Outlast Trophy Guide and Platinum Roadmap

First section after the Quick Info box. They are not. Your collectible statistics reset when you use chapter select or start a new game, so all 62 collectibles for PULITZER must be gathered in one continuous playthrough. The mitigation is that the game allows up to 50 save games, so creating manual saves regularly lets you reload and recover a missed item rather than replaying the whole thing. You can also check exactly which collectibles you hold using the shoulder buttons.

It is based on Nightmare difficulty, but with no checkpoints and no ability to save. If you die you restart from the very beginning and all progress including collectibles is lost. On top of that you can carry only two camera batteries, spare battery spawns are significantly reduced though they appear at the same fixed points as Nightmare, boss enemies kill you in one hit and normal enemies in two, and enemies react to noise sooner and move faster. List the constraints individually rather than calling it harder.

The detail that makes the run schedulable and which almost nobody states. You cannot exit the game, but you can pause. That means an Insane run does not require an uninterrupted sitting, only that you never close the game. For a run that takes several hours through a horror game, that distinction matters enormously and it should be prominent rather than buried.

The recommended approach is to practise the trickier encounters on Nightmare, where saves and checkpoints exist, so you are not learning them under permadeath. Since Insane is mechanically Nightmare plus the restrictions, that practice transfers directly.

Normal difficulty gives you more camera batteries and enemies inflict less damage, both of which help considerably while scouting the environment for 62 collectibles. That is why a two playthrough structure, one Normal run for collectibles and one Insane run, is easier than attempting to combine them, even though a single Insane playthrough is technically possible.

Outlast 2 is a separate game with a considerably harsher requirement, its Messiah trophy needing an Insane completion without using any camera batteries at all. The Whistleblower DLC also has its own separate trophy set. Disambiguate and flag both as possible builds.

• 2 missable trophies per most sources, EDUCATED and PULITZER, though one source adds ELEVATOR OPERATOR.
• Chapter select does NOT help with collectibles. Your collectible statistics reset when you use chapter select or start a new game.
• All 62 collectibles, 31 Documents and 31 Notes, must be gathered in one continuous playthrough.
• The mitigation is up to 50 save games, so create manual saves regularly to allow recovery.
• Notes require filming specific events or objects with your camcorder rather than being picked up, which is the half most people miss.
• Insane mode has no checkpoints and no saving. Death restarts the entire game and wipes all progress including collectibles.
• On Insane you carry only two batteries, spare spawns are reduced, bosses kill in one hit and normal enemies in two.
• You CAN pause on Insane. You cannot exit the game, but pausing is allowed, so the run does not need one uninterrupted sitting.
• Insane mode is exclusive to the PS4 version, so older guides may not describe it.
• Difficulty ratings across sources range from 4 out of 10 to 8 out of 10, depending entirely on how the Insane run is weighted.