Run 1 of 3. 0 of 312 items. 181 missables still open. 4 endings. About 40h to go.
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Run 1 is the full walk, on Normal, with every pickup on the way. This first stretch is a short prologue in the Guest House: a videotape, a flooded basement and an attic. Nothing found here can be fetched later, and of everything carried, only the Antique Coin is still yours once the prologue ends. There is no chapter select, so every file and coin counts for this save file only. Save at the tape recorder on the 2F, and save again after any pickup you care about: dying sends you back to the last save without it.
The ladder at the end of the 3F starts the last fight of the prologue, and the Guest House closes for this run once it's over. Check that you have: the Driver's License, the Email from Mia read, the Antique Coin from the kitchen drawer (picked open with the tape's Lock Pick), and both sides of the List of Names read. Everything you carry except the coin is taken away when the prologue ends.
You wake up in a new house with empty hands: only the Antique Coin came along. This stretch covers the west wing, from the dinner table to the Main Hall door. Jack prowls the corridors and can't be stopped for now, but he is slow and doesn't open doors, so a closed door buys time. The house stays open until much later, yet everything below is on the way, so take it as you pass.
1st Place at the Science Fair asks you to craft each of the eight Chem Fluid and Strong Chem Fluid recipes at least once in this run. Make each one the first time you have its ingredients, and keep spare Supplements in the item box: they are the scarcest ingredient. The full recipe list comes near the end of the run, at the Salt Mine office.
The front door of the Main Hall needs three Dog's Heads. Two are in the house; the third is down in the Processing Area, and taking it starts a fight. Every room here stays open until the Testing Area gate much later, but the route takes everything as it passes. A pickup only counts once you save or reach a checkpoint, so use the tape recorders, and read each file: picking it up is not enough.
Inside the Old House, go left through the first door and cross the big room. In the short hall with the large crate, crouch behind it until Marguerite goes into the room on the right, then leave by the door she came from. In the room with the plinth, step out onto the balcony and hide to the right until she has come and gone, then turn the statuette into a spider to open a crawl space. In the room with the hole in the floor, keep the debris in the middle between you and her, then slip into the crawl space under the house on the far side. If she sees you, let her grab you: the restart doesn't count as being spotted, but running off to lose her does.
The Meat Storage Lock Pick is the only one in this stretch. The route spends it on the Small Workshop toolbox below. The locked tool chest at the end of the 2F balcony and the locked drawer in the Study need picks found later in the house.
Taking the head starts the Morgue fight, and its trophy, Duck If You Love Life, can only be earned during it. Save at the Study first and come in with the shotgun and healing. If the trophy doesn't pop, reload that save and fight again.
The Yard is quiet, and Zoe's Trailer is a save room with an item box and the coin cages. The Old House past it is where several one-time trophies sit: earn Slash Slash, Slashity Slash!, Back Off, Mrs. B! and Less is More while the Old House is being searched, and Fly Swatter in the Greenhouse fight, with a manual save before each attempt. Nothing in the Yard, the Old House or the Greenhouse can be reached again once both keycards open the Testing Area gate later on, so this walk takes everything on the way.
Marguerite now stalks the Old House. Slash Slash, Slashity Slash!, Back Off, Mrs. B! and Less is More are easiest now, and Back Off, Mrs. B! only counts while she roams, so earn it before the Crow door. Save at the Old Shack before fighting her; reloading that save afterwards gives the ammo back, but anything picked up since the save must be taken again.
Walking up to the Crow door starts a fight. Earn Back Off, Mrs. B! and Less is More before you go, as Back Off only counts while she roams the house; Slash Slash, Slashity Slash! still has a Greenhouse door if the house's doors were missed.
The fight starts on the stairs after you drop through the broken floor, and it decides two trophies. Fly Swatter can only be earned in it, and Back Off, Mrs. B! is lost by now if it was not earned. Save at the Trailer through the new Yard gate before you go up. If Slash Slash, Slashity Slash! is still missing, clear the bug-covered door in the downstairs hallway first.
With the D-Series Arm in hand, head back to the Trailer. From there the Snake Key opens the last locked rooms of the Main House: the Master Bedroom with its Storage, the Kid's Room and the attic above it. Two keycards open the gate in the Yard. That gate is the big point of no return of this run: once both cards go in, the Main House, the Processing Area, the Yard, the Old House and the Greenhouse are behind you, so use this stretch to finish anything left from earlier. A warning before the gate lists all of it.
The clock runs from the moment you take control until the candle is on the cake; cut-scenes don't count. Turn round and take the candle from the clown dummy, carry it into the cake room and wait for Lucas to stop talking. Open the cabinet lock in that room (left to right: a hanged figure, a bird on a grave, a baby) and take the Straw Doll, then pull the Winding Key out of the keg. At the stove in the kitchen, burn the doll to get the Dummy Finger and relight the candle. Burn the rope off the door by the monitors, pick up the yellow balloon in the Balloon Room, and fill it at the broken gas pipe near the stove until it pops and drops a Quill Pen. At the clown, fit the finger, then the pen, then wind it with the key, and read the word it writes: LOSER. Enter it on the locked door in the Balloon Room, fit the Valve Handle from inside onto the pipe by the cake room door to stop the water, relight the candle at the stove and set it on the cake. If the lock's symbols look different, the telescope in the toilet behind the clown shows the order on the monitors once you rinse it under the cake room's water.
