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

The important shortcut is this: Records in Lies of P are not just soundtrack collectibles. You should treat them as part of progression. When you bring a Record back to Hotel Krat and play it on the gramophone, it grants Humanity, which matters for ending progression. You also do not need to let the whole song finish; starting playback is enough to get the Humanity benefit. If you are trying to clean up the set, the real challenge is not hidden rooms so much as quest routing, dialogue choices, and return visits after story milestones.

The broad consensus for the launch game is that there are 16 base-game Records, and collecting and playing them is tied to the Golden Melody trophy/achievement. Where guides get messy is NG+, because golden Records are often discussed alongside the standard set even though they are a separate layer of collection and are usually tied to merchant inventories in a later run.

What Records actually do

Records have two practical functions. First, they are music tracks you can play in Hotel Krat through the gramophone. Second, and more important for completion, they give Humanity when played. Their gameplay value is indirect: they do not raise damage, defense, or weapon stats, but they do feed one of the systems tied to how your playthrough develops.

That means the best habit is simple: whenever you get a new Record, go back to Hotel Krat when convenient, interact with the gramophone, and start it once. In shorthand, think of it as Hotel Krat → gramophone → start playback. Doing it immediately keeps your Humanity gains current and stops the common problem of finishing the game with a pile of unplayed songs.

How many Records are in Lies of P?

For the base game, walkthrough consensus centers on 16 total Records. That is the number most useful for a standard checklist and for the Golden Melody trophy/achievement route. If you see higher counts in other guides, those lists are often mixing the base-game set with golden variants from NG+ or using slightly different naming conventions.

The safest way to read any list is this: separate standard Records from golden Records. Standard Records are the main collectible set most players care about first. Golden Records are a follow-up completion layer in NG+, and they still grant Humanity when played. If a guide does not clearly separate those two groups, it can look like the game has more “required” Records than it actually does for a normal first-run checklist.

Where Records come from

Records come from a few recurring sources, and knowing those categories matters more than memorizing a giant raw list.

• NPC quest rewards: several Records are handed over only after you finish an NPC storyline or resolve a dialogue chain correctly.
• Dialogue and route choices: some are tied to Lie-versus-Truth outcomes or other quest decisions, which can make them missable in a single run.
• Merchant purchases: a reliable chunk of the collection comes from traders, including songs sold in optional or easy-to-forget shopping stops.
• Post-boss revisits: some rewards do not appear the first time you meet an NPC. They trigger later, after a story beat, boss kill, or return trip to Hotel Krat.

Examples that repeatedly come up in guides include Feel, Divine Service, Why, Far East Princess, and Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 as Records tied to quests or choices rather than a simple chest pickup. On the merchant side, Someday is a known purchase from the Malum District Black Market Trader. That pattern matters because it tells you how to play: buy music when you see it, and do not assume quest rewards arrive immediately.

The fastest practical route to avoid missing them

If your goal is full collection, approach Records like a side-quest management problem. The biggest losses happen when you push the main story, beat a major boss, and only later realize an NPC moved, vanished, or branched into a different outcome.

• Buy every Record from every merchant as soon as you can. Even if you plan to come back later, immediate purchases remove one variable from the checklist.
• Exhaust NPC dialogue every time. Do not stop after one line; talk until the conversation clearly repeats or the quest state changes.
• Revisit Hotel Krat after major bosses and story transitions. Several Record rewards are delayed and only appear on a return visit.
• Decide early whether a run is mostly Lie-leaning or Truth-leaning. Records tied to route choices are easier to manage when you are not improvising every answer.
• Track mutually exclusive outcomes. The most cited split is Far East Princess versus Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1, which guides note cannot both be obtained in one run.
• Play each Record immediately after obtaining it. Since you only need to start playback for Humanity, there is no reason to postpone it.

This route works because it targets the game’s actual failure points. Lies of P is fairly consistent about visible pickups, but it is much less forgiving about hidden quest states. A merchant item is easy to secure. A dialogue-locked song that only appears after the right answer and a later revisit is what usually breaks a completion attempt.

The Records that cause the most confusion

The most confusing Records are usually not the ones with obscure physical locations. They are the ones that sound like normal quest rewards but are actually tied to specific resolutions. Feel, Divine Service, and Why are frequently mentioned in this category. The practical takeaway is that you should not assume “I did the quest” is enough. The exact dialogue outcome and the point at which you return to claim the reward both matter.

Far East Princess and Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 are the cleanest example of why one checklist is not always enough. Secondary guides point out that these outcomes conflict, so if you get one, you should not expect the other in that same playthrough. That does not make your run broken; it just means you need to plan your route instead of treating Records as a single-pass scavenger hunt.

NG+ and golden Records

Golden Records are where list confusion usually starts. Multiple guide sources describe them as being tied to NG+ merchant inventories, and they still provide Humanity when played. That makes them useful, but they should be tracked separately from the base-game 16 if you want a clean checklist.

For completionists, this changes your planning in a good way. On a first run, focus on not missing standard quest and merchant Records. In NG+, pay closer attention to shop inventories and golden variants instead of assuming you are still filling the same checklist. Keeping those categories separate is the easiest way to avoid bad information from mixed lists.

Common mistakes that waste the most time

• Saving all playback for later: you only need to start the song once, so there is no upside to hoarding unplayed Records.
• Ignoring merchants until cleanup: bought Records are the easiest ones to secure early.
• Advancing the story without returning to Hotel Krat: delayed quest rewards often show up after a boss or story milestone.
• Mixing base-game and NG+ checklists: this is the main reason players think their count is wrong.
• Assuming every Record can be obtained in one route: choice-locked songs can force another playthrough or at least strict route planning.

If you only want the practical version, it is this: buy merchant Records immediately, finish NPC questlines before pushing too far past major story beats, return to Hotel Krat often, and play each new song as soon as you get it. That covers both sides of the system at once: the collectible checklist and the Humanity gain that gives Records their real value.