Summary

• The Alan Wake series has a large number of collectibles to find, with associated achievements and some offering valuable loot or deeper insight into the world.
• Some of the collectibles, like the Pyramids, Night Springs video games, and Alarm Clocks, can be challenging to find due to lack of visual cues or audio cues.
• The most interesting collectibles include the Cardboard Standees, Thermoses, Radio Broadcasts, and Dark Place Television, which provide additional lore and context to the story, as well as unique rewards.

When it comes to things for you to find across the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alan Wake series, you’ll find that it’s not a lake, but an ocean of collectibles for you to search for. Each game in the series has plenty for you to look for, usually with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an associated achievement for a whole set.

Most of them are tchotchkes that do little but trigger that 🌟satisfying bleep-bloop of an achievement being unlocked, but some of them give you deeper insight into the world of Alan Wake. More importantly, some of them also come with some sweet loot. But which items in the three-game collectathon are the best? 🌱Here they all are, ranked.

16 Can Pyramiཧds ܫ

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These things. As cool as it sounds to shoot a pyramid of empties, the fact of the matter is that finding these is a chore. They don’t stand out visually or have a related audio cue to help you spot them, not to mention they can end up in some r📖andom places.

🔯In fact, they’re such a chore that you only have to find and topple about half of them 𓃲to get the related achievement.

15 🍒 ဣ Night Springs Video Games

Alan Wake - Special 2: The Writer

The Night Springs video games are a nod to Alan Wake’s media. Other than the humorous concept (imagine Twilight Zone: The Game), these don’t reall𝐆y have much going for them.

You’ll have to look into some nooks and crannies to find 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:all ten copies scattered through the 🧔DLC. They have an associated sound cue when near, a neat little nod to their roots on the Xbox 360, but it&♍rsquo;s so quiet, you might not be able to hear it over some of the ambient noi🃏ses of the Dark Place.

14 Alarm✤ Clocks

Alan Wake - Special 1: The Signal

Like most of the collectibles in the first Alan Wake, the alarm clocks are there to be collected and that’s about🧸 it, adding no lore or other unlocks, save for an achievement. If we’re reaching, they coul🦩d represent Alan’s need to ‘wake up’ from his Dark Place-induced mania.

Alarm Clocks are tucked away o🗹ut of sight, so you’ll need to search for them a bit, but their ubiquitous ticking means t🌃hat you’ll always know when you’re near one.

13 Deer Heads 💦

Alan Wake 2

There seems to be some kinship between Saga and deer, likely a nod to her Nordic roots, or her natural empathy, from what her collection of these implies. There are 12 of these to find, scattered across the three 'real world' areas of Cauldron Lake for Saga to find.

They’re not always easy to spot, especially on night maps, and the only way to track your progress with them is by interacting with the deer head in Saga’s mind place. Other than a brief, if interesting, sequence at the Elderwood Lodge, once you collect all these, you also get a huge stash of resources (flares, flashbangs, bullets, etc.). Curiously, you don’t get an💦 achievement.

12 𝐆 Cardboꦅard Standees

Alan Wake - Special 1: The Signal

The cardboard standees are not always easy to find, but they always stand out. They&rsqu🍰o;re the most interesting of the AW1 collectibles, save for the Manuscript Pages, each depicting a member of Alan Wake’s supporting cast, s⛄imilar to the standee of Alan that Barry Wheeler carries around the game.

Each one comes with a blurb about a theᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚoretical and humorous book about the depicted character, as sensational as if B🍬arry had written them himself.

11 Thermoses

Alan Wake

Yes, like most of the collectibles in the first game, the Thermoses just function to be collected, adding little to the game save for having to scour the map so that you can unlock an achievement. But, unlike most of those other items, the Thermoses (Thermii?) are iconic.

Initially a cheeky little reference to Twin Peaks and some damn fine coffee, the Thermoses have become an icon in their own right. Instantly recognizable, they’ve become Altered items, a spr💛ing of hot, refreshing coffee that allows Saga and Alan some reprieve (and for you to 🗹save your game).

10 Radio Broadcasts ꦆ ✤

Alan Wake Series

Found throughout the whole series, Radio Broadcasts provide extra lore to the world🔯 of Alan Wake, filling in some of the details in the more mundane world that exi🐽sts in the periphery of the story.

While finding them all only nets you an achievement in the first game, they provide something far more import𒐪ant for the series as a whole: more lore. From an outside perspective into the story, to catch-ups with important characters, you learn a lot.

9 W𝄹ords Of Power

Alan Wake 2

Words of Power are one of two collectibles (three if you count Echoes) found in the Dark Place. Each one falls into a certain category that powers up an aspect of Alan. You can spend these like൲ skill poinꦍts to power up your equipment or give you new capabilities.

You can usually find these in an area by following the yellow luminescent paint, but the dream logic of the Dark Place means that you might end up searching around to find them. They don’t add much lore-wise, but they’ll help keep Alan alive at least. Only the first one you find gets yo☂u an achievement.

8 ꧒ Dark Plac✱e Television

Alan Wake 2

The televisions found in the Dark Place give us rare insight into Alan’s mind in the intervening 13 years between the main games. He’s… not doing great. At times, it's hard to watch, but these glimpses give valuable context into Alan’s actions and thickens the plot in some interesting ways.

Finding all of these nets you the On The Trail of The Writer achievement and, for the most part, you can’t miss them. If you’re the type to search around a bit before ꦿadvancing, you’r🍃e almost certain to get this achievement.

7 Cult Stashes 💫

Alan Wake 2

Cult Stashes are the secret stashes of equipment hidden 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:around the Cauldron Lake locales by the Cult of the Tree. Most of them are pretty easy to spot through regular gameplay, though you might 🌌miss a few if you don’t go off the beaten path. Luckily, you can find maps that💮 show you where each one is about halfway through the game.

Each of ౠthese boxes is locked and requires solving a puzzle to open them. These range from fun little jaunts for nearby clues to some infuri👍ating high school-level math. The prizes are usually just common resources, but a few of them are quite valuable, like inventory-expanding pouches or even a weapon. The associated achievement is shared with the Lunchboxes, meaning you’ll have to find all of both sets for the unlock.