Lies of P 100% guide

The current Xbox list contains 53 achievements worth 1,195 Gamerscore: 42 base-game achievements worth 1,000G and 11 Overture achievements worth 195G.

• Online/co-op required: none. All 53 achievements are single-player and can be earned offline.
• CURRENTLY CONFIRMED UNOBTAINABLE: none as of 2026-09-21.
• CURRENTLY CONFIRMED DISCONTINUED: none as of 2026-09-21.
• Minimum practical playthroughs: two. Golden Melody requires New Game+ records, and Overture's Memory's Melody also has New Game+ exclusive records.
• Difficulty achievements: none. The difficulty setting can be changed at any time, and Butterfly's Guidance is achievement-safe if you want the easiest route.
• The latest official update checked for this guide is Version 1.13.1.0.
• Boss Rematch is not required for achievements.
• Overture is paid DLC and cannot be fully completed on a first playthrough because three of its records only appear in New Game+.
• From the second playthrough onward, current versions allow Overture to be entered from Chapter 5 at Path of the Pilgrim. This is the route used below.

The safest completion structure is:

1. First playthrough: build high Humanity, collect almost everything, finish every important character quest, acquire the Golden Lie, obtain the Rise of P ending, and use the Xbox cloud-save method to obtain Real boy : They all lived happily ever after without adding a third run.
2. New Game+: buy every gold record as it becomes available, build enough Humanity to be allowed to refuse Geppetto, enter Overture from Chapter 5 and complete it fully, then continue the base game to obtain the remaining ending and Golden Melody.

• Never consume Rare Ergo dropped by a major boss and never trade it for an amulet until you have bought that boss's special weapon. The completion route prioritizes every special weapon.
• Talk to Hotel Krat characters whenever their portrait appears beside the Hotel on the Stargazer travel screen.
• Finish side quests when this guide tells you to. Several NPC rewards disappear after later bosses or world-state changes.
• Answer the King of Riddles phone questions Human, Candle, Egg, Ergo, and No.
• Open Trinity Sanctums as you obtain keys rather than saving them all for the end. The Grand Exhibition phone will not ring until the first two keys have been used.
• Kill every Dimensional Butterfly you encounter.
• Buy weapons, records, and other unique inventory from Wandering Merchants before leaving their chapters.
• During the first run, choose Humanity-gaining responses unless this guide specifies a particular answer. Rise of P needs very high Humanity before you meet Sophia (aim to be seeing the "Your heart is pounding" message), and the Golden Lie only appears at the game's maximum Humanity state.
• Listen to newly obtained records at Hotel Krat, all the way to the end. Each normal record adds Humanity (Memory of Beach adds the most); Golden records add none.
• Humanity is hidden. Useful signs: the gain message changes to "The Ergo is whispering", then "You feel warmth", then "Your heart is pounding"; Spring the hotel cat stops hissing at you; and the nose on the Portrait of a Boy in Geppetto's study grows longer. Points are never lost, a truthful answer just earns less or nothing.
• When Overture begins in New Game+, treat its Rose Garden Entrance Stargazer as a hard cleanup checkpoint. Finishing the DLC causes its NPCs to disappear.

Your starting combat style does not matter for achievements. If you did not choose Path of the Cricket and therefore do not begin with Puppet's Saber, you can buy the other starting weapons before the first boss.

Use the opening enemies to learn Fatal Attacks and Perfect Guards. Neither achievement below is missable.

Before fighting the Parade Master, buy both starting weapons you do not already own from the Wandering Merchant beside the Stargazer. In particular, do not leave without Wintry's Rapier and Greatsword of Fate. This merchant disappears later.

When the Hotel door asks whether you are human or a puppet, choose the response that lets you enter while presenting yourself as human. This begins the Humanity-focused route.

Talk to Antonia after entering to receive the Show Off Clothes gesture.

Answering "Human" at the door is also one of the largest single Humanity gains in the game.

Talk to Eugénie at her workshop to receive the Puppet String Legion Arm.

Buy Electric Coil Stick from the Wandering Merchant beside the Inside the House on Elysion Boulevard Stargazer.

Pick up the Frozen Man's Letter from the side room reached from the rooftops and read it to learn Remembrance.

Speak to the Weeping Woman at the lit window and accept her request. Retrieve the Broken Baby Puppet, return it after defeating the Scrapped Watchman, and tell her that it is a cute baby. This gives the Feel record and Humanity. Play Feel at Hotel Krat.

Also kill the police puppet on the normal route to obtain Krat Police Baton.

Listen for the first King of Riddles telephone before entering the Workshop Union route.

Answer Human and keep the Trinity Key.

Collect Salamander Dagger from the safe reached by dropping through the floor near the beginning.

Drain the poisoned lower area and obtain Booster Glaive from the chest behind the Puppet of the Future.

Collect Fire Axe from the chest beyond the rolling fireball tunnel.

Find the Survivor below the Workshop Union Culvert route and defeat him to learn Stalker's Promise.

Open the first Trinity Sanctum with the Human key: at the first meeting with Red Fox and Black Cat in Workshop Union Culvert, go through the red pipe instead of up the stairs, follow it to the end, turn right into the room with three enemies, and continue through the stone passage to the Trinity door.

