Industria 2, a sequel to Industria, is a narrative-driven first-person shooter survival game in which you play as a woman stranded in a parallel dimension. Your aim is to survive this land filled with AI and find a way to get back home. For more information, head to its Steam page.
As it is a narrative-driven survival first-person shooter, there can be some complications, and for that, you may require some assistance. So, here in this guide, we will provide you with a thorough walkthrough of Chapter 1: A Glimmer of Hope in Industria 2.
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Industria 2 – A Glimmer Of Hope Walkthrough
As you find yourself in a different area that is not Atlas, follow the path ahead, open the door, and get out. You will then see beautiful scenery, so follow the path ahead, and you will find a house waiting in the distance. As you go near the house, the game will tell you to turn the torch on. Do so and then enter the house in front of you.
On the left side, you will see some planks. You can remove a plank by holding it and then moving backwards slowly. Then follow the path ahead to get to the other side and keep going forward carefully. From the boat, head right and then go up the stairs. There will be a shack to the north, but it will be locked, so head right instead.
There, you will notice a blue wheel. Rotate it to open the door. Once the door is unlocked, go ahead and save your game using the tapes provided nearby. Then follow the path ahead, and the door will be locked again. Just take a step back and head right to continue.
Stealthily Cross The Area
There is going to be a monster ahead, so you will now have to implement stealth to move forward safely. Keep going, and in the cabinet ahead, there will be two bottles. Pick those up as they can be used to distract the monster effectively.
The monster will not move from the spot it is in right now, so you will have to throw the bottle in the opposite direction from where you pick it up. Do so, and the monster will go there, opening a path for you. Then crouch and go through the gap in the wall, go ahead, and open the door carefully.
Go ahead, and there will be a sliding door next to the boats. Slide your mouse after interacting with it to open the door smoothly. Keep going ahead, and as you are moving through another gap in the wall, you will see another AI. Before you distract it, head to the right and pick up an item from the small room nearby.
Keep Progressing
After you have picked up the item, throw the bottle near the room you got the item from and head back inside the gap quietly. Once the monster goes to the right side, head to where it was before, pick up the bottles, and using the blue wheel, open the gate. Then head right and go through the gap again.
The door will be locked, so you will have to go through the gap. Even if the monster was chasing you, it would stop once you went through the gap, giving you a brief moment of safety. So, go ahead, head up the stairs, and save your game in the room on the left side to save your progress.
Continue Exploring After Saving Your Progress
Now that you have saved your progress, head out of the room and crouch through the gap in the wall. However, there will be a plank that you will need to destroy before moving forward. So, pick up the weapon and destroy the plank to go ahead. Then follow the path, and there will be another AI monster ahead waiting for you.
As you go underneath to move forward, you will see the monster. You can now try to fight it, as it is not going to be very difficult. Simply close the distance, and as the AI starts moving toward you, aim and then perform a charged attack. Wait for the monster to get up, and when it does, attack again. This way, you will easily defeat it and get a useful drop.
Defeat The AI Monsters
Pick up the item and then head north. Then break both of the planks to open the door. After opening the door, go ahead, and there will be another AI monster. Use your axe to defeat this one, too. However, be aware that there are two of them in this area. As you are fighting one, the other one will appear, so try to stay defensive as well.
Your stamina can run out, so do not just spam the attack button. Defeat them both, follow the path ahead, and go through the broken wall. Then drop through the hole in the floor, and there will be another monster ahead. Now, do note that there is going to be another human at the top left side of the area.
Take out the monster, and one more from the left side will appear shortly after. As you are fighting that monster, the other person will open up a path for you, so it is better if you run there instead of staying to fight. For some reason, this monster seems more tanky, so it is better that you leave the fight and escape safely.
Follow Marlene
You now just have to follow Marlene. After that, head down, and a cutscene will commence. When the cutscene ends, head to the left and interact with the bag to pick it up properly. Then open the bag to check what is inside. Use the bandage, and then Marlene will hand over her pistol to you.
Pick it up from the table, but it will not have any ammo at first. Then shortly after, you will get to choose the first dialogue options. Choose the last one, and Marlene will open the door. Then you will have to follow her again. Keep following her, and as you reach the warehouse-type place, you will have to lead the way forward.
Lead The Way
Break the planks, go ahead, go through the wall, open the door, and you will now have to solve the puzzle. Go ahead, open the door, open the cabinet to get the metal scrap and gunpowder, and then head back to Marlene. Then open the bag to craft the ammo and shoot the mechanism to proceed.
Once you do that, the path for you will open up. Go ahead and make sure to collect the items from the small room ahead before moving on. Then follow the path ahead and save your game again to secure your progress.
Open The Path
You now have to figure out how to open a path. Look at where Marlene is standing, and with your camera toward her back, head left. There on the ground, you will see something you can interact with. Interact with it and then take it a little to the northwest side.
Then it will be connected, and a door on the left side will open. Before you go there, there will be a room on the left side. Head there, loot everything, and then go through the path you just opened. Then go ahead, follow the path, and eventually you will find a broken staircase.
