10 Hardest-To-Find Alan Wake 2 Missable Collectibles & Trophies

01.11.2023 - 17:47 / screenrant.com / Saga Anderson / Alan Wake

Released in Fall 2023, Remedy Entertainment and Epic Games Publishing's phenomenal survival horror game is a horror tour de force. Like many games, features a number of collectible items as well as trophies for satisfying certain criteria. While many of the game's achievements cannot be missed, or can at least be completed at the player's leisure, a number are time-sensitive and can all too easily be overlooked or neglected.

The events of take place 13 years after those of the first game in the series,. The game sees the return of the titular protagonist, the novelist Alan Wake. Alan finds himself trapped in a scary and dangerous alternate dimension, and Alan's only hope of escape is the fact that his writing can manipulate said dimension. While trying to write his way to safety, Alan's tale traps Saga Anderson, an FBI agent. Throughout the game, there are a number of collectibles and achievements that can easily be missed — and once missed, cannot be returned to and retrieved.

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The trophy Secret Stashes is one of 's small number of missable achievements. Though very easy to unlock — the player must simply discover one Cult Stash and one Lunch Box — it is all too easy to fail to locate, or simply neglect to interact with any of the Cult Stashes or Lunch Boxes that litter the game's spooky landscape. While it is nearly impossible to miss all the Cult Stashes, it is far easier to stumble past a discarded Lunch Box and fail to notice that it can be interacted with and may contain some valuable resources.

Located in Bright Falls in the Sherif Station employee lounge is a missable Koskela Brother Commercial — Adventure Tours. If Sage does not enter the employee’s lounge before the end of the chapter Return 3: Local Girl, there will be no way to return to trigger the commercial. This will unfortunately cause The Koskela Brothers achievement to become blocked, as obtaining it requires the player to have watched all six Koskela Brothers commercials.

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Located at the end of the chapter Initiation 1: Late Night, the first Writer's Journey Video, The Dark Presence, is a particularly ominous look into the unstable mind of a writer on the edge. Despite being the first in the series of such videos, the Writer's Journey Video: The Dark Presence is easily missed. If it is not triggered before the end of the Initiation 5: Room 665 chapter, Alan will be unable to return to it, and therefore, the opportunity to watch it will be gone. Though this is a pain in its own right, failing to watch all the Writer's Journey Videos will prevent the player from unlocking an achievement.

The final Writer's Journey Video, Initiation,