Speak to Venigni near the Stargazer and exhaust his dialogue to learn Fear.

Continue exploring and pick up Big Pipe Wrench from the mine's upper route.

After defeating the area's boss, return to Hotel Krat and keep speaking to Venigni whenever he has new dialogue. Obtain Swagger as soon as it becomes available rather than postponing the conversation.

In Moonlight Town, The Atoned stalker waits by the cable railway before you ride up to the Cathedral. Choose Give the Stalker's greeting (you learned Stalker's Promise from the Survivor) for Humanity.

At the Cathedral, collect Blind Man's Double Spear by riding the second rotating mechanism to the side platform.

Find the Krat Supply Box (top of the wooden tower in St. Frangelico Cathedral Chapel: after the Decay enemy, check the cells in the room to the right) and give it to Polendina. This is the first of three Krat Supply Boxes and allows you to buy the Bright Red Apple needed in Chapter 6.

Pick up the Cathedral's Legion Plug from the St. Frangelico Cathedral Library: take the elevator to the top floor, go left down the narrow hallway and left again to the rising wooden platforms, drop down to the room with two carcass enemies, and open the chest. Craft one of Aegis, Deus Ex Machina, Falcon Eyes, or Pandemonium with it at the Venigni Craft Machine.

Collect the Crafted Cryptic Vessel: after knocking the brazier off the ledge near the St. Frangelico Cathedral Chapel Stargazer, go down to where it fell, take the newly opened door down the staircase, and open the chest among the book stacks and candles.

Open the second Trinity Sanctum with the Candle key once you have it, or return here before Chapter 7: in St. Frangelico Cathedral Chapel, climb the ladder next to where the large electric ball falls and follow the path to the Trinity door.

At St. Frangelico Cathedral Library, speak to Cecile before killing the chapter boss.

Retrieve the Archbishop's Holy Mark from deeper inside the Cathedral and return it to Cecile before fighting the Fallen Archbishop.

After the boss, return to Cecile's location immediately. Collect her items and read Cecile's Written Confession to learn Pray and obtain Divine Service. Play Divine Service at the Hotel.

With Pray learned, perform it in front of the one-winged angel statue just before the bridge to St. Frangelico Chapel (from the Chapel Stargazer, turn around, cross the bridge, and open the door to the statue) for Humanity.

Do not postpone this quest.

Find Alidoro on the Cathedral rooftop reached by the elevator.

When he asks for a safe place, lie and answer Venigni Works. After the Fallen Archbishop, travel to Workshop Union Entrance, go up the stairs on the right and into the room on the left, and lie again with Elysion Boulevard. Each lie gives Humanity, and he still moves to Hotel Krat either way. You must speak to him here, or at his second location after the Fallen Archbishop, or Eugénie's quest cannot begin.

Begin exchanging boss Ergo for weapons:

• Parade Leader's Ergo: Seven-Coil Spring Sword.
• Broken Hero's Ergo: Etiquette.
• King's Flame Ergo: Holy Sword of the Ark.

Do not buy the alternative boss amulets yet.

Once Venigni is in Hotel Krat, have him decipher the Crafted Cryptic Vessel. To solve it, strike or shoot the hanged puppet on the Alchemist Bridge on Elysion Boulevard. Travel to Inside the House on Elysion Boulevard, take the elevator down and go through the gate to the bridge where you fought the Mad Donkey, and pick up the clue the puppet dropped. Return to the same Stargazer, go out to the balcony, and open the door on your right to claim the reward.

Collect Acidic Crystal Spear from the side path with bear traps.

Continue into Malum District.

When the second King of Riddles telephone rings, answer Candle and keep the Trinity Key. Use it on the St. Frangelico Cathedral Chapel Trinity Sanctum before Chapter 7 if you have not already.

Collect Bone-Cutting Saw from the rooftop chest around the large central square.

At Red Lobster Inn:

• Buy Bramble Curved Sword from the upstairs Wandering Merchant.
• Buy the Someday record.
• Pick up the Legion Caliber in the same general inn/shortcut section.

Play Someday when you next return to Hotel Krat.

Before leaving the hideout, take the Portrait of a Boy from the room on the left of the entrance, next to the stairs (Malum District Town Hall Stargazer area).

Back at Hotel Krat, give the portrait to Geppetto. Once it hangs on the wall you learn the Clap gesture. This portrait is where the Golden Lie will later grow; without it, Special Weapon Collector is impossible.

After progressing through the Hotel's newly opened route, reach the Gold Coin Fruit tree and harvest from it.

Collect Dancer's Curved Sword after the White Lady section.

Collect the Legion Plug from the safe on the top floor of the building with several chimney-sweeper puppets: from the Rosa Isabelle Street Entrance Stargazer, go through the archway and down the road to the burning gate, take the alley on its right, and cross the short bridge into the building. Craft another Legion Arm with it.

Complete Julian the Gentleman's request and choose the lie about his puppet wife: "I saw the message she left, saying she loves you." This supports the Humanity route, teaches the Sad gesture, and gives the Wedding Ring.

Back at Hotel Krat, when Polendina asks about his feelings for Antonia (after Julian's quest and the King of Puppets), choose Show the wedding ring.