Once both cards are in the gate, the Main House with its Processing Area, the Yard and Trailer, the Old House and the Greenhouse are behind you for the rest of the run. Finish these first. Files (18): in the house, the two newspaper articles (Missing People and Over 20 Missing), the Home-improvement Store Receipt, Jack's Memo and Jack's Journal, both sides of Travis' Memo, the Doctor's Letter, the Memo About Relief, the Incinerator Room Memo, the Clock Memo, Lucas' Journal and the Torn Page from Journal; outside, Zoe's Investigation Notes and the memo in the Trailer fridge; in the Old House, Marguerite's Warning, the Serum Documentation and Marguerite's Notebook. Antique Coins (11): the Pantry crawlspace, Main Hall, Recreation Room, 2F Bathroom, Small Workshop, Tool Storage, Yard plant pot, Trailer table, Cellar Stairs, Outhouse and Altar drawers. Mr. Everywhere (12): the Laundry Room, Main Corridor, Main Hall, Recreation Room, Drawing Room, Back Passageway, Trailer steps, Old Shack, Cellar Stairs, Crank crawlspace, Altar and attic ladder statues. Locked boxes: all six (Main Corridor drawer, 2F Veranda chest, Small Workshop toolbox, Study drawer, Old House Dining Room drawer, Greenhouse Potting Room drawer), and the six Lock Picks that open them (Laundry Room, Meat Storage, Yard porch, Old House walkway, Master Bedroom, Kid's Room). Tapes: take the Happy Birthday tape from the attic cupboard, and watch it and the Mia tape if you haven't yet, with their trophies, Can't Catch Me and Out Before Dessert. Backpacks: the one in the Old Shack and the one in the Storage room. Optional pickups: the Toy Axe from the attic, the Drawing Room fireplace Steroids, the Trailer toilet treasure, the Repair Kit under the porch, the Broken Handgun in the Trailer, the M37 and the Model Shotgun swap, the Grenade Launcher in the Supplies room behind the Crow door, the dummy-head Treasure Photo (its prize is ahead) and the Stabilizer in the Yard chest. The Trailer's coin cages are not lost: they turn up again later with what you've paid kept.
Lucas's Testing Area is a run of booby-trapped halls. Watch for thin wires across doorways: duck under them or shoot the small bomb at one end from a distance. Some crates are rigged to blow, so shoot a crate from range rather than breaking it up close. Before the Party Room every item you carry goes into the item box, and you get it all back on the far side.
The Party Room door locks behind you, and the way out leads on toward the Boat House; the earlier rooms may not open again. Take the dummy-head Repair Kit, the Fertilizer Room coin and Steroids, the Barn statue and the Southern Landing coin first. If either house tape (Mia or Happy Birthday) is still unwatched, go back up to the office, save, and play it on its VHS player now. Every item has to go into the box, so there is nothing to keep back.
From the Monitoring Room the route leaves the Testing Area for good, over a boardwalk to the Boat House. The Crank from the item box lowers two walkway bridges on the way, and Molded climb out of the water once the second one is down. The Boat House shed is a save room stocked with supplies: save there, because going upstairs starts a long fight and a choice with no save in between.
Once you climb the shed stairs to Zoe, the Testing Area, the walkway and the whole Baker estate stay behind for good. First take the dummy-head Repair Kit, the Fertilizer Room coin and Steroids, the Barn statue, the Southern Landing coin and the statue over the Monitoring Room door in the Testing Area, and the statue in the walkway hut. Then save in the shed. A spare save in a second slot lets you redo the fight and the choice that follow.
After the fight there is one dose left and two people to give it to. On this run, give it to Zoe. Curing Mia is the choice for run 2, the timed run. The choice can't be taken back in this file: if you pick the wrong one, load the save from the shed and play the fight again.
The run moves to a wrecked ship, and you start it with empty hands: no weapons, and an item box that isn't linked to the one you have used so far. Keep away from the Molded until weapons turn up. The first stretch, from the crawlspace to a half-flooded room, can't be walked back, and each of those rooms holds an Antique Coin. A videotape on 3F then plays a long scene of its own; nothing picked up inside it comes out with you. After that the ship opens up around a broken elevator: Corrosive melts the metal locks, and the elevator needs a fuse and a power cable. Everything still on board is lost once you enter No. 2 Engine Room.
From the floor hatch onward the way back closes behind you. Take the crawlspace coin before you drop out of the crawlspace, and the coin in the half-flooded room before you climb out of it. Both count toward Pelicans in Your Pocket, which needs all 18 in one run.
The tape ends when you walk into the hall after using the Control Room laptop, and every pickup from it stays behind: its ammo, healing and Remote Bombs are yours to spend freely. No listed item is lost, as the file Orders also lies on the present-day desk.
Going through the No. 2 Engine Room door ends this part of the run, and the ship can't be boarded again. First take the 3F Control Room and S2 wall-box coins (Pelicans in Your Pocket goes with them), the statues on the 4F side stairs and in the 3F shaft, the files Jim's Letter, Giovanni's Will, Orders, Tattered Secret Document and Mechanic's Memo, the Lock Pick and its toolbox, the Survival Knife, the Captain's Cabin Locker Key and P19 Machine Gun, the MPM Handgun and the Recreation Room Backpack. A last Corrosive opens the Cargo Bay wall panel off this passage, with two Remote Bombs. What you carry goes to the item box for later.
This stretch runs from the swamp below the wreck to the end of run 1. The Mine Office in the swamp is the last place to spend Antique Coins, the lab deep in the mine holds the last five files, and the Exit Passage has the last tape recorder of the run. Several points on the way can't be walked back through, so each one has a warning: clear what it names first.
The Mine Office stays behind once the elevator goes down. Open every coin cage you can still afford (the 18 coins pay for all three), break the statue on the shack's window, and take the spare Backpack if one turned up. Take the weapons you want from the box: the next item box is deep in the mine. On the way, four Molded come round the corner past the mine carts and two more meet you at the elevator.
Past the tripwire room a ledge drops you into the room beyond, and it can't be climbed again. Only supplies are left behind: search the tripwire room's crates for ammo before you jump.
| Ingredients | Makes |
|---|---|
| Herb + Chem Fluid | First Aid Med |
| Herb + Strong Chem Fluid | Strong First Aid Med |
| Gunpowder + Chem Fluid | Handgun Ammo |
| Gunpowder + Strong Chem Fluid | Enhanced Handgun Ammo |
| Solid Fuel + Chem Fluid | Burner Fuel |
| Solid Fuel + Strong Chem Fluid | Flame Rounds |
| Supplements + Chem Fluid | Psychostimulants |
| Supplements + Strong Chem Fluid | Neuro Rounds |
The climb ahead ends with a drop you may not be able to climb back up, and two Fat Molded wait past it. Before you go on, break the North Cavern statue and take the Cultivation Room and lab pickups: the Email Log, the Infection Report, the E-Necrotoxin Document, both R&D Reports and the Steroids. Bring strong weapons from the box: the Grenade Launcher, the 44 MAG or Neuro Rounds.
