Layers of Fear (2023 PS5) Trophy Guide & Roadmap

As soon as you can control the Writer inside the room with the typewriter, turn around and open the door to leave it. Turn right and collect the note on the floor to unlock this trophy.

As soon as you’re able to control the Writer, pick up the lighter from your desk.

Unmissable, story-related unlock. As you near the end of Chapter 2 – Canvas during the Painter’s story, you’ll get to an attic in flames. Immediately after leaving the attic, you’ll find a lantern on a small cabinet. Pick it up and then hold + on the child-resembling puppet sitting on the chest to unlock this trophy.

You can unlock this trophy immediately after Another Perspective. Immediately after getting the torch, go right and flip the switch to reveal a bank stage. Now press and then hold at the automaton mannequin that is closest to the door to unlock this trophy.

A bit after the beginning of the chapter, you’ll enter a very long hallway with the wife’s ghost phasing towards you. Cast your lantern at her, then continue along the hallway. Halfway through it, turn around and cast your lantern at her once again and then continue to the other side and into a new hallway. Once you reach safety, you will unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related. As you near the end of Chapter 2 – Canvas during the Painter’s story, you’ll get to an attic in flames. Immediately after leaving the attic, you’ll find a lantern on a small cabinet. Pick it up and you’ll unlock this trophy.

Shortly after the sequence on the ship in The Actor’s Story – Act 1 – The Unmooring you’ll get to a room with caged film reels and a briefcase. Open the briefcase to retrieve a torch and unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related unlock. Get upstairs and enter the room with the babyface painting at the end and grab the key from one of the writing desk’s drawers. Get back downstairs, unlock the door with the note and remove the cover from the canvas to unlock this trophy.

Towards the end of the chapter, you’ll get back to the office with the babyface painting. From the way you came in, approach the bookcase on your right and interact with the book to reveal a secret compartment behind it with a phone. Interact with the phone and dial 911 to unlock this trophy.

Halfway through Chapter 5 – Touch, you’ll enter a set of hallways with some candelabras to light up. Lighting them up reveals the shadow of the wife’s ghost behind you and a message on the wall saying “Don’t look back”. Do exactly that, don’t look back and keep opening doors and lighting up candelabras. Continue on until you enter a room with a chain in the middle where you will unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related unlock. You will unlock this trophy when you complete the painting inside the Painter’s Studio at the end of Chapter 6 – Witness, regardless of which ending you unlock. To avoid replaying the Painter’s Story a second time, it is recommended to unlock the secret ending first. Check the description found under Letting Go below to know what to do.

• Step 1: at the end of Chapter 1, enter the wife’s bedroom upstairs and repair the vanity’s mirror by collecrting the four broken pieces in the room.
• Step 2: 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.
• Step 3: 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.
• Step 4: 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.
• Step 5: open the double doors and leave the house. Trophy unlocks!
• Step 6: immediately after the trophy unlocks, quit out to the menu and press Continue. This will put you back inside the house, allowing you to continue and eventually finish the painting for Finished it.

Layers of Fear (2023) – Part 1: Painter’s Story – All Collectible Locations

Credits to wolker4 for the solution

Unmissable, story-related unlock. Unlocks during Act 1 after spinning the globe and walking to the doors several times.

As soon as you spawn in the Cabin at the beginning of Act 1 – The Unmooring, turn left and grab the interview from the phonograph. Then, turn the handle to unlock this trophy.

In the Cabin, get upstairs by means of the ladder and interact with the spyglass. Now point the spyglass at the horizon, so that half of the lens shows the sea and the other half shows the sky. Now wait 42 seconds and an item will come out of the water and unlock this trophy.

Shortly after the beginning of Act 1 you’ll come across a room with a pair of headphones and an SOS machine next to it. For this trophy you need to do exactly as the trophy icon shows, whereby one dot is a short sound and a line is a longer sound. If the trophy doesn’t unlock, it’s probably because your line sound wasn’t long enough.

When you enter the Office in Act 3, you’ll have to assemble a space rocket. After plugging the cable in and boarding the rocket, you’ll start a fairly short sequence during which a series of rocks will come gravitating towards you. Use and to avoid the incoming rocks. If you get hit, you can quit out to the main menu and try again, but you’ll have to reassemble the rocket back together. It should be noted that to void this trophy you need to be hit by a rock in the front. If you avoid rocks, you still will feel a slight vibration, but that won’t void the trophy.

Halfway through Act 1 you will reach the wings of a stage. In this area you need to flip a light switch to continue. Once you’ve activated the switch some overhead spotlights will start moving. To unlock the trophy you need to make it across the wings without getting caught by the lights. The trophy will unlock when you get out of the bunker.

