Lies of P: How to Get All Records and Use Them for Humanity

The thing that breaks most Record runs in Lies of P is not finding them — it is the ones locked behind a dialogue choice, an NPC questline, or a return trip to Hotel Krat after a boss. Records are not just soundtrack collectibles. Bring one back to Hotel Krat, play it on the gramophone, and you gain Humanity, which feeds the game’s ending paths. You also do not have to let the whole song finish — starting playback is enough to bank the Humanity, even though the on-screen notification only pops at the end. This guide lists every base-game Record, where each one comes from, and the order to plan a clean run.

The short version

• The base game has 16 Records tied to the Golden Melody trophy/achievement.
• A single playthrough yields 10 distinct Records — Far East Princess and Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 are mutually exclusive, so you only get one of the two per run.
• Getting all 16 requires New Game+: the opposite half of that dialogue split, plus five Golden Records bought from Wandering Merchants.
• Three Records — Feel, Divine Service, and Why — are quest- and choice-locked, and two of them require you to lie.
• Play each Record once at the Hotel Krat gramophone for Humanity. Starting the song is enough.

What Records actually do

Records have two jobs. They are music tracks you play through the gramophone in Hotel Krat, and — the part that matters for completion — they restore Humanity when played. They do not raise damage, defense, or weapon stats. Their value is the Humanity gain, which influences your ending path, so the habit to build is simple: Hotel Krat → gramophone → start playback. Start each new song once and you never finish the game sitting on a pile of unplayed Humanity.

Collecting and playing every base-game Record is what earns the Golden Melody trophy/achievement.

Every base-game Record and where to get it

Ten of the Records are obtainable in a single run. They are listed below in roughly chapter order. The mutually exclusive pair (#8) means one of those two slots fills per playthrough; the other comes in NG+.

1. Feel — Reward for the Weeping Woman questline (Chapter 2). You must lie about the broken baby puppet to receive it.
2. Divine Service — From Sister Cecile after completing her questline at St. Frangelico Cathedral (Chapter 4).
3. Someday — Purchased from the Malum District Black Market Trader (inside the Red Lobster Inn, Chapter 5).
4. Fascination — From the actress Adelina after her questline, around the Estella Opera House / King of Puppets (Chapter 6).
5. Quixotic — From the Black Cat and Red Fox at the Grand Exhibition after Champion Victor (Chapter 7).
6. Why — Reward for Belle’s questline (Chapter 9). You must lie about her partner to receive it.
7. Misty E’rA — Found at Hermit’s Cave (Chapter 9) after deciphering the relevant Cryptic clue and clearing the enemy guarding it.
8. Far East Princess or Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 — From Eugenie after decrypting Alidoro’s Cryptic Vessel. The dialogue choice decides which you get; they are mutually exclusive in one playthrough.
9. Shadow Flower — Obtained when you choose “Give her peace” to Sophia near the end of the game (Chapter 11).
10. Memory of Beach — Found in Hotel Krat after defeating Laxasia, tied to Antonia’s death scene. It only appears if you gave Antonia the cure earlier (via Giangio/Polendina).

NG+ and Golden Records: filling the rest of the 16

This is where Record counts confuse people. The six remaining Records of the 16 are NG+-only. One is the other half of the Eugenie split — take the opposite dialogue choice on your second run to claim it. The other five are Golden Records, NG+ versions of Fascination, Quixotic, Shadow Flower, Memory of Beach, and Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1, sold by specific Wandering Merchants in a NG+ run.

Golden Records are not a separate currency or a different mechanic. Played on the gramophone they grant Humanity exactly like the standard set — they are simply the NG+ acquisition layer that completes the 16-Record Golden Melody requirement. Track them separately from your first-run checklist so you do not think your count is broken.

The Records that cause the most trouble

The hard Records are not the ones with obscure locations — they are the ones tied to a specific resolution. Feel, Divine Service, and Why are quest- and choice-locked, and both Feel and Why require you to lie, not tell the truth. Completing the quest is not enough; the exact dialogue outcome and the moment you return to claim the reward both matter.

Far East Princess and Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 are the cleanest reason one checklist is not enough: the two outcomes conflict, so getting one in a run rules out the other until NG+. Plan the route rather than improvising answers. For the questline behind that split, see our guide to solving the Mechanical Cryptic Vessel quest.

The cleanest route to all 16

• Decide Lie vs Truth early. Lie for Feel and Why on your first run, and pick one side of the Eugenie split deliberately — you grab the other in NG+.
• Buy Someday from the Malum District Black Market Trader. Merchant Records are the easiest to lock in; do it the moment you reach the shop.
• Exhaust NPC dialogue. Several Records (Adelina, the Black Cat and Red Fox, Sister Cecile, Belle) only release after a quest fully resolves.
• Return to Hotel Krat after major bosses. Delayed rewards like Memory of Beach only appear after a story beat — in its case, after Laxasia and Antonia’s scene.
• Give Antonia the cure earlier in the run, or Memory of Beach never spawns.
• Save the Golden Records for NG+. Track the five Golden variants plus the second Eugenie choice as a separate NG+ checklist.
• Play each Record once. Starting playback banks the Humanity; there is no reason to postpone it.

This sequence targets the real failure points. Lies of P is consistent about visible pickups but unforgiving about hidden quest states — a dialogue-locked song that only appears after the right answer and a later revisit is what usually breaks a completion run. For the wider Humanity system around these Records, see our Records and Humanity trophy guide, and for the endings your Humanity feeds into, the Pinocchio guide on Humanity, the Golden Lie, and endings.

Common mistakes

• Telling the truth for Feel or Why. Both require the lie — the truthful answer skips the Record.
• Expecting all 16 in one run. The Eugenie split and the five Golden Records make NG+ mandatory for the full set.
• Pushing past Laxasia without the Antonia setup. No cure given earlier means no Memory of Beach.
• Ignoring the Malum District trader. Someday is a guaranteed buy — the easiest Record to secure.
• Mixing base and Golden counts. Treat the 10 first-run Records and the 6 NG+ Records as two checklists.
• Hoarding playback. You only need to start each song once for Humanity.

Practical takeaway

Lie for Feel and Why, buy Someday in the Malum District, finish each NPC questline before pushing past its boss, give Antonia the cure and revisit Hotel Krat after Laxasia, and pick one side of the Eugenie split. That clears 10 Records on run one. On NG+, take the opposite Eugenie choice and buy the five Golden Records from the Wandering Merchants to complete all 16 and the Golden Melody trophy — playing each one at the gramophone for the Humanity as you go.