Pushing through the boards at the end of the passage leaves the Salt Mine behind for good. It locks the North Cavern statue, the five files of the Cultivation Room and the lab (Email Log, Infection Report, E-Necrotoxin Document and both R&D Reports), the Cultivation Room Steroids and The Devil Is in the Details. Save here: it is the last tape recorder before the end.
The attic starts the final fight, and the credits follow it with no way back. Break the storeroom statue in the basement and craft any recipe still missing for 1st Place at the Science Fair first.
A first clear opens Madhouse and adds the Albert-01R to the item box of every file; a Normal clear also adds The Secrets of Defense. Run 2 is next: a fresh file on Easy for the timed run.
Run 2 is a new file on Easy, played for speed. Reach the credits with 4 hours or less on the in-game clock, open the item box only at the three places the story makes you, use three First Aid Meds at most and no Herbs at all, and give the serum to the other person this time. Run 1 took every collectible, so this list is the story in order and what to leave alone on the way. The four new trophies all arrive at the credits; the story trophies along the route were earned in run 1.
Clock: the in-game time shows on the Stats screen in the pause menu and on every save slot. Pausing stops it, but a checkpoint retry after a death keeps the time you lost: when a death costs a lot, choose End from the pause menu and load your last manual save instead. Saving at tape recorders costs nothing on Easy, so save often. Item box: open it only at the three box rows below. Every other box stays shut, including the one beside each tape recorder and the ones on the ship; the Stats screen keeps the count. The Manage Items option on a boss's retry screen doesn't count as an opening. Healing: every First Aid Med you use counts toward the three, a Strong one included. Always carry one First Aid Med: the wound Ethan takes in the Guest House is healed with one, and a later scripted wound may need one to stop the bleeding; either may count toward the three, so take the two meds in the Guest House Bathroom. Leave every Herb where it lies. Steroids don't count and refill your health, so the two on this route are free heals. With the defense books from run 1, blocking makes most hits cheap.
| Point in the story | Clock |
|---|---|
| Out of the Guest House | 0:22 |
| Through the front door to the Yard | 0:50 |
| The Old House's hidden room | 1:13 |
| The Party Room | 1:31 |
| The Boat House fight | 1:38 |
| Off the ship | 2:16 |
| The final fight | 2:24 |
Run 1's last dose went to Zoe; this run it goes to Mia. The choice can't be taken back in this file, and this run's ending and End of the Night ride on it. The shed save from just before you went upstairs is your fallback.
A clear inside 4 hours puts the Circular Saw in the item box of every file. The X-Ray Glasses and the Walking Shoes may unlock here as well, or may already have come with run 1's 20 statues; either way, with both runs done, look for them in run 3's first box. Infinite Ammo waits on a Madhouse clear.
Run 3 is a new file on Madhouse, the hardest difficulty, which opens after a first clear. The story and the puzzles are the ones from run 1, so each story row below points back to that run's section and says only what changes. What this run is for is the Madhouse coins: 33 of them, in new places, and Mad Pelicans wants all of them in this one file. Spending them at the coin cages doesn't hurt the count. Ten of them are in this stretch: one in the Guest House and nine in the Main House and its basement.
Every save at a tape recorder uses up one Cassette Tape, and you can't save without one. About 30 are spread through the run, most of them beside a recorder, and the game makes far fewer checkpoints of its own. Keep tapes for the saves that matter: before each boss fight and after a hard stretch. A coin taken since your last save is lost if you die, so it has to be picked up again.
The attic fight at the top of the Guest House ends the prologue, and the house can't be revisited afterwards. Take the Antique Coin from the kitchen drawer first. Only Antique Coins come with you into the Main House, so any Cassette Tapes still in your pocket are lost too: spend them on saves here, the last one just before you climb the attic ladder.
The Laundry Room box is the first of the run, and it already holds what runs 1 and 2 unlocked. Take the Circular Saw (it needs no ammo and tears through bosses), both defense books (The Secrets of Defense and The Essence of Defense, which cut the damage you take while blocking) and the Albert-01R handgun. The X-Ray Glasses, if they're there, keep the item-spotting effect on all the time and make coins far easier to see; take the Walking Shoes too if you have them. Most of these only work while carried.
On Madhouse Jack starts stalking the Main House right after the Garage, much earlier than in run 1, and he runs faster than you. Shut doors behind you to slow him and duck into a save room to shake him off. He can't follow you through the Scorpion door in the Main Hall.
Madhouse has six coin cages: these three in the Main Hall and three more in the Trailer in the Yard. Together they cost more than the 33 coins a Madhouse run holds, so one of the rewards can't be bought. The Scorpion Key is the one this route can't do without. If the Trailer has no cages on your file, every Main Hall reward can be bought.
The front door still needs the three Dog's Heads of run 1 (section 03). Take the pendulum from the Main Hall's grandfather clock now and hang it in the Living Room clock back through the Ox door for the White one. The Blue one is in the big book in the Recreation Room upstairs, next to this route's next coin. The Red one hangs above the Morgue and comes last.
The walk is run 1's (sections 04 to 07): the Trailer, the Old House and the Greenhouse, back through the Main House for the two keycards, then the Testing Area and the Boat House. The puzzles and their answers are the same, so the story rows below point to run 1 and only say what plays differently on Madhouse. Fourteen of the 33 Madhouse coins are on this stretch, along with the Trailer's three coin cages. Two points close the estate behind you: the keycard gate in the Yard and the stairs up in the Boat House. A warning before each one lists what to finish.
Each save uses a Cassette Tape. The fights here are the pit fight at the Crow door and the Greenhouse fight in the Old House, the Barn in the Testing Area and the Boat House fight, so the Old Shack, the Trailer, the Testing Area Office and the Boat House shed are the saves worth paying for. Coins picked up since your last save have to be found again after a death or a reload.
