Lies of P: How to Get Records – Humanity and Trophy Guide

Records in Lies of P look like flavor collectibles, but they double as Humanity fuel and the spine of a missable trophy. Treat them as background music and you will lock yourself out of tracks on a blind run, then wonder why your completion checklist will not close.

The short version

• The base game has 16 Records, tied to the Golden Melody trophy. The Overture DLC adds 8 more for 24 total, tied to the Memory's Melody trophy.
• Play a Record on the Hotel Krat gramophone to gain Humanity. Starting the song is enough — you do not need to wait for it to finish, even though the on-screen notice only pops at the end.
• The real traps are dialogue-gated Records from four NPCs: the Weeping Woman, Sister Cecile, Belle, and Eugénie.
• Far East Princess and Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 are mutually exclusive in one playthrough — the Eugénie choice after Alidoro's Cryptic Vessel decides which you get.
• Some Records are NG+ only through merchant inventories, so a single clean run cannot finish the full set.

What Records actually do

Records have three jobs. They are collectible music tracks, they complete the Golden Melody trophy in the base game, and — the part that matters during normal play — they grant Humanity when you play them on the gramophone at Hotel Krat. They do not touch your combat numbers the way weapons, amulets, or Legion Arms do. Their value is systemic: they reward you for clearing sidequests, watching merchant stock, and sweeping the hotel after big story beats.

The gramophone trick: starting the song is enough

When you pick up a Record, do not let it sit in your inventory. Return to Hotel Krat, interact with the gramophone, choose the track, and start playback. You gain the Humanity benefit the moment the song starts — you can walk away before it ends. The catch is cosmetic: the confirmation only appears when the track finishes, so leaving early makes it feel like nothing happened. It did. Fold it into your hotel routine — level up, tune gear, talk to NPCs, start the new Record, move on.

The four NPCs that gate missable Records

The most common way to lose Records is not exploration — it is dialogue. Four NPCs hand out tracks based on the choices you make, and the "wrong" branch removes the Record for that run. These are the ones to handle deliberately:

• Weeping Woman — grants Feel. You earn it by lying about the baby rather than telling the harsh truth.
• Sister Cecile — grants Divine Service through her questline at the Cathedral.
• Belle — grants Why. You earn it by lying about her partner's fate.
• Eugénie — her post-Cryptic-Vessel dialogue grants either Far East Princess or Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1 (see below).

The pattern is consistent with the game's whole premise: when Lies of P asks you to report someone's fate or choose how honest to be, that answer can decide whether a Record exists for you later. Treat those conversations as choices, not disposable flavor text.

The mutually exclusive pair: the Eugénie split

One pair forces real run planning: Far East Princess versus Proposal, Flower, Wolf Part 1. You can only get one of the two in a single playthrough. The trigger is the Eugénie questline — after you decrypt Alidoro's Cryptic Vessel, the dialogue choice you make decides which track you receive. If you are chasing Golden Melody, this is route-defining, not a minor flavor pick: getting the full set means seeing both, which means at least two runs.

Late-game return visits: Memory of Beach

Some Records are not earned when a boss dies — they appear when the boss changes Hotel Krat's state and you go back to follow up. The clearest example is Memory of Beach. It becomes available in Hotel Krat after you defeat Laxasia, tied to Antonia's death scene — and it requires that you gave Antonia the cure earlier via Giangio/Polendina. Skip the hotel and push forward, and you miss the context that makes the Record appear. Do a hotel sweep after every major boss.

Why one playthrough is not enough

Plan around New Game+ from the start. Some Records only exist in NG+, usually through merchant inventories that are not present in a fresh run. Combined with the exclusive Eugénie pair, that means a single first playthrough cannot complete the full set even with perfect quest decisions. The smart approach is two-tiered: avoid accidental misses on the broadly available Records on run one, then deliberately route the exclusive and NG+ tracks across later runs.

What the Overture DLC adds

If you own Overture, the system grows by 8 Records, bringing the total to 24 and unlocking the Memory's Melody trophy. They follow the same logic as the base game — sidequest rewards, NG+ merchant stock, and progression-gated finds — so the acquisition habit does not change. Track Overture sidequests and unlocks as a separate list from the base 16 so the two sets do not blur together.

Common mistakes

• Hoarding Records. Humanity comes from playing them, not owning them. Play each one at the gramophone the moment you get it.
• Telling the truth to the gating NPCs. The Weeping Woman and Belle Records require lies — answer accordingly if you want Feel and Why.
• Rushing past Hotel Krat after bosses. Late tracks like Memory of Beach only appear on a return visit after Laxasia.
• Expecting a one-run 100%. The Eugénie split and NG+-only merchant Records make at least two runs mandatory for the full set.
• Walking away from the gramophone and assuming it failed. Starting the song already granted the Humanity; the pop-up just waits for the end.

Practical takeaway

Stop treating Records as optional soundtrack pickups. Play every track the moment you get it, lie where the Weeping Woman and Belle ask you to, sweep Hotel Krat after Laxasia for Memory of Beach, and make a deliberate call on the Eugénie split. If you only want Humanity, that habit is the whole game. If you want Golden Melody — and Memory's Melody with Overture — go into NG+ expecting to finish what a first run cannot, and route the exclusive tracks on purpose. For the wider completion picture, see our Lies of P trophy and platinum roadmap, the Humanity, Golden Lie, and endings guide, and our guide to starting the Overture DLC.