- Difficulty
- 4/10, or 3/10 with Assist Mode. No trophy needs a difficulty setting.
- Time
- 40 to 50 hours; 30 to 40 with Assist Mode.
- Playthroughs
- One, with free roam after the credits.
- Missable
- One, Be What You Want to Be, and a reload recovers it.
- Online, glitched
- None, none.
The route
Step 1 — The story, opening everything (20 to 30 hours)
Play the three questlines; the Jesse Sightings give you Shift and Reach, which the collectibles need. Open every container for the Health and Power Upgrades, and save before the karaoke in The Party Won't Stop.
Step 2 — Side quests, collectibles and tasks, zone by zone (about 20 hours)
In free roam: the eight collectible quests, the Mold and Altered Item questlines, the Sketchbooks and Hideouts, and twenty FBC Tasks. Going zone by zone keeps the backtracking down.
Step 3 — The counters
Whatever is left of Aberrant Strength 100, 30 Talents, 30 crafted artifacts, 40 Zone Upgrades, 12 outfit items and the combat trophies below.
The one you can miss
| Trophy | Grade | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Be What You Want to Be | Bronze | In The Party Won't Stop, pick all nine karaoke lyrics right; a wrong one kills a guest. Reload the permanent save from the last main quest and the quest can be played again. |
The silvers that are a set of quests
| Trophy | What it takes |
|---|---|
| Panopticon Intern | Freeze Frame, The Party Won't Stop, The Complete Set, A New Directive, Into the Valley of Death, Panopticon Service Request |
| Threshold Researcher | Unsupervised Science, The Last Taxi, Crossing the Threshold |
| Budding Mycologist | New Growth and Carbon Copy, Parts I to III |
| Budding Analyst | Pope's Research |
| Dog's Best Friend | Every Dog Has Her Day |
| Work-Life Balance | All eleven Sketchbooks |
| Backroom Espionage | All six Secret Hideouts |
| Graffiti Artist (gold) | The Mural in the Gap: the six Resonants and the Hedron |
Setups for the combat and system trophies
⏱️ Intense Precision
Buy the Dominance talent, then keep faltering enemies and finishing them for 60 seconds. One-Hit Falters in Assist Mode and the endless dummy in the Gap make it easy.
💨 Paranatural Agility
Unlock the Perfect Dodge talent and set Assist Mode's Perfect Dodge Window to 400, then dodge three attacks inside six seconds.
🧠 Psychic Domination
Command, from the Unknown's Resonant: three charges from kills, then up on the d-pad at a Breaker such as the Hiss Transporter.
🎰 Combat Readiness
Six abilities equipped; the sixth slot needs Pope's Research's Resonant Token.
🌫️ Love to Deep Dive
In and out of the Gap three times inside five minutes.
🕹️ SHÜM!
Play one level on any arcade cabinet, which opens at a set Zone level.
💪 Astral Potency
Aberrant Strength 100 through crafted artifacts: the ones that add the most Strength first. Crafting the same artifact again counts towards Paranatural Artisan too.
❤️ Personal Development and Astral
Four Health and four Power Upgrades, twelve containers each; the Hideouts and the Testing Facilities cover half.
Story trophies, in order
| Trophy | Mission |
|---|---|
| Assigned to Accept | The very start |
| Artistic Liberation, Parautilitarian | Orientation |
| Rescue Mission | Evacuation Procedures |
| Enemy of My Enemy | Enemy of My Enemy |
| Sibling Reunion | The last of the three Jesse Sightings |
| The First Link | The Hedron Link |
| Stop it at the Source | Sever the Hedron Links |
| Repeating, Refracting | Late in the story |
Cross-checked
Cross-checked on 2 October 2026 against the guides of PowerPyx, KeenGamer, GameRant, AllThings.how and Gamer Guides, and Remedy's update 1.4.0 notes. Not from a playthrough: nobody here has played it, and what the sources do not describe is not on this page.