This is the concluding part of the walkthrough for Episode 1 of Alan Wake. Alan wakes up after a car crash. He’s in the middle of the woods and doesn’t know why and his phone isn’t working. This walkthrough will also guide you to all the collectibles in this section.
Waking Up In A Nightmare
Collectibles
14 x Coffee Thermos
1 x Can Pyramids
10 x Manuscript Pages
4 x Chests
1 x Radio Shows
2 x TV Shows
1 x Signs
- Find help
Head toward the gas station down the mountain path. As soon as you see some light just head toward it. The first manuscript will just flutter down in front of you. Keep pressing forward. You’ll be introduced to FOCUS (left click left analogue stick) which zooms in on anything of interest. Keep pressing forward. If you’re playing in Nightmare difficulty you’ll see a manuscript on a fallen log that you have cross to get over the fence. Climb over that fence into the logging area. You’ll see Karl Stucky, he’s gone nuts. He dashes off. Among the logs you’ll find another manuscript and if you walk under the front of the digger where Karl was standing you should see a Thermos Flask in front of you. Press forward to the light by the cabin and get inside.
- Call for help
Turning on generators could save your life
Pick up the batteries and the ammo in this room. Go to the telephone and press the action button. What the….!! The Digger outside is coming toward the cabin. It picks it up with you inside and if you don’t move fast you’re dead. Jump out of the only open door in the cabin, it’s the opposite door to the way you came out.
- Reach the Gas Station
Move forward through the wooden gates. Straight on your right you’ll see a generator. It has a flashing light on it. Look out for flashing lights as it normally indicates you can interact with something. This generator turns on a search light. There are two Taken in this area and because the searchlight is so powerful you can just aim it toward them to kill them. If you scan the area with the searchlight you’ll see a yellow area. Leave the searchlight and head in the direction the arrow is facing. If you use your flashlight you’ll find more arrows which lead you to the back of this shed where you’ll find a hidden chest with a flare gun inside. Move back to the front of the shed and look inside. There’s another flashing light and if you go over and kick it, it turns off the power so that you now safely press forward over the fallen electric fence.
Move forward and keep an eye out on your right where you’ll see an Emergency box with ammo and batteries inside. There’s a Taken with an axe going to lunge at you from in front so get ready to take him out. Take a left where you see the sparking wire. In the shed where you see the old tractor you’ll see a page of manuscript. Move back to the sparking wire and down the mountain path. You need to cross the river. Walk across the log and then take a left and go forward until you come across two rocks at the top on your right. A Thermos flask is sitting on one of the rocks. Move back to the large log which you just crossed and keep to the right. You’ll come across three logs lay down like a bridge. There’s a box on the small island with a manuscript in it. If you’re playing Nightmare mode you’ll find another manuscript on the path when you come off the three logs.
Use your flare gun against stronger enemies
There’s another log bridge just to the left of this one. Take that route toward the gas station objective marker and bear right until you reach the opening with the rocks. On the floor you should see some lithium batteries and revolver ammo. Take a left toward the logging area. Two Taken will attack you, watch out because they’ll throw their axes at you. After you climb up the rocks and enter the logging area use your torch on the logs in front. You’ll see yellow arrows. Follow them until you reach a ladder. Climb up it and go up to shed where you’ll see the words “The Taken are filled with Darkness.” There’s a hidden chest in this room full of batteries. Move back to where you came from, the entrance to the logging area and take the right hand path this time until you reach the broken stairs.
- Reach the path above
Opposite the stairs there’s an Emergency box strapped to a wooden post with ammo and batteries. Head forward where you can see the wooden log dangling in the air from a crane. Just to the right on the rock you’ll see a Thermos flask Move back to where you found the Emergency box and head the only way you haven’t been, you’ll see a generator in front of you. Just as you go to turn it on you’ll be attacked by three Taken. It’s unlikely you’ll be able to turn on the generator without getting hurt so fight them with your flashlight, flares and revolver. You can heal yourself in the light when you turn the generator on. There’s a manuscript and a shotgun in the Biltmore Logging Company shed next to the generator. Move to the box indicated by a green light that activated when you turned the generator on. This will allow you to control a crane with the log that dangling in the air. Move the logs so they sit in between the two other set of stacked logs to form a broken bridge. You can exit the control panel and then head up the ladders behind you and jump across the makeshift bridge. Take a right across the bridge and on the table at the top of the broken steps you’ll find a can pyramid.