Madhouse has six coin cages, the three in the Main Hall and the three in this trailer, and together they cost more than the 33 coins the run holds. With the Scorpion Key cage paid, which the route needs, the 30 coins left buy any four of the other five cages but never all five, so pick the reward you can do without. If the trailer has no cages on your file, every Main Hall reward can be bought. Coins put into a cage stay there, and the Trailer's cages turn up again at the Swamp's Mine Office later, so nothing here has to be bought on this visit. Spending coins never costs you Mad Pelicans.
Blade Molded show up here for the first time, and two Molded tend to wait near the Old House entrance. If you walk into a room with a bee hive, back out and shut the door at once; the Burner clears hives and swarms best in short bursts. In the pit fight at the Crow door, shoot her in the head with the handgun before the insects pile up, or stun her with the Burner and follow up with Enhanced Handgun Ammo; standing up and crouching again over and over keeps the flying insects off. In the Greenhouse fight, the Circular Saw from the timed run makes short work of the growth on her belly.
Turn round at the tunnel exit and unlock the gate to the Yard, as in run 1: the Trailer is then a short walk away, and saving there before you go up is worth a tape. The fight starts on the stairs once you drop through the broken floor upstairs.
Once both cards are in the gate beside the Trailer, the Main House with its Processing Area, the Yard and the Trailer, the Old House and the Greenhouse stay behind for the rest of this run. Finish these first. Antique Coins (18): in the house, the Living Room vase, the Garage walkway, the Main Hall drawers, the Recreation Room vase, the one behind the leaning painting, the Drawing Room toilet, the Supplies room and the attic shelves; in the basement, the Incinerator Room dish, the Back Passageway trolley and the Dissection Room shelves; outside, the one under the porch; in the Old House and the Greenhouse, the deck, the Gallery cabinet, the hidden passage exit, the Altar drawers, the Old Yard pole box and the Old Entrance Hall workbench. Cassette Tapes: the loose ones in the Recreation Room, the Meat Storage freezer, the Potting Room and the Kid's Room, and the ones by the Laundry Room, Study, Trailer and Old Shack recorders. Keys: the Model Shotgun on the Dissection Room shelves, which only works on the shotgun statue in the Display Room, so pick it up and make the swap now if you want it. Cages: the Trailer's cages come back at the Swamp's Mine Office with what you've paid kept; the Main Hall cages should move there too, but buy what you want from them now to be safe.
The Barn is one of the hardest stretches of the run: expect two Fat Molded here, with four-legged Molded around it. Body shots barely hurt the big ones, so aim for the head; Neuro Rounds from the Grenade Launcher stun them for a follow-up, and Enhanced Handgun Ammo makes each headshot count. Before you fit the Battery, have the coin in the dark corner under the stairs by the keypad room: that spot may be cut off once the big Molded here is beaten. Save in the Office upstairs before you power the elevator. If a pair of four-legged Molded rush you, falling back toward the keypad door can split them up.
The Party Room door locks behind you and the way out leads on to the Boat House, so the earlier rooms may not open again. Have the five Testing Area coins first: behind the TV, by the cage in the upper hall, under the stairs, in the Fertilizer Room drawer and on the landing shelf, plus the Fertilizer Room tape and the one in the Office. Every item goes into the box at the door, so there is nothing to hold back.
Once you climb the shed stairs to Zoe, the Testing Area and the walkway stay behind for good. Make sure you have the five Testing Area coins (behind the TV, by the cage in the upper hall, under the stairs, in the Fertilizer Room drawer and on the landing shelf) and the Fertilizer Room tape, along with the tapes by the Office and Monitoring Room recorders. Then save in the shed: the fight and the choice come with no recorder in between.
The last stretch of run 3 repeats run 1's ship, swamp and mine (sections 08 and 09), with the same puzzles and the same story. Eight Madhouse coins are on the ship and the 33rd lies on the swamp bank; the crawlspace and the half-flooded room at the start hold none on Madhouse, and neither does the mine. Two of the ship coins sit behind metal locks that need Corrosive, and Madhouse puts one fewer Corrosive on the ship, so read the budget below before you melt anything. Everything left on the ship is lost once you go through the No. 2 Engine Room door.
The ship starts with no weapons and an item box that isn't linked to the one you have used so far. On Madhouse four-legged Molded guard two of the 1F corridors, so keep moving until you have a gun. The P19 Machine Gun is still in the 4F Captain's Cabin locker (its key is behind the Corrosive door next to the 2F Bunk Room), the MPM Handgun lies on the desk in the 3F Sick Bay instead of the Maintenance Room drawer, and the Survival Knife stands on the table-tennis table in the 1F Recreation Room, behind another Corrosive door. Each ship recorder has its own Cassette Tape beside it, and the 2F Guest Room has three.
The ship has five Corrosives on Madhouse: one on the 2F Guest Room floor at the foot of the bed, three in the 2F Lounge painting safe and one in the 3F Sick Bay's north-east medicine cabinet (the Recreation Room spare of Easy and Normal is gone). Five metal locks take one each: the 2F door beside the Bunk Room, the 3F Control Room door, the 1F Recreation Room door, the S2 wall box with a coin, and the S2 Cargo Bay panel. The Control Room door is the way on, and the 3F railing coin lies beyond it; the S2 wall box is a coin. Keep one Corrosive in hand until that wall box is open.
Going through the No. 2 Engine Room door ends this part of the ship, and it can't be boarded again. First take all seven ship coins so far: the Laundry Room washer, the 4F side stairs, the 2F corridor table, the Break Room vase, the 3F railing, the S2 corridor floor and the S2 wall box. A spare Corrosive opens the Cargo Bay wall panel off this passage, with two Remote Bombs. What you carry goes to the item box for later.
The way off the ship ends with a drop into the swamp, and the ship can't be boarded again. Take the coin on the workbench of the room with the chain-link fence first.
The swamp and the Mine Office stay behind once the elevator goes down. The swamp-bank coin must be in hand (Mad Pelicans goes with it), and the cages can't be paid after this. Take guns and ammo from the box: on Madhouse the mine has more Fat Molded, and bombs on the ladder near the end that you need to shoot.
That ends the three runs of the main game, and with them every base-game trophy. The four DLC packs follow.
