Exploring the world ofAlone In The Darkcan be a terrifying and fun experience.

Explore Everything

As soon as you start your adventure,get into the habit of exploring everything.

Look for different interactive elements, such as doors, items, and many others.

A car approaches the mansion with Emily and Edward in tow in Alone In The Dark.

Even inconsequential items, like the Lagniappes, canunlock you new weapons, lore, and other benefits.

See if you might find access.

Pink

You have visited the room, buthaven’t found everything in it.

Alone In The Dark Edward in front of large monster with horns

This also means you haven’t completed some of the puzzles and may need to return.

Blue

You’vecollected everything in the room, including optional items.

Don’t bother spending time looking through the room.

Emily discovering a key in the garage in Alone In The Dark.

Ready Your Weapon When The Environment Changes

Pay attention towhen the environment changes.

If this happens,immediately draw your weapon, since a monster can appear.

You usually must accomplish something to return things to normal.

A map for the second floor of Derceto in Alone In The Dark.

Sometimes, it happens during cutscenes, butit can also occur suddenly, so always pay attention.

This is also crucial if you want tokeep tabs on monsters while they walk around.

you might see which way they go and travel in the opposite direction.

Emily in the first dream sequence in Alone In The Dark.

Object

What It Does

When To Use It

Brick

Itmakes noise and stuns enemieswhen you hit them.

Primarily use it to distract enemies, though it can be used against them when needed.

Molotov

Itbursts into fire when you hit an enemy with it.

Emily sneaking through the streets to avoid a monster in the distance in Alone In The Dark.

Some require a spark from a gun while others activate immediately.

To take down enemies, since most of them are weak to fire, while preserving ammo.

However, it can hurt you too.

Emily defeating an enemy using an Oar in Alone In The Dark.

See if you could run away and potentiallyclimb something to get out of their reach.

You should alsolook for the yellow damage icon for melee weaponsin the bottom-right corner.

Use Quick Attacks, Not Strong Attacks

Strong attacks are practically uselesscompared to quick attacks.

Emily running to the side to avoid two monsters in Alone In The Dark.

They take too long to come out, with some enemies out-ranging you.

Spam your quick attacks against enemies until they go down: you canstun-lock enemies by mashing the button.

When you sprint away from enemies, you’ll outrun them, especially if you quickly turn corners.

Emily fighting off two monsters with a shotgun in Alone In The Dark.

Get a fair distance away, then perform your heal or reload.

You alsokeep any items or collectibles you encountered when you died, allowing you to restrategize.

Just choose to reload your autosave and keep going from there to keep your progress up to that point.

Emily and Edward in front of a car in Alone in the Dark.

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