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How the walk works. This guide is one way through the game. Take each pickup as its row comes up before moving on, and if you miss one, it can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select. This stretch starts with Hometown, which has nothing to collect: what Sarah can look at counts for nothing, so simply play it.
Hear the couple out first: the checkpoint scene ends the chance.
Have the Vigil pendant, the Note to Brother and both conversations from this stretch first. The planks end in a drop.
Take the Ben Glueck pendant from the tree before you enter the building where Tess waits. That door leads on to the market.
Joel and Tess chase Robert from the market through a warehouse and the docks, then Marlene leads the way to the end of the chapter. Ammo is short here, so strangle guards one at a time rather than shoot. A pickup missed on this stretch can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Have the Drafting Notice and the Wanted Poster first. The way on ends in a drop through a fence.
Have the Shipping Manifest and the Docks Note first. The office starts the chase with Robert.
Hear Marlene out on the bridge first: going downstairs with her ends the chance.
Take the Philip Liu pendant first. The stairs at the container lead to the room that ends the chapter.
This stretch runs from the room where Joel wakes at night to the ladder out of the subway shops, with Tess and Ellie alongside all the way. It holds the first shiv door and the first safe, so have the makings of a shiv before the Goldstone Building. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Have Tess' List and the talk with Tess done first. The elevator takes you down and on.
Take the Patrol Routes Map first. Climbing through the truck starts a scene, and the run from the soldiers follows at once.
Take the Evacuation Leaflet and the Joseph Lenz pendant first. The street ends here, and the way on is through the building.
Hear Tess out over the dead soldier, take the Field Ops Log and open the shiv door first. Past the boost, the way on leads over the scaffolding and around the outside of the building.
Take the Revolver from the dead soldier first. The edge drops you to the floor below, and the way on leads from there.
Take the Firefly Map and the Note to Derek, and empty the Round Note safe, first. The ladder at the end of the hall leads up and out of the subway.
This stretch runs from the street above the subway to the stairs that end the chapter. It holds the game's first workbench and the second shiv door, so bring a whole shiv. The first swim comes near the end. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Have the Medical Pamphlet first. It is inside the truck behind you, and the door starts a chase.
The trophy needs one weapon fully upgraded. The Revolver is the cheapest at 155 parts and needs tool level 3, so don't spread parts thin.
Have the garage workbench opened and the Michael Kiper pendant in hand first. The beam splits the route.
Open the cafe shiv door first. The staircase at the end of the corridor takes Joel on, away from these rooms.
Talk to Tess, then Ellie, before you leave this room. Tess climbs out after her talk, and following her gives up the talk with Ellie.
Take Firefly Orders before the gate, and the Melinda Davidson pendant in the gazebo before the Capitol steps. Going in starts a long scene, and you leave in a hurry.
Have the Smuggler Note and the Shiyao Jiang pendant first. The ladder she drops leads to the stairs that end the chapter.
The walk into Lincoln, a main street with plenty to search, the rooftops, then Bill's Bar. Two shiv doors sit on this stretch, so arrive with a whole shiv and have another ready for the second. Melee upgrades start here too, and each break row says which weapon to upgrade and where to use it. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, and a missed break with Encounter Select.
Take the Pills Note and open the shiv door first. The gate she opens leads on to the main street.
Have the arcade conversation, the safe, the Hui Wang pendant, the Note to Bob and the Perimeter Note first. The alley leads away from the main street.
Open the shiv door behind the music store first.
Take the Note to Rachel first. The door past the ammo desk starts a fight that carries you out of The Woods.
Take Bill's Map, the Fences Note and the manual, and look at the chess board, before you head out to the stairs. At the top of the stairs, take the Hunters Note before you follow Bill.
Take the Alex Raymond Vincent pendant first. The cellar door ends this stretch.
Bill's armoury holds the first Tool and the only workbench in this chapter, so stop there before you go up into the church. After that come a yard of Clickers, a run of houses, the school and the first Bloater, so save the Pump Shotgun's shells and any Molotovs for it. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, but take the Tool on this pass.
Take the Level 1 Tool, open the workbench and pick up the Bombs Note first.
Take the Peter Mrozik pendant first.
Take the Boy's Diary and finish the talk with Ellie first. Lifting the door with Bill ends Graveyard.