Collect Exploding Pickaxe from the safe.

Collect the Jeweled Cryptic Vessel: run through the Opera House to the burning brazier, drop down to the right, follow the long path to the room with books, and take the short ladder up to the chest.

Obtain the Incredible Venigni Collection and return it to Pulcinella. Buy Tyrant Murderer's Dagger from his expanded stock.

Before fighting the King of Puppets, buy the Bright Red Apple from Polendina if you have not already done so.

Find Adelina in the Opera House and give her the Bright Red Apple before the boss.

Open the nearby Trinity Sanctum once you have an available key. It is reached by dropping into the hole beneath the swinging chandelier before the boss area.

After Venigni deciphers the Jeweled Cryptic Vessel, go to the Cerasani Alley spot where the Fury Attack tutorial appears and perform the Check Ground gesture at the cliff edge. This awards The Atoned's Hunting Apparel and a Legion Caliber. If the area has already changed after Chapter 9, perform it at the end of Krat Central Station Street instead.

On the road to Lorenzini Arcade, collect Clock Sword from the elevated chest.

Inside Lorenzini Arcade:

• Buy Circular Electric Chainsaw from the Wandering Merchant.
• Collect Spear of Honor from the safe beyond the Decay-filled corridor.
• Pick up the note Scandal! V, the Tragedy Behind the Flamboyance near the Wandering Merchant by the fountain and bathroom, and read every page. It is needed for The Story of the Prince.

Before reaching the Grand Exhibition Gallery phone, make sure the Human and Candle keys have both been used (Workshop Union Culvert and St. Frangelico Cathedral Chapel sanctums). The Egg phone will not ring otherwise.

Find Belle before defeating Champion Victor. Exhaust her dialogue so she relocates to Hotel Krat later.

At the third King of Riddles phone, answer Egg.

The phone gives you a clue instead of placing the key directly in your inventory. Continue to the pair of statues and rotate the movable statue so it mirrors the other one. Collect the revealed Trinity Key.

Collect the Legion Plug from the chest on the small upper level of the hall with the cable-car display, beside a screaming Alchemist in white. Craft another Legion Arm with it.

Pick up the Sturdy Krat Supply Box in the Grand Exhibition Gallery: it sits right next to the ladder that opens the shortcut back to the area's Stargazer. Return to Hotel Krat and give it to Polendina. This is the second of the three Krat Supply Boxes; the Rusty Cryptic Vessel (and therefore Hermit's Cave, Black Steel Cutter, Misty E'rA, and Veteran Explorer) only appears in his shop after all three have been handed over. His two-box stock also adds a Legion Caliber and a Quartz for purchase; buy both.

Open the Estella Opera House Trinity Sanctum if you have not done so.

This is a major missable chain.

After Champion Victor:

• Speak to Polendina about Antonia.
• Speak to Giangio and spend one Gold Coin Fruit to create the Cure for Antonia.
• Tell Polendina to administer the cure.
• Continue checking Antonia and Polendina whenever their Hotel icons appear.

Do not choose to withhold the cure.

Collect Live Puppet's Axe from the cannon tower.

Find the Fancy Venigni Collection and later return it to Pulcinella. Buy Pistol Rock Drill from his newly expanded stock.

Collect the City Longspear from the house reached after the ravine cave.

Speak to Rookie Explorer Hugo at the cave entrance by the Barren Swamp Bridge Stargazer and exhaust his dialogue. He gives you the Old Cryptic Vessel. Get it now: players report Hugo no longer hands it over after the game is finished. Meeting Hugo here also lets him replace Alidoro as the special-weapon merchant later.

Eugénie will give you a glove intended for Alidoro. Deliver it to him in the Barren Swamp and exhaust his dialogue. Return to Eugénie when the game indicates she has new dialogue and tell her He was happy.

After Venigni deciphers the Old Cryptic Vessel, travel to Path of the Pilgrim, ride the elevator, leave the shack, and climb the small hill to the shack with the bleak tree and hanging laundry shown in the picture. Talk to the NPC beside it to get the key, then open the chest inside.

Monad's Lamp glows red and a distinct chime plays when a butterfly is about to appear; it flees if you are slow, but it respawns in the same spot after you rest at a Stargazer. The achievement tracks butterfly types, not a number of kills. Sources disagree on whether three or four colors count, so the route below does not depend on that answer: kill every butterfly in this sequence until the achievement pops.

Butterflies already on this route before the Barren Swamp:

• Chapter 2: the blue rooftop bridge on Inside the House on Elysion Boulevard.
• Chapter 3: Workshop Union Entrance (top of the stairs with the two fans, after the double-shield elite) and Workshop Union Culvert (end of the green water past the red pipes, by the left pipe).
• Chapter 4: two in the ravine you fall into from the collapsing bridge in Moonlight Town, and one below the holes in the floor of the stone tunnels in St. Frangelico Cathedral Library.
• Chapter 7: two in Lorenzini Arcade (a golden one in the child-puppet room with the bright ceiling ring, and one by the crates in the fogged underground passage) and one on the Grand Exhibition Gallery balcony past the red carpet.

