Halloween: The Game Items Guide — Every Item and How to Use It

Everything that matters in a Haddonfield match passes through your inventory. Whether you are building an escape or surviving a chase, this guide groups every item by the job it does.

Escape-Critical Items

These unlock the exit routes — the win condition itself.

• Repair kit — the map's maintenance tool. Consumed repairing vehicles, breaker boxes and phones.
• Car keys — start a sedan, but only after it is repaired and fueled.
• Gas can — fuels the sedan and completes the drive-out escape.
• Escape key — opens the padlock on the main escape exit.
• Fuse — the mechanical gate's missing part. Cut the chain or metal seal off the door first.
• Bolt cutters — the swiss army knife: breaks padlocks on escapes and loot boxes (consumed on a loot box), and doubles as a melee weapon.
• Police car keys — unlock and start the police car; the trunk carries extra supplies.

The full unlock matrix per exit — which of these each escape actually needs — is in the survivor guide.

Life-Savers (Grab-Breakers)

Used at the moment Michael's hands close on you. Mostly one-time consumables.

• Butterfly knife — one-time, breaks the grab instantly.
• Pocket knife — triggers a faster struggle prompt instead of an instant break.
• Ice pick — one-time instant break, same family as the butterfly knife.

Lights, Distractions and Consumables

The high-frequency pocket slot: vision, distraction and recovery.

• Flare gun — stuns Michael and briefly marks the area.
• Road flare — blinds Michael and can summon police support.
• Firecrackers — a wall of light and noise that interrupts a chase.
• Flashlight — disorients Michael, pairs well with a melee swing, and stops him slipping away into the dark.
• Flashlight batteries — refills the light, because the dark always wins eventually.
• Lockbox code — opens a loot box without cutting anything.
• Beer — lowers fear at the price of a wobbly, swaying walk.
• First aid spray / first aid kit — restores health; the spray works mid-chase, the kit wants you standing still.
• Soda — a stamina top-up.
• Smoke — reads the area as ripples: Michael's movements, survivors, noise markers. Quiet map awareness in a canister.

Throwables

• Darts / baseball / rocks / bricks — reusable throws that hurt Michael and smash windows; pick them back up after.
• Cup — same idea, single-use.

Epic (Purple) Items

The rare end of the pool — limited spawns per match, game-swinging effects:

• Ancient talisman — blocks one attack or grab outright, blinds Michael with no struggle prompt; destroyed on trigger.
• Brass lantern — projects a green aura that lights up shadowed ground and disables Michael's Shape Jump and stealth inside it.
• Hourglass — heavy damage and a slow on Michael, extends the match timer, and speeds up all of your own interactions.

All three get a dedicated page with usage details: the purple items guide.

The Item Discipline That Ties It Together

Two habits convert a full inventory into wins. First, route your looting around exits — keys, fuses and fuel only matter near the escape they open. Second, hoard your control items: a flare gun thrown at nothing is the reason people die with a full bag. For squeezing XP out of the same looting loop, the XP farming guide has the numbers.

Keep reading:

• Purple Items — Lantern, Talisman, Hourglass
• Survivor Beginner Guide
• All Escape Points & Radio Spawns