Overview
Chapter-by-chapter walkthrough to unlock all achievements. Massive spoilers ahead!
Before you read on
First of all, this guide contains heavy spoilers! I’ll literally spoil everything.
As such, I highly recommend you to play the game once without the use of this guide.
Credits:
A lot of the instructions in this guide are copied from the walkthrough on psnprofiles[psnprofiles.com] which was originally published by psnprofiles user “QuentinCle95”[psnprofiles.com].
I structured the guide myself and modified his instructions a little bit here and there as I saw fit, but most of the credits for the word-by-word descriptions on how to unlock the achievements hereby go to him.
The main reason for me to publish the guide on steam is the better accessibility, as steam guides are easily available ingame through the steam-overlay.
Difficulty doesn’t matter
You may as well play on the easiest difficulty, a.k.a. “Playing video games occassionally”.
The achievements in this game do NOT unlock right away!
They only unlock on loading screens, which only appear, if the next chapter of the game has a different playable character than the current one, OR by going back to the main menu and choosing “Continue”, which loads the latest save.
For example: You’ll have to meet the requirements for the “Happy Birthday” achievement in the very first chapter, but it’ll only unlock / pop up upon loading chapter 4, since chapter 1 to 3 are all played through Ethan Mars.
Regarding the mutually exclusive achievements:
There are several mutually exclusive achievements in the game. Always opt to unlock them in the order given in the guide! A few choices don’t impact the game beyond the current chapter, but most do!
Some of the achievements have multi-chapter requirements!
One of them will unlock at the very very end of the game, but requires you to do something missable all the way back in chapter 10. Sadly, reloading the specific chapters doesn’t work. It only counts, if you replay every single chapter, starting from the chapter you want to reload…
In other words: Follow this guide thoroughly!
I highly recommend to use a controller for this game.
Chapters 01 – 05
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- When downstairs, go to your office, and start drawing on the piece of paper on your desk. Simply follow the QTE’s. You need to interact with the drawing several times, until it actually looks nice and you write Ethan’s signature in the corner.
- When your wife comes home, help her with the groceries and she will ask you to set the table. Get the plates out of the cupboard (under the wrapped presents) and gently place them on the table.
- You can now go play outside. Choose whichever kid you want to play with first. For both, you may not stop until the game makes you. Don’t put them down when prompted, just keep going. Lift the kids up with your arms and win the fight against Jason.
If this doesn’t unlock for you, try again with all of the stuff above in mind, but this time, lose to Jason. This seems to have worked for some people.
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This achievement is supposed to unlock automatically upon the title drop during the cutscene between chapters 02 and 03.
(A handful of people in the comments reported this achievement to be bugged though. Sadly, I neither know what’s causing this, nor do I know a fix, if this shouldn’t unlock for you. Sorry.)
after chapter 3
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Follow the itinerary on the kitchen board. There’s alot of margin for error. There are clocks on a living room wall and a kitchen wall to keep track.
- Around 4.30, give Shaun a snack (a piece of fruit, chips, a granola bar)
- Around 6.00, tell Shaun to do his homework, to do it now, and sit with him while he does it.
- Around 7.00, take care of dinner (take something from the fridge and heat it up)
- Around 8.00, tell Shaun to go to bed. Go upstairs with him. Agree to find his teddy, which is downstairs, on the washing machine. Take it back up, and tuck Shaun in.
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Get Lauren to confide in you by selecting options “Compassionate” -> “Convince” -> “Trick”.
After exiting Lauren’s apartment and seeing the guy go in, go back inside and complete the QTE’s to beat Troy.
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Find all the clues with ARI. Put the glasses on and scan the environment.
- Inside tent: boy’s face, orchid on chest, origami in hand, hand second time, cut on leg
- Pollen trail near tent, leading to:
- Train tracks: blood stain, footrints
- Blood on fence
- Uphill: footprints, tire tracks
Chapters 06 – 10
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Nothing achievement related
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Achievement is self-explanatory:
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Nothing achievement related
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Norman Jayden’s part:
Nothing achievement related
Ethan Mars’ part:
State every fact about Shaun’s disappearance correctly. The time was 4.15, his jacket was beige, and his trousers were green.
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Approach the robber in a way, that makes him detect you. Keep your hands up in the air at all times. Pausing the game will actually automatically result in a failure.
