Layers of Fear (2023 PS5) All Collectible Locations (Painter’s Story)

Layers of Fear (2023 PS5) contains 34 collectibles (17 Family Mementos and 17 Rat Sketches). Collecting 12 of each unlocks the trophies & achievements You might have a problem and Immortalized in my heart. This guide is updated for the Layers of Fear PS5 / Xbox Series / Steam Remaster Collection released in June 2023. This covers specifically the Painter’s Story (Layers of Fear Part 1). For the Actor’s Story refer to Layers of Fear Part 2 (Actor’s Story) Collectible Locations.

Almost all collectibles in the Painter’s Story are unmissable. Nevertheless, some of them are missable depending on specific hallways you decide to go down. At scripted points during the story, you will have to choose between a hallway drawn in green or red. If you choose green, you will be able to collect a Family Memento and if you choose red, you will be able to collect a Rat Sketch. If you go for either, you will be unable to collect the other one. As a result, you must replay certain chapters a second time in continuous order  to get to the required amount for the trophies. By following this Collectible Guide, you will find all 12 Rat Sketches and be left with only 3 Family Mementos to find for when you replay the Painter’s Story. When you’re done with the Writer’s Story, restart Painter’s Story – Chapter 1 – Canvas and this time go down the green drawn hallways when given the option until you have the trophy for all 12 Family Mementos. This guide also includes the locations of the collectibles needed to unlock the secret ending. These can only be collected at the end of specific chapters once you get back to the house BEFORE you interact with the canvas to start a new chapter.

Chapter 1 – Canvas

1. Rat Sketch 1 (Prosthesis Snatchers): after getting to the chair that rocks by itself, pick up the red painting from the ground and then grab this from a small table with a woman bust.
2. Family Memento 1: later on you will get to a dead end with a music staff on the wall. On the cabinet. 
3. Family Memento 2: when you get to the room that you have to revisit 4 times, grab the bottle left of the door and place it on the tray. Then, grab the photo from the same room.
4. Mirror Shards: enter the wife’s bedroom upstairs and repair the vanity’s mirror by collecrting the four broken pieces in the room.

Chapter 2 – Base

1. Family Memento 3: after retrieving the key and unlocking the door, immediately to your left on a table.
2. Rat Sketch 2 (Lice Mice): immediately at the next split, found inside the chest.
3. Rat Sketch 3 (Canvas Crawlers): shortly after you’ll have to choose a path. Go right and you’ll find this on a chair on your left after walking through another door.
4. Family Memento 4: now head to the next door and turn around to find this photo on the same chair as before. If for some reason the photo doesn’t spawn on top of the chair, go back to the main menu and hit continue.

Chapter 3 – Paint

1. Rat Sketch 4 (Plague Breeders): after escaping the wife’s ghost fro the first time, open the double doors in the central hallway to find this.
2. Rat Sketch 5 (Silent Floaters): you will have picked this key up from the ground after looping around the hallways with the floating telephones. Use it on the chest you will have seen earlier to pick this rat sketch up. You must pick this up in order to continue anyway.
3. Family Memento 5: continue on until you can turn around. Make sure to continue on but not as far as the windowed door. Follow the hallway until you can open a door showing a hanging baby doll. Grab the key from him and then continue on until you reach a room with a chest. Open it up to get this memento.
4. Rat Sketch 6 (Flapping Horror): after unlocking the door with the 385 combination, continue on until you reach a library room going downhill. At the intersection, go right to find this on a bookcase shelf.
5. Family Memento 6: head downstairs into the basement and use your lantern on the sewing machine to be able to collect this.
6. Bowls: at the end of Chapter 3, enter the child’s room upstairs and collect the four bowls scattered across the room. Place the bowls in front of the teddy bears on the cabinet by the bed.

Chapter 4 – Brush

1. Family Memento 7: in a hallway shortly after the start of the chapter, on a small table on the right.
2. Rat Sketch 7 (Fluffy Fakers): when you’re presented with the “Which dream should I chase” writing on the wall, this will eventually spawn in front of you together with an empty canvas.

Chapter 5 – Touch

1. Rat Sketch 8 (Screeching Arsonists): provided, you’ve turned left during the rat chase, this is found on a tipped over cabinet after the sequence where the walls close in on you.
2. Family Memento 8: after being able to leave the room with the four doors, inside a crate by the window where the moonlight shines through. 
3. Rat Sketch 9 (Rodent Seeds): after retrieving the key from the painting after the elevator sequence, in the same room, on a table.
4. Rat Sketch 10 (Floor Creepers): this is found after the “Don’t look back sequence” where you see the shadow of the woman’s ghost reflected in the wall and the candelabras. It’s in the room with the big chain in the middle, on a barrel.
5. Perfume Bottles: at the end of Chapter 5, head into the bathroom on the bottom floor and collect the three perfume bottles. Then, place them on the tray by the door.

Chapter 6 – Witness

1. Family Memento 9: after getting to the room with the chain and handle, continue on and you’ll find it on a cabinet on your right.
2. Rat Sketch 11 (Vermin Growth): when you see a wheelchair, go past it and continue on until you see this on a door.
3. Rat Sketch 12 (Haunting Mimics): immediately after there’s a split, go right to find this in the corner.  You might have a problem should pop now.
4. Paintings: at the end of Chapter 6, collect the 4 paintings found across the house and hang them on the wall above the staircase. The one below the staircase must go where it says Pathetic, the one by the double doors must go where it says Disgusting, the one inside the storeroom must go where it says You’re a Failure, and the one by the piano must go where the red drawing is. Once you have placed the paintings in their corresponding spot, open the double doors and leave the house. This will unlock Letting Go. As soon as the trophy unlocks, quit out to the main menu and press continue to return to the house and be able to complete the painting for Finished It.

To be picked up when replaying the Painter’s Story

Chapter 1 – Canvas

1. Family Memento 10: after getting to the chair that rocks by itself, pick up the green painting from the ground and then grab this from a small table with a woman bust.
2. Rat Sketch 13 (Body Borrowers): when you get to the room that you have to revisit 4 times, grab the wine bottle right of the door and place it on the tray. Then, grab the sketch from the same room (not needed for trophies).

Chapter 4 – Brush

1. Family Memento 11: when you’re presented with the “Which dream should I chase” writing on the wall, choose the green path with the house drawing and this will eventually spawn in front of you together with an empty wheelchair. To be sure, tilt your camera downwards ever so slightly to be able to see it.

Chapter 5 – Touch

1. Family Memento 12: halfway through the chapter you’ll have to ride an elevator. When you enter the elevator, flip the switch to the left to go down. When you leave the elevator, check the open chest in front of you.

That’s all Collectibles in the Painter’s Story of Layers of Fear 1 (2023). Also see Layers of Fear 2 (Actor’s Story) Collectible Locations.