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Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers

Discovered all secret areas

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How to unlock the Finders Keepers achievement in Thief - Definitive Guide

Once again, it looks like Powerpyx has captured all the locations of the secret areas. Thankfully, it looks like they've been done in the natural order you'd discover them. I haven't finished them all yet, but the comments look pretty positive from others that have,
A couple of tips.
- You must play each chapter to its end
- You must visit them all and get the "chime", even if you think you've been there before.
I've also included a link to a series of speedrun video's . All credit to Moti Grind, as his commentary is very helpful, but more importantly, he's included how to get back to each chapter start point. Very useful if you've already completed it.

*** Edit. Can confirm it works, as it's just popped for me.
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16 Mar 2014 15:28

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It popped on #71, I was convinced it wasn't going to and I'd have to do it again lol, great guide.
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By Funky Monkee on 23 Mar 2014 14:51
Am I right in thinking if you're doing a full loot included playthrough you'll easily get this?
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By Chris1984uk on 24 Mar 2014 10:16
Cheers guys:
@ Chris 1984uk: I'm not convinced all secret areas had loot, so you may miss one by accident. Best follow it verbatim, as clearly it works bud :)
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By I Black Belt on 24 Mar 2014 14:55
Anyone know if they need to be found on one play through or across multiple?
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By SZHatTrick10 on 25 Mar 2014 01:19
I'm fairly sure it's one playthrough.
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By I Black Belt on 25 Mar 2014 10:27
One playthrough, not multiple playthroughs, but since 100% the game takes more than one play through i would suggest doing this on your, 'easy,' playthrough. unless your a beast who just goes for the custom shot right away, you can wander the streets and replay everything after you beat the last level which makes a lot of achievements a breeze, if you so wish to wait to get them. :)
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By xWaZZySsiKnEsSx on 25 Mar 2014 23:50
Did anyone else have a hard time getting the chime to happen at the last secret area in chapter 4? I replicate the video but the mechanical sound never happens.
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By Weezleram on 26 Mar 2014 00:16
I'm probably the only one with this glitch, hidden area on falling walkway chap 4, the game pauses for a sec once I land on walkway, can't hit swoop, just falls. I tried to crouch, stand, run, walk as slow as shit, left side, right. doesn't matter. I sent a contact info for them to call me about this glitch, hopefully it gets fixed. can't try for other a achievements since it involves a new game and no way am I doing all areas again
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By on 29 Mar 2014 22:41
swoop didn;t work on the collapsing bit. You need to move, stop,move, stop etc. to stop it collapsing. Check Makkas guides, he shows/explains how to do it,
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By I Black Belt on 29 Mar 2014 22:53
I'm a little confused and hoping somebody knows -- when it comes to getting the achievement with "ONE PLAY THRU" what does that mean exactly? Can you re-run the chapters to find missing secret areas?

I have two saves; one has 72/73 Secret areas and the other 63/73 (It was driving me nuts so I broke down and bought the Thief Companion app to see the stats).

If I re-load one of these and follow the guide and get the "chime" for each will I in fact get the achievement?

Or do I have to start a new game and play it thru?

Thanks for any help!
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By RobG88 on 10 Apr 2014 15:04
Made an Excel file to help keep track if you want to add it in.

