Journey to the Underwater Caves

Enter the sewers from Rotwood Outskirts. Save at the desk and access storage.

Go up to find two locked doors requiring different medallions.

Go down to control your partner (Marcus for Natalie, Katla for Jack). Navigate sewer liquid, avoiding green zombies (two knife hits to kill).

Open a gate with a switch, leading to a liquid balancing puzzle. Solve it to get a medallion.

Your partner retrieves the medallion and hands it over. Use it to unlock one of two gates.

If playing as Jack: Enter the WRot Radio Station. Solve the wave-matching puzzle to unlock a gate, then fight a unique boss to get the Radio Station key. Use the key to unlock the main gate to Rotwood Downtown.

If playing as Natalie: Enter Barlow’s Meat Shop. Find a tape detailing a locker code. Save and access storage.

In the main shop, solve the skull puzzle: Cow, Deer, Pig, Goat. This opens the main door. After a safe room, fight a unique boss to get the Barlow’s Meat Shop Key. Use it to unlock the gate to Rotwood Downtown.

Rotwood Downtown: Find three altars at a locked door leading to Rotwood Cemetery. You need three unique canes.

Bethany’s Curse And Crafts: From the intersection, go past the school gate. Find a garage with resources and storage.

Enter Bethany’s Curse and Crafts. Find a moth monument. Collect the first moth part. Go downstairs, solve the riddle on the wall.

Inside the room, rotate the triangle to match portraits: The Lovers to The Stars, The Devil to The Sun, Death to The Moon. Collect the second moth part. Combine parts and place in the monument to get the first cane.

Gunderson’s General Store: Move deeper from Bethany’s. Find a journal tape and a corpse with the gun room key.

Find the grenade launcher upstairs. Return to the room with the corpse and move ahead to find Bill and Zach. Zach gives you a Ritual Medallion. Save the game.

Exit and use the sewer opening tool. Navigate sewers with green liquid and zombies to reach a ladder.

Vincent Rypard’s House: After resurfacing, go through Vincent Rypard’s house. Defeat two bloated zombies. Save and access storage.

Optional puzzle: Press buttons on portraits (Life, Pain, Death) to reveal a secret pathway to the basement laboratory.

Use the control panel to activate the sewer lift, saving your partner. Exit the house. Find a Ripper’s Tape in a mouth-tree. Interact with the sewer to return to downtown.

The Crimson Reel: Use the Ritual Medallion at the gate. Fight zombies.

Go to Video Outlaw for the Crimson Reel key. Save and access storage upstairs. Use the hammer to break planks behind the counter, leading to the basement.

Find a journal tape and a corpse with the Crimson Reel key.

Enter the cinema. Kill two flying zombies, then another in the movie room. Find the Serpent Cane. Return to downtown.

The Rotwood School: Go left after entering the section. Rush past small zombies outside. Enter the school, reach the safe room.

Use shotgun on lined-up zombies. In the deepest room, kill the witch-like zombie. Pick up the Skull Cane from the pedestal. Return to downtown.