Aphelion 100% guide

There are 58 collectibles in total:

• 27 secondary markers for Webb. Hold the Pathfinder (LB) and look straight at the white marker until its label registers. Many share a name: nine are called "Ice Formation" and two are called "Equatorial Storm", and every one of them counts separately. The white "The Source" marker you'll see in the later chapters is not one of the 27. Some markers sit on objects you have to interact with, so scan with the Pathfinder before you interact.
• 8 Glyphs for Expert Glaciologist. Every Glyph sits on an Ice Formation, and that Ice Formation is also a secondary marker. Scan it with the Pathfinder first, then switch to the EM Scanner (RB), tune to the right frequency, and hold the interact prompt on the formation.
• 18 Audiofiles and Datapads for Bookworm.
• 5 crew bodies for Crew Expendable. Interact with each body fully.

Chapters 1 and 11 have no collectibles.

• Go to Settings, then Gameplay, and turn on Automatic Ledge Catch before you start. It makes every climbing jump a Perfect Grab, which takes care of Cliffhanger on its own.
• Leave the balance-crossing modifiers off until High-wire Act unlocks. They aren't confirmed to block it, but turning them off costs you nothing.

Work on these as you play. Every one of them can also be finished from chapter select later.

There are no collectibles in this chapter. Turn on Automatic Ledge Catch if you haven't already, and play through the story.

About 20 minutes in, after you slide down a long slope and climb a rock wall, the game points you toward EM Junction.

• Marker 1, Opening: open the Pathfinder, face EM Junction, and zoom in on the white marker until it registers.
• Marker 2, Ice Formation: turn slightly right. The ice sculpture nearby is your first marker and your first Glyph. Scan it with the Pathfinder before using the EM Scanner on it.

After a short walk, you squeeze through a narrow gap between rocks and a cutscene shows a large rock formation by a river. Once you're back in control, scan all four of these from about the same spot. Walk forward a little if one doesn't register.

• Marker 3, Arch: the top of the large rock.
• Marker 4, Pit: the deep hole the river pours into.
• Marker 5, Strange Formations: the holes in the rock beside the river, below and to the left of the Pit.
• Marker 6, Double Ring: up in the sky. It stays visible for much of the chapter if you miss it here.

Follow the beeping until you reach a small white machine by the river. Thomas comments on it and you have to interact with it to move on.

• Marker 7, Unknown Machine: scan it with the Pathfinder before you interact. Interacting first is the classic way people miss this one.

Keep going until Thomas pulls a ladder across a gap and a cutscene shows that the structure ahead is an Abandoned Station. Thomas then has to unplug his oxygen line, so he's on a timer from here, hopping between oxygen tanks. Before you move, open the Pathfinder at that overlook. Four markers can be scanned from right where you're standing, roughly left to right:

• Marker 8, Abandoned Equipment
• Marker 9, Deserted Gear
• Marker 10, Ice Formation: a marker only. None of the eight Glyphs are in this chapter.
• Marker 11, Unknown Device

If any of them don't register from the overlook, try again as you pass by. Abandoned Equipment and Deserted Gear sit above the second and third (ice-covered) oxygen stations, and the Ice Formation and Unknown Device are on opposite sides of the clearing that has no oxygen tank.

• Audiofile 1: past the clearing, go into the small room at the back of the Abandoned Station area that has an oxygen station. The Audiofile is on the desk.

The first Nemesis arena is small and works like a stealth tutorial. The checkpoint is at its entrance, so it's the cheapest place in the game for two achievements.

After you escape the cave, the objective becomes a Light Reflection in the distance.

• Marker 12, Cave: from that viewpoint, above and to the left of the Light Reflection.
• Marker 13, Ice Formation: low and to the left, below the ledge you're standing on.

Follow the main path. Just after a jump, take the right-hand route onto the climbable rocks, drop down twice, and follow the path to its end at that Ice Formation. Use the EM Scanner and interact to get Glyph 2 of 8.