Not a Hero is a separate campaign with its own saves, played twice for its two trophies: this section is the Normal play, section 15 the Professional one. You start with a pistol and a shotgun. The mine is built round a hub, the Central Cavern, with three coloured shutters: the red one gives the filter you need for the green one, and the green one gives the night vision you need for the third. Nine files and ten Antique Coins are the pickups that count; two of the files are already in your inventory at the start, so examine them before you set off. Once the Shield Machine in the hub opens, the hub and everything off it are gone for this play, so clear all three shutters first.
White Molded only die to RAMROD rounds, the special pistol ammo you find around the mine; on Normal one shot to the chest drops one. The first one you meet, in the red shutter's work room, can't be killed at all: stun it with a grenade and get on with the puzzle. Shoot ordinary Molded in the head to stagger them, then punch them to save ammo.
From the Ventilation Room you have ten minutes to reach the Liquid Nitrogen beyond the clown door in the red shutter's Work Sector A. Coin 9 is at the foot of the ladder you're led to, and coin 10 and a free Steroids are on the way, a short way down the tracks from that clown door. Don't detour anywhere else.
Once the Shield Machine opens there is no way back to the Central Cavern. Before you use the Clown Key on its terminal, have all ten coins, both files from the Backup Power Room, the Storage Area Lock Pick and the Mine Cart Yard box it opens, the free Steroids in the Dead End, the free Stabilizer in Store Room West, and both birdcages (Steroids 3 coins, Stabilizer 5).
The hallway behind the Clinical Lab leads to the Cultivation Lab and the last fight, and the play ends when it does. First take the three Clinical Lab files (the Email Log, the Note on the Wall and Lucas' Journal), the two files from 1F and 2F if you passed them, and the Clinical Lab Lock Pick with the toolbox it opens in Corridor 1. Save at the recorder.
Professional opens after your first clear. It is the same mine, the same three shutters and the same story as section 14, but you start with only a knife, your pistol and shotgun lie somewhere in the mine, there are more Molded and more tripwires, and the timing for a block that staggers an enemy is tighter. The required rows follow section 14's route and say what changes. The Professional coins, the two birdcages, the lock pick, its box and the free upgrade are optional; most coins are in new places. The files are where they were on Normal and section 14 already lists them.
Block just before a hit lands to stagger the attacker, then punch; with only a knife early on, this is how you get past most Molded. Molded keep returning to the Central Cavern: open a shutter and step just inside it, without going far enough for it to close, and the ones nearby disappear for a moment, long enough to save. On Professional the Central Cavern is not the first item box: there is one where the Abandoned Mine's stairs end.
As on Normal, there's no way back to the Central Cavern once the Shield Machine opens. Before you use the Clown Key on its terminal, have all ten Professional coins, the Holding Yard Lock Pick and the birdcage-platform box it opens, the free upgrade in Store Room West, and both birdcages (Steroids 4 coins, Sight C 6). Then sort the item box for the fight inside.
End of Zoe has its own save slots and its own route through the swamps around the Baker estate, one way from area to area. Play it first on Normal and fight with your fists only: that earns Promise Kept and The Only Guns You Need in one go, and the clear opens Joe Must Die and the Extreme Challenges (section 17). The five files count toward 100%; the first one starts in your inventory. The effigies are optional: each one carried makes your punches stronger, which helps a lot on a run without weapons. Each area closes behind you, so pick everything up before the boat or the scene that ends it.
The Only Guns You Need is lost the moment you throw a Throwing Spear or set a Stake Bomb: any thrown or placed weapon counts. The gauntlet you find on the Baker estate near the end is fine to use. Gators can't be beaten by hand, so sneak past them, lure them off and climb out of the water (some stop chasing and vanish once you are on land). The four-legged fast Molded are the hardest part: crouch, sidestep their leap, then keep punching. Sneak kills (crouch and attack from behind an enemy that hasn't seen you) save a lot of health.
Joe's House stays behind once Zoe is in the boat. Joe's Note (inside the house, by the front door) and the Boxer Effigy on the drum past the first barrier must be in hand first.
Once you reach Zoe in the Base boat house, a scene plays and the boat ride after it leaves the Base and the Paddle Boat behind. The Orders file in Medical Storage must be read first. Optional: the Boxer Effigies at the path pool, the side storage, the shed, the Paddle Boat roof and the synthesizer bench, and the Champion Effigy in the 1F air duct.
The boat leaves you in Quarantine Area 1. Crawl under the old building: a toy gator surfaces first, and the real one behind it will likely land a hit when you have no spear. Cross the big lake platform by platform to the large house at the far end; its side entrance has just one gator, so come at it from the left. Stairs lead up into Quarantine Area 2: cross the rickety walkway (a fall means gators), fight off the ambush in the first house and sneak through the second, then follow the winding path and broken walkways to the end. There Molded hide behind cover, a fast Molded bursts from a shack on the right, and a Double Blade Molded guards the last yellow barrier.
Reaching Zoe in the church ends the swamp half: you wake up somewhere else with nothing in your pockets, and everything you carried waits in an item box much later. The swamp can't be reached again. Optional: the Champion Effigies in the Quarantine Area 1 fridge and the Quarantine Area 2 tree, and the Boxer Effigies in the church save shack and at the lamppost.
Walking up to Zoe in the Main House hall starts the last fight, and the run ends after it. Both files in the Yard tent (the Analysis Report and the AMG-78) must be read first. Optional: the Champion Effigy in the Old House room with the collapsed floor and the Boxer Effigy on the Old House bridge. Fists and the gauntlet only, to the end.
Two more plays finish End of Zoe. First a short replay on Normal for one Extreme Challenge, which you can quit as soon as the trophy pops. Then a full play on Joe Must Die, the hardest setting: same route, same recorders, tougher enemies and traps, and a Cassette Tape spent on every save. Weapons are fine on both, since The Only Guns You Need is already done. The files and effigies were all taken on the Normal play and aren't listed again.
Joe Must Die has just 17 Cassette Tapes lying around, and a save without one isn't possible. Spend them before the Swamp Man fights, the cemetery and the final fight rather than at every recorder you pass.
