Silver Pines Map and Areas: Every Location in the Demo

Silver Pines is a half-evacuated small American town — the demo covers its opening chain of areas and the metroidvania gating that will expand it at launch. Here’s the confirmed geography.

What areas does the demo cover?

A linear-ish chain with metroidvania backtracking: the diner where Red wakes, the main street, the Crimson Bear Motel, G’s Pharmacy, an underground passage, the ferry office, and the cable car that closes the demo. It’s the town’s waterfront spine; the full game opens it outward.

How does the map system work?

Pins, not just paint. The map lets you drop photo markers — snap a locked door, a puzzle, a padlock you can’t break yet, and the map remembers it. In a game built on gated backtracking, this is the system that makes exploration manageable: you don’t memorize which rusted padlock was where, you photograph it and let the map build your return list. It’s the mechanic that turns “3D navigation” problems into a clean 2D map.

What gates the areas?

Classic metroidvania locks. Keycards (the Grizzly Suite), keys (poolside), the fuse (powered areas), padlocks (shootable or rusted), and tools that double as weapons to open new paths — official material confirms that more of the town unlocks as your kit grows. The demo’s chain is a teaching sequence for the full game’s wider, more connected map.

What’s beyond the demo areas?

The rest of the town — officially unmapped pre-launch. What exists beyond the cable car is the October 8 question. This page gets the complete area list, map screenshots and gating chart at launch; the Crimson Bear Motel page has the demo’s deepest location, and the walkthrough links the chain together. What patrols these areas is on the monsters page.