The Easter eggs of Remedy’s Quantum Break

Remedy Entertainment’s Quantum Break video game for the PC and Xbox debuts next week, and we’ve already played it all the way through. You can find a lot of Remedy lore sprinkled as Easter eggs throughout the game. (See our full review here, and tips here).

You’ll find a bizarre Remedy video in the very first scene, inside the tent. You’ll see a TV there. On the television, an Alan Wake style, X-Files style video plays. This has nothing to do with the story, and I haven’t quite figured out what story it is alluding to. But the face in the scene is Alan Wake’s. His voice communicates, “Dark matter and dark energy constitute over 95 percent of our universe.” And the male detective in the scene is played by Remedy creative director and writer Sam Lake. Some have speculated about whether this means Wake plays a role in Quantum Break itself, but I didn’t notice. So perhaps it’s related to DLC or something coming in the future, dubbed Alan Wake’s Return.

There’s another obvious Easter egg in the university. In the classroom, during the first Act, part two, you’ll see Alan Wake written on the chalkboard. It’s like an English professor’s deconstruction of the themes of Alan Wake and the hero’s journey of its main character. It references some William Blake poems such as Auguries of Innocence. At the very least, this tells you that Alan Wake exists in the same universe as Quantum Break. Wake had special powers to move objects in the environment, while Jack Joyce in Quantum Break has the power to control time. They’re not exactly the same, but they are definitely related.

Less obvious is yet another reference to Alan Wake. In Act 4, part 1, you’ll find it when you come upon a TV in a warehouse. If you click it on, you see auditions for actors for Night Springs, a TV show from the Alan Wake games. That show is a parody of The Twilight Zone.

These are the ones I’ve spotted so far. Let me know of more.