Throwing Knives are added along the route, as a new thrown weapon. The fights are harder, and there are more traps: a pressure-pad bomb sits in the Paddle Boat 1F air duct, just east of where the Champion Effigy lies, and a Double Blade Molded takes the place of the ceiling ambush in the first Quarantine Area 2 house. The effigies are in their Normal spots, except the one by the church lamppost, which isn't there.
| Where | Tapes | Spot |
|---|---|---|
| Base boat house | 3 | On the small metal shelves by the south door, with the recorder. |
| Base swamp, raised dock | 1 | In the hand of the dead gator on the wooden platform on the east side. |
| Paddle Boat deck | 1 | Atop a wooden barrel at the deck's east side. |
| Paddle Boat 2F, north stairwell | 1 | On the inner window ledge along the north side of the passage. |
| Paddle Boat synthesizer platform | 1 | On the metal bench with the recorder. |
| Quarantine Area 1 shed | 2 | On the cardboard boxes beside the table with the recorder. |
| Quarantine Area 1 lake | 1 | On the big fallen log in the lake's north-west corner. |
| Quarantine Area 2, central pool | 1 | On a crossbeam under the walkway on the pool's south side, below the part with the stairs. |
| Quarantine Area 2, third stilted cabin | 1 | Lying on the couch at the centre of the cabin. |
| Church save shack | 1 | On the table with the recorder. |
| Quarantine Area 2 path | 1 | In the leftmost of the breakable crates where the path ends to the east. |
| Old House shack | 2 | On the bench with the recorder. |
| Yard military tent | 1 | On the small metal shelves with the recorder. |
Banned Footage Vol. 1 isn't played inside the story. Owning it adds Extra Content to the title menu, between Load Game and More; Nightmare is one of its tapes. A run is five rounds, one per hour from midnight to 5 AM, locked in the Main House basement with nothing but Scrap to spend at the workbench. A run is played from midnight to dawn in one go, with no pickups to collect: every run starts fresh from the menu, so nothing here can be missed. Each run's score, a failed one included, is added to a running total that opens new workbench stock and starting bonuses for later runs, so early losses still pay.
You start with 1,000 Scrap. Compactors make more: switch each one on, then walk to it to collect, as each holds at most 1,000. Switch on every compactor at the start of each round. Every purchase raises that item's next price, so put the first Scrap into weapon damage and compactor upgrades rather than a stack of ammo. Corrosive (1,500 Scrap for the first one) opens locked rooms with extra compactors and traps; buy it early. Bonus Scrap also arrives at the end of each round. Keep moving in loops through the bigger rooms, so the Molded can't pin you in a corner.
| Hour | Goal | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight | Kill every enemy | Switch on the extra compactor in the Morgue and open the Morgue shortcut. Any weapon will do; save the traps. |
| 1 AM | Beat Jack | Before he comes, upgrade the compactors, a weapon and your speed. Shotgun blasts to the head bring him down; a Nerve Gas trap makes it easy, but it is worth keeping for later. |
| 2 AM | Kill every enemy | Enemies get tougher and a Fat Molded joins them. Lean on the turret traps, open the 44 MAG for the Fat Molded, and finish the speed upgrade by now. |
| 3 AM | Kill every enemy | Raise the turrets to their second level and take the two Fat Molded down with 44 MAG headshots. Drums, tripwires and Nerve Gas help when it gets crowded. |
| 4 AM | Beat Jack | Third-level turrets handle the Molded around him; lure Jack himself into the Nerve Gas trap in the Morgue. |
| Total score | Reward | What it gives |
|---|---|---|
| 5,000 | Starting Scrap +250 | 250 more Scrap at the start of every run |
| 10,000 | Machine Gun Set | the machine gun, its upgrade and its ammo on the workbench |
| 20,000 | Nerve Gas Traps | Nerve Gas traps placed around the basement |
| 40,000 | First Aid Med x3 | three First Aid Meds in hand when a run starts |
| 80,000 | Burner Set | the Burner, its upgrade and its fuel on the workbench |
| 100,000 | Adrenaline | Adrenaline on the workbench |
| 150,000 | Flammable Drums | explosive drums placed around the basement |
| 200,000 | 44 MAG Set | the 44 MAG, its upgrade and its ammo on the workbench |
| 300,000 | Circular Saw | the Circular Saw on the workbench; crafting it lowers that run's score |
| 450,000 | Starting Scrap +250 | another 250 Scrap at the start |
| 700,000 | Neuro Rounds | Neuro Rounds on the workbench |
| 1,000,000 | Enhanced Handgun Ammo | Enhanced Handgun Ammo on the workbench |
| 1,500,000 | Strong First Aid Med | the Strong First Aid Med on the workbench |
| 2,000,000 | Starting Scrap +250 | another 250 Scrap at the start |
| 3,000,000 | Remote Bomb Set | the Remote Bomb and its upgrade on the workbench |
| 4,000,000 | M21 Shotgun | the M21 Shotgun on the workbench |
| 5,000,000 | Albert-01R | the Albert-01R on the workbench |
| 7,000,000 | Starting Scrap +250 | another 250 Scrap at the start |
| 10,000,000 | Infinite Ammo | Infinite Ammo on the workbench; crafting it lowers that run's score |
Bedroom is the second tape of Banned Footage Vol. 1, on the same Extra Content menu as Nightmare. You start cuffed to a bed in a single room with a locked side room, twelve slots and no way to guard. Each time she leaves, you get out, search and solve, and some steps make a noise that brings her back. The steps below follow the four breaks in order. Nothing here is missable, since the tape replays from the menu, but Ratcatcher needs all three rats in one play.
After a noise you have about 30 seconds. Put back everything she could notice: the Lantern on its hook, the paintings where they started, the grandfather clock door shut, and the dresser. Then get into bed, close the cuff and choose to wait for her. If she spots a change she hurts you and resets the room. Three hurts end the play (a bite of her food counts as one), and so does taking too long. Never pull the dresser's right-hand drawer: it jams open. If she asks about it, answering that it wasn't you may spare you.
Once the Snake Key is out of its cage she comes in and won't leave, and the escape ends the play. Ratcatcher counts this play only: if a rat is still unexamined, go back for it now. If one was missed, finish anyway for Like Mama Used to Make, then replay Bedroom from the menu and take all three in one go.