Belle's partner is now accessible in a train carriage below the stairs.

Speak to him rather than attacking him and take his letter.

When you return to Belle, tell her that he died fighting a puppet. This lie gives the Why record. Play Why at Hotel Krat.

Collect Master Chef's Knife from the platform's side path before leaving.

Collect Coil Mjolnir from the station.

Answer the fourth King of Riddles call Ergo.

Open the Trinity Sanctum in Krat Central Station Lobby.

After doing so, return to the phone when prompted for the extra interaction. Continue the King of Riddles chain so the final key can be obtained later.

At Krat Central Station Plaza, go past the broken statue, turn right through the archway, and kill the Elite Carcass trying to break into a pub. It drops the fourth and final base-game Legion Plug.

Buy Military Shovel from the Abandoned Apartment Wandering Merchant.

Obtain the Special Krat Supply Box during the Collapsed Street section (from the Collapsed Street Stargazer, open the shortcut ladder on the immediate left, go out to the ledge, move right to another ladder, and take it down to the chest) and return it to Polendina. This is the third Krat Supply Box. If the Rusty Cryptic Vessel does not appear in his shop, you have not handed over all three boxes; the Sturdy Krat Supply Box from the Grand Exhibition Gallery is the one most often missed.

Buy the Rusty Cryptic Vessel from Polendina's expanded inventory (1,000 Ergo) and have Venigni decipher it. This opens the gate to Hermit's Cave at the Barren Swamp Bridge Stargazer. The three-box stock also adds another Legion Caliber and Quartz; buy both.

Complete Hermit's Cave before the ending:

• Open the chest inside the shack on the lower platforms before the Hermit's Cave Stargazer for a Quartz.
• Collect Black Steel Cutter from the chest after the axe-wielding elite carcass past the Stargazer.
• Defeat the Shielded Medium Carcass elite in the built structure at the end for the Misty E'rA record.
• Continue into the next room and open the vault. It contains Black Cat's Hunting Apparel and a Quartz, the final reward of the Rusty Cryptic Vessel. Do not leave the cave without opening it.
• Play Misty E'rA at Hotel Krat.

Collect Cursed Knight's Halberd from the chest on the broken bridge.

Answer the final King of Riddles telephone No when it rings in this chapter. It is reported in the Sealed Underground beneath Hotel Krat and at the Relic of Trismegistus; either answer leads to the key, but No is the Humanity answer.

Answering No gives you the King of Riddles' Surprise Box instead of the key. Open your inventory, go to Collectibles, and open the Surprise Box to obtain The Chosen One's Trinity Key. Opening it also afflicts P with Decay, so do it standing next to a Stargazer (or with a purification ampoule ready) and rest immediately afterward rather than opening it in the middle of a fight.

Continue uphill after the boss and speak to Alidoro.

Exhaust the conversation and choose to attack him. Kill him and take Alidoro's Cryptic Vessel. Killing him also gives the Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 record.

Do all of this before boarding the submarine. Boarding the submarine first locks Alidoro's Cryptic Vessel, Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1, and Eugénie's conclusion for this playthrough.

This is required for Veteran Explorer and Eugénie's conclusion.

From now on, Rookie Explorer Hugo takes Alidoro's place in Hotel Krat as the special-weapon merchant. Trade all remaining boss Ergo with him.

Back at Hotel Krat:

• Give Alidoro's Cryptic Vessel to Venigni first.
• Have it decrypted.
• Read the decrypted document.
• Only then speak to Eugénie.
• Tell her the truth: choose "He was Eugénie's older brother." This is also the better Humanity choice; the other answer gives far less.
• Rest at the Stargazer and speak to Eugénie again.

You receive Far East Princess. Play it and Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 at Hotel Krat.

Make sure you have acquired, deciphered, and completed the reward objective for every base-game Cryptic Vessel:

• Crafted Cryptic Vessel from St. Frangelico Cathedral.
• Jeweled Cryptic Vessel from Estella Opera House.
• Old Cryptic Vessel obtained through Hugo.
• Rusty Cryptic Vessel used to open Hermit's Cave; its reward is the vault at the end of the cave.
• Mechanical Cryptic Vessel from the Arche Abbey Broken Rift upper-level chest, solved at the Collapsed Street Wandering Merchant with Frozen Feast equipped.
• Alidoro's Cryptic Vessel from killing Alidoro. It has no treasure; having it decoded and reading it is the requirement.

Claim the final reward from each clue. Merely decrypting the vessels is not enough.

Mechanical Cryptic Vessel is the last one available; it is routed in Chapter 11 at Arche Abbey Broken Rift, and Veteran Explorer unlocks there.

Continue into the final region.

At Black Seaside, inspect the orange-glowing memory near the Stargazer for Humanity.

Do not rush the Abbey. Several late-game achievements and NPC conclusions are concentrated here.

Collect Acidic Great Curved Sword from the chest after the pink Dimensional Butterfly section.

Reach the large vertical chamber containing narrow beams. Descend to the lowest level.

Find Test Subject 826 by taking the elevator past the traps and exhaust his dialogue to learn Happy. Then open the door at the end of his corridor so he can escape. If you do not open it, he never moves to Rosa Isabelle Street and you cannot buy Carcass Crystal Axe.