Now, choose the following conversation options:
- Calm
- Name
- Reason
- Help
- Killer?
- Drop Weapon
After you’ve unlocked the achievement above, return to the main menu, select “Chapters”, reload the chapter and choose to “Save” progress!
Don’t interfere with the robbery. Just stay in the corner at the back of the shop. Only when Hassan has been shot and the robber has left, may you come back in front to hear Hassan’s last words.
Chapters 11 – 15
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Nothing achievement related
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Leave through the kitchen back door, climb over the fence, go through the alleyway and enter your car without getting too close to the journalists.
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When time stands still and you’re supposed to follow Jason, try to hit as many people as you can. Go through the closest crowds, so that you knocked over at least 50 people before the sequence ends.
Don’t open any other locker than the right one. Simply take two lefts at the hall’s end to reach row 18, and take the upper command to open locker 3.
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Nothing achievement related
Chapters 16 – 20
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This chapter has 2 mutually exclusive achievements:
It’s easy to choose which achievement you want to unlock:
- Want to shoot him? – Pull the trigger.
- Don’t want to shoot him? – Literally do nothing. Norman will choose the correct dialogue options himself.
- (At least he did on easiest difficulty.)
After you’ve completed the chapter the first time, go back to the main menu, choose Chapter select and replay the chapter. Choose to “Save” progress. Doesn’t matter which achievement you continue the game with.
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When the mother asks you to, take care of the baby. Make sure not to fail a single QTE. Switch to the easiest difficulty if you’re worried (the “slowly” prompt will not appear in the easiest difficulty). You must change her diaper, warm up her bottle, feed her and rock her to sleep.
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Probably the hardest single-chapter trophy of the game.
You must choose the best path to the end and do so impeccably.
This will likely not go on your first run, so be prepared to reload this up to multiple times from the main menu.
Note, that the instructions below were written for the use of a PS4-Controller.
While the directions should stay the same regardless of your controlling input, you’ll need to replace [L2], [R2], [X] and [O] with whatever is shown on your screen.
The important & achievement related decisions are written in Bold with a preceding Choose.
All the other commands are just to make it easier to keep track of where you are in the command chain.
The button prompts – L2/R2 – refer to the hardest difficulty. On the lowest, they’re replace with [X] and [O].
Here you go:
- Choose left
- Go right
- Choose right
- Choose left
- Go left
- Go right
- Your car is fishtailing. Continuously switch between left and right.
- Go left
- Go right
- Choose left
- [R2] <—- depends on your difficulty
- Go right
- Go left
- Go right
- Go left
- [L2] <—- depends on your difficulty
- Choose right
- Choose right
- Go left
- Choose right
- A police car will ride up to your left. You need to steer away, without hitting the police car.
- [R2] <—- depends on your difficulty
- Go right
- Go left or right (doesn’t matter).
- The following QTE’s don’t make a difference anymore.
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Nothing achievement related
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Self-explanatory:
Chapters 21 – 25
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Nothing achievement related
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Self-explanatory:
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The hardest trial in the technical sense, you must make it through the Butterfly trial for the second hint.
- In the tunnel, move slowly. You’ll sustain damage if you move too quickly.
- Use your flame to find the correct path. Follow the direction in which the flame is going. You should take a right, left, left and right.
Leave through the Coward door to the left.
Proceed as before, but don’t go through the Coward door this time.
Get to the other side of the room by picking the path with the least electricity on its fence. For instance, the second to rightmost wires are the safest starting point. These QTE’s are pretty complicated, even on the lower difficulties, so be prepared. You’re allowed two mistakes, or less if you hurt yourself in the tunnel.
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Chapters 26 – 30
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This chapter has 2 mutually exclusive achievements.
Both are self-explanatory.
After you’ve completed the chapter the first time, go back to the main menu, choose Chapter select and replay the chapter. Choose to “Save” progress.
Doesn’t matter which achievement you continue the game with.
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Nothing achievement related
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This chapter has 2 mutually exclusive achievements:
Regarding Goldfinger:
- Find the metal bar next to the table, the disinfectant in the bathroom, or the alcohol in the kitchen.
-> If you go for the metal bar: Heat it on the stove until it glows. - Find the axe in the corner of the room.
- “Do it”.
- Apply one of the disinfectants or cauterizers.
After you’ve completed the chapter the first time, go back to the main menu, choose Chapter select and replay the chapter. Choose to “Save” progress.