Ethan Must Die is the second entry on the Extra Content menu, beside Banned Footage. You start with only the Knife, the watch and twelve slots, and two unguarded hits can kill you. There are no checkpoints: a death sends you back to the start. Weapons and healing come from crates whose contents and places change after every death, so the steps below give the route and its traps, not the loot. Enemy and trap positions stay the same, so each attempt teaches the next. A Madhouse clear of the main game first, and knowing the house well, makes it far easier.
Crates come in ranks: brown, green, purple, and a rare silver chest with the best finds. A crate wrapped in a single layer of tape that ticks is a bomb: leave it or shoot it from a distance. On this route crates that aren't green are often bombs, so break the green ones first. Each death leaves a statue where you fell; break it on the next attempt for one random item you carried then (never the Knife). Only the latest death leaves one, and dying before you reach it loses it. Close doors behind you, and blocking still cuts most damage.
21 is a blackjack-style card game played from a chair: no walking, no shooting, and no clock on your turn. Win three games in a row for the first trophy; that opens Survival, and Survival opens Survival+. Every mode replays from the menu, so nothing in this tape can be missed, and the trump cards you unlock along the way stay unlocked for later games.
| Goal | Card it adds |
|---|---|
| Beat 5 opponents in all | Go For 24 |
| Beat 15 opponents in all | Two-Up+ |
| Win against 2 opponents back to back with no torture | Shield+ |
| Make exactly 21 three times in all | Starting Trump Card +1 |
| Make exactly 21 three times in a row | Go For 27 |
| Play 10 trump cards in all | Exchange |
| Win a round in which you played 15 or more trump cards | Trump Switch+ |
| Knock 10 of the opponent's trump cards off the table in all | Destroy+ |
| Knock 20 of the opponent's trump cards off the table in all | Destroy++ |
| Win a round while bust | Starting Trump Card +1 |
| Clear Survival | Perfect Draw+ |
| Clear Survival without being tortured | Ultimate Draw |
| Clear Survival+ without being tortured | Grand Reward |
| Beat Mr. Big Head | Starting Trump Card +1 |
| Beat Mr. Big Head twice | Harvest |
Daughters is a short story tape set in the Baker house, with two ways out and a trophy for each. One play reaches only one of them, so play it twice: the Garage exit first (the plain path), then the Trailer exit, which needs a chain of steps done before the lights go out. The tape replays from the menu, so a play that goes wrong costs only time: finish it or quit, and start again. You have 12 slots and a Lighter, your only light.
Nothing has to be done early on this play. Follow the tasks the house gives you, and in the Main Hall take the double doors back into the house.
Start Daughters again from the menu. This time the order matters: the phone code, the Lock Pick, the bathroom drawer, the Kids' Room ladder and the laptop in the attic all come before you hand the clothes over. Until the attic is done, keep the clothes in your bag and stay away from the girl.
The Lock Pick opens one drawer and is gone. Use it on the 2F bathroom sink drawer; the pantry cupboard drawer only helps the Garage exit, and with the pick spent there the attic can't be reached in this play. If that happens, finish or quit the play and start Daughters again.
Giving the clothes to the girl in the Kids' Room puts the lights out and starts the chase. Have these done first: the Lock Pick spent on the bathroom sink drawer, the Small Component in the Kids' Room trophy, and the list read on the attic laptop. If the lights went out first, finish or quit the play and start Daughters again.
The front door, opened with the relief, leads to the Trailer exit. The double doors back toward the 1F hallway lead to the Garage exit instead, and the trailer can't be reached in this play after them. If you went through the wrong one, finish or quit the play and start again.
Jack's 55th Birthday is a time attack across six stages: gather food from all over the stage and carry it to Jack, feeding it to him from your inventory, until his satisfaction gauge is full. Each stage starts in a Start Area with an item box of set weapons and items (you can save and load a loadout), and the clock only starts once you leave it. Hurting or killing enemies stops the main clock for a while and builds a time bonus; some doors open only when the enemy of the same colour dies, and each stage hides two short-lived super weapons. Your rank comes from the time left: C, B, A, S or SS.
Only Guest House I is open at first, and a B rank opens the next stage. A first pass at B on every stage opens them all and fills the item box with skills, which make the S runs much easier, so the S-rank rows below can be ticked on a later attempt. Every stage replays, so nothing here can be missed.
| Stage | C | B | A | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guest House I | Big Gun I (attack up); Hard Body I (defence up) | Clairvoyance (shows where useful items are) | Time Recovery α I (more time bonus per hit) | Infighter (much stronger melee, much weaker defence) |
| Testing Area I | A skill that makes enemies stagger more easily (level I) | A skill for faster reloads | Time Recovery β I (more time bonus per hit) | Masochist (time bonus whenever you are hurt) |
| Main House I | A skill for more health (level I) | Speeder I (faster, weaker defence) | Golden Crowbar (weapon: sets enemies alight) | Regenerate (health returns while you stand still) |
| Guest House II | Big Gun II (much more attack, much slower reloads); Hard Body II (much more defence, enemies stagger much less) | Circular Saw (weapon) | Time Recovery α II (much more time bonus, much slower movement) | A skill for a stronger guard |
| Testing Area II | The stagger skill at level II (enemies stagger far more, much less health) | A skill that makes you much faster when near death | Time Recovery β II (much more time bonus, much slower movement) | Infinity (unlimited reloads, much smaller time bonus) |
| Main House II | The health skill at level II (much more health, much less attack) | Speeder II (much faster, much weaker defence) | A skill that makes you much stronger when near death | Gold Blaster (weapon: a ray gun with no ammo limit) |
Three runs of the main game and the DLC plays in sections 14 to 23 earn all of these. A collection trophy is listed at the section where this route finishes that collection, and the DLC trophies don't count toward the Platinum.