Open the final Trinity Sanctum using The Chosen One's Trinity Key and speak to Arlecchino. When he asks whether you are a puppet or a human being, answer Human (another very large Humanity gain).

When you find Geppetto in his cell in the Abbey and he asks whether he was a trustworthy father, answer Yes.

Make sure you have also read the Scandal! V, the Tragedy Behind the Flamboyance note from Lorenzini Arcade before exhausting Arlecchino's dialogue.

After opening the last Sanctum, exhaust Arlecchino's dialogue until "The Truth Behind the Venigni Incident" appears. He gives you the Moon World Warrior Toy.

At Hotel Krat, show the Moon World Warrior Toy to Venigni and exhaust his dialogue.

Return to Hotel Krat.

Speak to Polendina and exhaust the conversation about Antonia's fate.

Check Antonia's wheelchair and collect the Memory of Beach record. Play it.

Return to Rosa Isabelle Street Entrance after Laxasia.

Find Test Subject 826 on the bridge above the street and buy Carcass Crystal Axe. If you later need his New Game+ gold record, this is also where he sells it.

Return to the Abbey and enter Sophia's room.

For this first playthrough, you need the Rise of P route. You must already have very high Humanity before you talk to Sophia. Route toward the "Your heart is pounding" gain message: if you have taken the lie answers and played the records listed in this guide, you should be seeing it by now. The decisive confirmation is the cutscene: if P's hair turns grey after you give her peace, you have enough. If it does not, Rise of P is lost for this playthrough.

Choose Give her peace.

This grants Humanity and the Shadow Flower record. Play Shadow Flower when you can.

You also learn Entreat from Sophia's interaction.

By this point the base-game set should contain:

• Sit.
• Check Ground.
• Show Off Clothes.
• Remembrance.
• Stalker's Promise.
• Fear.
• Swagger.
• Pray.
• Taunt.
• Clap.
• Sad.
• Respect.
• Beg.
• Greet.
• Anger.
• Happy.
• Entreat.

At the Arche Abbey Broken Rift Stargazer, go straight into the first archway, then take the right-hand archway down the stairs. At the bottom, go through the doorway on the left, clear the enemies, take the left archway again, and continue straight through the next doorway. At the end of that room, climb the ladder on the right, go to the far right end, turn left, and open the chest at the end for the Mechanical Cryptic Vessel. Several elites patrol this upper level, so clear them first.

Return to Hotel Krat and have Venigni decipher it. The picture shows Collapsed Street. Travel to the Abandoned Apartment Stargazer and head out into Collapsed Street: cross the fallen sign used as a bridge, skip the gate and follow the small path to the left past the pack of carcass dogs, go through the archway, and climb the balcony stairs to the Wandering Merchant. Equip Frozen Feast before speaking to him; he then gives Red Fox's Hunting Apparel and a Quartz. Without Frozen Feast equipped the reward does not trigger, so never trade the Reborn Champion's Ergo for its amulet.

Before speaking to Geppetto at Under the Abyss:

• You have consistently built Humanity. The biggest sources are the Hotel door "Human", Antonia "Of course", Venigni "I couldn't hear", Arlecchino "Human", Eugénie's truthful answer, Sophia's peace, and the Memory of Beach record. Missing several of these can leave you short of the Golden Lie.
• Sophia was given peace.
• All available normal records from this run have been collected and played.
• Antonia, Venigni, Eugénie, Belle, Cecile, and the Cryptic Vessel chains are complete.
• Alidoro is dead.
• Boss Ergo needed for special weapons has not been consumed.
• The Portrait of a Boy hangs in Geppetto's study and has developed a long nose.
• You have not entered New Game+.
• You have opened all Trinity Sanctums.
• Hermit's Cave is complete.
• Every Wandering Merchant weapon from the first run has been purchased.

At the Under the Abyss Stargazer, quit normally so the current save has an opportunity to synchronize with Xbox cloud storage.

The route below uses that save to obtain both Real Boy and Rise of P on this first playthrough.

Speak to Geppetto and choose Give your heart.

With Lies of P still running, open Manage Game and Add-ons from the Xbox interface, enter Saved Data, select your profile, and delete the local copy from the console only.

Do not choose Delete Everywhere.

Reload Lies of P and allow Xbox to synchronize the earlier cloud save. Confirm that you are back before the Geppetto decision.

If you are not comfortable using cloud rollback, keep the Real Boy result and obtain Rise of P on a later run instead.

This time choose Refuse when Geppetto asks for your heart.

Defeat the Nameless Puppet.

Exchange the late boss Ergo with Rookie Explorer Hugo, who replaced Alidoro in Hotel Krat:

• Sad Zealot's Ergo: Uroboros's Eye.
• Fallen One's Ergo: Noblesse Oblige.
• Nameless Puppet's Ergo: Proof of Humanity.

Check the Portrait of a Boy in Geppetto's study. At the game's maximum Humanity state the nose has grown into a golden, leafy branch, and interacting with the portrait takes it as the Golden Lie. Following this route's answers and records should get you there. If it is not ready, fully play any records that have not yet contributed Humanity and check again. If it still is not available, it can be earned in a later playthrough by rebuilding Humanity there (Humanity resets each New Game+, but weapons carry over).

