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Shadows of Rose: The Castle

Start the expansion's story on Hardcore, gather the three masks across the castle, craft one of every item, then place the last mask and win the fight that follows.

Shadows of Rose is the story half of the Winters' Expansion, played only over the shoulder. This first chapter is a remixed Castle Dimitrescu: find the Bronze, Silver and Gold Masks for the statue in the Main Hall. There is no merchant and no Lei, ammunition is scarce, and running past enemies is often the better choice. The chapter holds 9 of the expansion's 19 files, two optional handgun parts, two Pipe Bombs and all three Rusted Scrap, so it is also where Craftsmaster is earned. Saving uses typewriters, as in the main game. Nothing here can be fetched later once the Gold Mask goes on.

Item spots are mapped on Standard

This plan plays the expansion once, on Hardcore, for all five of its trophies. The pickup spots below are the Standard ones. Files, key items, weapons and puzzles should stay where they are, but loose ammunition and crafting materials may differ on Hardcore. Save often and avoid fights the route doesn't need: two of the bosses ahead call for your guns.

Start Shadows of Rose on HardcoreQuest stepDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Laboratory – From the main menu, open Bonuses and pick Shadows of Rose from the extra games; it needs the Winters' Expansion (or the Gold Edition). Choose Hardcore: the difficulty trophies stack, so one Hardcore clear also gives the Casual and Standard ones. You wake in the Laboratory under the castle.
Summary
Begins the expansion's story. One clear on Hardcore earns all three of its difficulty trophies.
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File: The Megamycete TheoremCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Laboratory – It is pinned to the small whiteboard right next to the Laboratory door, where you start. Read it before you leave the room.
Why you can lose it
Read it now, before you fit the Switch Handle: the cell block may not open again after the gate run, and the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files.
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File: How to Preserve RabbitsCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Treatment Room – Leave the Laboratory and follow the corridor past a girl locked in a cell who begs for help. Go down the stairs through the Connecting Passage to the Treatment Room, where Rose's name is smeared on a wall. The file lies on the table in the east corner of the main north-west room.
Why you can lose it
Read it now, before you fit the Switch Handle: the cell block may not open again after the gate run, and the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files.
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Cell KeyKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Treatment Room – Carry on round the Treatment Room through its only other exit into the south-east room. The key hangs on a hook in that room's south-east corner.
Summary
Opens the cell with the girl in it.
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Open Cell 3 and follow the girl through the crawlspaceQuest stepDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Cell 3 – Go back up to the girl's cell, Cell 3, and unlock it with the Cell Key. Follow her to the Treatment Room, where she helps you lift a body bag aside; crawl through the gap it uncovers into the Cells.
Requires
Summary
The girl in the cell shows you the way on into the Cells.
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Switch HandleKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Maintenance Storage – The gate out of the Cells is shut and its handle is gone. Enter the one cell that stands open and crouch through to the Maintenance Storage: the handle sits on the old switch in the north-east room. Unlock the side door on your way out for a quick way back to the gate.
Summary
The missing lever for the gate out of the Cells.
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Open the Cells gate and run to the ParlorQuest stepDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Cells – Fit the handle on the mechanism beside the gate, in the Cells' south-west corner. Face Eaters crawl out while it slowly opens and you have nothing to fight with: keep circling away from them. Once it is up, run and don't stop, through the cells, the Hall of War, the storage rooms and the Wine Cellar, until a cutscene brings you to the Parlor.
Summary
A chase with no weapon, out of the dungeons and up into the castle.
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MichaelHidden spoiler – activate to revealNPCDLC: Winters ExpansionMajor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Parlor – After the gate run you come round in the Parlor. From here on an unseen helper guides you with messages written on the walls and leaves supplies in rooms you have cleared.
