Tips and Tricks: Beginner's Guide to Dead Space Remake (2023)

Welcome to Game8's tips and tricks and beginner's guide for the Dead Space Remake (2023)! Read on to see helpful tips that will keep you alive as you fight to survive aboard the USG Ishimura.

Dead Space Remake Beginner's Guide

Best Tips for Beginners
Cut Off Necromorph Limbs Direct the Flow of Combat with Stasis and Kinesis Use the New Alt Fire Modes for Better Crowd Control Save Ammo by Using Necromorph Limbs or Other Objects Use Melee on Slowed, Crawling Enemies Know Each Enemy Weakness Save Credits for Suit Upgrades Prioritize Health and Plasma Cutter Upgrades Sell Valuables and Unused Air Cans Stomp on the Corpses for Supplies Upgrade Security Clearance to Open Locked Rooms Use the Locator to Find Your Objectives Route Power at Circuit Breakers
Useful Quality of Life Settings
Turn On Single Press Quick Time Events Turn On Automatic Weapon Swapping

Cut Off Necromorph Limbs

For players new to the Dead Space franchise, Necromorphs are the anthropomorphic horrors that Isaac Clarke will have to kill or evade in order to survive aboard the USG Ishimura. Follow the bloody scrawl on the wall during the game's opening sequence and cut off their limbs to greatly reduce their threat during combat.

Note: Each limb that you cut will have different effects. Cutting off a leg reduces their movement speed while cutting off a sharpened arm makes them less deadly. Stay calm and dismember enemies to combat their melee aggression.

Maximize Damage by Aiming for the Groin

If you want to optimize your damage output against most Necromorphs, we suggest aiming your shots toward their groin. Doing this allows you to hit their body and both legs simultaneously, amplifying the damage of each of your shots.

Enemy Weak Spots:
How to Sever Necromorph Limbs

Direct the Flow of Combat with Stasis and Kinesis

Alongside the traditional cutting weapons that Isaac employs, you also have access to the Stasis and Kinesis Modules, which you acquire as you progress through the Ishimura. Once unlocked, these will greatly help when trying to control the flow of combat in Dead Space Remake.

Use Stasis to slow down combat encounters and buy yourself time to breathe and reposition, especially if there's a nearby Stasis Recharge Station. Use Kinesis as an extension of your combat abilities, flinging severed limbs, explosive canisters, and other objects to maim and kill your enemies.

Use the New Alt Fire Modes for Better Crowd Control

Dead Space Remake will also introduce brand new alt-fire mechanics for the majority of the weapons in the game. Use their powerful crowd control abilities alongside your trusty Stasis Module to take out multiple enemies at once.

Best Weapon Loadouts and Combos

Save Ammo by Using Necromorph Limbs or Other Objects

Dead Space Remake is bringing back Kinesis from Dead Space 2, you can now send enemies flying and impale them with their own limbs or other objects like poles.

Slashers are one of the most common enemies in the game thus giving you an almost infinite supply of blades to throw with kinesis.

How to Pin Enemies: Raise the Stakes Trophy Guide

Use Melee on Slowed, Crawling Enemies

Using melee is one efficient way to deal with enemies especially when you're trying to save ammo.

To melee effectively, dismember a necromorph's legs if they have a pair, and stomp on them while avoiding their slowed attacks.

Know Each Enemy Weakness

For each type of Necromorph, find a way to reliably deal with it without taking any damage.

There are a limited number of enemy types in the game, so having a method which you can use consistently will ensure that you don’t have to take a hit each time you’re against a certain type

List of All Necromorphs and How to Beat (Monsters)

Save Credits for Suit Upgrades

We recommend prioritizing spending your Credits on Suit Upgrades above any other item in the Store. Each Suit Upgrade improves your damage resistance and increases the number of inventory slots you have, always making them worthwhile purchases.

What to Buy in the Store

Prioritize Health and Plasma Cutter Upgrades

The two best long-term upgrades you can work toward unlocking are Health Upgrades for your RIG and Damage upgrades for the Plasma Cutter. With enemies taking more punishment and dealing more damage as the game goes on, increasing your health and damage output to improve your survivability is never a bad idea.

Health Upgrades Restore HP

In addition, buying Health Upgrades for your RIG at the Bench fully restores Isaac's HP. Remember this tip whenever you find yourself severely wounded with a lack of Health Recovery items but have a spare Power Node on hand.

Upgrade Priority Guide

Sell Valuables and Unused Air Cans

Keep your Credits high by selling every Valuable item you come across and trading away your unused Air Cans.

Valuables have no other purpose outside of being high-value items, so you can safely sell these items to free up your inventory and gain plenty of Credits. In addition, Oxygen Recharge Stations are commonplace in airless environments, so you can also safely sell most of your unused Air Cans without any problems.

