Lies of P: Trophy Guide and Platinum Roadmap for All Endings

The Lies of P Platinum is not a combat wall — it is a route problem. You can beat every boss and still miss the Platinum if you do not control your Humanity, your ending choices, and your chapter-by-chapter collectible cleanup. Plan around endings first; everything else is maintenance.

The short version

• Plan for two playthroughs (or one playthrough plus a backup save before the final decisions) — several trophies are split across different endings.
• Build high Humanity across your first run: lie often, and play Records when you get them.
• For the true-ending route: at Sophia choose Give her peace, then at Geppetto choose Refuse — this opens the Nameless Puppet fight.
• The reliable in-game signal you are on the high-Humanity path is P’s hair turning white after the Sophia choice — not a pop-up message.
• Difficulty does not lock any trophies. Use whatever setting keeps you alive; nothing gets disabled.
• Sweep collectibles (gestures, Records, Cryptic Vessels, Trinity Sanctums, weapons) before advancing each chapter — most wasted runs come from late misses, not lost fights.

What the Platinum is really tracking

You still have to clear the game and beat the late bosses, including the route that unlocks the Nameless Puppet. But the trophy list rewards route discipline far more than execution. Four pressure points decide your run:

• Multiple endings tied to two late-game choices and your Humanity state.
• The Humanity system, driven by lies, Records, and certain NPC interactions.
• Collectible buckets that strand themselves if you skip a chapter’s cleanup.
• Quest-dependent rewards — gestures, Records, and access items — that gate behind dialogue you cannot redo.

The game gives you almost no warning about which dialogue lines matter long-term. That is where replay time gets burned. Keep your ending path under control and clear collectibles as you go, and the Platinum collapses into a checklist.

The most efficient Platinum plan

The fast route is two playthroughs, or a single playthrough with a backup save made just before the final decision window so you can branch into different endings without replaying the whole game. If you would rather not touch save management, treat each run as dedicated — one for high Humanity and the true-ending route, another for the opposite choices and remaining cleanup. That is slower but lower risk.

Make your first run the Humanity-focused one. That means leaning into lie answers to raise Humanity, playing Records as you collect them, and not skipping the side interactions that feed the system. The Records trophy (Golden Melody) and Humanity both reward the same habit — use the Hotel Krat gramophone the moment you earn a new Record rather than hoarding them for the end. For the full Record map, including the ones that are mutually exclusive in a single run, see our guide to getting all Records and using them for Humanity.

The late decisions that decide your ending

• When you reach Sophia, choose Give her peace.
• When Geppetto makes his final demand, choose Refuse.
• That choice chain leads into the Nameless Puppet fight — be ready for it.

This route carries an outsized share of the Platinum because it is the genuinely missable branch. Miss the Humanity threshold or pick the wrong final choice and you force an extra run. If you want the deeper breakdown of how Humanity, the Golden Lie, and each ending interconnect, our Pinocchio guide to Humanity and endings walks through every branch.

How to read your Humanity without guessing

“Always lie” is close, but too blunt for a trophy run. Lying frequently is the safest way to build Humanity and it aligns with the ending you do not want to miss — yet some truth choices and side-quest outcomes still matter for other rewards, especially Records and quest progression. Reduce the whole game to one rule and you trade an old miss for a new one.

Aim for a lie-leaning run, not a reckless one: keep Humanity climbing while checking each NPC chain for trophy relevance before you lock a choice. The clearest confirmation you are on the high-Humanity path is visual, not a message — after you choose Give her peace at Sophia with enough Humanity built up, P’s hair turns white. If your earlier Humanity feedback never improved, do not assume the true-ending route will still be available at the end.

The collectibles that actually slow the Platinum

The boss trophies are the easy part. The time sink is the progression-heavy collections scattered across quests, riddles, vendors, and route-dependent rewards. Keep these on a checklist:

• All gestures
• All Records (the Golden Melody trophy)
• All Cryptic Vessels
• All Trinity Sanctums
• All weapons, including boss-trade rewards

They do not behave the same way. Gestures tie to NPC interactions and story follow-through. Records come from quest outcomes, vendor access, and New Game Plus inventories. Cryptic Vessels are not done on pickup — you have to get them decoded by Venigni at Hotel Krat and follow the trail to the reward; our Mechanical Cryptic Vessel walkthrough shows exactly how one of these chains resolves. Trinity Sanctums hang off the King of Riddles chain, so a missed phone call or an unfinished riddle sequence can strand that trophy until much later — the full Trinity Key sanctum guide maps the whole sequence.

Weapons need discipline because the game splits them across normal pickups, purchases, and special exchanges. Boss-trade rewards are where players create avoidable cleanup — spend rare boss currency without checking whether a weapon trophy still needs that trade, and you are looking at NG+.

Treat every chapter like a sweep zone. Before advancing the main story, return to Hotel Krat, exhaust NPC dialogue, check whether a newly opened vendor or quest step appeared, and play any new Record. That keeps trophy progress synced to story progress instead of letting small misses compound into a full replay.

Where the ending trophies are won or lost

The ending trophies are not decided by the final scene alone — they are the sum of your whole run feeding into two late choices. By the time you reach Sophia, your Humanity state has already done most of the work, and the Sophia and Geppetto decisions are the final gate checks. The high-Humanity route, in order:

• Build Humanity consistently through lie-leaning dialogue and supportive side interactions.
• Play Records during the run rather than hoarding them.
• At Sophia, choose Give her peace (watch for P’s hair turning white).
• At Geppetto, choose Refuse.
• Clear the Nameless Puppet encounter.

This is also where backup saves matter most. Make a save before the final decision window and you can branch into the other endings for their trophies without a fresh run. Prefer a fully natural playthrough? Accept the extra time and keep your route clean.

Difficulty matters less than route discipline

One reason this Platinum is more approachable than it looks: difficulty selection does not lock or disable any trophies. You can focus on survivability, guard timing, and consistency without worrying that an accessibility setting will invalidate progress. The hard part is preserving the right story state while you fight, not the fights themselves.

That does not make combat irrelevant — the Nameless Puppet is a real skill check and a stalled boss can choke a run — but route errors sink far more Platinum attempts than combat errors. A boss can be retried. A missed quest reward in a locked chapter usually cannot. If you want a clean fight plan for the gauntlet, our boss guide on phases, patterns, and setups covers the late-game wall.

Common mistakes that add an unnecessary playthrough

• Assuming a blind first run lands the best ending. It usually will not.
• Treating Humanity as “always lie” and never checking whether a specific quest reward needs a different response.
• Hoarding Records instead of playing them at the gramophone to feed Humanity during the run.
• Ignoring the King of Riddles and Trinity Sanctum chain until endgame cleanup.
• Spending boss rewards before confirming your weapon trophy progress still needs that trade.
• Reaching Sophia or Geppetto without a backup save when you were trying to compress endings into one run.
• Waiting for a pop-up to confirm the true-ending path — the signal is P’s white hair after the Sophia choice, not a message.

Practical takeaway

Run it as a route, not a grind. Build Humanity from the start, play Records as you get them, and sweep gestures, Vessels, Sanctums, and weapon trades at the end of every chapter. Make a backup save before the final decisions, then for the true ending choose Give her peace at Sophia and Refuse at Geppetto, and clear the Nameless Puppet. Difficulty is free to tune — it locks nothing. Keep the story state clean and the Platinum becomes a checklist instead of a replay marathon.