Summary
Your unseen helper in the castle and beyond.
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File: The Liquid VoidCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Bedchamber – Go through the white and gold double doors off the Parlor into the Bedchamber. The file is on the centre table; come back out the same way.
Why you can lose it
Read it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files.
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The Masked DukeHidden spoiler – activate to revealNPCDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Main Hall – Leave the Parlor by the brown door and follow the Northern Corridor round to the Main Hall. A cutscene shows the Masked Duke, who sends Face Eaters after you.
Summary
The masked master of this castle, who sets his creatures on you.
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LEMIWeaponDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Entrance Hall – Leave the Parlor by its brown door and follow the Northern Corridor to the Main Hall. After a cutscene Face Eaters come for you: run downstairs and out through the exit left of where the Duke's shop used to be, along the Southern Corridor to the Entrance Hall. The way out through the Carriage Gate is blocked, and the cutscene that follows gives you the handgun. Shoot the Face Eater in front of you; the ammo on the small table behind it is yours.
Summary
Your first gun, a handgun handed over in a cutscene.
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Typewriter: Castle Main HallAreaDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Main Hall – Walk back along the corridor and turn left into the Main Hall. The typewriter is on a small cabinet in the ground floor's south-east corner, beside the statue that wants three masks.
Summary
Save point by the mask statue; you come back here for every mask.
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Bolt CuttersKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Kitchen – From the Entrance Hall, walk back along the Southern Corridor to the Main Hall. Its stairs are blocked for now, so take the brown double doors at the far end of the hall into the Dining Room, then its single door through the Eastern Corridor to the Kitchen. A Face Eater lurks there. The cutters sit inside a wooden box in a corner of the north-east passage, beside the locked Back Storage door.
Requires
Summary
They cut the chain on the door from the Dining Room to the Courtyard.
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Cut the chain on the Dining Room door to the CourtyardQuest stepDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Dining Room – Return to the Dining Room: the Bolt Cutters snap the chain on its door out to the Courtyard.
Requires
Summary
Opens the Courtyard, the castle's crossroads for all three masks.
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File: I Tried to Combine Some ThingsCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Northern Stairwell – In the Courtyard, take the single brown door on the north side into the Northern Stairwell and climb to the upper floor. The note lies on the chest of drawers facing the top of the stairs.
Why you can lose it
Read it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files. Reading it teaches the First Aid Med and Handgun Ammo recipes.
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RW-Variant Flask 1Key itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Workshop – From the top of the Northern Stairwell go into the Library (two Face Eaters), on through the Waiting Room to the Atelier. Its floor is black void: climb the stairs and push the ladder down to cross. The only way on leads through the Secret Passage and the Attic to the Workshop, where the flask sits on a small set of metal shelves along the east wall.
Summary
Lets Rose focus her power on the red cores (Sclerotia), clearing the black void they feed and freeing what they wrap.
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File: On Mutamycete DisruptionCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Workshop – It lies on the workbench along the north side of the Workshop, near the flask.
Why you can lose it
Read it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files.
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Typewriter: Castle WorkshopAreaDLC: Winters Expansion
Break every core you pass

From now on Rose can destroy the red cores: aim with her power and focus it. Each one destroyed counts toward It's Starting to Grow on Me (20 uses of her power), and many guard ammo, crafting materials or a shortcut. The Attic on your way back down has two: the one on the wall clears the void over a gunpowder pickup, and the other is wrapped round a vase of handgun ammo.