http://1drv.ms/1fKLJwU
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By MuscularTea on 28 Apr 2014 23:49
So you can reload the chapter ?
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By Skill4h on 18 May 2014 02:08
Yes, you can reload chapters to get this. Excellent guide saved me hours of heartbreak. I was missing the sewer tunnel in Chapter 6 (Number 22). You can drain the water and get the treasure from this area but unless you actually drop down into the sewer it doesn't count the secret area.
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By Morrigan2350 on 20 May 2014 17:54
I personally did a full loot play through (missed a few in the city), so i followed the guide for the city secret areas, and then did as morrigan suggested, loaded up ch 6 loot #22 and it unlocked for me! hopefully morrigan's info can help others aswell! certainly helped me!
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By Samarin6 on 29 May 2014 15:47
I forgot to mention that the achievement popped for me right after finding the last area in chapter 8.
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By SENTINAL 107 on 09 Jun 2014 18:54
Worked perfectly, I had missed the "area" where you have to close/reopen the cabinet in the asylum for a second loot item. Great video. Thanks!!! I really wish they had added tracking for this.
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By Tower Bridge on 24 Jun 2014 14:15
It's glitches for me. My progress on TA even says 100%, and the companion app says 73/73, and it still didn't unlock... any ideas?
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By Ryn0 L on 21 Jul 2014 03:44
Word of advice... Don't bother with the wrench until level 3 and buy 2 rope arrows prior to level 2 instead if you are going for this. You need 2 ropes for the secrets in level 2 and I only had (or it may have been none as I think I may have found one in level)
Either way, i'm bummed as this will need to wait for second playthrough now...
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By VaderAG on 28 Jul 2014 21:25
I beat everything and even the Thief app says I have 73 secret areas found, but the achievement didn't pop. Any ideas?
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By o CoffeeBeanZ o on 01 Aug 2014 21:17
quick question... if i missed a secret area and went back and got it on a second playthrough, do I have to complete the level for it to register/save or can I just exit back to the city?
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By I MitchyP I on 02 Sep 2014 16:41
So long as you here the chime it registers, and the achievement will pop as soon as you get the last one.
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By Morrigan2350 on 02 Sep 2014 17:13
It should be noted that if you have previously gotten ALL Collectables AND ALL loot thieving challenges(-for the main story) then you can skip to 18:22 for all the city secrets.
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By Variant III on 17 Feb 2015 08:06
Any idea, if you replay a chapter, if it resets all of the secrets areas and you have to do them all again to count?
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By KingJamerscore on 07 Mar 2015 19:13
A couple of things to point out from my game:

- I didn't get a chime on 3 secret's on Chapter 7
- I didn't get the 1st chime on Chapter 8.
- I got chimes for areas I'd been to before in The City.

I would recommend doing all The City ones first, saving after every chime and then do the chapter ones. At least if you don't hear a chime in the chapter, you'll know which one(s) you're potentially missing.
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By MashedPeas11 on 07 Apr 2016 15:12
If only I read VaderAG advice first... Damm it rope arrow!
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By DukeVonLeo on 18 Dec 2016 17:24
Anybody know if the secret area in the prologue counts?
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By M1ght33 J03 on 30 Mar 2017 17:07
For anyone wondering about chimes, on my play through there were several separated periods where chimes would just not happen despite re-loading or restarting the game. I'd say a good 10 or so of my secret areas didn't give me a chime but I still got the achievement.
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By Wuffles on 26 Nov 2017 13:44
These videos were so darn useful, thanks for pointing us to them.
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By ServeMeTheSky on 07 May 2019 21:14
There were a few occasions for me when the chimes just stopped. A couple of times in free roam in the city and a couple of times in actual chapters. When it happened in free roam in the city, I went back to the tower and when I revisited the hidden area, I was able to get the chime.

When it happened within a chapter, I would try reloading saves and checkpoints to no avail. Only by restarting the chapter was I able to get the chime to sound when I entered the hidden area. I was not taking any chances on this achievement so I did not progress without getting the chime to sound.
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By vSully on 31 Mar 2021 02:31
Guys. If you don’t hear a chime as stated before just keep moving forward. Don’t worry. I went through an area between the 60th to the 70th secret area where I didn’t hear a chime. I was nervous and worried that it’s not counting and debated starting all over but instead decided to try to keep going following the guide. Achievements popped after the 73rd in South Quarter. Achievements done. Thief done. 5/16/2021
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By COLLOSUS5172 on 16 May 2021 05:17
Number 52 on the PowerPyx video was the one for me. There's several very close to eachother in that area so I guess I read tje guide too fast.
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By Raziel Cruentus on 04 Jun 2023 17:25
This worked a treat, mate! Thanks for this. I popped the achievement when I hit number 68, and had only missed 3 of the previous ones (but I still went to all the places in the video just in case!).

