In The Evil Within: “Claws of the Horde,” I’ll share my own strategy and tips, including the locations of loot on the path from under the stone bridge to the village, the locations of loot around and inside the first house in the village, how to disarm sensor bombs, the locations of booby traps, the location of the statue in the watchtower, and other helpful tips needed during the game.
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2024–09–27 🗺️Corrected errors in the village map and added the location of bear traps around the watchtower.
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👻Case 3. 「 Claws of the Horde① 」 Loot info
🗺️Stage 1 (Under the Stone Bridge)
👁️Starting Point (Under the Stone Bridge), 🏘️Village: Checkpoint
🗺️Village Map, 🏠️House 1, 🪤How to disarm Sensor Bomb Trap
🏠️Outside Window of House 1, 🏠Second Floor of House 1
🪟How to Back Away from the Window, 👁️Doctor
⚙️How to Open the Barricade, 🏠Second Floor of House 2,
🅰️Plan A, 🅱️Plan B, 🏠1F of House 2, 🧟Monsters in the Passage
📚The Evil Within (2014) walkthrough content
👻Case 3. 「 Claws of the Horde① 」 Loot info
In this mission, you can acquire
an axe, torch, revolver ammunition, grenades, multiple green gel bottles, parts, matches, and syringes.
🗺️Stage 1 (Under the Stone Bridge)
1️⃣Syringe, 2️⃣Green Gel Bottle, 3️⃣Bullets
4️⃣Matches, 5️⃣Pile of Corpses, 6️⃣Entrance to the Next Stage
👁️Starting Point (Under the Stone Bridge)
The boxes near the starting point don’t contain anything even if you break them, but there is a syringe at position 1 on the map, and a green gel bottle at position 2.
If you go under the stone bridge, you’ll find bullets on the table to the left. After passing under the bridge and going up the stairs, you’ll find matches and a pile of corpses that need to be burned.
The eyeball indicator you see at this point is due to the monsters patrolling above on the stone bridge. However, shooting at them won’t hit, as it’s intended just to create a sense of fear, so you can ignore it.
After passing the pile of corpses and following the path, a door will open. Once you go inside, the door will close behind you.
🏘️Village: Checkpoint
Directly ahead at the checkpoint, at position 1 on the bottom left of the map, there is a green gel bottle.
You can ignore the hanging corpse inside the small hut at position 2. Around it, there is a syringe, a green gel bottle, and other items.
🗺️Village Map
This article covers content related to House 1 and House 2 from the entrance on the map below. Information about the mirror that leads to the hospital in House 2 will be provided in the next article.
When you first get near House 1, you should enter the first floor to find an axe in front of the stairs leading to the second floor. If you go there later or access it via the second floor of House 2, the axe will not be there. Having the axe can be helpful when dealing with monsters in House 2.
🏠️House 1
The map below is related to the first floor of House 1. The red line at position 6 indicates a location where a barricade drops down to block your way if you try to cross towards House 3.
There are boxes at positions 1 to 5 that contain items when broken, and one of them contains a grenade. You can ignore the corpse at position 3. The yellow arrow shows the stairs leading to the second floor, where, as shown in the screenshot, an axe is embedded in the wall. Like a torch, it can be used as a melee weapon.
When holding a melee weapon, press the F key to break boxes. Pressing the F key will break the box using a melee attack, but if you press the left mouse button, you’ll use the axe. The axe can take out a single monster or multiple monsters charging at you from roughly the same spot in one hit. Don’t waste it on breaking boxes~
🪤How to disarm Sensor Bomb Trap
The red light, like the one on the bottom left, indicates a bomb with a motion sensor. If you run or walk upright near it, it will beep for 2–3 seconds before exploding. If you crouch and approach it to disarm it, you’ll see a screen like the one on the bottom right. Rotate clockwise and stop on the blue section to disarm it;
otherwise, it will explode as shown below.
When the blue section is wide, as shown below, you can press the spacebar at about the position indicated on the bottom left to disarm it. In later missions, the blue section becomes narrower. Disarming the trap rewards you with parts.
