Walkthrough
Welcome to the complete walkthrough guide for Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004, PS2, Xbox, PC). This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough with all item locations, detailed puzzle solutions, and boss strategies. It also includes complete maps with all items and monsters marked for easy reference. A video version is also available.
Recommendations Before You Start
As always I recommend you change the default movement to run rather than walk. This way you won't need to hold Circle to run and if you ever do wish to walk, you can simply hold Circle. No longer called Walk/Run Control, this option has been renamed to "Default Control" in one of the Options tabs. Change it from Walk to Run.
While the default Noise Effect adds a bit of grain on the screen to simulate an old horror film, perhaps the game looks a little more crisp with it off, although its graphical style includes somewhat of a ghosting effect that muddies up the graphics anyway. So perhaps it's more up to what's your style.
Otherwise, since this is a horror game I recommend playing at nighttime with the lights off and the volume cranked to fully immerse you in its finely-crafted atmosphere. A good surround sound system or headphones in particular will especially help bring the world alive.
Perhaps this specific game is a bit different with more of a brighter art style rather than usual dark horror, but these conditions can still help bring out the atmosphere and provide the most rewarding experience.
Note: This walkthrough was written while playing on Normal difficulty. Therefore enemy numbers and locations may slightly vary on other difficulties. All puzzles and bosses will be covered for all difficulties.
Chapters
Select the walkthrough chapter below:
- Room 302
- Subway World
- Forest World
- Water Prison World
- Building World
- Apartment World
- Hospital World
- Subway World 2nd Time
- Forest World 2nd Time
- Water Prison World 2nd Time
- Building World 2nd Time
- Room 302 of the Past
- Outside Room 302
- Endings