Doesn’t matter which achievement you continue the game with.
+ disinfect or cauterize the wound
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After moving the wood from the window and pushing the red box towards it, climb out with Ethan.
Go towards the busy street (away from the camera).
Pass through the cars, and turn between them whenever you can. (You’ll fail if you go right or left for too long)
In the subway, go down to a platform, then cross the train tracks to board one of the subways.
Continue to the next chapter for now, but note, that we’ll reload this chapter in a few minutes!
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When Jayden is playing the piano, don’t miss a single QTE. Difficulty changes how many button prompts there are, so lower it if having difficulty.
Resist Triptocaine. Don’t take the vial, go straight to the shower and take one.
Unlocks upon reloading chapter 29
After these two, go back to the main menu, select “Chapters” and reload chapter 29) Fugitive.
Make sure to select to “Save” progress and replay both chapters 29 and 30!
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Get caught trying to escape. The timer starts once Madison starts pushing the red box, so you can just stand around from then on.
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You NEED to replay this chapter with Ethan arrested in the last!
Chapters 31 – 35
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When you go looking for the keys to Ethan’s shackles, go into the camera room (the room from which you view the interrogation room, so south of where Ethan is) and turn off the camera before you help Ethan escape.
It’s important for some of the endings, that you keep playing with the arrested route!
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Don’t touch anything you don’t have to (f.i. don’t go into tthe bathroom) during the first half of the chapter. When you have to clean every fingerprint, be sure to get every one of these items. Be quick about it, because you’ll also fail if you take too long.
- The white phone in the back, the window if you touched it.
- The bathroom door and bathroom, if you used it anyway.
- The black phone behind the desk.
- Where you had the drink: every shot glass, the bottle and the magnifying glass.
- The ballerina on the center glass case.
- The first glass case to the wall, close to the entrance (Lauren leaned on it if you weren’t quick about finding Manfred).
- The front door.
ONLY then may you leave. Although it sounds bad, Scott will always say “I got what I got”. If you did it right, you should only get a shot of Manfred’s body, and the next scene will be Scott & Lauren in the car. If you did something wrong, a shot will tell you what you missed, and you’ll be sent to the police station. In this case, immediately Quit and Continue, or replay the chapter (with Save On) and play from there.
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This chapter has 2 mutually exclusive achievements:
Do not kill the drug dealer. Instead, put the gun away.
After you’ve unlocked the achievement above, return to the main menu, select “Chapters”, reload the chapter and choose to Save!
This time, shoot the drug dealer.
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Do NOT accept the offered drink. A littler bit later, if he ask “You are not drinking?”, answer “No”!
When the Doc goes to answer the door, immediately start untying your right leg. Complete the QTE’s and be out of the ropes before the Doc comes back.
Make sure, that Madison survives this chapter!
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You must, again, find all clues in the area, scanning with ARI. Don’t open the acid bath in the southwestern corner until you’ve foud them all! The clues are:
- Three sets of blood trails that lead to the acid bath
- Mugs in Mad Jack’s office
- Size 10 footprints
- Tire tracks that match the Origami Killer’s
- A pollen trail in the back
- Spilled paint, nearby the pollen trail.
- The acid bath.
You will now fight Mad Jack. Succeed at most of the QTE’s and select “Impress”. Don’t take triptocaine, you have to play both fighting sections.
Chapters 36 – 40
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When Lauren is taking a shower, get some eggs out of the fridge, take a pan, heat the stove, and keep the eggs on the stove for a while. Turn it every now and then. Only lower the flame once Scott says the eggs look ready. Serve them on a plate for Lauren.
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You must perfectly perform every QTE in the chapter, while the boys are jumping around being idiots on the construction grounds. May not get it the first time around, you can just practice later. One new mechanic is introduced: balancing. Simply tilt the controller in the opposite direction of Scott’s arms when on the beam.
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When stripping for Paco, only unbutton your shirt (the “up” prompt) before reaching for the lamp too attack him.
Chapters 41 – 45
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Collect all the clues, once again:
- The gasoline tickets that fell out of the killer’s coat
- The scattered papers on the floor, the bullet shells near the door, the gun in the corner, Paco’s body.
- Orchid pollen near the desk, the gun in the center of the room, the lamp Madison used.
Make sure, that Norman survives this chapter!