Before leaving the first run, verify that you own all 29 normal weapons.

The route has placed the easily missed purchases and late weapons where they naturally occur. The full set consists of the three starting weapons plus the chapter pickups and shop weapons encountered throughout the route.

The most important loss-prevention checks are:

• All three starting weapons from Cerasani Alley.
• Electric Coil Stick.
• Krat Police Baton.
• Salamander Dagger.
• Booster Glaive.
• Fire Axe.
• Big Pipe Wrench.
• Blind Man's Double Spear.
• Acidic Crystal Spear.
• Bone-Cutting Saw.
• Bramble Curved Sword.
• Dancer's Curved Sword.
• Exploding Pickaxe.
• Tyrant Murderer's Dagger.
• Clock Sword.
• Circular Electric Chainsaw.
• Spear of Honor.
• Live Puppet's Axe.
• Pistol Rock Drill.
• City Longspear.
• Master Chef's Knife.
• Coil Mjolnir.
• Military Shovel.
• Black Steel Cutter.
• Cursed Knight's Halberd.
• Acidic Great Curved Sword.
• Carcass Crystal Axe.

Each P-Organ slot takes one Quartz, and a phase opens once at least two nodes in the previous phase are fully filled. The cheapest path to Phase 5 is two full nodes in each of Phases 1 and 2 (2 slots each, 8 Quartz) and two full nodes in each of Phases 3 and 4 (3 slots each, 12 Quartz): 20 Quartz. Budget at least 21 so you can also slot one ability inside Phase 5.

Guaranteed Quartz on this first-run route, well above that minimum:

• Boss and story drops: Parade Master, Scrapped Watchman, Puppet of the Future (Chapter 3), Mad Clown Puppet (Chapter 6), both Puppets of the Future (Chapter 8), Corrupted Parade Master, the Black Rabbit Brotherhood (Chapter 10).
• Trinity Sanctums: Workshop Union Culvert, Estella Opera House, Arche Abbey Outer Wall.
• Chests: Malum District square and Malum District Town Hall (Chapter 5), Rosa Isabelle Street Culvert (Chapter 6), Grand Exhibition Gallery outside chest (Chapter 7), Krat Central Station chest in the acid fog (Chapter 9), Arche Abbey Broken Rift spike-trap chest and the Arche Abbey Upper Part chest guarded by a Test Subject (Chapter 11).
• Cryptic Vessels: Crafted (1), Rusty (2, both in Hermit's Cave), Mechanical (1).
• Polendina: two in his default stock plus one more after each Krat Supply Box hand-in.

The second playthrough is required even if all three ending achievements were manipulated through cloud saves because Golden Melody has records that do not appear in New Game.

Use Butterfly's Guidance if desired and rush the story between required record and achievement stops.

You retain your equipment and most progression systems, so this run should be substantially faster.

Humanity resets at the start of New Game+. Sufficient Humanity is required for the Refuse option to appear when Geppetto asks for your heart; with too little, the game forces the Real Boy ending. The exact threshold is not established, so do not cut it close. Golden records give no Humanity, so build it through the same lie answers as the first run: "Human" at the Hotel door, the Weeping Woman, the first four phone answers, The Atoned's greeting, both Alidoro lies, Julian, and Antonia's "Of course". Watch for the gain message progressing past "The Ergo is whispering" to "You feel warmth", and keep taking the later lies too (Simon "Hope of a cure", Belle, Venigni, Arlecchino, Geppetto "Yes") for extra margin.

During this playthrough:

• Buy every gold record immediately when you reach its merchant.
• Build Humanity steadily with the lie answers above before Under the Abyss.
• Complete Overture when it becomes accessible from Chapter 5.
• Eventually choose the ending path still needed if you skipped one through cloud rollback.
• Do not spend the Ergo from Overture's two achievement-related bosses on anything except their weapons.

At Cerasani Alley, buy Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 (Golden) from the Wandering Merchant before he disappears.

Continue normally.

At Inside the House on Elysion Boulevard, buy Quixotic (Golden) from the merchant.

Continue through Chapters 2-4.

Current versions allow the DLC to be entered from Chapter 5 on the second and later playthroughs.

At Path of the Pilgrim, follow the DLC access prompt and butterflies into the Forgotten Time.

Because you are in New Game+, the three gold Overture records required for Memory's Melody can spawn.

Overture has one ending and no difficulty achievement. Use Butterfly's Guidance if desired.

Learn Shiver by dying from the Freeze status. Let a Freeze-inflicting enemy in Strange Forest build Freeze on you until it kills you; you learn the gesture on respawn. (Archon Fleet Shipwrecks in Chapter 4 also has Freeze enemies.)

In Hall of Adventure, read Discover Wildlife: Bears! behind the mammoth to learn Play Dead.

In Hall of Adventure, collect the Royal Horn Bow from the chest on the second level of the zebra display room.

Pick up the Lorenzini Bolt on the Jungle Zone Walkway: after the Elite Elephant Carcass, follow the path to the birdhouse tree and down the slope onto the frozen lake. The large snow roller that comes down from the right smashes the icicles on the far left, revealing an alcove with the chest.

