Yeah, that part sucks. I was hoping it would be on Steam from day 1, but it will come later supposedly.
Been playing for maybe 3 hours and so far, it's very different from the original.
The original Alan Wake was a third person action adventure game with a great story. The action part of the gameplay had you weakening enemies with a flashlight and then shooting them.
This game, at least so far, is more like a walking simulator / crime mystery game, where you walk around as a female FBI agent collecting clues and bring them to a "mind room" to analyze them. No real "action" in the game, so far.
The graphics are pretty good, and it has all the latest ray tracing effects and DLSS 3.5. The game looks great. The lighting effects of things like the sun coming through a window and reflecting off of a table in the Oh Deer Diner are impressive. Getting a solid and steady 144 FPS, which is the limit of my monitor, running at full resolution (no DLSS) with every graphics option maxed out and using DLAA only, although I can hear the fans on my GPU, which I rarely ever do, so it must be using a bit more GPU power than most other games.