-of-the-remedy-connected-universe/1100-6517190/",
      "kind": "Primary creator interview / quoted interview report",
      "note": "Direct creator statement excludes Max Payne and Quantum Break from the RCU; echoes, actors and references alone do not override this."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Max Payne / Quantum Break, live-action episodes and Zero State",
      "type": "Games / novel / live action",
      "status": "Connected references; outside RCU scope",
      "note": "Sam Lake explicitly excludes these games from the RCU. Their actors, echoes and Quantum Break’s Return teaser are documented connections, but are not silently merged into Alan / Control’s history. A future separate franchise guide can catalogue their full stories.",
      "sources": [
        "boundary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Night Springs television episodes / Threshold Kids / America Overnight / FBC files",
      "type": "In-game film, audio and documents",
      "status": "Included through containing games",
      "note": "Alan Wake’s six Night Springs episodes (The Quantum Suicide, An Absence of Creativity, The Man in the Mirror, The Dream of Dreams, Taken in His Prime and Family Occasions), Control’s puppet shorts, Darling presentations, radio and case reports are embedded narrative collections. They are included in the main-game records; their fictional production dates and every historical report are not falsely declared present-day standalone releases.",
      "sources": [
        "aw",
        "control",
        "bonus"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Departure, Initiation, Return, Alex Casey books and Thomas Zane poems",
      "type": "In-world prose",
      "status": "Embedded fiction",
      "note": "Available manuscripts, title pages and excerpts belong to their actual containing games, dossier and blog. Unpublished fictional books are not sold as if full corresponding real-world novels exist. Samantha’s poems are included with her blog.",
      "sources": [
        "aw",
        "aw2",
        "files",
        "dreams"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The Art of Alan Wake / The Art and Making of Control / The Art of Alan Wake 2 / guides",
      "type": "Art / production books",
      "status": "Reference works",
      "note": "Production references and art books are not separately dated adventures. Any original narrative inserts found during future legal interior inspection should be added at their supported story positions. No full interior audit of every edition claimed.",
      "sources": [
        "bonus",
        "files",
        "control"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Old Gods / Poets songs, lyric videos, soundtrack albums and Game Awards performance",
      "type": "Music / live performance",
      "status": "Included when narrative; no duplicated adventure",
      "note": "War and Herald’s official visual stories are indexed. The Poet and the Muse, Children of the Elder God, Balance Slays the Demon, Take Control, Dark Ocean Summoning, Anger’s Remorse and chapter songs contribute through their containing stories. Pure lyric / concert renditions and score releases do not each create a new fictional event.",
      "sources": [
        "war",
        "herald",
        "aw",
        "aw2",
        "control"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Alan Wake 2 prototypes, recap trailers, cosmetics and announced screen adaptations",
      "type": "Promotional / development material",
      "status": "Not completed extra story entries",
      "note": "Unreleased prototypes are not chapters of the final continuity; recap clips and skins add no automatically separate story. No released RCU feature film, standalone audio drama or manga was verified in this audit. Future adaptations require their own release and continuity check.",
      "sources": [
        "boundary",
        "faq",
        "resonant-modes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-20",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Pre-build research table produced before site generation. Inventory checked across six principal games, original and sequel expansions, both comics, prose retelling, dossier, blog, prequel shorts, QR films, narrative music films, official crossover and Firebreak training / updates.",
      "One inclusive connected history; nested Night Springs fiction is not classified as non-canon merely for altered characters. Max Payne / Quantum Break exclusion follows the creator, rather than inference from shared actors.",
      "2010 / 2023 thirteen-year relation, 2019 Control, Firebreak +6 years and Resonant +7 years cross-checked separately from release dates. The future AWE warning and 2024 Lake House release do not displace their containing stories.",
      "Original This House of Dreams dated text read directly. Legal Steam comic / dossier access found, but missing game files prevent full page inspection; that gap is explicit in each relevant row.",
      "Continuous Bright Falls / training runs grouped. Prose and Fortnite retellings share the original game position; Final Draft and the musical share Alan Wake 2. DLC retain individual access / chronology records.",
      "Current Resonant release and mode notes checked. Firebreak Breakpoint / Rogue Protocol included without assigning patch years as story years. No future DLC invented.",
      "Amazon Remastered, Control Ultimate and Alan Wake 2 Deluxe titles checked directly; Deluxe content and Remastered voucher verified. Comics and free blog use corresponding legal access, not unrelated products."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Both short comic interiors, the complete novel and complete dossier need direct legal interior inspection. No claim that a missing date cannot be found inside them. Psycho Thriller’s exact episode alignment remains provisional within 2010.",
      "Dark Place scripts, Visions and the Entity crossover lack a dependable Earth clock. Their captivity windows overlap; sort anchors inside those windows express editorial grouping, not exact years.",
      "Full mission / historical-document chronology and every embedded film’s fictional production date have not been exhaustively frame-audited. The main games include those narrative collections, with selected separate embedded indexes.",
      "Bright Falls creator page contains all six episode embeds; uninterrupted playback / regional access not certified. Historical distributor YouTube links should not be assumed active.",
      "This is a researched catalogue of identified official stories, not certification that every art-book insert, vanished promotional page or newly updated live-service line has been inspected."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}