When there are many monsters around, you can leave the trap armed and later shoot it or throw a glass bottle at it when monsters pass by to set it off. This technique will be explained in the next chapter.
🏠️Outside Window of House 1
After disarming the bomb trap, you’ll see a green gel bottle outside the window, and a loot box next to it. You can walk around outside, but if you attempt to head towards House 3, a barricade will drop down, blocking the path.
You can break the window with a melee attack, and by pressing the spacebar once or twice quickly at the window, you can climb through.
🏠Second Floor of House 1
As you go up the stairs, there’s a booby trap directly ahead, as seen in the bottom right screenshot. Referring to the map on the bottom left, you’ll find green gel bottles, matches, and loot boxes around positions 1 to 3. The ladder near position 2 leads to the second floor of the adjacent barn. This house doesn’t have a third floor, but there is a ladder at about that height that connects to this house.
This ladder can be used at the end of this chapter when escaping from the executioner.
By kicking the ladder from the second floor of the barn, it will drop down, allowing you to climb up and down.
🪟How to Back Away from the Window
After using “Examine” to look outside from the second floors of houses or the watchtower, you can return to the previous state by pressing the C key. The shortcut for “Back” is not displayed on the screen.
👁️Doctor
While you’re moving around the second floor, you’ll hear the voice saying, “This way, over here.” Open the door, and a cutscene will play that cannot be skipped, during which the doctor explains the destination.
⚙️How to Open the Barricade
After speaking with the doctor, you’ll find an item on the left (position 6) and a crank on the right (position 5). Turn the crank to open the barricade. If you find that you can’t turn the crank after the doctor has gone down, wait a bit. The doctor will do something and then say, “There is a crank on the terrace,” at which point you’ll be able to turn it.
🏠 Second Floor of House 2
There is a loot box at position 1, but collect it later and proceed to position 2. Even if the eyeball indicator appears, simply holding an axe allows you to handle the situation easily. Two monsters will climb up in succession. Use the axe on the first monster, and then either use the torch it drops to deal with the next monster or burn the fallen one to ignite them together.
However, if the second monster reaches the top of the stairs, it will attack with a shotgun, which is dangerous. Therefore, grab the items later and focus on taking out the monsters first. Note that there is a bomb trap with a motion sensor on the lower floor, but it won’t trigger for the monsters.
🅰️ Plan A (Attack Method 1)
Wait briefly at the position on the bottom left, and when you see a monster coming up with a torch, as shown in the screenshot, approach and left-click to attack. If your position is slightly higher, you will kick them away, as shown below.
When you’re at a similar height, attack with the axe to smash the monster’s head.
Then, pick up the dropped torch and attack the shotgun-wielding monster as it reaches the middle of the stairs, as shown below, to set it on fire. For the first time, you may feel rushed when picking up the green gel and torch from the floor, but if you defeat the first monster and immediately “pick up” the items, there will be plenty of time.
🅱️ Plan B (Attack Method 2)
Wait at a position where you can quickly burn the fallen monster, then burn them when the second monster reaches the position in the bottom left to set both on fire. This way, you can save the torch for dealing with the monsters outside.
🏠First Floor of House 2
On your way down the stairs, there is a sensor bomb. Crouch down as you go! There are matches at position 1, a green gel bottle inside the drawer at position 2, a loot box at position 3, and Sebastian’s journal at position 4, which you need to collect to activate the mirror portal. Map Fragment 4 is in front of it. However, I will explain more about it in the next article, so don’t go there just yet. For those who want to go now, here’s a tip:
The reason for splitting the content this way is that if you take the precious torch you have right now to the hospital, you will lose it.
There is another sensor bomb on the opposite wall. If you move without thinking, it will explode.
🧟 Monsters in the Passage
Now, head outside to the area that was previously barricaded. Among the hanging corpses there, burn the two on the right. If you burn one, the other will fall to the ground and start attacking. If you feel the distance is too far, they might throw a knife or axe for a ranged attack.
Therefore, use the torch to burn the first one, and then immediately use a match to burn the second while it’s right in front of you.
Another monster will approach from the opposite side, so shoot its legs with your handgun to knock it down and then set it on fire.
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