Finish the talk with Ellie at the wheel, show Bill the note, and collect it a second time once he has thrown it down. Pushing starts the last fight, and the truck ends the chapter.
Hunters replace the Infected here, so most fights reward patience and a quiet strangle. This stretch holds the second Tool, the last recipe, the first comic you can find and the first three sets of Ellie's jokes. Each joke set needs you to stand still and wait, and each needs hearing to the end. Two shiv doors come close together, so strangle hunters rather than stab them, and carry the Binding and Blades for two whole shivs. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, but take the Tool on this pass.
Take the Tool, the Smoke Bomb, the Tourists Manifest, the Health Splinting manual and the Ambush Map, talk to Ellie by the clothes, and open the workbench. The blue door leads to a drop on to the road.
Take Termination Shock, talk to Ellie at the car, and wait for the first jokes in front of the bus.
Take the Lost Hill Note, the Traitors Flyer, the Kazden Risk pendant, the Applicant Checklist and the Abandon Zone Note. Talk to Ellie at the graffiti, hear the second jokes, and open the restroom for the Lost Areas Map.
Talk to Ellie at the poster in Laron's, hear the third jokes, and open the door under the blue awning for the Mother's Letter.
Take the Stash Note from the coffee shop's upper level before you drop down.
The safe's code never changes, so this walk opens the safe on the way in and takes its note at the top of the ladder, with no trip back down. That also sets up the fourth jokes and gives you an Explosive for Geared Up. Later the elevator drops Joel alone into the basement, where a Bloater can be left alive. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Stop at the coffee machine, take the Note to Staff, open the safe, take the Shiv Reinforcement manual, and hear the fourth jokes on the landing.
Talk to Ellie in the Room 304 bathroom first, with both floors clear.
Take the Hotel Keycard from the security room first. The generator brings out a Bloater, and the door out needs the card.
Take Accretion from the far side of the balcony first.
Take the Colby Reed pendant and the Melee Knots manual, and finish all three prompts at the backdrop.
This stretch runs from the street outside the Hotel to the bridge. It holds two shiv doors, so carry a whole shiv to each, and one workbench. Near the end comes Lights Out, which fails if anyone spots you, so read its row before you go down to the gate. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Finish the talk at the hanging body and take the Fireflies Note first. The window leads on to the rest of the district.
Open the workbench first.
Take the Final Attack Note first.
Take the Mob Attack Note and the Truck Note, and open the Ration Depot shiv door first. The ladder leads over the wall and on.
Finish both talks with Ellie first, at the school gate and at the poster.
Take the Molotov Construction manual, open Room 201 and pick up the Deep Phase comic first.
Take the Lucas Rios pendant first. Henry closes the doors behind you.
Take the Trial Note first. The next doorway plays a scene and moves the story on to night.
Lights Out starts here, and being spotted by anyone before the generator is off fails it. Make a manual save now, and read its row before you move. If you're seen, restart the checkpoint.
This stretch runs from the riverbank to the door out of the sewer. It holds tool level 3, the Waterlogged trophy and a chance at the fourth melee break, but no workbench and no shiv door. Keep a Binding and a Blade for a Machete and a whole shiv for a Clicker's grab. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, but take the Tool on this pass.
Take the Antiparticles comic, the Boat Note and the Josh Scheffler pendant first.
Take the Sewers Note and the Eddie Fuentes pendant first.
Take the Robert Righetti and Eddie Fuentes pendants, the Sewers Note and the Trading Note first. Read the Waterlogged row now as well: you have only moments once Ellie steps off the pallet.
Take the Level 3 Tool, the Bomb Containment manual, the Rain Catcher Note and the Cornered Note first, and a Machete if you found one. The door splits the group.
Take the Kid's Drawing first.
This street is calm, so take your time, because nearly everything here sits before one drop into the next area. Follow the rows in order: the talks lead to the fifth set of Ellie's jokes, so finish them, the workbench and both houses before you walk to the Firefly wall at the far end. Combat Ready falls due at the bench, and the parts from the safes and shiv rooms you've emptied cover it. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, but do the talks and the joke on this first pass.
