In Bear Haven Nights, you become an electrician in a scary motel. Your goal is to check individual rooms after the alarm sets off. And what will you do when mysterious residents strike? Here are some tips and tricks that will certainly make your progress through each night easier. Note that I have not completed the game myself yet, but these tips really help me.

Your phone is very important. Make sure to check it if you get a notification, as the information they contain is usually very useful. You are going to need to read very fast, because most of the tips get delivered seconds before your death, so you better hurry reading. These notifications also serve as a objective system.

There is a total of five different bears in the game - The father bear, the sister bear, the brother bear, the uncle bear and the mother bear. Each of them has a unique appearance, but they all share the same shadow (in case of an encounter outside)

The first night is relatively easy to complete, as long as you follow these steps:

1) You can either stay hidden at reception, or go out and visit each room individually. Wait for alarm to set off. You will always know when alarm sets off, as you are most likely going to hear it and will receive a notification on your phone.
2) Go check the map at reception to know where the alarm started.
3) Leave reception, enter the room the alarm set off in.
4) Fix the lights as fast as possible.
5) If you see a bear in the room after fixing the lights, quickly leave the room until he gets you. Then rush to the reception and turn off lights. Stay in there with lights turned off and watch the window. Do not be afraid - as long as the lights are off, you are safe. Just stare at the window and wait for the bear to leave. Once the bear goes away from the window, you can turn the light back on and do whatever it is you want to do next.
6) Do not leave the TV and telephone turned on at reception. In case any of them is turned on while a bear is looking inside from behind the window, the bear will be able to kill you by entering the room on their own, even if you turned off lights.
7) The game time starts at midnight, and lasts until 6 AM, which is 6 real life minutes. If anything is still broken by this point, you lose.

If you followed the steps I wrote down in the previous section, you beat the first night without any big problems. But in those next ones, it is obviously going to be worse and more challenging, as the rules are about to change:

1) This time, the reception is not a safe place anymore. To hide, you are going to have to occasionally use other rooms instead from now on. This includes storage and suites. Just come in, switch off the lights and watch the window until the bear leaves.
2) If you see a bear anywhere, quickly run!
3) NEVER EVER stay in a room with a bear at the same time. Switching the lights off will not help you.
4) If you see a bear or its shadow start to approach you, you still have about 3 seconds to escape. Use this time wisely.
5) There is only one bear searching for you during the first night. There are more bears being constantly added one by one in upcoming nights, with four being the maximum.
6) Watch out for sounds that could lure bears closer to you in other rooms as well. There is a telephone in the storage, or clock in suites.
7) You can check the cameras at the reception. You can view a room labeled as X, featuring bears. Depending on how many of them are missing, that means how many bears are outside, searching for you.
8) Try to remember the whole progress through the night, and if you die, try to think why and what did you mess up. Try to learn from those mistakes and most importantly - do not make the same mistake over and over again.
9) Most mistakes happen due to exhaustion. Remember to take regular breaks!

Next nights are more complicated, as more bears are being added and certain rules are being changed. Here are some other hints to make your progress easier:

1) Try to inspect every room when the night starts to find possible risks and items making noise. Try to find rooms that got newly unlocked, and its contents. Focus on how fast do the timers on each noise-making item go. If all of them are going nice and slowly, this is the room you want to use to hide tonight. Be also aware of any telephones inside. If there is a telephone inside a room you are hiding in and Mother bear is after you, you may not be safe inside. Timer speed for noise-making items changes with each night.
2) You do not have to visit reception to see where the alarm is triggered. You can also look at each door - if there is a red blinking light on a door, that is where the alarm triggered. You are not going to know if there is a bear inside, though.
3) Certain rooms (like laundry room for example) are not possible to use for hiding. This also counts for any room where the light cannot be turned off. Never hide in those.
4) Try to find a room where you will spend time while the alarm is not triggered to avoid encounters with Father bear iduring later nights outside.
5) Try to be in and out of rooms as fast as possible in case you risk fixing two or even more electric boxes in multiple rooms containing bears without hiding in-between each repair.
6) If you are inside of a room, where no noise is triggered and lights are off, you are perfectly safe.
7) Not every strategy you use during one night works during every night. Be aware of that.
8) Certain rooms are not usable for hiding against some bears. For example, a room with a telephone inside may not the place to hide from Mother bear. Some bears simply require a different method to keep them away from you.

Not all strategies are going to work on all bears. Every bear has its own ability:

Brother bear
First night: 1

A regular bear. Nothing special about them.


Sister bear
First night: 2

Sister bear is going to catch you way faster than any other bear.


Mother bear
First night: 3

If you are being chased by Mother bear, avoid hiding in any room that contains a telephone inside. She can make it ring instantly.


Father Bear
First night: 4

Father bear is the only bear invisible on the X room camera. He may or may not be outside at any moment, so keep an eye out from now on.


Uncle bear
First night: 5

The worst of them all. He attacks almost instantly. He does not give you much time to think.

Do you want to print this guide as a hand guide? No problem! I remade the guide to google docs, so you can print it entirely for free!

This version includes bonus sections as well, for example - differences between the Steam and phone versions of the game.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZPg9VbKkMWDYryLPDlPEyD5zmj5ZRi55cIp5qk3MuEQ/edit?usp=sharing

If this guide helped you, make sure to rate it five stars. I worked very hard for it and I would very appreciate it! Thank you so much for reading, and I hope it will make your adventure easier. :D

Changes made to this guide.

V.1.0
Date: 24th March 2022

Released the guide.

V.1.1
Date: 30th March 2022

+ Added the changelog.
+ Added the 'Bears' section.
~ Corrected some false information.

v.1.2
Date: 30th March 2022

+ Added the 'Tips for next nights' section.
~ Corrected a bunch of grammar errors.
~ Corrected dates in changelog.
~ Renamed a section.
~ Moved the 'Bears' section to a different place.

v.1.2.1
Date: 30th March 2022

~ Corrected some false information.
~ Corrected a couple grammar errors.

v.1.3
Date: 30th March 2022

+ Added pictures to 'Bear types' section.
~ Renamed a section.
~ Corrected a couple grammar errors.

v.1.4
Date: 1st April 2022

+ Added a Google docs version (to print)