High-Capacity Mag.UpgradeMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Waiting Room – Head back down through the Attic and the Atelier to the Waiting Room. Destroy the core in the middle of the room that walls off the seating area on the north side; the part is in the weapons case on the table there.
Why you can lose it
Take it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
A LEMI part that enlarges its magazine.
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Bronze MaskKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Courtyard – From the Workshop, go back down through the Attic, the Atelier and the Waiting Room, then the Library (more Face Eaters, and cores guarding crafting items) and the Northern Stairwell to the Courtyard. Break the new core on the Courtyard steps if it blocks you, then destroy the core wrapped round the statue in its centre and take the mask from the top.
Summary
The first of the three masks for the Main Hall statue.
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Place the Bronze Mask on the Main Hall statueQuest stepDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Main Hall – Go back through the Dining Room to the Main Hall. The Bronze Mask goes on the leftmost figure of the statue next to the typewriter.
Requires
Summary
The first mask goes on the statue beside the Main Hall typewriter.
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Hand-drawn MapKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Main Hall – Destroy the core on the Antechamber doors and the one hanging off the main staircase, then climb the stairs. The map lies on the floor beside a small green armchair at the top.
Summary
A sketch that marks where the Monocular Key is kept.
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RW-Variant Flask 2Hidden spoiler – activate to revealKey itemDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Armory – Destroy the core hanging off the Main Hall staircase and go up. Over the south-west balcony hangs a core that seals the Private Corridor: break it, and the Executioner bursts in. He can't be beaten yet, so run along the corridor into the Drawing Room, read the note on its table and crawl under the fireplace to the Armory. The flask is on a table in the Armory's north-west corner.
Summary
Adds a charged burst of Rose's power that stuns enemies, using a gauge of three stocks.
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Monocular KeyKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Dressing Room – Crawl back to the Drawing Room, step out and turn right along the corridor to the Dressing Room. Two Face Eaters wait inside. The key is on the desk against the north wall.
Summary
A key with one eye: it opens the red-eyed door in the Courtyard and a locked case.
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File: On Movement DisruptionCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Dressing Room – It lies on the same north desk in the Dressing Room as the Monocular Key.
Why you can lose it
Read it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files.
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File: The Masked Duke's DiaryHidden spoiler – activate to revealCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Salon – Get back to the Main Hall, staying clear of the Executioner, and go down to the ground floor. Destroy the core on the Antechamber doors if it is still there, cross the Antechamber and break the core on the Salon door. The diary is on the table in the Salon's north-west corner.
Why you can lose it
Read it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files.
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CompensatorUpgradeMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Salon – In the same Salon, a locked case rests on the chair on the south side: open it with the Monocular Key. If it isn't there, check the Parlor for the case.
Why you can lose it
Take it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
A LEMI part that steadies its recoil.
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Hall of Ablution statue puzzleQuest stepDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Hall of Ablution – Of the three doors along the South East Wing, the middle one with the glass panel leads into the Hall of Ablution; the other two are locked for now. Press the four figures in this order: the hanged one, the one with the blade, the drowned one, then the one pierced by arrows. A way down opens.
Summary
Opens the way down to the cellars where the Silver Mask is kept.
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Pipe Bomb: Main Cellar vaseHidden spoiler – activate to revealWeaponMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Main Cellar – Go down through the Small Torture Chamber to the Main Cellar, where the Executioner patrols: stay out of his sight. A core is wrapped round a vase between the pair of pillars at the room's centre; destroy it and take the Pipe Bomb from the vase.
Why you can lose it
Take it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
A thrown explosive, one of only two lying in the castle.
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Pipe Bomb: Isolated PassageConsumableMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Isolated Passage – Break the core on the passage from the Main Cellar to the Basement, then the one on the east side of the Basement to reach the Isolated Passage. The Pipe Bomb rests on a wooden crate at the passage's far east end, beside the mask statue. Take it before the mask.
Why you can lose it
Take it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
The second Pipe Bomb lying in the castle.
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Silver MaskHidden spoiler – activate to revealKey itemDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Isolated Passage – Below the Hall of Ablution, go through the Small Torture Chamber into the Main Cellar, keeping out of the patrolling Executioner's way. Destroy the core blocking the way to the Basement, then the one on the Basement's east side, and follow the Isolated Passage to its east end. The mask is on the statue there; the Executioner rises as you take it, so run straight back up.
Summary
The second mask for the Main Hall statue.