Take these first: Looting Note, Father's Note, the Melee Techniques manual, Survivor's Note, Messenger Particle, the Matchbook, the safe, the Matthew White pendant and the workbench. Finish the kitchen, barricaded house, ice cream, darts and Firefly wall talks, and Ellie's jokes.
The chapter runs from a trail to a ranch, by way of a puzzle at the dam and a tour of the plant. Two trophies here are single moments, Left Hanging and Who's A Good Boy?, so read each row before you reach it. Bring one whole shiv for the door at the top of the dam stairs, and keep a Binding and a Blade for the Hatchet's melee upgrade, and a second pair if the Machete row is open. Open the plant's workbench as soon as you reach it. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Take Foreign Element and open the shiv door first. Once the way across is open, walk past Ellie's raised hand for Left Hanging.
Finish the talk at the grave and take the Power Plant Map first.
Talk to the woman on watch and pet the dog first.
Open the workbench, and take the Smoke Chemistry manual and the Ryan Oliverio pendant first. The talk with the woman on watch and Buckley should be done too. The scene behind this door starts an attack, and the workbench can't be counted on after it: it may be destroyed.
Take the Plant Schematics from the table first.
Take the Brent Pino pendant and Zero Point first. If the Machete row is open, take the Binding and Blade from the upstairs rooms too, and keep them for its upgrade.
This stretch is mostly a ride with Ellie, broken by two spells on foot: a building of Runners and a dormitory with a Bloater. You can get off the horse at chosen spots, so stop for each pickup. The Bloater has to die for its pendant, so bring Molotovs and shotgun shells. Save the materials for a whole shiv too, because the door at the end of the Science Building's first corridor takes one, and Tool 4 is behind it. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Take Free Radicals and the Snipers' Nest Log, and open the garage workbench first. Grab the Flamethrower too if you want it for the Bloater.
Take the Alex Rohner pendant from the room above the dumpster first.
Take the UEC Campus Map and the Student's Journal first.
Take the Joe Warren pendant first, and craft a whole shiv if you do not hold one: the Science Building door needs it.
Take the Newspaper Clipping and the Erik Griggs pendant first. Check that you hold a whole shiv for the door ahead, and craft one from a Binding and a Blade if you don't.
Quiet rooms for most of the way, and a fight at the very end. The door at the end of the first corridor takes a whole shiv, and behind it is Tool 4, which has no second spot. The bench near the entrance is the last one until the Bus Depot. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, but take the Tool on this pass.
Have a whole shiv ready: a part-used one won't open it. Take the red toolbox inside, then read the x/5 tracker on Sharpest Tool in the Shed: if it shows less than 4/5, you've missed an earlier Tool. This Tool has no second spot.
Open the shiv door and take Molotov Deployment and Tool 4, and hear the clipboard talk. Take the Office Recorder, Fungal X-Rays, Lab Recorder and the Sadie Pearle Hickman pendant too. There's nothing to pick up after this door but the recorder the scene gives you. Craft a second whole shiv now and keep it, or hold on to a Binding and a Blade. The next shiv door is a long way on, with few materials before it.
You start this section with a bow and not much ammo. Before you hunt, open the backpack and view everything in it, one row at a time. Lakeside Resort has no workbench, so anything you need comes from the crafting menu. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Take Uncertainty from the desk first, and finish viewing the backpack if you haven't.
Take the Travis Kristof pendant from the storage room first.
Finish the talk on the landing first.
This section opens at a run, and scenes move you on with little warning, so read each row before you act on it. There's still no workbench. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, but open the motel shed on this pass.
Take the Paul D. Braun pendant and Negentropy first.
Open the motel shed and take the Smoke Shaping manual first.
Take the Meat Ledger first. The motel shed and the Smoke Shaping manual should be done too.
This stretch runs from a highway to a camp of medical tents, and all six of the chapter's conversations are on it, one after another. Walk slowly, and let each one finish before you move on. The last Tool is in the largest tent. Keep Blades and Binding for two whole shivs, because the last two shiv doors are still ahead. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select, but take the Tool on this pass.
Hear both talks with Ellie, and take the Family Photograph and the Katerina Perich pendant first.
Take the Note to Wife and talk to Ellie on the bench first.
Pet the giraffe first.
Join Ellie at the ledge first.
This is the last Tool, and it has no second spot. Take it from the large tent ahead and read the tracker, which should show 5/5. If it reads lower, you've missed an earlier Tool.
Take Precipitate, Tool 5, the Nicole Hoo pendant and the Salt Lake Q.Z. Map, and open the workbench. Then let Ellie stop you at the bus, and take what she holds out.
The tunnel holds Bloaters, Clickers and Runners in the open, so sneak it instead of fighting. Keep a whole shiv for the door past the workbench: wait for a Clicker to walk off rather than spend the shiv on it. The workbench here is the last in the game, so bring your parts. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Take the Natalie Hoo pendant first.
Take the Bomb Shrapnel manual first.
Take Catalysis first.
Take the Bomb Shrapnel manual and Catalysis, open the workbench and open the shiv door first. Spend your parts now too.
The chapter climbs a hospital from the lower floors to Floor 6. Go quietly at first: an alarm brings more guards. No workbench lies ahead and these are the last fights of the game, so spend everything you carry. Bring one whole shiv for the door on Floor 6. A missed pickup can be collected after the credits with Chapter Select.
Take Surgeon's Recorder, Marlene's Recorder 1, the Bryony Stewart-Seume pendant and Marlene's Journal, and open the shiv door first.
Take Marlene's Recorder 2 from Room 608 first. There's nothing to pick up in this chapter past here.
The last chapter is a short walk with no enemies and one pickup, so take the comic before you go on along the path. Long scenes play before you get control.
Take Singularity first.
Finishing the story writes a Story Complete autosave. Keep it, or make a manual save, before you replay anything: loading a chapter locks every later chapter on that save, and reloading the Story Complete save brings them back with your collectibles still counted. Left Behind comes next, from its own entry on the main menu. After that, Chapter Select clears anything its menu shows as short. It doesn't show Tools, and a Tool taken on a replay may not count. A shiv door needs a shiv, and a replay may not bring your supplies, so check before you start.
Left Behind is a separate campaign, and its Artefacts, conversations and trophies all count toward 100%. The game lets you start it at any time, even before the main story, but this guide places it after the credits, so finish the story first and then start it from the main menu. It has six chapters, and this stretch covers the first two. A pickup you miss can be collected after Left Behind's own credits: its chapter list is separate from the main game's and sits under the Left Behind entry on the main menu. Highlight a chapter to see what it's short of, then select it to replay.
Have all four Artefacts first: the Combination Note, Pharmacy Key, Pharmacist's Note and Salon Note. The railing ends the chapter.
Mallrats has twelve conversations, and most are short stops on a tight walk. At each one, take the prompt, then stand still until the talk has ended before you walk on.
Have the Wanted Poster and the Firefly Logo talk first.
At the bottom, Riley stands by the tent for only a few seconds. Walk straight to her and talk.
Finish all five talks first: Eyeball Jar, Vampire Mask, Witch Mask, Triple Phoenix Mask and Skeleseer. Then make a manual save, because the brick contest starts just past the double doors.
Have the Warning Note first. Opening these doors ends the chapter.
This stretch covers two chapters. So Close is one job: get power to a dead gate and reach the top of the atrium. Fun and Games holds the last two conversations, the last joke and three trophies that each come down to one moment, so make a manual save before the arcade and another before the water fight. A missed pickup can be collected after Left Behind's credits with its own Chapter Select.
Take the Generator Note first. The route moves on from this room once the power is back.
Take the Atrium Note and the Atrium Recorder first. Reaching the helicopter ends the chapter.
Finish everything above first, Nobody's Perfect most of all, then make a manual save. This cabinet moves the story on.
Hunters and infected often share a room in this chapter, and that's where Live Bait comes from. Take the Bow when it comes: the fights here lean on it, with your handgun as the fallback if arrows run out. When you get control, open your backpack: Medical Supplies should be there by now. The last chapter has nothing to collect. A missed pickup can be collected after Left Behind's credits with its own Chapter Select.
Take the Crew Photo first.
Take the Bow first.
Have the Bow and the Duct Recorder first.
The duct comes out on a high ledge over a store, with bricks and bottles to hand. Hold your throw until the hunters walk in below, then land a brick or bottle between them and the infected, on the right side of the room. The trophy comes when an infected kills a hunter. If the hunters clear the room first, reload the checkpoint and try again.
Left Behind's chapters have their own list in Chapter Select. Highlight one to see what it's short of, and replay any that shows a gap. Make a manual save first, because replaying a chapter can lock the later ones on that save. The menu lists Ellie's jokes as conversations, so Fun and Games can show three. Medical Supplies may be counted under So Close or The Enemy of My Enemy.
This appendix covers what the game offers beyond the walk. Nothing here moves your percentage, and no trophy needs any of it, so take only what you want. Prices are in points, shown as P.
| Group | Modifiers | Cost each |
|---|---|---|
| Mirror | Mirror World, Mirror on Death | 15P |
| Cheats | Slow Motion, Bullet Speed Mode, Infinite Ammo, Infinite Crafting, Infinite Melee Durability, Infinite Listen Mode Range, One Shot, Touch of Death | 20P |
| Audio | 8-bit Audio, 4-bit Audio, Helium Audio, Xenon Audio | 5P |
| Character | Kind | Cost each |
|---|---|---|
| Joel | 9 shirts and gear | 10P |
| Joel | 2 backpacks | 5P |
| Joel | 8 weapon skins | 10P |
| Ellie | Clothing and goggles | 10P |
| Ellie | Most shirts from other games | 15P |
| Ellie | The two Uncharted shirts | 10P |
| Ellie | 2 backpacks | 5P |
| Ellie | 8 weapon skins | 10P |
One run of the story and one of Left Behind earn all of these, on any difficulty. A collection trophy is listed at the section where this route finishes that collection.
| Trophy | PlayStation grade | Section |
|---|---|---|
| It Can't Be For Nothing | Platinum | 23. Left Behind: The Enemy of My Enemy and the Escape |
| No Matter What | Gold | 20. Jackson |
| Don't Go | Gold | 23. Left Behind: The Enemy of My Enemy and the Escape |
| Look for the Light | Gold | 19. The Firefly Lab |
| Endure and Survive | Gold | 20. Jackson |
| Chronicles | Gold | 23. Left Behind: The Enemy of My Enemy and the Escape |
| Getting to Know You | Gold | 22. Left Behind: So Close and Fun and Games |
| That's All I Got | Gold | 22. Left Behind: So Close and Fun and Games |
| Something to Fight For | Silver | 18. Bus Depot: Underground Tunnel |
| Combat Ready | Silver | 11. The Suburbs: Suburbs |
| Master of Unlocking | Silver | 19. The Firefly Lab |
| Prepared For the Worst | Silver | 18. Bus Depot: Underground Tunnel |
| Sticky Fingers | Silver | 11. The Suburbs: Suburbs |
| Sharpest Tool in the Shed | Silver | 17. Bus Depot: Highway Exit |
| Build Em Up, Break Em Down | Silver | 12. Tommy's Dam |
| Fallen Firefly | Bronze | 1. Hometown and the Quarantine Zone |
| Self-Help | Bronze | 5. Bill's Town: The Woods and Safehouse |
| Savage Starlight Fan | Bronze | 7. Pittsburgh: Alone and Forsaken |
| Geared Up | Bronze | 8. Pittsburgh: Hotel Lobby |
| In Memoriam | Bronze | 6. Bill's Town: Graveyard and High School Escape |
| Lights Out | Bronze | 9. Pittsburgh: Financial District and Escape the City |
| Waterlogged | Bronze | 10. The Suburbs: Sewers |
| Left Hanging | Bronze | 12. Tommy's Dam |
| Who's A Good Boy? | Bronze | 12. Tommy's Dam |
| Nobody's Perfect | Bronze | 22. Left Behind: So Close and Fun and Games |
| Brick Master | Bronze | 21. Left Behind: Back in a Flash and Mallrats |
| Angel Knives | Bronze | 22. Left Behind: So Close and Fun and Games |
| Skillz | Bronze | 22. Left Behind: So Close and Fun and Games |
| Live Bait | Bronze | 23. Left Behind: The Enemy of My Enemy and the Escape |
| Platform | List | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PlayStation 5 | 29 trophies: 1 Platinum, 7 Gold, 7 Silver, 14 Bronze | All offline. |
| Steam | 29 achievements | The same 29 names, with no grades. |
| Epic Games Store | Achievements | The game tracks them on Epic as it does on Steam. |