Explore the Area
Jump and interact to climb it, and there will be metal scrap on the barrel on the right side. Then go down and head through the broken wall. On the left, there is going to be a monster. Defeat it, head left to find some ammo, go right to get more loot, then head out of the room where you fought the monster and go left.
Note
Do note that there is a door that is locked with a chain when you go up through the broken staircase. That room contains a shotgun, so after getting the bolt cutters and clearing out the area, you will return to this place again. When you do, make sure to break the chain and enter the room to get the gun. However, if you do not want it, that is fine as you will get plenty of guns soon enough.
Go right and keep heading to the right side. There will be three more monsters. Take care of them, and on the right side, there will be a blue wheel. Rotate it to open the gate to the north. You will now need to sprint there in order to go through it, as it will close.
Once you are there, loot the area, head up the stairs, follow the path ahead, and you will find bolt cutters, the item you need to remove the chain from the door.
Remove the Chain By Using The Bolt Cutters
Before heading back, loot the area. Once done, head back and remove the chain to open the gate. After that, follow the path ahead. From the red light, head right, go up the stairs, interact with the blue wheel, and open the door. Head right, jump, and interact with the broken staircase, and then go ahead to save your progress.
From there, head left and enter the room. Then interact with the object in the middle, and a strange monster will appear. These monsters are going to be like Lickers from Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil Requiem. They are blind, so as long as you do not make noise, you are safe.
Now, to escape, head north after getting down the staircase and then, while crouching and evading the monsters, head north and then east. Once you enter the area to the east, keep going right, and you will see the blue wheel. Rotate the wheel to open the gate, and once it is open, run. Do not worry about the enemies, just run, and before they can get out, the gate will close.
Head Back to Marlene
Now that you have escaped, head back to Marlene, as you already have what you were looking for. However, note that these enemies are going to be in some of the other areas too, so be careful. When you are back, put the atlas modulator in the red light area, and a new path will open up. Go through there, interact with the door, head straight, climb through the wall, and you will be out.
Then you will have to talk to Marlene.
Head Down The Path
Now, to progress further, you need to head down the path. There are a few houses in the area that you can loot for some items, so make sure to check them properly and thoroughly. Do so, and then once you head down the path along the pond, keep going ahead and continue moving forward until you have to ascend. Then, ahead, you will notice a building with a red light.
Enter, follow the path, and then interact with the door. Once you do, Marlene and Nora will have a conversation, but it will not interrupt your gameplay at all. So, go ahead, open the gate, follow the path ahead, and after a short while, you will see a blue wheel. Rotate it, and the gate on your right will open.
Keep Going Ahead To Reach The Destination
This will not close back, so head through it at your own pace and keep going ahead without worrying. Eventually, you will come across a door that is locked by a chain. So, you now need to use the bolt cutters to destroy the chain and then open the door to enter. Head up the stairs, loot the area properly, and then get out.
As you get out, you will have a dialogue option to select. Do so, and you will have a conversation with Marlene. As you are having the conversation, follow the path ahead, go up the stairs, open the lockers, and loot them. Then go up the stairs again, loot the area, cross the bridge, and when you reach the other side, before heading down the stairs, make sure to loot the office completely.
Once you are done, open the lockers to find some loot and then head down more stairs. Then, ahead, on the left side, there will be a door you can enter through. So, enter it, and you will be inside a facility.
Explore The Area To Proceed Further
Once you have entered, head left, open the drawer for loot, then head right and save your progress. Make sure to open the drawers in that room, too, to get more loot. Then head back and go where Marlene is. Then, interact with the gate to open it, and then head to Marlene and talk to her properly.
Keep going ahead, but make sure to check every nook and cranny for loot so you do not miss anything useful. Head down the stairs and do not mess with the big robot thing in the middle. Instead, go ahead, and on both sides, you will see some wheels. You need to rotate them both, so head to the one on the right, and Marlene will focus on the one on the left side.
When she tells you to open the gate, interact with the wheel, and as you are opening the gate, the robot will boot up, and its cage will no longer hold it. Marlene will escape, but you will be left with this abomination. That said, the game knows that this is not the right time to fight this type of enemy, so in the cutscene, you will escape through the vent.
Note
There is a glitch in this game where, if you head down first, Marlene’s AI may break. This happened in my playthrough after the almost 10GB patch, so it can happen to you too, and can be very frustrating when she keeps repeating her same dialogue and does not move from the place. So, to prevent it from happening, let Marlene lead the way and let her approach the robot. Make sure she completes all of her dialogue, as when she does, she will head to the wheel on her own. However, if you take the lead, she may stand in a single place.
Find A Way To Go Back To Marlene
Ahead will be an item, so pick it up and then head left. At the north, there will be a gate that requires the communication key to be unlocked. So, head left and save your game. Then go ahead, open the door on your right, loot the area, exit the room, go ahead, turn left, loot the room, head down the stairs, follow the path ahead, head left, and pick up the motion sensor.
Equipping it and using the motion sensor will allow you to see the location of the enemies. It can come in handy when you can’t determine where the enemy is coming from or if you want to know how many are there.