| Trophy | PlayStation grade | Pack | Section |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biosplattered | Platinum (PlayStation only) | Base game | 13. Run 3: Madhouse, the Ship to the End |
| She's Alive | Bronze | Base game | 1. Run 1: The Guest House |
| Welcome to the Family, Son | Bronze | Base game | 1. Run 1: The Guest House |
| You Ain't Gettin' Away | Bronze | Base game | 3. Run 1: The Main Hall and the Processing Area |
| The Grave Will Out the Truth | Bronze | Base game | 5. Run 1: Back to the Main House |
| You Better Start Running | Bronze | Base game | 7. Run 1: The Boat House |
| Into the Depths | Bronze | Base game | 9. Run 1: The Swamp and the Salt Mine |
| End of the Night | Silver | Base game | 10. Run 2: The Timed Run on Easy |
| Just A Memory Now | Silver | Base game | 9. Run 1: The Swamp and the Salt Mine |
| Playing it Safe | Bronze | Base game | 9. Run 1: The Swamp and the Salt Mine |
| The Nightmare's Finally Over | Bronze | Base game | 9. Run 1: The Swamp and the Salt Mine |
| Who's Your Daddy Now? | Silver | Base game | 13. Run 3: Madhouse, the Ship to the End |
| Behind Closed Doors | Bronze | Base game | 1. Run 1: The Guest House |
| Arms in the Air | Bronze | Base game | 2. Run 1: Into the Main House |
| A-ha! | Bronze | Base game | 1. Run 1: The Guest House |
| Master of Unlocking | Bronze | Base game | 1. Run 1: The Guest House |
| Nice Try | Bronze | Base game | 3. Run 1: The Main Hall and the Processing Area |
| Open Your Eyes | Bronze | Base game | 3. Run 1: The Main Hall and the Processing Area |
| In the Bag | Bronze | Base game | 4. Run 1: The Yard and the Old House |
| Things Got Personal | Bronze | Base game | 4. Run 1: The Yard and the Old House |
| Slash Slash, Slashity Slash! | Bronze | Base game | 4. Run 1: The Yard and the Old House |
| Back Off, Mrs. B! | Silver | Base game | 4. Run 1: The Yard and the Old House |
| Duck If You Love Life | Silver | Base game | 3. Run 1: The Main Hall and the Processing Area |
| Less is More | Silver | Base game | 4. Run 1: The Yard and the Old House |
| Fly Swatter | Silver | Base game | 4. Run 1: The Yard and the Old House |
| That's a Spicy Meat-a-ball | Bronze | Base game | 8. Run 1: The Wrecked Ship |
| 1st Place at the Science Fair | Bronze | Base game | 9. Run 1: The Swamp and the Salt Mine |
| Can't Catch Me | Bronze | Base game | 3. Run 1: The Main Hall and the Processing Area |
| Out Before Dessert | Silver | Base game | 5. Run 1: Back to the Main House |
| Be Kind, Please Rewind | Bronze | Base game | 8. Run 1: The Wrecked Ship |
| Pelicans in Your Pocket | Silver | Base game | 8. Run 1: The Wrecked Ship |
| Mad Pelicans | Silver | Base game | 13. Run 3: Madhouse, the Ship to the End |
| The Devil Is in the Details | Silver | Base game | 9. Run 1: The Swamp and the Salt Mine |
| He's Here, There, Everywhere! | Bronze | Base game | 2. Run 1: Into the Main House |
| Mr. Nowhere | Silver | Base game | 9. Run 1: The Swamp and the Salt Mine |
| Just Get Me Outta Here | Gold | Base game | 10. Run 2: The Timed Run on Easy |
| Resource Manager | Gold | Base game | 10. Run 2: The Timed Run on Easy |
| Walk it Off | Gold | Base game | 10. Run 2: The Timed Run on Easy |
| Dead by Dawn? | Bronze | Banned Footage Vol. 1 | 18. Banned Footage Vol. 1: Nightmare |
| Sleepless in Dulvey | Silver | Banned Footage Vol. 1 | 18. Banned Footage Vol. 1: Nightmare |
| Like Mama Used to Make | Bronze | Banned Footage Vol. 1 | 19. Banned Footage Vol. 1: Bedroom |
| Ratcatcher | Silver | Banned Footage Vol. 1 | 19. Banned Footage Vol. 1: Bedroom |
| Ethan Never Dies | Gold | Banned Footage Vol. 1 | 20. Banned Footage Vol. 1: Ethan Must Die |
| Eye in the Sky | Bronze | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 21. Banned Footage Vol. 2: 21 |
| Card Shark | Bronze | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 21. Banned Footage Vol. 2: 21 |
| You Gotta Know When To Hold 'Em | Silver | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 21. Banned Footage Vol. 2: 21 |
| Butterfly Effect | Bronze | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 22. Banned Footage Vol. 2: Daughters |
| One Instinct: Survival | Silver | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 22. Banned Footage Vol. 2: Daughters |
| Don't Keep the Man Waiting | Bronze | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 23. Banned Footage Vol. 2: Jack's 55th Birthday |
| Miracle Chef | Bronze | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 23. Banned Footage Vol. 2: Jack's 55th Birthday |
| Best Birthday Ever | Silver | Banned Footage Vol. 2 | 23. Banned Footage Vol. 2: Jack's 55th Birthday |
| Promise Kept | Bronze | End of Zoe | 16. End of Zoe |
| King of the Swamp | Gold | End of Zoe | 17. End of Zoe: Extreme Challenge and Joe Must Die |
| The Only Guns You Need | Silver | End of Zoe | 16. End of Zoe |
| Fastest Man in the Swamp | Bronze | End of Zoe | 17. End of Zoe: Extreme Challenge and Joe Must Die |
| Queensberry Rules | Bronze | End of Zoe | 16. End of Zoe |
| Swamp Warfare | Bronze | End of Zoe | 16. End of Zoe |
| Mission Accomplished | Bronze | Not a Hero | 14. Not a Hero |
| You're the Hero Now | Silver | Not a Hero | 15. Not a Hero: Professional |
| Platform | List | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PS4 and PS5 | 59 trophies: 1 Platinum, 5 Gold, 19 Silver, 34 Bronze | PS5 has its own list with the same 59 trophies. The Platinum needs the 37 base-game trophies only. |
| Xbox One and Series | 58 achievements (1,000 Gamerscore for the base game, 620 for the DLC) | The same names as PlayStation, with no Platinum. |
| Steam | 58 achievements | The same names as PlayStation, with no Platinum. |