Move up the hill and enter the shed where you’ll find shotgun ammo and a Radio show collectible. Behind this shed there’s another shed with a hidden chest containing a flare gun. You’ll see the yellow arrows pointing in the right direction. Move back up the hill and you’ll find a manuscript on the path on the way up, you can’t miss it. If you stick to the right hand side of the path you’ll come to a small clearing where there’s a cliff face, you’ll find a Coffee Thermos by the rocks. Keep going down the path. Keep to the right hand path and you’ll reach a generator (area is called Safe Haven) where you’ll be attacked by two Taken. There’s some ammo here too. Stick to the right, hugging the cliff face and you’ll come across the next Coffee Thermos on the mountain. It’s best to have a flare gun handy here because you’ll get attacked by four or five taken. IF you do get hurt head back to Safe Haven and heal yourself.
You don't always have to stand and fight, run for your life!
Keep following the pathway forward and up toward the objective marker. It’s quite dark but there’s only one way you can go. You’ll find a manuscript on the path on the way up. At the next checkpoint at the top of the hill there’s an Emergency box with ammo. When you drop down from the rock ledge you’ll see more yellow arrows. That means a hidden crate so follow them around to a clearing of rocks. Now you need to move down the hill. You’ll be attacked by three Taken on the way down. At the creaky gate next the hut at the bottom of this path you’ll find another manuscript. In the hut you’ll find weapons, ammo and your first TV Show collectible, as well as a control panel. Activate the control panel.
Move through the open gates now and immediately turn off the power to the machine on your left. The winds picking up and it’s getting scary. Move through the logging area. Stucky will appear on top of a stack of logs and half a dozen or so Taken will attack. A good point to use the Flare Gun or shotgun. Stucky will prove a sterner test and he dashes around with speed. The Shotgun will take him down quicker but keep on the move and remember to dodge if he gets close. Move forward toward the next control point. There’s a Thermos Flask sitting on the tyre tread of that crane right in front of you. Open and activate the control panel.
Okay, now you’re moving toward the gas station. Nearly there. When you enter the gas station you’ll see a manuscript at the back of the Reindeer float. There’s also a Deer Fest sign right in the centre of the gas station where the pumps are. In the forecourt look around for the big gasoline sign and there’s a Coffee Thermos underneath. Behind the Gasoline sign there’s a road. Head down it to the tunnel where a truck is blocking the entrance. There’s another Coffee Thermos there. You’ll pay the price for your curiosity by being attacked by four or five Taken. You can just leg it back to gas station.
- Find a Phone
There’s a Nightmare Manuscript (if you’re playing Nightmare mode) on the wall next to the bathroom door at the back of the gas station. In the garage where you see the car there’s a TV Show. You’ll automatically be prompted to focus on it. You’re on TV, spooky! The phone is the next room. Pick it up and get the hell out of there. End of Episode 1.
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Collectible Summary
Manuscripts x 2 – You’ll be give two pages as you go toward the gas station
Nightmare Manuscript – On the fallen log that you have to cross to get over the fence
Coffee Thermos – On the floor behind the pickup after you see Stucky
Manuscript – On a pile of pallets in this logging area, not far from where you found last themos
Hidden Chest – Flick on the work light in the logging area and use it spot yellow arrows that will lead you to the chest
Manuscript – When you see the yellow crane take a left and it’s in a shed by an old tractor
Coffee Thermos – When you cross the river take a left and you’ll find it near the top
Manuscript – Go back to the log where you crossed the river and this time take a right across three logs and to a metal cabinet with a manuscript
Nightmare Manuscript – You’ll see this automatically once you leave the bridges and get onto the pathway
Hidden Chest – Follow the arrows in the second logging area. You’ll go up some ladders and then right to a shed
Coffee Thermos – In this area look for the dangling wood on the crane. If you go underneath it you should see it on a boulder to your right
Manuscript – By the generator in the Logging Company Building in this area
Can Pyramid – When you entered this logging area you will have noticed the broken stairs. It’s on a table here. You can get to it once you’ve activated the wynch and been able to cross to this area
Radio Show – In the next hut you see which has a healing light outside
Hidden Chest – Go behind the hut and wave your torch about to find yellow arrows
Manuscript – Can’t miss this one, it’s on the pathway that you have to follow to continue
Coffee Thermos – Check Shortly after getting the manuscript you’ll see the thermos on a rock to your side
Coffee Thermos – At the next safe haven take right between the boulders and up where you’ll it by two barrels
Manuscript – Right in the middle of the pathway as you continue
Hidden Chest – When you drop down head up the steep hill when you see the yellow markers
Manuscript – On the ground outside the next gate
TV Show – This is in the control room next to the gate
Coffee Thermos – After the stucky fight you’ll see it on one of the treads of the yellow crane
Nightmare Manuscript – Back of main building pinned next to ladies toilet
Manuscript – Check out the parade float
Coffee Thermos – Underneath the illuminate sign in the gas station
Coffee Thermos – Head onto the road past the gas station
TV Show – Autmotically when you enter main building at Gas Station
Sign – Read the Deefest sign in the next room in the main building
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Once you are inside the gas station, there is a Deerfest poster to be read on the end of the shelves across from the wiper blades.