Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery Trophy Guide

At the start of Chapter One, during the painting tutorial, you’ll get up from your easel to retrieve your paintbrush.

While you’re able to explore the room, look up at the calendar on the wall above the easel and click on it multiple times.

The character will say pretty much the same thing each time, but just ignore your instincts and keep clicking on the calendar. Eventually, “Manet’s Birthday” will unlock!

Immediately after unlocking Manet’s Birthday, click on the kitchenette area in the lower-left corner of your screen to bring up a cooking area.

Here, you’ll see a pan on a hob with a basket of eggs nearby.

Grab an egg, crack it over the frying pan, and then wait around 10 seconds. Once the egg is cooked enough, the “Over Hard Only” trophy will unlock!

You can then cook some bread in the toaster and place it on the plate with the egg. Then, click the plate several times to eat your breakfast, completing one of your objectives.

Return to the center of your living area, then turn around and look down. You’ll see a laptop on the coffee table.

Click on the laptop to bring it up and then simply click on the “Enter” key—and only the Enter key—until the application letter is filled out completely and the “Autocomplete” trophy unlocks.

Once you have the three trophies above, you can safely proceed and complete the Chapter. The “Inspiration” trophy will unlock as the Chapter concludes.

During Chapter Two, once you have completed the sketchbook puzzle by combining all of the note scraps, you’ll need to interact with a puzzle box near the dresser.

The solution to the puzzle is to make the puzzle box match the drawing you pieced together. However, to unlock this trophy you actually need to press every single button on the box.

If done correctly, every button will have turned white and the trophy will unlock. Once you have the trophy, it’s safe to solve the puzzle properly.

Once you have the You’ve Pressed 78 Buttons trophy, it’s safe to complete Chapter Two. The “Turning Point” trophy will unlock unavoidably once the chapter concludes.

Simply complete Chapter Three to secure the “Encounter” trophy unavoidably.

At the start of this Chapter, when you have control of the character, do not touch anything; especially not the lights!

Instead, click on the apartment’s front door to get a close-up view.

From there, click on the door handle repeatedly. Despite the futility of this action, repeat it over and over until, eventually, the “Can’t Get It Open” trophy unlocks.

At a certain point in Chapter Four, you will enter a locked door by entering the name “Amber” into the lock. This door leads you into a concrete room filled with paintings.

When you look up, you’ll see that there doesn’t appear to be a ceiling at all, the walls just stretch higher and higher above you. Keep staring up at this void for a while. Turn on the spot and interact with some of the paintings around the rim if you want, but ultimately keep your gaze fixed up towards the abyss above you. Eventually, the “When You Gaze Into the Abyss” trophy will unlock.

During Chapter Four, there will come a part of the game in a Cafe, where you can interact with various parts of the cafe to revisit old memories tied to each spot.

In this section, be sure to click on the large wooden green sign that says “Floge’s Cafe.” This triggers a memory in which you will unlock the “The Kiss” trophy.

You will unlock the “Behind the Frame” trophy unavoidably for completing the Base Game story. It will unlock after the credits of the game, whether you skip them or not.

At this point in the story, if you have unlocked every trophy listed above, you should also receive the “Seen the Voice in the Painting” trophy when the credits end.

Originally, in the Steam release, the game ended here. The rest of the trophies in this Behind the Frame Trophy Guide are tied to content related to what was originally DLC. We will need to earn these trophies if we want the Platinum, but for now this is a good indicator that you haven’t missed anything in the main story!

Once you have sealed the letter at the end of the first day, a short cutscene of curtains opening will play and you’ll have control of the character again in Autumn/Fall.

Immediately turn around and look down at the cat. First, interact with the cat, then interact with the cat food can. Do not open the cat food.

It opens by grabbing the tab and then sliding the cursor over to the right. However, to unlock the “Postmodern Can Lid” trophy, you need to open it only about halfway, and then slide the cursor back to the left to close it again.

If done correctly, the trophy will unlock immediately, and it will then be safe to open the can completely.

After sealing another letter during Fall, time will skip ahead again to Winter.

Immediately turn around and grab the letters by the door. Repeatedly click the stack of letters until you’ve read them all, then turn left and open another can of cat food.

Grab the opened can and then click on the plate to place it, unlocking the “He and His Cat” trophy.

At a certain point in the “Jack” Chapter, you’ll leave your house and end up outside with your cat.

From there, turn left and click the stairs to go down them.

From there, look just ahead of you on the ground, where you’ll see a small plant. Click on it to draw it in your journal.

Afterward, turn 180 degrees and go back upstairs. Look left and click on the woman in the street. She’ll disappear. Follow her into the next area.

In the next area, immediately on your left, there is an alleyway. Go down it.

The alleyway leads to a small green bakery. Click on it to draw it into your journal.

After that, look up into the trees to the right of the Bakery. You’ll see some small birds huddled together. Click on them to draw them, too!

Once you have all three of these drawings, the “Realist Artist” trophy should unlock.

During the Jack Chapter, once you have unlocked the Realist Artist trophy, starting from the Bakery, go all the way back to the bottom of the stairs where the green plant was.

From there, go all the way back to the bakery again and the “Run, Jack! Run!” trophy will unlock.

After unlocking Run, Jack, Run! you should be looking at the bakery. Turn around and return into the previous area.

From there, look left and you’ll see Amber with a cat. Interact with her and then follow her into the next area.

In this next area, you will be able to see the woman if you look around. When you click on her, she will move somewhere else in the area. To be clear; you don’t need to follow her down any streets, just stay stood on the spot but keep turning to find her each time she disappears.

Repeatedly click on her until the “So Lost” trophy unlocks. It is now safe to proceed now until the end of the Chapter.

You will unavoidably receive the “Maturity” trophy for completing the Jack Chapter of the game.

If you have every other trophy in this Phase of our Behind the Frame Trophy Guide, the “The Finest Scenery” trophy will unlock at the end of the chapter.