ILLUMINATED
Restore power to the Administrative Block

This trophy is story-related and cannot be missed. It will unlock during the first chapter “Administration Block“.

FLUSHED
Drain the Sewers

This trophy is story-related and cannot be missed. It will unlock during the third chapter “Sewer“.

SOAKED
Activate the sprinklers in the Male Ward

This trophy is story-related and cannot be missed. It will unlock during the fourth chapter “Male Ward“.

EMANCIPATED
Collect the key in the Female Ward

This trophy is story-related and cannot be missed. It will unlock during the sixth chapter “Female Ward“.

EDUCATED
Collect 15 documents and complete 15 recordings

[MISSABLE] See PULITZER for more information.

PUNISHED
Finish the Game

This trophy is story-related and cannot be missed. It will unlock after beating the eighth chapter “Underground Lab“.

PULITZER
Collect all documents and complete all recordings

[MISSABLE] The game has a total of 62 collectibles: 31 Documents and 31 Notes. You have to collect everything in one playthrough to unlock the trophy!
The Documents can be picked up like normal collectibles. The notes are obtained by filming certain events or objects with your camcorder. Your statistics will reset when you use chapter select or start a new game. Missing a collectible means you won’t get the trophy. As a precaution you should create new save games regularly. You can have up to 50 save games. That allows you to go back if you have indeed missed something.
You can see exactly which collectibles you have found by pressing the
/ buttons.

Here is a text and screenshot guide for all collectibles:
Outlast – All Documents and Notes Locations Text Guide

Below are videos for each chapter:

– Chapter 1: Administration Block –

– Chapter 2: Prison Block-

– Chapter 3: Sewer –

– Chapter 4: Male Ward –

– Chapter 5: Courtyard –

– Chapter 6: Female Ward –

– Chapter 7: Return to Administration Block –

– Chapter 8: Underground Lab –

LUNATIC
Finish the game in Insane mode

Insane mode is based on Nightmare difficulty, but there are no checkpoints and you cannot save the game. So if you die, you will have to start from the very beginning. You can only carry two batteries for your camera, there are significantly less spare batteries (but they have the same fixed spawn points as in Nightmare mode), boss enemies kill you in one hit and normal enemies in two hits.

Before you attempt this difficulty, you should have a very good understanding of how each area is structured and where exactly you need to go. The good thing is that the game only takes an hour to beat if you rush through it. So it’s not quite as bad as it sounds.
The enemies always spawn at the same place and show the same behaviour. Once you’ve figured out a good strategy to get around them (see video guide below), you can always replicate that on any difficulty. Use that to your advantage and try to memorize the best path.

Here are some general tips:

• First off, if you don’t feel ready for insane mode, consider doing a quick extra run on Nightmare difficulty or use chapter select to replay the sections you’ve had trouble with.
• Increase the brightness (gamma) to its maximum. It makes it significantly easier to navigate through some dark areas. Additionally, you can increase the brightness of your TV if you want.
• Only activate night vision when really needed to save battery life. You really don’t want to run out of batteries.
• The best place to hide are lockers. Enemies do only open nearby lockers, but never the one where you are hiding.
• Sometimes it’s better to just get detected and rush through an area. As long as you know where you are going it’s all fine. By getting detected you can also lure away enemies from main objectives, such as buttons or switches.
• Enemies cannot follow you to certain areas. That’s usually the case when you go back to the previous area, or squeeze through a gap. It’s way more effective than hiding because you get rid of enemies immediately.

Managing your battery life is one of the most crucial parts on insane mode. If you don’t have any battery life left, you cannot see where you are going and will likely die in the dark.

Here is a list of the most useful spare battery spawn points:

1) Administration Block: After the big monster guy throws you down to the security room area, there is a restroom to the right side of where you stand up. In there (in the dark) is a battery on the floor.

2) Prison Block: After going through the showers, look behind the room where you have to activate a button.

3) Sewer: After escaping the big monster guy for the first time, you will come to an area where someone with a flashlight is looking your way and sings a song. There’s a corpse in this area and next to the corpse is the battery.

4) Male Ward: Before climbing into the burning room, go all the way to the right and look inside the small storage room.

5) Courtyard: Halfway through the chapter you will see a loading screen. When you see it, do not drop down to the area with the big monster guy! Instead, turn around and look for a man standing next to a dumpster. There on the ground is a battery.

6) Courtyard: Behind bloody fountain at end of courtyard chapter. It’s on a bench.

7) Female Ward: Beginning of female ward, in the room that has a wheelchair in the middle. In the dark corner at the end of the room is a corpse with a battery.

8) Female Ward: In the section where you have to collect the three fuses. There’s a battery in one of the shelves of the long hallway.

9) Female Ward: Upstairs, after retrieving the key. There’s a little welcome table and some bloody writing on the wall. The battery is on that table.

10) Female Ward: After losing your camera, in the first room that you enter (the one with all the beds).

11) Return to the Administration Block: Up in the cinema, where a guy slams the door into your face. It’s in the shelf to the right side of the door.

12) Return to the Administration Block: In the long hallway where all of the patients are praying in their rooms. It’s at the very end of the hallway on a table