If you’re stuck in Episode 4: The Dark Room and keep getting teleported straight through the barn rafters into a pile of hay below, this guide is for you. I’m covering the exact workaround that gets you out of that soft-lock so you can actually finish the segment and move the story forward.
I put this together because this glitch is genuinely one of the most infuriating bugs in the remaster — it stalls your progress for no good reason, and if you don’t know the fix, you can sit there reloading checkpoints and getting nowhere. Full credit for these fixes goes to Middle-Resident6906 and jaythefox4 over on Reddit; I’m just passing them along here so more people can find them. Good luck, fellow time travellers.
What the Barn Glitch Actually Does
During the barn segment in Episode 4: The Dark Room, a bug teleports you from the rafters of the barn down into the pile of haystacks below. That’s the problem in a nutshell: the game yanks you out of the position you need to be in, and it blocks you from completing the segment and continuing the game. The fix below is a workaround for that teleportation, not a full patch — so follow the order carefully.
The Step-by-Step Workaround
Go through these in order. The sequencing matters here, especially the parts about the hook and the rewind speed — rushing those is exactly what tends to trip the glitch.
- Search for where the padlock is.
- Mess with the padlock first.
- Go up to the rafters using Chloe’s help, without hooking it with Max.
- Pull the tractor down.
- Get up to the top rafter.
- Use manual rewind — and don’t go fast. Just let it take its sweet time.
- The tractor is now with you.
- Tell Chloe to attach the hook to the padlock.
- Push the tractor without the hook on it.
- Slow rewind.
- Attach the hook to the tractor and push it.
If That Didn’t Work
Don’t panic, and don’t reload your checkpoint just yet. Before you throw in the towel and restart, try this follow-up sequence — it bails out a lot of players who get teleported at the wrong moment.
- Rewind to the point where Chloe hooks up the padlock.
- Ask her to hook up the padlock again. After this short cutscene, you should be teleported back into the rafters.
- Attach the rope and pull the tractor, then immediately hit Space to fast-forward through the cutscene.
- If that still didn’t work, rinse and repeat from step 12 onward.
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Wrapping Up
The timing on that final push and the fast-forward is the part most people fumble, so take it slow on the rewinds and be ready to hit Space the second the cutscene starts. Once it clicks, you’re out of the hay and back on track.