The ultimate Silent Hill 2 Remake guide and walkthrough for survival

This Silent Hill 2 Remake walkthrough guide will help you survive the fog-drenched town, with help for everything from combat to puzzles, locations, exploration and more. All compiled and written by several members of the GamesRadar+ team after completing the game.

Everything you'll need is broken down into sections, so use the sidebar to the left to jump around and find answers to whatever problem you're trying to solve. Or, work though it in order as you play the game. Either way the information we've gathered here will makes things a lot easier.

Getting Started

If you're still in the first couple of hours of Silent Hill 2 Remake, or yet to start entirely, here's some fundamental things that cover what you need to know first.

• Want to know how long is the Silent Hill 2 Remake? If you're not certain how much game is ahead of you we've laid out the details here .
• Some Silent Hill 2 Remake tips will do a lot to keep you alive, as we've collated all the little bits of advice we wish we knew before playing. Whether it's the nuances of combat, how to spot an enemy sneaking up on you, the way puzzles work or more besides, our tips and tricks will turn you from James Blunderland to somebody with an actual chance of survival.
• Want to find all the Silent Hill 2 Remake maps? With numerous maps scattered around the game, the last thing you want to do is miss them - and we can show you where they're all found.

Silent Hill 2 town walkthrough and guides

Once you have these essentials down, it's time to start playing the game properly. Silent Hill 2 starts throwing challenges at you straight away, arranged in the following order.

• James has barely entered the town itself before he needs to find the Silent Hill 2 Remake Auto Parts key, as a locked garage door blocks him from progressing.
• As you enter the town itself you can find the Silent Hill 2 Remake Grand Market keypad code, an optional puzzle where you open up a supermarket in order to get a free stockpile of supplies. At this point you don't have much, so every little bit helps.
• Much of the early game revolves around the Silent Hill 2 Remake jukebox in Neely's Bar, a rickety old music player that needs repairs, a specific vinyl, and a coin to run. Our guide can tell you where to find all of that and what to do.
• A vague clue is all you get find the Silent Hill 2 Remake greenish-blue car, where you'll get a key you need to proceed. If you want help locating this, we can help you find it among the murky backstreets.

Silent Hill 2 Wood Side Apartments walkthrough and guides

Silent Hill 2 Wood Side Apartments is the first major area you can expect to explore, abandoned and filled with lurking horrors, not to mention a few tortured souls along the way. Here's what to expect

• The first thing you'll likely discover upon entering Wood Side is the Silent Hill 2 Remake coin cabinet, a strange device that requires three coins to operate. Finding these things isn't easy so our guide will do a lot to help you progress.
• Further into Wood Side, you'll likely find the curious Silent Hill 2 Remake Golden Apple, a fruit that serves no clear purpose when you first get it but ends up being a very peculiar key for a very peculiar lock - our guide explains how it works.
• Behind the locked door opened by the Golden Apple, you'll find a safe and all sorts of strange markings on the walls. Working out this Silent Hill 2 Remake Wood Side safe code is a confusing puzzle based on numbers, graffiti.
• If you've found - or want to find - the Silent Hill 2 Remake courtyard key, that's a step that can cause a lot of aggravation, as finding it can throw off a lot of players. We can show you where it's hiding, and where it needs to be used.

Silent Hill 2 Blue Creek Apartments guide

Progress through the Silent Hill 2 Wood Side and James will transition into the decidedly darker - and nastier - Blue Creek Apartments in the Other World, where new challenges, puzzles and perils start coming at you thick and fast.

• The big challenge that connects everything in Blue Creek is the Silent Hill 2 Remake clock puzzle - a grandfather clock with missing hands and a poem clue that has no clear meaning at first glance. However, this pins together the entire area and we can help you through it all.
• Finding the first hand for the clock requires you to solve the Silent Hill 2 Remake radio puzzle, where an old-fashioned radio is hanging from the ceiling in chains. Breaking it out requires finding valves, the locations of which we've got here.
• Finding the second hand for the grandfather clock is easy, but after getting it you'll be cut off from getting back. Finding a new route means solving the Silent Hill 2 Remake seesaw puzzle, where you must find a way to balance a pigeon and a swan. No, really.
• The final of the clock hands - and a major puzzles in Blue Creek - is the Silent Hill 2 Remake moth puzzle, where a combination lock relates to various moths and symbols on the wall. Decoding this is your last brain-teaser before you can leave the Blue Creek Apartments…
• … But not your last challenge, as the way out is cut off by the Silent Hill 2 Remake Pyramid Head boss fight - he finally decides he's had enough of James, and you will need to be careful if you want to survive this encounter and finally leave the apartments for good.

