Alan Wake 2 All Writer’s Journey Video Locations

Alan Wake 2 contains 8 Writer’s Journey Video Locations. All Videos are needed for the The Trail of the Writer trophy/achievement. Four of the videos are highly missable, while three of them are story-related and cannot be missed.

Writer’s Journey Videos are videos triggered when getting in close proximity to the relevant TV. These will start without interaction, and they will register as soon as they start, so you do not need to watch them if you don’t want to.

This guide uses the in-game chapter names as displayed on the save game (which are different from the chapter names in trophy/achievement list). They are exclusively found in Alan’s story sections. None of them are in Saga’s story sections.

Collectible Overview:

• Alan Wake 2 Collectible Guide

Initiation 1: Late Night

Writer’s Journey Video 1 – The Dark Place
Automatic story-related item, unlocks automatically at the end of the chapter during the final cutscene.

Writer’s Journey Video 2 – Writing
North of the ringing payphone, walk up to the TVs at Vision TV Shop to trigger it. This will also appear as an unmissable video at the end of Initiation 2: Casey, so if you miss it here you will get it later.

Initiation 2: Casey

Writer’s Journey Video 3 – Murder Sites
Automatic story-related collectible, cannot be missed. It unlocks while playing through the subway section, there will come a point where you must walk through a break room to advance (can’t be missed), at this point you are given the Video automatically.

Initiation 4: We Sing

[MISSABLE] Writer’s Journey Video 4 – The Dark Presence
North of the payphone, walk up to the TVs at Vision TV Shop to trigger it, same location as the second video in Initiation 2. This will be available from now until the end of Initiation 5: Room 665 when you go to enter Parliament Tower, but after that it won’t appear in future chapters!

Initiation 5: Room 665

[MISSABLE] Writer’s Journey Video 5 – Visions
Inside Room 101 of Oceanview Hotel, which is locked. The key for it is found in the Ballroom break room. This is only available until you end the chapter by entering Parliament Tower, so make sure to get it before you leave the hotel!

Initiation 7: Masks

[HIGHLY MISSABLE] Writer’s Journey Video 6 – Drowning
After reaching the Janitor’s Room, where the Janitor awaits you, go through the door behind him, down to the basement. At the end of the stairs turn right, enter the door at the end of the right path, hold / to use the Light Shift. Step outside this room and turn to your immediate right, where there was a brick wall before you can now go downstairs. Go to the Workshop in the basement and use Light Shift there to make a Shoebox appear. You HAVE TO interact with the shoebox and pick up Alice’s Photographs from it. This is necessary to trigger the Video at the end of the chapter. Now go back up one floor and proceed to the TV at the end of the level, in the north-west room on the map. Interact with the TV, it will show the black screen “End of Part”. After this screen it will show the new Video “Drowning” in the bottom left of the screen. DO NOT INTERACT WITH THE TV UNTIL YOU COLLECTED ALICE’S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SHOEBOX! If you didn’t collect Alice’s Photographs from the Shoebox you won’t get the video and it will have been missed. You can reload one of the previous Autosaves if you missed it. Check the TV in Alan’s Writer’s Room to confirm it counted correctly.

Initiation 8: Zane’s Film

Writer’s Journey Video 7 – Stop Writing
In the break room to the right of the Concession Stand.

[MISSABLE] Writer’s Journey Video 8 – Initiation
When you enter the movie screen and need to find the projector room, during the third loop of the area this will be behind a door you have to open to progress. Make sure to walk in and trigger it, as simply opening the door is enough to continue progressing but won’t trigger the video. Make sure to trigger it before leaving this room!

That’s all of the Writer’s Journey Videos in Alan Wake II. For all other Collectible Types refer to Alan Wake 2 Collectible Guide.