Keep going until you clear an Anomaly blocking a frozen rock gate. Past the gate, the path forward is a large ice bridge on the right. Don't cross it yet.

After the second Nemesis encounter, you reach a foggy area with geysers, heading toward A Building. Go through the narrow gap with the geyser, then take the right-hand path. Jump the gaps between the geysers. Turning the EM Scanner on shows a blue guide line.

• Marker 14, Ice Formation: at the end of that right-hand path. Scan it with the Pathfinder, then use the EM Scanner to get Glyph 3 of 8.

• Audiofile 2: take the ladder down from the starting room and turn around. It's on the kitchen table.
• Audiofile 3: cross the bigger room to the airlock on the far side. It's on a box to your right, a few steps inside.

• Audiofile 4: go into the Annex. It's on the desk in the far left corner.
• Marker 15, Ice Formation: leave the Annex, turn left, and walk around the building. Scan the large formation, jump the gap, and use the EM Scanner for Glyph 4 of 8.

If Whisperstep didn't unlock in Chapter 4, this short encounter right next to Glyph 4 is a good second chance:

1. Stand facing the Glyph and crouch-walk to the right. Trigger the red decoy Anomaly there.
2. Turn around right away and go to the far left of the area.
3. Jump the gap onto the rock wall and climb it without fumbling a grab. Automatic Ledge Catch helps a lot here.

It's been reported to unlock partway up the second wall. If a slip alerts the Nemesis, reload the checkpoint. If neither spot works, try to clear the Chapter 7 Nemesis cave undetected before falling back on chapter select.

The base has no power, so the objective changes to a Generator.

• Marker 16, Elevator: look toward the Generator and scan the broken elevator below it before you move on.

• Audiofile 5: past the locker room, there's a side airlock door to your right. Inside, it's on a shelf at the dead end.
• Audiofile 6: in the kitchen at the start of the crew quarters, at the far side.
• Audiofile 7: in the Dormitory, on the shelf of a locker or cabinet in the corner.
• Audiofile 8: in the Machinery room off the hallway by the Commander's door, on a desk in the small room at the back.

The launch-day photo in the crew quarters gives you the Commander's door code.

• Crew body 1, Marcus Macallan: interact with the body on the bed.
• Audiofile 9: interact with the device on his arm. The story makes you do both, so neither can be missed.

After the escape sequence, you come out in the first greenhouse area.

• Audiofile 10: go straight into the small side room on the left. It's on the desk at the end.
• Audiofile 11: in the next room, before you go through the airlock door, turn left. It's on a desk in the adjoining room.
• Crew body 2, Malcolm Spring: where the greenhouse path splits, go left first. The body is at the end. Interact with it fully before you continue.

• Marker 17, Equatorial Storm: when you reach the bottom of the first snowy slope, aim the Pathfinder up into the sky.

The storm freezes Ariane if she stays out of cover too long. Do the next achievement on this first crossing.

• Marker 18, Ice Formation: move between the shelter rocks until you reach the hologram of Thomas, who is sheltering at the third rock. Get warm there, then cross the frozen pond to the left. Scan the formation on the far side and use the EM Scanner for Glyph 5 of 8. Go back to cover before you freeze.

This cave is full of red decoy Anomalies, so it's the best place to get Distraction Master.

• Marker 19, A Way Out?: in the second chamber, trigger a decoy to send the Nemesis away, climb the rock wall on the left, and trigger another decoy. Then point the Pathfinder at the cave exit, where the pool of water slides down. It's the marker players miss most often in the game.

Near the end of the chapter, balance across a small ice bridge. On the other side, take the right fork by climbing the rocks in front of you.

• Marker 20, Ice Formation: cross the ice. It's about halfway up the slope on the right. Scan it, then use the EM Scanner for Glyph 6 of 8.

• Audiofile 12: after the elevator and airlock, it's on the counter along the same wall as the door you came in through, just before the Crew Quarters and Archives doors.
• Audiofile 13: go through the red-lit door and crawl under the debris. It's on a crate just to the right of the next doorway.
• Audiofile 14: go through the next room past the oxygen tank. It's on the counter to your right in the room after that.