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Kiss Madison when prompted. When you find out Madison’s a reporter, choose to forgive her.
As Madison, call room number 207 to warn Ethan of the police’s raid.
As Ethan, choose the escape by climbing onto the roof.
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Don’t save Lauren. Don’t shout her name, don’t interact with her.
Successfully escape the car, by your own inputs! If Scott escaped by himself after some time, restart and try again, otherwise it may not count towards the achievement progression.
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- Pass every single QTE to not get shot by any guard. These are simple button presses on the easiest difficulty.
- When Kramer has a heart attack, don’t get his meds. Just go out the door and select “Leave”.
You’ll have a second chance
during the clean-up below.
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Nothing achievement related
Chapters 46 – 50
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Drink the poison.
After you’ve unlocked the 2 achievements above, return to the main menu, select “Chapters”, reload the chapter and choose to Save!
Do not drink the poison. Choose “852 Theodore Roosevelt ROAD” from the options given.
Unlocks after chapter 51.
-> Yes, 51. Five chapters to go.
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It’s time to uncover the truth.
- Analyze the Fish Tank video, finding and analyzing the Killer’s Watch.
- Geoanalyze the gas receipts
- Analyze the Killer’s Gun
- Geoanalyze “The Killer Is A Cop”
- It’s NOT Blake! Do NOT accuse him!
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Will be skipped for now, since we let Lauren die.
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Chapters 51 + 52
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Let Madison die.
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As Norman, defeat Scott until he’s about to fall to his death. Rescue him.
After that, just stop doing anything, since we need Jayden to die afterwards.
As Ethan, save Shaun.
+ Let Lauren, Hassan and Kramer die
+ Kill Madison & Jayden + Origami Killer free
This will unlock the endings:
- News Report
- A New Start
- Dead Heroine
- Uploaded
- Unpunished
And with that, onto the clean-up:
Clean-Up
At this point, we’re still a few achievements and several endings short of 100%.
You will have to re-enter the story at several different points and play them through to the end.
Make sure to choose “Save” progress, whenever you load a chapter from the main menu!
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Restart at chapter 51) Killer’s Place.
Make sure to find the Warehouse’s adress by giving the correct password (Max) into the computer. Madison can survive by smashing in the wall of the secret room with the green box, completing the QTE’s to get to the entrance of the apartment, and hiding inside the fridge.
After that, in chapter 52) The Old Warehouse:
- Madison needs to escape the police, in order to warn Ethan.
- Jayden needs to kill Scott.
- Ethan needs to save Shaun
This will unlock the endings:
- A New Life
- Origami’s Grave
- Case Closed
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Restart at chapter 52) The Old Warehouse:
Literally do nothing as Norman and Madison.
Madison will get arrested, Jayden will get killed by Scott and Ethan will be shot by the Police.
This will unlock the ending:
- Ethan’s Grave
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Restart at chapter 46) The Rat:
Do not drink the poison and choose the wrong adress (Lane or Park | DON’T pick Road)
In chapter 47) Solving the Puzzle: Close ARI and choose to give up
In chapter 51) Killer’s Place: Let Madison die, f.e. by jumping out of the window
This will unlock the endings:
- Origami Blues
- Smoking Mirror
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Restart at chapter 51) Killer’s Place:
Successfully escape, but without the correct adress.
This will unlock the ending:
- Tears In The Rain
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Restart at chapter 42) On the Loose:
Kiss Madison. When given the chance, reject Madison’s apology.
Let the police arrest Ethan.
In chapter 43) Trapped:
You must save Lauren from the sinking car. Once you’ve untied yourself, tend to her before trying to smash in the windows. Only when you have freed Lauren, you may break the windows to escape.
In chapter 44) Face to Face:
When Kramer gets a heart attack after the interrogation, reach into his drawer to find his meds, and hand them to him.
In chapter 47) Solving the puzzle: Give up
In chapter 51) Killer’s Place: Escape, but without the adress.
This will unlock the endings:
- Helpless
- Square One
- A Mother’s Revenge
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Restart at chapter 51) Killer’s Place:
Find the adress and escape, but don’t call anyone.
In chapter 52) The Old Warehouse, save Shaun as Madison and survive the fight with Scott.
Doesn’t matter, whether Scott survives or dies.
This will unlock the endings:
- Innocent
- Heroine
- Resignation
And as such:
