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Alan Wake is a psychological horror video game. The titular character, an author, tries to uncover the mystery of his wife's disappearance during a vacation to Bright Falls, Washington. Use this tag for the game Alan Wake as well as its tie-in media (Alan Wake's American Nightmare, the Bright Falls web-series and the Alan Wake novel).

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In the Alan Wake video game, is Bright Falls based on anywhere real?

The accepted answer seems authoritative to me. The only thing I'd add is that one of the other locales in the game, Cauldron Lake, certainly seems inspired by the real Crater Lake in Oregon: Cauldron …
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