• Crew body 3, Frank Leary: in the main control room. The story requires this interaction, and it also gives you Audiofile 15 automatically.
• Audiofile 16: go downstairs. It's on a desk just to the right of the Medical Bay doors.

• Marker 21, Ice Wall: once you're outside, connect to the first oxygen tank, then turn around and scan the huge ice wall behind you.

• Marker 22, Equatorial Storm: right at the start, turn around toward the icy peaks and cliffs behind you and sweep the sky with the Pathfinder. This is a separate marker from the one in Chapter 7, and people often skip it because the name repeats.

• Audiofile 17: in the room where Thomas found Frank Leary's body last chapter, it's on the table just behind the body.

• Marker 23, Crashed Elevator: about halfway down the staircase into the crater, scan the elevator wreckage below, center-left.
• Crew body 4, Domenica Cano: after you pull a bridge down with the grapple and cross it, go into the building on your left. She's slumped over the desk by a computer. Interact with her.

Follow the Echoes of Thomas along the river. When you cross a narrow balance-beam bridge, the path splits: you can climb up, or climb down to the right. Take the upper route. Both routes end up in the same place, but only the upper one passes the next marker and Glyph. The lower right-hand path skips both.

• Marker 24, Breach: on the upper ledge with the crystal Anomaly overhead, scan into the darkness before you reveal the grapple point.
• Marker 25, Ice Formation: use the EM Scanner on the roof crystal to reveal the grapple point, swing across, and go through the opening or gap in the rock. Use the handholds and crystal to climb down to the floor of the room below. Scan the formation and use the EM Scanner for Glyph 7 of 8. The climbing path and crawlspace at the far end take you back to the main route.

• Crew body 5, Phaedra Duan: halfway down the big rappel the rope runs out. Swing left onto the ledge, interact with her body, and pick up Audiofile 18 beside her.

• Marker 26, Styx River: after you clear the barrier and crawl through the hole, walk to the edge and scan the wide river below and to the left.
• Marker 27, Ice Formation: turn around and continue. Drop off the small ledge, then drop down the right-hand side instead of going forward. Follow that path to the end, scan the formation, and use the EM Scanner for Glyph 8 of 8.

The river ride doesn't come right after Glyph 8. First, go back and climb the handholds, check the Echo of Thomas and the map on the desk, and pull down the metal grate. Then you go through a long Nemesis section:

1. Cross the Styx without alerting the Nemesis: stealth along the water using several decoy Anomalies, then a balance bridge. This is a good place to top up Distraction Master if you're still short.
2. Escape the Nemesis: a running sequence where trails of ice erupt into shards that kill instantly. Steer clear of trails that turn red, and hold jump for the long gap at the end.
3. Find a path avoiding the Nemesis: another stealth area with water and decoys.
4. A second ice-shard running sequence, then a scene that puts Ariane into the river.

The river ride is the required no-death section for Orpheus. It lasts a little under two minutes, with Ariane steering around rocks as the current carries her.

There are no collectibles here. The white Source marker you may have spotted since Chapter 7 doesn't count toward Webb.

Chapter select shows Glyph and Audiofile/Datapad counts for each chapter, but not markers. Markers you scan during a replay still count. Rollback Save in Extras can drop you closer to a specific spot than replaying a whole chapter.

• Cliffhanger, High-wire Act, Augmented Reality, Call of the Void: any Ariane chapter works. Chapter 2 is quick.
• Killed by the Nemesis, Whisperstep: Chapter 4's first arena, with the Chapter 5 Annex encounter or the Chapter 7 cave as Whisperstep backups.
• Distraction Master: the Chapter 7 cave.
• Absolute Zero: Chapter 7's first storm crossing.
• Nice Try: Chapter 6.
• Echo Seeker: Chapter 4.
• Orpheus: Chapter 10.