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Typewriter: Castle Guest RoomAreaDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Guest Room – Back in the Hall of Ablution, leave and turn right: the Guest Room door now opens. A typewriter may stand here; if it is not there, save at the Main Hall on your way to the next mask.
Summary
A save point that may be here after the cellar escape; one map shows none.
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File: Shotgun Shells Should HelpCollectibleMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Terrace Room – Up from the cellars, leave the Hall of Ablution and turn right into the Guest Room. Go out by its single door onto the balcony, bear right and hop over the low stone walls to the Terrace Room. The note lies on the east side of the middle table with the first Rusted Scrap; keep the scrap for Craftsmaster. Unlock the Terrace door to open the other doors along the Hall of Ablution corridor.
Why you can lose it
Read it now: the castle is left behind for the rest of this run once the Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
One of the 19 Shadows of Rose files. Reading it teaches the Shotgun Ammo and Pipe Bomb recipes.
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Snake PaintingKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Guest Bathroom – Go back into the Guest Room and through its double doors into the Guest Bathroom. The painting is on the table on the east side, straight ahead as you enter.
Summary
The missing piece of the picture puzzle in the Gallery.
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Place the Silver Mask on the Main Hall statueHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Main Hall – Leave the Guest Bathroom by its other door and head down the Southern Stairwell to the Courtyard. The Executioner and four Face Eaters now roam it: run past them through the Dining Room to the Main Hall, then fit the Silver Mask on the rightmost figure.
Summary
The second mask goes on the statue.
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Triocular KeyKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Gallery – Solving the paintings opens the bars at the south end of the Gallery; the key is in the small chest behind them.
Summary
A three-eyed key for the shotgun cabinet and the Opera Hall door.
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M1897WeaponDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Dining Room – Go back down to the Dining Room. The Triocular Key opens the locked cabinet on the south side, and the shotgun is inside.
Summary
A pump-action shotgun, Rose's second and last gun.
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Gold MaskKey itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Opera Hall – Cross the Courtyard to the Northern Stairwell; the three-eyed door on the right opens with the Triocular Key into the Opera Hall, its floor drowned in void. Destroy the core between the north pillars (four Face Eaters rise), cross the new platform to break the core over the fireplace, then go upstairs. The small north-west room holds two Face Eaters and the second Rusted Scrap (keep it, or craft the Shotgun Ammo and a Pipe Bomb now); from the balcony, break the core hanging in the north-west corner to drop a bridge. The mask waits on the statue in the ground floor's north-west corner.
Summary
The last of the three masks. Taking it springs a trap.
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Escape the Duke's cage: destroy the three real coresHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Special Chambers – Taking the Gold Mask lands you in a cage in the Special Chambers, with a timer running. Messages on the walls give the hints: first the core lower than the barrel, third from the left in the bottom row; then the big core in the broken-wall alcove on your right, once you have shot the Face Eater that comes out; last, the one in the middle of the ceiling.
Requires
Summary
A timed puzzle: of the many cores around the cage, only three are real.
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It's Starting to Grow on MeAchievementDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Special Chambers – Each core destroyed counts. The route's own cores come to about 13 by the cage, so also smash the vase and birdcage cores you pass: two in the Courtyard, the Main Hall balcony, the Small Torture Chamber, the Isolated Passage, two in the Opera Hall and the Dungeon's east cell. With those the castle gives you more than 20 by the time the cage opens; if the trophy is still missing, keep breaking cores: there are more ahead.
Summary
Trophy for using Rose's power 20 times.
Trophies
  • Bronze · PlayStationIt's Starting to Grow on Me
  • Achievement · XboxIt's Starting to Grow on Me
  • Achievement · SteamIt's Starting to Grow on Me
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Typewriter: Castle DungeonAreaDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Dungeon – Follow the passage out of the Special Chambers into the Dungeon. The typewriter is on a wooden table in the Dungeon's north-east corner, and fresh ammo waits on the box beside it.
Summary
Save point just past the cage.
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CraftsmasterAchievementMissablePoint of no returnDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Dungeon – The third Rusted Scrap lies on the floor of the Dungeon's south-west cell. Now craft one of each: a First Aid Med (Herb and Chem Fluid), Handgun Ammo (Gunpowder and Chem Fluid), Shotgun Ammo (Gunpowder and Rusted Scrap) and a Pipe Bomb (Gunpowder, Herb and Rusted Scrap). These are the only three scrap mapped in the expansion, so never spend two on one recipe before both scrap recipes are done.
Why you can lose it
Craft all four before the Gold Mask goes on: all the Rusted Scrap mapped in the expansion is in the castle, and the two scrap recipes need it. Another run of Shadows of Rose would still earn it.
Point of no return
The Gold Mask goes on the Main Hall statue and you examine the lantern beside it. You are dragged away to the Execution Yard, and the castle stays behind for the rest of this run.
Summary
Trophy for crafting every type of item: First Aid Med, Handgun Ammo, Shotgun Ammo and Pipe Bomb.
Trophies
  • Bronze · PlayStationCraftsmaster
  • Achievement · XboxCraftsmaster
  • Achievement · SteamCraftsmaster
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Before the Gold Mask: finish the castle

