Prison Northern Block

A complete walkthrough for the Prison Northern Block section of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Find items, avoid monsters, and progress through the dark hallways.

You're in a tunnel. Keep moving forward. You'll reach a fork in the tunnel. The left path is blocked, so choose the path to your right. You'll find that the exit is blocked by rocks. Grab and throw the little rocks away and push the bigger one outside. Get out and you'll be in the main hallway.

You have two choices, go left or go right. Choose left for now. The sign on the wall says it leads to the Storage. Keep moving. Go up the stairs and move along. You'll find that ahead of you is blocked by rocks, and to your left is very dark. Move forward and you'll hear a growl. Turn out your lantern and hide near the rocks. It could be a monster, or maybe just sound. Anyway when you're comfortable again, go into that dark hallway.

The sign above says "Cell Area 3". Move on. You'll reach another hall where you can go left or right. The sign on the wall points to the right and says "Storage". Choose to go right into the storage. The hall will turn left, and then you'll have two choices. Go straight or go right. Choose to go right and a flashback occurs. You'll also notice that there's an open door. Go inside that room quickly and turn out your lantern! A monster will be bursting through the door in front of our room! Just hide in a corner and wait for the monster to do his own wandering.

After a minute or two, it should be safe again. In the room where you are currently hiding, check the table. There's a tinderbox and a note. Grab the tinderbox then read the note.

The note just states how guilty Daniel feels because everybody he has approached about the orb has died. Anyway, let's designate this room as our hiding place for this part of the game.

Get out of this room then enter the room in front of us.

WARNING: If the room in front of us still has its door intact, then the monster is still there! In order to make the monster go away, just nudge at the door to get its attention, then run back to our hiding place and hide. You'll hear it destroy its door and then it'll wander around.

Inside the room where the monster was, is a wreck. There's another room inside so go in. There's a bottle of oil inside so take it. On the far left corner of the little room is a tinderbox. It's hard to see because it's fallen and near a cloth.

Anyway get out of that room where the monster was and turn right. Move on and then turn right again and continue. You'll have two options, move forward or turn right. To the right is just a door with a strong padlock. We can't open it with anything so don't bother going right for now. Just go forward and move on.

You'll have two ways to go again, forward or to the right. Choose to go to the right and move forward. You'll find two doors to your left and to your right. Enter the door to your right. A flashback occurs. It's just about a guy who's now regretting what he's done in prison. Under the table is a tinderbox.

Get out of the room and go inside the room in front of you. Yikes! There's a dead guy slumped over! He's naked too! Anyway, go check the floor and you'll find a bottle of oil. Grab the tinderbox under the dead guy too.

Get out of the room and turn left then move on straight into the room at the end of the hall. There's a note on the ground, read it. It just talks about Daniel's meeting with Alexander.

When you're done reading, face the hall and move forward again. You might hear a monster growl but don't worry, there doesn't seem to be anything around.

You'll have two choices again, turn left or turn right. Choose to go right. Move along the hall and there's two ways you can go. Forward to the Storage or right to the Kitchen. Turn right and move on. You're back to where there are boulders blocking the path to the left, and you can only go right. Go right and move on.

Go down the stairs and you might encounter a monster! Turn back and then go right to the Storage. Go back to the room where we hid in when there was another monster in the other room and it broke through the door. Let's wait here for a minute or two.

Get out of the room that we're hiding in. Now that the Kitchen monster is gone, we can find something that we need. From our hiding place, turn right and move forward.

We have two options, turn left or right. Turn right and head down the stairs. You'll find a room. Enter it.

Inside this room, to your left you'll find a chest. Open it and get one bottle of oil and two tinderboxes. The shelf on the right also has two tinderboxes for you. In the middle shelf is big Glass Jar. Take the Glass Jar.

Get out of the room and go up the stairs. Careful, there might be a monster. If there's a monster, just go back down and hide in the room until it's gone.

When you reach the top of the stairs, turn left and move on. Turn left again. Follow the hall and then choose to turn left. You're back to the area with rocks on the left.

Turn right and continue forward. Continue down the stairs and move on. We're now back to the starting area where there is a hole we crawled out from. Move forward.

We have two choices, forward or turn right. To the right, we still can't open the gate and the door won't budge, so don't bother. Move forward and we're going to the Kitchen. Move up the stairs and open the door.

We're now inside the kitchen. Look at the table on the right and there's a note. Read it.

The note speaks about Daniel being advised by Alexander on what really is going on with the orb and the shadow. Alexander tells him that the shadow is very slow as it hunts Daniel down, but it kills everything and anyone who's been in contact with him. Daniel suggests about throwing it away, but Alexander tells him that he would still be part of the orb and the shadow will still hunt him.

After reading the note, check the fireplace to the left of the room, you can take the bottle of oil there. As you approach the center of the ro