Missable Trophies: No Chapter Select, So Save Before These

There is no going back

How saving works

• One trophy guide counts eight manual save slots. You save at save points placed in the world.
• Spread your save slots across the whole story instead of overwriting one. A save from before a tricky section turns a failed attempt into a reload instead of a second playthrough.
• No trophy on any platform asks for a difficulty, so nothing is lost by playing on the lowest one.
• One guide reports that Hard turns off autosave and that the hardest mode, Hellraiser, only lets you save by spending limited Save Tokens. The reload tricks on this page assume a normal save setup; if you want the trophies without stress, do not pick Hellraiser for this run. We found no second source of standing for these rules.

The twenty missable trophies

The twelve crafting recipes

Where to put your manual saves

1. 1 · Next to Zora's first shop

   Save before you sell or buy anything. This is the save that protects the two shop trophies.

2. 2 · At the start of the graveyard

   A Quiet Place fails the moment you are seen or throw something. One trophy guide advises keeping to the eastern side, staying crouched in cover and slipping past Charlotte on the way back; reload if it goes wrong.

3. 3 · Before the docks shooting range

   Nine bottles by one trophy guide's count, and limited ammunition. A save here lets you try again with a full magazine.

4. 4 · Just before the final choice

   Take one ending, then reload the final autosave, which puts you back at the choice, and take the other. Keep a manual save from the last save point before the Ritual of Rebirth as a fallback.

5. 5 · Keep the rest spread out

   Use the other slots at regular intervals so that a missed pillar or a forgotten firearm costs you an hour, not the whole game.

Bugged and odd trophies

Steam-only achievements that need a plan

• Most of the 25 achievements only Steam has come with ordinary play: craft an item, heal to full, pick a lock, break a lockpick, kill with a knife or a firearm. The ones below need you to do something on purpose.
• Trapper (damage 10 enemies with bear traps): the Bear Trap recipe only goes on sale after the Statue's Tongue, so start crafting and setting traps from there.
• Financial Elite (spend 1,337 coins in the shop): the ten recipes Zora sells cost 1,660 coins together, so buying all of them for Librarian covers it.
• I Spy with My Little... (6 kills through the revolver scope): one Steam achievement guide says the Revolver and its scope are both bought from Zora; buy the scope once the Revolver is on sale.
• No Life in the Void, Only Death (die to Leviathan's gaze): one Steam achievement guide places it in the Labyrinth after the Sister of Mercy, by letting Leviathan's black beam hit you. Save first; it costs a death.
• Breacher (kill a fully armoured enemy without breaking its armour): the same guide points to the armoured enemy in the well and says to burn it.

The pillar artifacts

• Pain and suffering pillars are found in the Labyrinth sections, usually a little off the main path. The first one you activate gives The Further Regions of Experience.
• One trophy guide counts five pain pillars and five suffering pillars and says the Labyrinth walls close behind you, so most cannot be gone back for. No other source we read gives the totals.

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