What to Sell in the Store

Sell Contact Beam Ammo for Easy Credits

While the Contact Beam is one of the most powerful weapons you can find in the Dead Space Remake, finding its ammo is even more valuable as it sells for a lot of credits at the Store. Purchase the Contact Beam early in your playthrough to get its ammo to spawn, and sell them for easy credits during the early to mid-game levels.

Stomp on the Corpses for Supplies

In addition to the loot you find scattered throughout the USG Ishimura, Isaac will be able to stomp on Necromorph corpses and supply boxes in order to gather credits, ammo, and medical supplies. If you find yourself running low on supplies, pulp the next set of Necromorphs you kill for a quick resupply.

How to Stomp Enemies

Dropped Loot will Depend on Your Current Loadout

Do note that most of the ammo you get from stomping on your enemies will be tied to your current loadout. If you find yourself not using certain guns in your loadout, it would be best to simply swap them out so that the ammo drops from enemies are for the weapons you use on the regular.

Upgrade Security Clearance to Open Locked Rooms

The Security Clearance system is a new feature added to the remake, which replaces using Power Nodes to open locked doors. As you progress through the story, the level of your Security Clearance also increases, allowing you to access more rooms that may contain loot that could replenish your resources.

All Security Clearance Locks and Rewards

Use the Locator to Find Your Objectives

Some sections of the ship will get confusing, especially with the remake's addition of dynamic lighting, darker shadows, and volumetric fog. Navigate your way through the chaos using the built-in Locator in your suit that shows you the path to your next objective at the push of a button.

Full Story Walkthrough

Go the Opposite Way of the Locator to Find Extra Loot

For players who like scrounging up everything from extra ammunition, health packs, and collectibles, the rule of thumb will always be to head opposite the objective's direction. This is one of the easiest ways to find extra loot, especially during the early stages of the game.

Route Power at Circuit Breakers

As you explore the hallways of the USG Ishimura, you will be able to encounter circuit breakers. These circuit breakers are like a mini-puzzle that forces you to route power to one mandatory system while making you choose between two optional systems, such as Lights and Life Support, that will effectively change the flow of gameplay for the rest of the section.

All Circuit Breaker Locations and Best Choices

Turn On Single Press Quick Time Events

Under Settings > Gameplay, you can find a setting called Single Press Quick Time Events. Sometimes, Necromorphs will latch onto Isaac and deal damage until they are knocked off, which you can only do by mashing a button repeatedly. For those who prefer to save their controllers and fingers from wear and tear, this setting will allow these quick-time events to be resolved by simply hitting the button once.

Turn On Automatic Weapon Swapping

Another useful quality-of-life setting, Automatic Weapon Swapping, can also be activated from Settings > Gameplay. When this setting is on, Isaac will immediately swap to the next available weapon when he runs completely out of ammo for the current weapon.

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Beginner's Guide

Dead Space Remake Tips and Tricks
How to Reload	How to Route Power
How to Save	How to Save Ammo
All Difficulty Settings	Impossible Mode Rewards and Changes
Enemy Weak Spots	How to Heal and Recover HP
How to Use Kinesis	How to Use Stasis
All Missable Content	How to Force Enemies into Gravity Panels
Best Settings for PC	Best Settings for Consoles
Best Quality-of-Life Settings	List of All Unlockables
Scan RIG to Unlock Workstation	Platinum Guide: How to Get 100% Completion
List of All Collectibles	Can You Respec?
Full Interactive Map

Story Puzzle Solutions

Dead Space Remake Puzzle Solutions
How to Activate and Get Past the Centrifuge	How to Fix the Comms Array

Gameplay Tricks

Dead Space Remake Gameplay Tips
Where to Find the Peng Treasure	All Schematic Locations
What to Buy in the Store	What to Sell in the Store
How to Farm Credits and Get Money Fast	How to Get More Ammo
Upgrade Priority Guide	Best Weapons: All Weapon Tier List
All Security Clearance Locks and Rewards	Circuit Breaker Locations
How to Increase Security Clearance	All Master Override Door Locations and Rewards
All Marker Fragment Locations	All Secrets and Easter Eggs

Trophy Guides

Dead Space Remake Trophy Guides
All Trophies and Achievements	How to Rip Off Limbs with Kinesis
How to Stomp Enemies	How to Play Zero-G Basketball
How to Survive the Shooting Gallery	How to Pin Enemies

Dead Space Remake Related Guides

Dead Space Remake Guide and Walkthrough

Main Links
News and Game Info	Main Walkthrough
Tips and Tricks	Weapons
All Suits and Suit Textures	List of All Schematics
List of All Items	List of All Characters
List of All Necromorphs	All Log Locations