Chapter 1 overview: Smith's Grove

Chapter 1 is the escape from Smith's Grove Sanitarium — the opening beat of the roughly two-hour, six-chapter story that carries Michael from the institution to Haddonfield. It's the gentlest chapter by design: story mode is the game's multiplayer tutorial, and this is lesson one.

The full chapter list lives at the story mode hub.

What it teaches

• Movement and basic stealth — staying out of sightlines, using darkness.
• Stalk fundamentals — the observe-first rhythm that everything else builds on.
• The game's scoring loop: chapters are scored, and difficulty options exist for replays.

Challenges

Chapter 1's specific challenge list is still being documented — the challenge screen in-game is authoritative for names and conditions. Expect introductory-tier tasks (clean stealth, no alerts) rather than the ordered checkpoint routes of later chapters like Chapter 4.

Tips

• Play it slow on the first run. Scores reward clean play, and the habits here — observe, position, then act — are exactly what Chapter 2's Surprise challenge will demand.
• Use the chapter to learn the alert indicators in a low-stakes space; later chapters punish what this one forgives.
• Replay on a higher difficulty for score once you know the layout — it's the shortest chapter to re-run. Reported