Alan Wake 2 Map - The Dark Place
An interactive map of the areas of the world that we explore in Alan Wake 2 while playing as Alan. These include Talk Show Studio, The Dark Place, Subway, Oceanview Hotel and the Poet's Cinema.
This map features such locations as Weapons, Words of Power, Location Maps, Echoes, Writer's Journey Videos, Break Rooms, Key Items, Sheriff's Caches, etc.
Points of interest
Below you will find some information about the points of interest located on "The Dark Place" map.
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Maps
Maps are usually posted on boards which you can find shortly after entering a new area. Maps of some locations can be found in a couple of places, you just need to find any one of them. There are also "supplementary" maps that cause additional interesting points, etc. to be added to the maps you already have.
Oceanview Hotel Map
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. This map hangs on the wall in the reception room located on the first floor.
Oceanview Hotel Map Upgrade
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. The map will indicate where to find Words of Power and Sheriff's Supplies located on the hotel premises.
Poet's Cinema Map
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Poet's Cinema Map Upgrade
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film. The map will indicate where to find Words of Power and Sheriff's Supplies located on the cinema premises.
Subway Map
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. You can find this map in the subway tunnel, right next to the entrance to the Subway A break room.
Subway Map Upgrade
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. The map will mark where you can find the Words of Power and the Sheriff's Supplies located in the subway area.
The Dark Place Map #1
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. You can find this map near the phone booth where you need to answer the phone (story related).
The Dark Place Map #2
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. An alternative place where you can find this map.
The Dark Place Map Upgrade
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. The map will mark where you can find the Words of Power and the Sheriff's Supplies located in the base area of the Dark Place.
The Dark Place Upgrade (Alley)
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. The map will mark where you can find the Words of Power and the Sheriff's Supplies located on rooftops near the Alley.
The Show Studio Map
Chapter: Initiation 1: Late Night. This map can be found hanging on the wall in the hallway just past the cafeteria.
Weapons
Various Weapons that you can find on your way.
Double-Barrelled Shotgun
Revolver & Flashlight
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. You will find both near the corpse.
Writer's Journey Videos
Writer's Journey Videos are collectibles available in Alan Wake 2 when you play as Alan. In order to collect them, you must find the TV sets placed somewhere in the Dark Place on which one of the videos will be played.
The Dark Place
Chapter: Initiation 1: Late Night. Story related. You'll watch it once you get here.
Writing
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. Approach the TV set standing in the store window.
Murder Sites
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. Look at the TV standing in the break room.
The Dark Presence
Chapter: Initiation 4: We Sing.
Visions
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Drowning
Chapter: Initiation 7: Masks.
Stop Writing
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Initiation
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film. You will get here by passing through a Secret Door that will appear on the stage. In the small room found in the third loop.
Words of Power
Words of Power are special glyphs that you will discover as you explore the Dark Place. Words of Power can be used to make Alan stronger.
Word of Action #1
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Action #2
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Action #3
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Action #4
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Word of Aid #1
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Aid #2
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Word of Aid #3
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Word of Fix #1
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Fix #2
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Fix #3
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Fix #4
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Fix #5
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Word of Gun #1
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Gun #2
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Gun #3
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Gun #4
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Word of Lamp #1
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Lamp #2
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Lamp #3
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of Lamp #4
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Word of Lamp #5
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Word of Stuff #1
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Word of Stuff #2
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Word of War #1
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of War #2
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Word of War #3
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Word of War #4
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Sheriff's Caches
These are vintage suitcases that hold more supplies than regular containers. The places where you can find them will be marked on your maps when you interact with the map upgrades you find in Sheriff Tim Breaker's hideouts.
Echoes
Echoes consist of two spheres - light and dark. To activate a certain echo you have to stand in such a place that both spheres line up and the dark sphere obscures the light one.
Casey Billboards #1 - Cold Case
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Casey Billboards #2 - Hard Case
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Casey Billboards #3 - Closed Case
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Casey Billboards #4 - Final Case
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Casey Billboards #5 - Worst Case
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Casey Billboards #6 - Murder Case
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft One #1 - FBI Agent
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #2 - Bad Luck
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #3 - Murder Cult
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #4 - Torchbearers
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #5 - Summoning Ritual
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #6 - Markings
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #7 - The Tree
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #8 - Something in the Air
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft One #9 - Alice Wake
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Draft Two #1 - Another Murder
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. When you leave room 665, before you take the elevator down.