Placing the Gold Mask and examining the lantern ends the chapter: you are carried off to a fight and the castle is gone for the rest of the run. Save at the Dungeon typewriter first, and make sure you have everything below. Files (9): The Megamycete Theorem (Laboratory), How to Preserve Rabbits (Treatment Room), The Liquid Void (Bedchamber), I Tried to Combine Some Things (Northern Stairwell), On Mutamycete Disruption (Workshop), On Movement Disruption (Dressing Room), The Masked Duke's Diary (Salon), The Gallery of Despair (South East Wing) and Shotgun Shells Should Help (Terrace Room). Trophy: Craftsmaster, with one of each of the four crafts done. Optional: the High-Capacity Mag. and the Compensator for the LEMI, and both Pipe Bombs (Main Cellar vase and Isolated Passage).

Place the Gold Mask and take the crystalHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Castle (Shadows of Rose) · Main Hall – From the Dungeon, go up through the Back Storage into the Kitchen and on through the Dining Room to the Main Hall. Fit the Gold Mask on the bottom figure of the statue, then examine the lantern beside it.
Summary
The last mask completes the statue; what waits in the lantern is not what it seems.
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RW-Variant Flask 3Key itemDLC: Winters Expansion
Location
Execution Yard (Shadows of Rose) · Execution Yard – You wake in the Execution Yard and the Executioner fight starts at once. When its second stage ends, another gate drops. Run through to the north-west passage: the flask hangs on the wall in its north-west corner. Take it before the last stage: the refilled gauge pays for the stuns that finish him.
Summary
Adds a stock to Rose's power gauge and fills it up.
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ExecutionerHidden spoiler – activate to revealBossDLC: Winters ExpansionMinor spoiler
Location
Execution Yard (Shadows of Rose) · Execution Yard – The fight starts as soon as you wake in the yard. First stage: he walks after you to slam or grab; let the blow miss, or stun him with your power, and shoot the glowing spot on his chest. Second stage: Face Eaters pour through a gate (shotgun or Pipe Bomb), he sprints and swings wildly, and the weak spot moves to his leg; shoot it while he is mid-attack, and grab RW-Variant Flask 3 (above) when the next gate drops. Third stage: the spot is on his back; stun him and fire the shotgun at close range.
Summary
The castle's hulking enforcer, fought at last in a walled yard, in three stages.
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About this guide

Three runs of the main game: a full run for every collectible, a fast New Game+ run on Casual with only the knife, few healing items and little Lei spent, then New Game+ on Village of Shadows with the bonus weapons. The Mercenaries opens after the first credits. Shadows of Rose is a separate story from the main menu, played once on Hardcore. Each domain closes behind you as the story moves on, and the whole village closes before the last stretch, so take everything before each point of no return.

Last verified: Nov 10, 2026 · Patch Latest patch (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, PC on Steam), with the Winters' Expansion · 0 community corrections shipped

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