A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

Key Takeaways

Choose the right difficulty: Easy for newbies, Hard for a challenge, Survivor for experts.
Watch your footsteps: Avoid noisy terrain with rubble or puddles to stay stealthy.
Manage stress levels: Prevent asthma attacks by monitoring stress and using inhalers.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead puts the player’s survival and stealth skills to the test. The game emphasizes the use of sound as the primary way for the creature to detect the player’s movements. There are also different mechanics, like using the Phonometer, disabling sound traps, and most important of all, keeping stress levels in check.

Even at the lowest difficulty, players may still have trouble navigating the dangerous locations of The Quiet Place and The Road Ahead. Any mistake even as small as opening a door a little too quickly will bring down the creature upon the players, resulting in a Game Over screen. Here are some of the best survival tips that can help players make their playthrough a little easier.

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead: All Toy Collectibles Locations (Completionist Trophy)

Toys are collectibles in A Quiet Place The Road Ahead hidden away in various locations that players can find to get in-game credits for extra content.

7 Choose A Comfortable Difficulty

Easy, Normal, Hard, or Survivor

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead - Choosing Difficulty

There are 4 difficulty options in A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, and each one makes survivability in the game harder in various ways. The higher the difficulty, the fewer resources players will find, and the easier it will be for creatures to detect sounds.

For players new to survival horror games, normal or easy difficulty will be a great choice. Those who have played survival horror games and feel up to the challenge should go for Hard mode. And for die-hard players who live and breathe survival horror games, Survivor Mode is perfect. There are different trophies tied to beating the game in these difficulties.

6 Watch Your Step

Avoid Noisy Terrain

Intense stealth horror in A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead - Checking abandoned tunnel

The core mechanic of The Road Ahead is using stealth to keep the sound levels to a minimum. Players are given a Phonometer to track both the environment and Alex’s sounds. This makes it easier to keep track of sound levels and stop when the levels get too high, since this will increase the chances of the creature pouncing.

To reduce sound levels, make sure to first check what the ground is like. If there’s scattered rubble, broken glass, or water puddles on the ground, Alex’s footsteps will be louder. Avoid this by choosing to either walk slowly, crouched, or only within the areas covered with sand.

The character can die anywhere in the game. Even if the creature isn’t patrolling an area, making too much noise will instantly trigger Alex’s death animation, followed by a Game Over screen.

5 Manage Stress Levels

Let Alex Catch Her Breath

The other major mechanic in the game is keeping the stress levels in control. Alex has asthma, which acts up when she witnesses stressful events or does strenuous activities like running too much. If the stress level becomes too high, Alex will suffer an asthma attack. In this case, players will have to press the prompted button on the right of the circle teachers the inner section to recover.

Try to avoid asthma attacks altogether by keeping an eye on the lungs icon on the top-left of the screen. Once it becomes red, use inhalers to reduce stress levels before it reaches critical levels.

A Way To Move More Quietly

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead - Pouring Sand

To further reduce the sound of footsteps, the game lets players create their own sand path. This is possible when players are able to pick up sandbags and pour the sand on the ground while walking.

Walking on sand paths helps muffle Alex’s footsteps, making it easier to go back and forth in an area. This is immensely useful when players are solving a puzzle to progress to the next area.

3 Ration Flashlight Usage

Don’t Run Out Of Battery

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead Aiming A Flashlight

Players will be making their way through several dark buildings and wooded areas at night, making the flashlight their biggest ally. It helps with visibility and runs on batteries that Alex can find scattered in different places.

Depending on the difficulty, the number of batteries players can collect will either be scarce or quite abundant. Batteries are a limited resource, and the player will have to replace them frequently. So, it’s best to conserve the flashlight and only use it in darker areas.

2 Keep a Lookout for Collectibles & Documents

Toys Are Especially Important

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead - Toy in Ducts

As players make their way through rooms, hallways, and air vents, they’ll stumble upon various collectibles such as mixtapes and toys. Although collecting all the mixtapes will unlock different trophies for the game, toys are much more valuable.

Finding and collecting hidden space shuttles (toys) will unlock various trophies, as well as grant players in-game credits. These credits can be used to unlock 3D character models and concept art in The Road Ahead. Make sure to explore every area thoroughly and check every nook and cranny to find out all the collectibles in the game.

1 Distract the Monster with Bricks

Don’t Underestimate Throwables

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead - Picking Up Brick

This survival tip is meant for areas with the creature patrolling. To distract, or direct the creature away from you to towards a certain location, use throwable objects like bricks. Bricks can be found lying around on the ground, especially in open areas like the forest, streets, or warehouses. Simply pick them up and throw them at a designated location to distract the creature.

These tips are some of the most crucial ones that players need to use to survive in A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. Overall, playing the game will take some getting used to due to the unforgiving sound mechanic. If players keep the sound levels down and slowly get through each area, the game will become easier to deal with.