Don't want to rely on auto-save? Here is how you can save your game in Alan Wake 2.
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One of the most important features and concerns in survival horror games is how it lets you save your progress. As such, it comes as no surprise if you are looking for a way to manually save your game in Alan Wake 2. This is especially true at the start when the game doesn’t exactly tell you how it is done.
This game does support an auto-save feature, which is very crucial as most of the time you die unexpectedly. But since it is automatic you can’t always rely on it especially if you are about to exit the game as you may lose some progress and have to redo certain areas. So here is how saving works in this game.
To save your game you have to go to the Break Room and interact with the thermos. You can think of it as the typewriter in Resident Evil games as their workings are quite similar. It is easy recognize the room as it will have bright light emanating. Simply walk over to the Thermos and you get two options:
Quicksave overwrites your previous checkpoint save. While using manual save lets you pick a save slot that you want to use. You get only three slots to choose from.
An important thing to remember is that Break Rooms aren’t available from the start. In order to unlock them you will have to play for around an hour or more. When you reach the second chapter you should come across your first Break Room and thus you can use it.
Auto-save takes place whenever you reach certain checkpoints in the game. Look out for the Game Saved prompt on the top right corner of the screen. It is highly recommended that if you are about to end your play session then you do so at a break room as auto-save might not let you continue from the exact place where you left.
With that, you now know how to manually save the game and how auto-save works in Alan Wake 2. Be sure to also check our Alan Wake 2 section to get more help on other topics of this game.