Resident Evil 7 Trophy Guide

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Key Info Up Front

Genre: Survival Horror

Difficulty: 5/10

Number of Playthroughs Required: 3

Estimated Time to Complete: Approximately 75 hours

Number of Trophies: 56

Resident Evil 7 Walkthrough

Before we get into each of the individual trophies, you’ll be earning. We need to take a more extensive look at how you’ll get the platinum trophy. This will let you know what you’re committing to when you get the game and help you make your way through it in the easiest and most sensical way possible.

Step One: The First Playthrough

The first part of your journey to the platinum trophy is to just play through the game for the first time. For this playthrough, you can complete the game on either Easy or Normal difficulty, with Easy drastically cutting down the time it will take you to get through it. Playing on Easy will also make getting the missable trophies throughout the game more manageable, so make sure you look at those below before starting your first run. However, playing on Normal unlocks the handy item called The Secrets of Defense, so if you can manage to do that in your first run, you should prevent having to do a fourth just for that item. During this playthrough, you’ll also want to collect every collectible to have resources going into your harder playthroughs and don’t have to worry about them. There are also two endings in the game. You can go for either one in this playthrough, but you’ll want to remember which you got to make sure to get the other next.

Trophies in this Step:

Can’t Catch Me (Missable)
Nice Try (Missable)
Duck If You Love Life (Missable)
Things Got Personal (Missable)
Slash Slash, Slahsity Slash! (Missable)
Less is More (Missable)
Back Off, Mrs. B! (Missable)
Fly Swatter (Missable)
Out Before Dessert (Missable)
That’s a Spicy Meat-a-Ball (Missable)
She’s Alive
Welcome to the Family, Son
You Ain’t Gettin’ Away
The Grave will be Out the Truth
You Better Start Running
Into the Depths
Playing it Safe
Behind Closed Doors
Arms in the Air
A-ha!
Master of Unlocking
Open Your Eyes
In the Bag
1st Place at the Science Fair
Be Kind, Please rewind
Pelicans in Your Pocket
The Devil Is in the Details
He’s Here, There, Everywhere!
Mr. Nowhere

Step Two: The Speedrun

For your second playthrough, you’ll be trying to achieve a run through the game in less than four hours while picking up a few other challenging trophies along the way. Doing this before your Madhouse difficulty playthrough will make it easier, so you should attempt this second. Beating the game in under four hours may also sound very challenging, but you shouldn’t have any problems doing it in around three if you don’t make too many mistakes. You should also note that making multiple save files is a great way to recover from errors, as well as that having the game paused does not add to your time, so feel free to keep a walkthrough up to reference as you go.

You’ll also be going for the Resource Manager and Walk It Off trophies during this playthrough. This means that you’ll only be able to use an item box or first aid meds three times each. You have to use an item box to progress through the story twice, so you only have one time to use it. During this playthrough, you’ll also want to get the second ending, so check Just A Memory Now below before you begin.

Trophies in this step:

Just A Memory Now
Just Get Me Outta Here
Resource Manager
Walk it Off

Step Three: Madhouse

For your third playthrough of the base game, you’ll have to beat it on the punishing Madhouse difficulty. However, it will be much more manageable as you should have both The Essence of Defense and The Secrets of Defence to reduce the damage you take and the Circular Saw melee weapon that is the strongest in the game. The Circular Saw will allow you to shred through bosses without worrying about ammunition at all, which is a massive help. The difficulty also mixes up the locations of enemies, so be ready to adapt to that, and you have a limited number of saves available throughout the playthrough. However, there are tapes next to every cassette recorder, so you can save every time you find one. During this playthrough, you’ll also have to collect all of the Ancient Coins, which there are 33 of this time around.

Trophies in this step:

Who’s Your Daddy Now?
Mad Pelicans

Step Four: End of Zoe DLC

You’ll have to play through this DLC three times, adding around another 15 hours to your playtime. For your first playthrough, run through the game on Normal difficulty. During that playthrough, you’ll want to get a 4-hit combo with your fists, and stealth kill five enemies to get some miscellaneous trophies. Then, you’ll start a second playthrough using only the AMG-78a you unlocked by beating it on Normal difficulty. For some reason, the gun doesn’t count as one, so you’ll be able to both get a trophy for beating it without weapons and one for getting through the first level extremely fast to complete an Extreme Challenge. Finally, you have to play through it again on the Joe Must Die Difficulty. This difficulty is like Madhouse but is a bit more challenging. To help yourself out, make sure you craft as many spears and ammunition for your shotgun and take advantage of everything at your disposal.

Trophies in this step:

Promise Kept
Queensberry Rules
Swamp Warfare
The Only Guns You Need
Fastest Man in the Swamp
King of the Swamp

Step Five: Banned Footage Vol. 1

The second DLC will add around 15 hours of playtime, but you’ll have to run through various levels that can be incredibly punishing. First, you’ll want to play through the Bedroom story and collect the three hidden rat collectibles. Then, you can move on to the Nightmare and Night Terror levels, which function similarly to the Call of Duty’s Nazi Zombies game mode. Finally, you’ll play the Ethan Must Die level, a tough version of the Mutated Marguerite fight in the base game. Once that’s out of the way, though, you’ll be able to move on.

Trophies in this step:

Like Mama Used to Make
Ratcatcher
Dead by Dawn?
Sleepless in Dulvey
Ethan Never Dies

Step Six: Banned Footage Vol. 2

This DLC is structured identically to the first Banned Footage and will likely take you another 15 hours to check off. The first one to do is called 21. There are three difficulties you’ll have to complete, but it functions the same as a game of Black Jack with you playing against a procession of enemies. Then, you’ll want to do the prologue Daughters level. You’ll have to play through it twice to get both of its available endings. Finally, you can move on to Jack’s 55th Birthday. This stage requires you to run around a map gathering supplies and getting food to give to Jack on his birthday. You’ll likely have to run through it a handful of times to reach its trophies, but they aren’t that difficulty.

Trophies in this step:

Eye in the Sky
Card Shark
You Gotta Know When To Hold ‘Em
Butterfly Effect
One Instinct: Survival
Don’t Keep the Man Waiting
Miracle Chef
Best Birthday Ever

Step Seven: Not a Hero

The final DLC is called Not a Hero. You’ll have to play through it twice, but it should only take around five hours. The mode is much more action-packed than the base game, and for your first playthrough, you just have to run through it on Easy or Normal. During this playthrough, you should also get all of the antique coins to get some helpful abilities for a future playthrough. If you have a hard time on the harder Professional difficulty playthrough, you can do an optional speedrun playthrough to beat it in under an hour and get another convenient ability to help you out. Once you’ve beaten it on Professional, you’ll have both of the DLC’s trophies.

Trophies in this step:

Mission Accomplished
You’re the Hero Now