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Silent Hill f requires tracking two difficulty systems, ending conditions and item recovery across several playthroughs. This is not a roadmap to approach while relying on final chapter select: decisions and documents must be organised while travelling through Ebisugaoka. The most important distinction concerns puzzles: their difficulty trophies do not behave like action difficulty trophies. This guide keeps those routes separate and highlights boss challenges worth attempting before closing the corresponding ending branch.
Base-game platinum roadmap. Expansions and additional trophy groups are separate from the main route.
- Required difficulty: Lost in the Fog is required for action and puzzles; puzzle-difficulty trophies do not automatically stack.
- Missable trophies: Many actions, collections and ending conditions are missable; protect earlier saves.
- Online: No multiplayer trophies; offline unlock-registration issues are reported on some setups.
Use the first route for learning and documents
Learn exploration, dodging and resource management without attempting every restriction simultaneously. Review character-related documents and maintain a checklist across playthroughs. Some content changes in New Game+: finding a new page does not mean the page available in the previous route was automatically collected.
- Track documents by character and playthrough.
Separate action and puzzle difficulty
The list has separate action and puzzle objectives. Lost in the Fog should not be treated as one switch covering everything. Verified sources report stacking action milestones, while puzzle milestones need the appropriate routes for individual difficulties. Plan settings before starting each new playthrough.
- Record both difficulties associated with your save.
Protect ending decisions without spoiling the first route
After the first ending, use New Game+ with an explicit plan for other endings. Their trophies are different outcomes rather than simple variants of one unlock. Keep saves before decisions you are exploring and record the ending associated with each branch, avoiding overwriting a state useful for the next attempt.
- Label saves intended for different endings.
Prepare boss restrictions before fighting
The Sound of Silence, Echoes of Jealousy and Puppetmaster specify which attacks must be avoided; they are not all equivalent to a generic no-damage victory. Read the next boss requirement and create a save before the fight. A focused attempt lets you study the forbidden attack without sacrificing the rest of the roadmap.
- Check the attack prohibited by the trophy before entering the arena.
Reserve a branch for the no-capsule route
Winners Don’t Do Drugs requires reaching the Iwai residence without taking capsules and leaving them on Shu’s desk. Finishing one fight without using them is insufficient: the requirement describes a route segment and an interaction. Choose that branch beforehand, track used consumables and preserve a state preceding any mistake.
- Do not take capsules on the branch dedicated to this requirement.
Finish upgrades, omamori and documents by category
Close to the Sun, Fervent Collector and the two omamori trophies involve different objects. Compare progress with the correct category before blaming a missing unlock on a bug. If a document named by the list is missing, recover that series on the appropriate route rather than searching every zone for random objects.
- Check upgrades, inventory, omamori and documents separately.
Trophies to watch
Clear Skies
Complete the game with action difficulty set to "Lost in the Fog".
Check action difficulty: puzzle difficulty is a separate selection.
Puzzle Master
Complete the game with puzzle difficulty set to "Lost in the Fog".
This requirement concerns puzzles and is not replaced by action difficulty.
The Bird that Flies Highest
Defeated the Shiromuku without dying once.
Protect a save before the fight and distinguish dying from merely taking damage.
Winners Don't Do Drugs
Reached the Iwai residence without taking a single capsule and left the capsules on Shu's desk in his workshop.
Plan the whole capsule-free segment and its final desk interaction.
Frequently asked questions
Is one maximum-difficulty completion enough?
No: action and puzzles have separate milestones, and puzzle milestones do not automatically stack.
Can I recover everything through chapter select?
The roadmap has no universal chapter select: use saves and New Game+ with a plan.
Does a boss trophy always require taking no damage at all?
Read the exact requirement: some forbid a particular attack, while others concern dying or a different condition.
Sources
Trophy lists
Buying the game
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