Alan Wake II - 10 Essential Tips & Tricks

Remedy's long awaited sequel is finally here, and we've figured out a bunch of things for you! Here are 10 Tips & Tricks for Alan Wake II.

Alan Wake II (or Alan Wake 2 if you're fancy) takes place more than a decade after the first game. You control both Alan himself and Saga Anderson, an FBI profiler investigating a murder in Bright Falls. Between cult stashes, collectibles, nursery rhymes, Words of Power, and combat help, we've assembled our best tips to help you through this playable nightmare.

[TheBlackKakashi]

Here’s one, don’t run back and forth between the safe havens because for some reason enemies spawn back despite killing them all.

[paulrob]

This game is an absolute masterpiece! take your time with it, and get immersed read all documents and just enjoy the experience.

[gregunderwood]

U can fast reload by dodging during the reload animation

[CPTN_IRISH]

These graphics are beautiful. The look of the maps, lighting, literally everything looks totally incredible

[Mistah]

1. You can return to areas later
2. Use ear/headphones
3. Grab the map
4. Don’t hoard resources
5. Quick turn
6. Collectible hints
7. Capital letters in rhymes
8. Not all shadows are hostile
9. Use crossbow
10. Upgrade skills

[pradeepprabakaran]

This game seems to be really tough for me. Enemies are like bullet sponges. I play on normal difficulty. Just fighting two enemies exhausts all my resources

[MegisLife]

Hell nah DO NOT wear headphones. Use your home theater setup cranked up, u will be sharting yourself when the ghosts say ALAN WAKE right behind u!!! I had shivers down my spine with diarrhea running down my leg after a few moments.

[smbsport]

Another one a lot of people don’t know is in the Alan parts if you move slowly with flashlight off a lot of times nothing will attach

[Arken_games]

Tip 11: get the word of power which heals you when you find more words of power. This lets you be a bit more risk taking when it comes to bait out shadow enemies

[shareefsteele]

Really great game. Loving it so far! A nice change of pace from a game like Cyberpunk 2077. It's nice to have to think and the story is amazing.

[subhaspramanik]

The number one essential tip is that you need to upgrade your PC hardware.

[Wuzzittstan]

Alan Wake came out 1st - so you might say John Wick looks like him.

[batzgameguru]

Its crazy that people think this is a bad game.

[ratatat]

Came here to find out about using light sources. A most important part of the game and not even a mention.

[just_a_gamer]

It’s been ok it’s a one time complete for me

[GoochPanoochTK]

Tip #11. Play the game and ignore anything IGN ever says

[Elibbb-sxkg]

The thumbnail looks like keanu reeves and Jared leto Crossover

[SausageWardog]

I learnt all this after one play through was hoping for something new

[FinalStageL]

Why does John wake wait Alan wick look 👀 like John wick

[uncleanon]

Listing standard game mechanics and call it tips...