Draft Two #2 - Pre-Show Ritual
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Draft Two #3 - Haunted
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Draft Two #4 - The Devil
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Draft Two #5 - Room 666
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Draft Two #6 - The Climax
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. It's in the room 666.
Draft Two #7 - Quid Pro Quo
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Draft Two #8 - Dead Tired
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Draft Three #1 - Thomas Zane
Chapter: Initiation 7: Masks.
Draft Three #2 - The Cult of the World
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft Three #3 - Crooked Cops
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft Three #4 - Nightless Night
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft Three #5 - Clip of the Lost Film
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft Three #6 - Down the Chute
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft Three #7 - Death of a Cultist
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft Three #8 - The Grandmaster
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Draft Three #9 - Trapped
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Break Rooms
Break Rooms are safe places where you can save your game progress.
Alley Rooftops
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Break Room
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. After escaping from Room 666.
Break Room
Chapter: Initiation: We Sing.
Caldera St. Plaza
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey (Completed).
Oceanview Hotel 2nd Floor
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Oceanview Hotel Ballroom
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Oceanview Hotel Office
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Poet's Cinema
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Poet's Cinema Rooftop
Prop Storage
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Subway A
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Subway B
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Subway C
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Subway D
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Talk Show Studio
Chapter: Initiation: We Sing.
Talk Show Studio
Chapter: Initiation 1: Late Night.
The Dark Place
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey. You will be able to reach this place when you carry the light from Light Shift #4 to Light Shift #6 and thus unblock the stairs.
Janitor's Buckets
The Janitor's Buckets are used to switch between Saga and Alan. This will become possible after completing chapter "Initiation 2: Casey" and returning to the Elderwood Palace Lodge in Bright Falls.
Locked Passages
Closed passages such as doors, gates, etc., to open which you generally need to find some key, code or use a tool. Sometimes it is enough to approach them from the right side and sometimes you need to make the necessary progress in the game's storyline.
Containers
Various types of containers, for example, cabinets, drawers, tool boxes, crates, and the like in which you can find supplies. What you find inside is largely random or depends on what weapons you have, what you are missing, etc. Sometimes they can be empty.
Keys
Various Keys, codes, tools or other items that can be used to open a door or container, activate a device, restore power, etc.
Alice's Photographs
Chapter: Initiation 7: Masks.
Angel Lamp
Chapter: Initiation 1: Late Night. You can use it to move light between Light Shift Locations and thus create new opportunities, such as opening a path forward, etc.
Janitor's Key
Chapter: Initiation 1: Late Night. You will receive it from the janitor who is here. It opens the Talk Show Studio Basement Door.
Neon Sign
Chapter: Initiation 1: Late Night. It's not a key but it provides the codes for the Keypad Door:
1st. This is simply the number displayed: 665
2nd. It's a sequence of blinking digits: 565.
Room 101 Key
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. It unlocks Room 101 Door.
Room 104 Key
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. This key lies on the box. You have to be in the right scene to be able to take it. It unlocks Room 104 Door.
Room 209 Key
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665. This key unlocks Room 209 Door.
Room 665 Key
Chapter: Initiation: We Sing.
Manuscript Pages
Manuscript Pages are a collectible items that can be found in Alan Wake 2 when playing as Saga Anderson.
Door Traverses The Dark Place
Chapter: Return 9: Come Home. You will receive it from Sheriff Breaker.
Conversations
Places where you can meet people you can talk to and get new clues that way, etc.
Tim Breaker
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Tim Breaker
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Tim Breaker
Chapter: Initiation 5: Room 665.
Tim Breaker
Chapter: Initiation 2: Casey.
Tim Breaker
Chapter: Initiation 8: Zane's Film.
Light Shift Locations
Places between which light can be transferred, using the Angel Lamp. Bringing or taking a light from a location will switch the state of that location.
Miscellaneous
Teleport Door A1
Teleport Door A2
Teleport Door B1
Teleport Door B2
Teleport Door to Room 202
Teleport Door to Room 225