At some point during Act 4 you’ll come across a bright room with a table with lots of plates on top. Crouch through the cranny to reach a cave-like area. In this area are 5 smaller areas, each of which containing a rat cage. These are the souls the game refers to. Simply interact with the automaton mannequins or puzzles in each room to unlock each cage. This is what you have to do in each room:

1. In the kitchen, lift the automaton mannequin’s head from the bowl.
2. In the dark bedroom, pull the cord from the bloody automaton mannequin’s arm.
3. In the downstairs bedroom, interact with the blanket.
4. In the bright bedroom, interact with the teddy bear.
5. In the office, set the skull on the TV on the left and the right arm on the TV on the right.

Make sure you interact with the note opposite the ship when you’re done with each room to drop a ladder allowing you to continue on. Your very last step must be climbing the ladder.

First, you need to pick up the second Mysterious Item found in Act 2 – The Hunt. Halfway through Act 2, you’ll have to crouch through a ventilation shaft. While in the shaft, you’ll get to a fork. Go left to enter a bedroom with several bunk beds. On one of the beds here is a note you can pick up. When you return to the Cabin, plug the conch you picked up earlier into the socket for the item right of the note in the middle. This will unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related unlock. You will unlock this trophy after completing the Actor’s Story, regardless of the ending you unlock.

Here’s what you need to do for Forgiveness:

1. In the pantry, lock the door.
2. In the basement, pick up the music sheet right of the piano.
3. In the Painter’s studio, approach the cabinet and then use the paintbrush and NOT the crayon. Here, you also have to apply specific colors: red, black, and yellow.
4. In the Wife’s bedroom, play the gramophone.
5. In the living room upstairs, pet the dog off the couch before the Painter enters the room.
6. In the Daughter’s bedroom, keep staring the Painter and the canvas.
7. In the office, do the following: when the path splits, always choose the Painter’s path, play the notes on the piano in the correct order, interact with the portrait of the Wife after putting it back together.

Here’s what you need to do for the Resentment ending

1. In the pantry, don’t lock the door and allow the Painter in.
2. In the basement, approach the painter without giving him the music sheet.
3. In the Painter’s studio, always use the crayons.
4. In the Wife’s bedroom, don’t interact with the gramophone.
5. In the living room upstairs, don’t pet the dog off the couch.
6. In the Daughter’s bedroom, allow yourself to get distracted by the environmental events.
7. In the office, when the path splits, always choose the Wife’s path, play the notes on the piano in any order, don’t interact with the portrait of the Wife after putting it back together.

After watching either ending, you will unlock this trophy

Unmissable, story-related unlock. Leave the bedroom to unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related unlock. Shortly after the beginning of the Story, you’ll enter a hallway full of chains. Enter the room with the big canvas and interact with either side to change the setting of the room. After each change, exit the room and make your way along the hallways until you can enter another room with an item inside. Pick up each item, return it to the room with the canvas, and place it on the table. Once you have all three items, interact with the big canvas once again and the barricaded door will now be accessible. Continue on and you’ll soon find a chained door you can interact with. Interact with the chains and you’ll unlock this trophy.

Layers of Fear (2023 PS5) has many items you can collect. However, while one or two can be found in the other Stories, all the other items the trophy description refers to are only in the Musician’s Story. As you explore each area, you’ll come across many collectibles you can interact with. Some of these are items, giving you more information on the story events. These are marked by small empty white circles that are always easily distinguished and in plain view because of the dark environments of the game. In addition, there are more than 11 items in the Musician’s Story, making this a trophy you will unlock almost naturally.

Layers of Fear (2023 PS5) has many notes you can collect. However, while only a handful can be found in the other Stories, all the other notes the trophy description refers to are only in the Musician’s Story. As you explore each area, you’ll come across many collectibles you can interact with. Some of these are notes, giving you more information on the story events and the characters’ inner thoughts. These are marked by small empty white circles that are always easily distinguished and in plain view because of the dark environments of the game. In addition, there are more than 11 notes in the Musician’s Story, making this a trophy you will unlock almost naturally. The only thing need to remind yourself of is to always check all rooms for new notes each time you teleport back to the bedroom for a conversation.

Unmissable, story-related unlock. After running away from the elevator, you’ll teleport back into the bedroom and have a conversation with the Painter. As you talk to him, you’ll unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related. After catching up with your kid in the nursery, you’ll teleport back into the bedroom and have a conversation with the Painter and the kid. As you talk to them, you’ll unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related. After escaping from the ghost, you’ll be able to remove a third chain. Once you do, go through the door and a new cutscene will trigger. As the cutscene plays out, you’ll unlock this trophy.

Unmissable, story-related. Unlocks after the final cutscene of the Musician’s Story, regardless of the ending you unlock.