On the Jungle Zone Walkway, kill the Elite Elephant Carcass in the small arena down the path from the Stargazer. It drops the first Genius's Legion Plug.

At Zoo Tram Station, start Goddard's quest: pick up the blank canvas by the tram station handrail, give it to Goddard, and when she asks about the painting answer "Incredible! It is a brilliant work of art." This is required for The Clear Blue Sky.

Continue through the zoo and defeat the chapter's main boss.

This area contains several items needed later.

• Obtain Maniac's Pinwheel: pay a Carnival Coin to enter the Clown's Circus tent and win its minigame.
• Buy the Black Rabbit Hole Key from the Wandering Merchant.
• In New Game+, buy The Clear Blue Sky - Gold from the merchant.
• Learn Tap Dance by using a Carnival Coin on the small wheeled box inside a carnival house (one coin lies in front of the clock tower).
• Perform Tap Dance in front of the moving clown inside the circus tent to learn Cheer.
• Complete Rosaura's current request: the Rose Shoes are in a red chest on the carousel track (ride the Ferris wheel to the wooden platform, drop onto the carousel roof, and through the hole). Return them to receive the Lisrim record.

Do not leave Rosaura's quest unfinished for later.

Collect Puppet of the Future's Welder during the first facility route: from the Stargazer's lift shortcut on the cell-block floor, enter the cell on the right side of the room and drop through its hole, leave that cell and climb the ladder, then drop into the hole in the cell on the left. Defeat the enemy that bursts through the wall and open the chest.

Collect La Vendetta after clearing the Coolant Control Room, which removes the ice layer blocking the lower floor: return to the facility Stargazer, take the ladder down, go through the tunnel on the right, continue through the next tunnel and drop into a room, go straight through the storeroom and down the stairs, defeat the Elite Rolling Carcass, and open the chest through the archway.

Keep collecting Ancient Discs rather than spending them casually. One is needed for the New Game+ Nightmare gold record during final cleanup.

At the Elixir Research Zone:

• Obtain Goddard's Art Supplies (from the Stargazer, go straight through the first two open cell doors into the large room, turn right at the first opportunity, and take the glowing item beside the operating table). Return them to Goddard at Zoo Tram Station.
• Pick up the Luxury Bag near the Stargazer and give it to Klaus at Eventide Hotel Krat. This expands his shop so he can sell Nightmare - Gold.

Meet The Tracker near the Elixir Research Zone Stargazer and exhaust his dialogue. After the Two-Faced Overseer is defeated he moves to Eventide Hotel Krat and can decrypt cipher machines. The Overseer drops the Bloody Cipher Machine.

When the NPC dialogue choice appears at the Stargazer, choose She said to follow Lea to receive the Secret Ruins Key.

Speak to the Crusher Puppet at the end of this area (after the lower wooden bridge). This is the first of his encounters; all of them are needed for Doubt and Nightmare.

Continue into the mines.

At the small waterfall along the main route, open the safe containing the second Genius's Legion Plug.

Collect Arche's Guardian: from the Ergo Mining Site Stargazer, drop down, take the wooden ramp on the right, cross the wooden bridges, pass the waterfall and climb the ladder, ride the lift across, take the left path, cross the rope bridge, and drop down on the left to the chest.

On the upper level, take the right entrance after the moving platform and speak to the Crusher Puppet a second time.

Speak to the Crusher Puppet after crossing the wooden bridge (third encounter) and exhaust its dialogue to obtain Doubt.

Pick up the Corroded Cipher Machine from the Grand Mining Machine miniboss. This will be needed by the Tracker.

Rosaura sits in front of the Pistris Harbor Stargazer asking for Ergo. Give her any Ergo item (Ergo Crystal of the Eternal gives the most Humanity) to receive the Heart gesture. This requires her Rose Shoes to have been returned in Carnival Garden.

Find the Crusher Puppet's real body, the brain in a vat: take the ladder, defeat the pushing enemy, turn around instead of using the construction, and cross the wooden planks. Choose to help him and shut off the machine ("End his misery") to receive the Nightmare record.

Immediately visit the Wandering Merchant near the Stargazer.

In New Game+, buy Lisrim - Gold.

Buy the Giant's Amulet from the same merchant if you want an easy way to solve the Frosted Cipher clue later.

Read Correspondence from Beyond Sea when you find it to learn Deep Bow. It is in the second shipwreck, across the log bridge, in the open room in front of the stairs.

Continue through the shipwreck route.

Collect Silent Evangelists' Mace: from the Shipwreck Interior Stargazer, go out the door on the right and follow the path to the icebergs, continue to the next ship and go up the ramp on the left, go through the ship and up the ladder to the deck, and open the chest on the far side.

Acquire the Frosted Cipher Machine from the vault before the jump to the Shipwreck Exterior Stargazer.

Interact with the railing at the very top of Krat Lighthouse to learn Peer into Distance.

By the end of this region you should have all eight Overture gestures:

• Shiver.
• Play Dead.
• Tap Dance.
• Cheer.
• Deep Bow.
• Doubt.
• Heart.
• Peer into Distance.