Finding The Communication Key And A Shotgun
Then, open the locker for some loot, head out of the room, go left, and there will be an enemy. Defeat it, and then another one will appear. Once you have defeated both of them, follow the path ahead, head right, and there will be another enemy ahead. Defeat it, and then enter the room it came from.
Inside the room, you will find some loot and the communication key. There will also be a Blackwood 12 Gauge shotgun. As you are looting, more enemies may arrive. Defeat them, head right, proceed further, and follow the red light. From the red light, on the right side, there are going to be some enemies waiting.
Open The Communication Room
Defeat them, go ahead, head right, and then enter the room on the left. Loot everything, exit the room, head left, go up the stairs, save your progress, and open the gate using the communication key. Then, enter, pick up the Lancaster Bolt Action, go ahead, and interact with the communication device.
After that, press the button to transmit. Then Nora will have a conversation with Brent, and you will also be able to choose the dialogue options. Once the conversation is over, loot the area, and exit through the door on the right side of the comms. Now go ahead while looting the area, and in the north, there is going to be storage.
You will find the code to the storage soon enough, so head right, and you will hear some loud thumps. Do not worry, it is from the giant robot that separated you and Marlene earlier. So, continue ahead, and you need two fuses to unlock the gate.
Find Both Fuses
One of the fuses can be found in the storage, but as it is locked, you will need to find the code. The other fuse can be found in the management area, where you will also find the code to unlock the storage.
From the fuse box, head right to save your game and upgrade your weapons. Then, from the fuse box, head left through the gap in the wall, and there is going to be an enemy ahead. Take care of the enemy, and three more from the left side will appear.
One of them is going to be more troublesome, one who cannot see. So, I recommend using your guns here for better control. Defeat them all, go ahead, and on the right side, there will be a door locked with a chain. Destroy the chain with the help of bolt cutters and then loot everything inside.
Find The Code To Open The Storage
Then head in the opposite direction, and on the right side will be the management area. There will be another enemy ahead, so defeat it. Then follow the path ahead, and once you reach the room, there will be one more enemy inside. Defeat it, loot the area, and on the north side of the room, on the board, there will be a note. Below the note, on the table, there will be one fuse.
On that note, a code will be written. This is the code you need to open the storage, so head back and insert this code. Then enter and pick up the fuse.
Insert The Fuses Inside The Fuse Box
Now that you have two fuses, all you need to do is insert them in the fuse box. Do so, and then open the gate. Then enter and pull the lever. Upon doing so, the elevator will go down. Once it is down, open the gate, go ahead, and the giant robot will appear from the north.
Instantly head right and crouch to go through. Then run to the blue wheel ahead and interact with it to rotate it properly. Once you have opened it, head through the gate, follow the path ahead, and head down the stairs. As you head down the first stairs, on the left side, there will be a blue wheel.
Interact with it to open the gate on the right side. Head through there, and you will then see Marlene on the other side. Now you need to lower the water level.
Lower The Water Level
Interact with the gate on your left and then follow the path ahead. Head up the stairs, keep going ahead, and then from the giant wheel, head right. There will be a couple of planks that you need to break. That said, before doing that, there are some rooms in the area that you can loot.
Make sure to do that, and once you are done, break the planks, save your game, upgrade your weapons, and then interact with the blue wheel on the left. Once the gate is opened, go through it, head straight, defeat the enemy, and another one will appear.
I recommend using the axe, as it does the job in fewer hits, but if you have quite a lot of ammo, then using the gun would be more convenient and faster. Defeat the enemies, loot the room, and then go further. On the steel platform, you will see two lockers. Open them and take the loot, and after that, head left from there.
Once inside, head left and interact with the button. Then use the blue wheel to open the gate, save your progress, get out of the room, and now the elevator will be unlocked. Head inside, interact with the lever, and it will go down.
Follow The Yellow Wires
Go ahead, and on the top left side, you will see two yellow wires. You need to follow them, and you will then reach a button that is used to call the cable car. Press the button and then follow the yellow wires. They will take you to the maintenance area, but be aware that there are going to be some enemies along the way.
Defeat the enemies, and once you reach maintenance, more will appear. Defeat them, go through the maintenance, and follow the yellow wires. Then interact with the lever. You then need to head back to the area where you pressed the button earlier. Simply follow the yellow wires, and you will reach there again.
Enter The Control Room
Then press the button again and head onto the cable car that just appeared. Once you reach the other side, go ahead, enter the control panel, interact with the lever, and the water level will decrease.
Then go back, open the gate on the left side, and head down the stairs. Follow the path ahead, break the plank, interact with the door, and then interact with another door on the north side. Then talk to Marlene, exit the area, and Chapter 1 A Glimmer of Hope will be over in Industria 2, along with this full walkthrough.
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Obaid Ur Rehman is a lifelong gaming enthusiast with a deep passion for writing about video games. While he enjoys all genres, he specializes in RPGs and Soulslike titles. After tackling some of the toughest bosses, he often unwinds with a cozy game to relax. Outside of gaming, Obaid enjoys watching anime, bingeing TV series, or staying active at the gym.