Silent Hill 2 streets and motel guide

After escaping the apartments, you have a little time to explore the streets of Silent Hill and Rosewater Park before eventually progressing to the Silent Hill 2 Brookhaven Hospital location. There's a couple of significant challenges along the way that are worth keeping in mind here.

• The Silent Hill 2 Remake Garage Jack is an optional area you'll find on the other side of the park. It's worth getting the lever needed to open it as the resources and collectibles inside are worth getting. We can show you where it's hiding - and, if you missed your chance, how you can reopen it later. (This can affect the ending options though so read that guide to find out more.)
• Far less optional is the Silent Hill 2 Remake motel safe code. Getting through the motel is on the main path, and a locked gate cuts off your route through the suburban gardens beyond. Opening the safe gets you the gate key, and the code isn't too far away, if you know where to look.

Silent Hill 2 Brookhaven Hospital guides

After a scene in a strip club you'll find yourself entering Brookhaven Hospital to try and save a little girl - an area that's deadlier than any before it. Here's what to expect as you progress.

• Inside the hospital your first priority is finding a way to pop a lockbox with a key inside - which means working out the Silent Hill 2 Remake hospital padlock code. That's based on photos in the lobby, and a decoding note left behind by one of the nurses.
• In the basement you need to find the Silent Hill 2 Remake hospital generator and refuel it to get the elevators going, which will then allow you access to the second floor. The basement can be labyrinthine and very dark, so our guide will show you where to find fuel and a how carry it around.
• As everybody in a survival horror game knows, your first priority is better firepower. So, we've got the location of the optional Silent Hill 2 Remake shotgun here. It's not something you can get immediately, but is certainly not something you want to miss later on.
• Up on 2F, you'll find the hand in the Silent Hill 2 Remake Director's Office, a stone appendage with a key gripped in its fingers. Getting that out won't be easy and this is another big puzzle that will carry you through the whole of Brookhaven area.
• Not far from the stone hand is the Silent Hill 2 Remake Nurses' Office, locked off by keypad and with no obvious code. It's actually written down on the lower floors… sort of. We'll explain how it works and where you can find the information.
• If you found the shotgun you probably also found the Silent Hill 2 Remake Bent Needle, stuck in the back of a teddy bear. The purpose of this object is not clear when you find it so we'll explain how it's used and what you can get with it.
• Up on the third floor of Brookhaven you can find the Silent Hill 2 hospital combination lock and X-Ray puzzle, where James can arrange X-Rays on a board to reveal key information. We can show you how it's solved - and how you're probably missing some pieces of that puzzle you didn't know about.
• Once you have the three bracelets and open the hand, you'll be able to crack open the Silent Hill 2 Remake Director's Office Safe, though it isn't easy, as there's ancient books, strange symbols, and a puzzle about a lion to solve before you do - all of which we can help you with.

Silent Hill 2 historical society and prison guides

Eventually you'll move on to the Silent Hill 2 historical society and, through there, the prison. This marks the game veering resolutely into darker territory and upping the challenge as a result.

• The Silent Hill 2 Remake Bug Room code can be confusing as, well it's not actually a puzzle and is, instead, all about chance.
• The Silent Hill 2 Remake Electric Chair puzzle appears in the prison and will have you trying to pull levers in a certain order to get power back on.
• The Silent Hill 2 Remake Prison weights and scales puzzle is a lengthy, multi stage puzzle that occupies most of your prison time.
• And, finally, the Silent Hill 2 Remake gallows poem puzzle will see you finally get out of this area and on to (worse) things

Silent Hill 2 Labyrinth guide

The Silent Hill 2 Labyrinth is confusing, repeating area that isn't really a highlight for the game so we've got some help here with it's toughest parts:

• The Silent Hill 2 Remake rotating cube puzzle is the Labyrinth section as you move a cube to access different areas and get what you need to escape.
• Before you can escape, though, you'll need to beat the Silent Hill 2 Remake Eddie fight which can be tough.

Silent Hill 2 Lakeview Hotel guides

Lakeview hotel is the final area in Silent Hill 2 and will take you to the game's final conclusion. However, there's a lot of puzzles, some tough challenges and a few curveballs to natvigate.

• The Silent Hill 2 Remake music box is the main puzzle for the Hotel that nearly everything else you do here feeds into.
• You will almost certainly need help for the Silent Hill 2 Remake book puzzle as it has one of the least intuitive answers ever devised.
• The Silent Hill 2 Remake Suitcase and Vanity Mirror puzzle, by comparison is a lot simpler, but has some easy to miss points.
• The Silent Hill 2 Remake gem box puzzle isn't too hard but does take place under some challenging conditions. So take all the help you can get.
• At a certain point you'll want to know where to get your items back in Silent Hill 2 Remake. So with will show you where.

All the endings

If you're out for a particular conclusion, we've got all the Silent Hill 2 Remake endings listed here, and how you can get them yourself!

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