Continue through Monad Charity House, the cellar, and Valentinus's Study.

Confirm the Royal Horn Bow from Hall of Adventure is in your Overture weapon inventory; if not, go back for it now.

When you reach the Rose Garden Entrance Stargazer, stop.

Return to Klaus.

Exchange the two preserved boss Ergo:

• Tortured Guardian's Ergo: Pale Knight.
• Macabre Puppeteer's Ergo: Death's Talons.

Spend one Ancient Disc on Nightmare - Gold. It only appears in New Game+, and only after Klaus has received the Luxury Bag.

Use the two Genius's Legion Plugs at the crafting table to create both new Legion Arms:

• Icarus.
• Cataclysm.

Give the Tracker the cipher machines collected throughout Overture and complete each clue before killing the final boss.

For the Bloody Cipher Machine clue, investigate the crocodile exhibit at Hall of Adventure and claim the reward.

For the Corroded Cipher clue, return to Ergo Mining Site and go to the Crusher Puppet's third location. Break the suspicious wall there with a grenade or other explosive, enter the hidden room, and collect The Misfit's Diary. Wait for the wall to finish loading before picking up the diary; picking it up before breaking the wall has been reported to stop the report from registering. Report back to the Tracker; the reward includes an Ancient Disk.

For the Frosted Cipher clue (Lumacchio must already be defeated before the Tracker decodes it), go to the bottom floor of Krat Lighthouse, stand on the floor panel while heavy enough to trigger it (the Giant's Amulet works), and collect the Lighthouse Keeper's Journal from the hidden room. Report back to the Tracker.

At the end of the Tracker conversation, choose:

They will be, and Krat will be saved

This exact choice awards the Survivor record. Do not select the alternate response on this completion run.

Return to Goddard at Zoo Tram Station. With the brilliant-painting answer given and her Art Supplies returned, and Lumacchio defeated, speak to her again to receive Painter's Sky and the letter To the One Within the Darkness.

Read the letter in your inventory to receive The Clear Blue Sky record.

Before returning to the Rose Garden Entrance, verify:

• You have nine of the ten Overture weapons. Monad's Rose Sword is still missing because it comes from the ending.
• Icarus and Cataclysm have both been crafted.
• All eight Overture gestures are owned.
• The Tracker quest is complete.
• Survivor is owned.
• Lisrim is owned.
• Lisrim - Gold is owned.
• Nightmare is owned.
• Nightmare - Gold is owned.
• The Clear Blue Sky is owned.
• The Clear Blue Sky - Gold is owned.
• Only the ending record Survivor - Red should remain.

After returning to the normal timeline, travel back to Eventide Hotel Krat.

Follow the butterflies into the garden and use the Secret Room Key behind the tree.

Collect Lea's Recollection and listen to it.

Return to the main story.

You no longer need to repeat most optional base-game collectibles unless something was missed on the first playthrough.

Continue through the Black Rabbit Brotherhood and King of Puppets.

During Chapter 7's Lorenzini Arcade route, buy Shadow Flower (Golden) from the Wandering Merchant.

Continue through the Grand Exhibition.

At Abandoned Apartment, buy Memory of Beach (Golden) from the Wandering Merchant.

In Arche Abbey, speak to Test Subject 826 again at the Outer Wall and open the door at the end of his corridor so he can escape.

After defeating Laxasia, return to Rosa Isabelle Street Entrance and find him on the bridge.

Buy Fascination (Golden).

The complete base-game record collection required for Golden Melody is:

First playthrough (11):

• Feel.
• Divine Service.
• Someday.
• Fascination.
• Why.
• Quixotic.
• Memory of Beach.
• Misty E'rA.
• Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1.
• Far East Princess.
• Shadow Flower.

New Game+ only (5):

• Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 (Golden).
• Quixotic (Golden).
• Shadow Flower (Golden).
• Memory of Beach (Golden).
• Fascination (Golden).

Go to the Hotel gramophone and start every record at least once. If you want the safest possible trigger, let each play long enough to visibly register as played before moving to the next.

If you used the first-run cloud method and already obtained both Real Boy and Rise of P, the only ending left is Free from the puppet string.

On this New Game+ run, when you reach Sophia choose Let her live.

Defeat Simon Manus.

Before speaking to Geppetto, make sure you have taken the New Game+ lie answers listed above and have seen the "You feel warmth" gain message. Sufficient Humanity is required for Refuse to appear (the exact threshold is not established); without it you are forced into Real Boy.

Refuse to give Geppetto your heart and defeat the Nameless Puppet.

Before declaring the completion finished, verify the following base-game achievements are already unlocked:

• Strongest Normal Weapon.
• Strongest Special Weapon.
• Strongest Legion Arm.
• Extreme Potential.
• Pianist of Krat.
• Legion Arm Collector.
• Special Weapon Collector.
• Normal Weapon Collector.
• Golden Melody.
• Learning about Emotions.
• Veteran Explorer.
• End of Riddles.

All story bosses should also have awarded their respective achievements.

The Xbox completion is finished once the base game and Overture both show complete.

There are no multiplayer achievements, no difficulty-specific achievements, and no additional title-update achievements outside the 42 base-game achievements and 11 Overture achievements included in this route.