Don't forget to like the guy on Youtube as well if it helped you!
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By Wull Scott on 23 Mar 2014 01:39
I finished the game and went back to find all the secret areas following the video then did the city and guess what no achievement FUCK MY LIFE angry.
So I started a new game blew through the chapters up to 6 then did the city once done with that I finished chapter 7 and 8 and got the achievement.
Goes fairly fast if you start knocking everyone out and not grabbing much loot or collectables.
So is this achievement glitchie? Where you have to find all secret areas before finishing the game is the question. roll
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By SENTINAL 107 on 09 Jun 2014 18:51
Question - I am on chapter 8, but don't think I have all the city secret areas. Can I finish ch8 and then go to the city, or should I return to the city before finishing chapter 8?
Appreciate any help.
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By Slithe on 01 Mar 2015 00:21
Kingjamerscore, that's a great question. For example, if you do all of the secret areas in one chapter but somehow miss a collectible and have to replay to get the collectible, do you also need to do all of the secret areas in that chapter again? I think you do, and I'll explain why.

What I do know for sure is that once you find a secret area in the city, you don't have to find it again. I know this because the achievement unlocked for me after I discovered one secret area I had somehow always missed, and I didn't have to redo all of the secret areas in the city, just that one. My observation from this is that secret areas in the city work on the same principle as loot and rope arrows - once they're done, they're done forever. So, by this logic, I suspect that all the secret areas in the chapters must be redone any time you replay them, because each chapter's loot and rope arrows always reset every time you begin it.
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By Lt Davo on 09 Mar 2016 03:18
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Before I start I am going to say that you must complete the entire level for the secrets to fully stick and save to your game, I confirmed this myself. And don't skip any of the ones that you think you already got, even if you know you have them, just go back and be thorough, the easiest way to get messed up on big tasks like this is to think you already did something, let me tell you, it isn't fun having to do it all over again.

After a wee bit of a wait you guys finally are able to figure out how to get all those durned secret areas. And this is a whopping 48 minute video too, so get comfy, we gon' be doing this for a while.


I would suggest opening up the video in youtube to read the description, but I will say this much here, a secret area is found when you hear a metallic sound, you'll know it when you hear it. When you find an area, MANUALLY save the game right away, some times you have to interact with an item first for the secret area to count, do what the video says to the letter.

Prologue: 0
Chapter 1: 0
Chapter 2: 7
Chapter 3: 5
Chapter 4: 4
Chapter 5: 5
Chapter 6: 5
Chapter 7: 4
Chapter 8: 2
The City: 41


Big thanks to PowerPyx for taking the time to upload the video.
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09 Mar 2014 22:23

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this has to be the most annoying trophy in the game. purely cos there is no tracker. i hate them for that lol.
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By RedSoakedSponge on 10 Mar 2014 22:48
Yeah, it is pretty annoying, they truly should have just remastered the older games and tweaked one or two things.
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By Afrafasti on 11 Mar 2014 03:56
It costs money (£1.99 in UK) but bizarrely the Thief iOS companion app does pull number of secret areas found into the stats - even though it doesn't say which they are it does at least give you a total.
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By Etherfiend on 24 Apr 2014 12:46
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The trophy that will make the difference between whether you can earn this game's platinum or not. This trophy requires you to access all of the secret areas in this game, both the ones located in story chapters as well as the ones throughout the City (there aren't any in Client missions). Secret areas basically refer to (but not limited to) any hidden pathway that is accessed by prying open a previously inaccessible hidden window via a rope arrow, or crawling through a duct by unscrewing vent covers. Although often at times you will see a +New Map notification on the top right corner screen when you enter these secret areas, secret areas are not restricted to these locations. Every time you enter a secret area, you should hear a "chime" play in the background; serving as an indicator that you found a secret area. Take note that the chime will play every time you enter a secret area, whether you've been to it previously or not. Furthermore, whereas any secret areas you find in the City can be be saved right away via quick saving, secret areas found in story chapters, in order for them to add to your total you must complete the chapter all the way through to the end.

There are a total of 73 secret areas to be found in Thief. Unfortunately, there is no way to track exactly which secret area(s) you've already been in within the game. You can however if you choose to do so, purchase the official Thief Companion App (iOS or Android) to take note of how many secret areas you have found so far (why this app has a tracker for secret areas but the actual game does not, we don't know). Keep in mind that the app only keeps track of the total amount of unique secret areas you have found; it does not tell you which one exactly you are missing. As such, it comes down to a process of elimination and looking through every possible route there is in the game. The horrible in-game map design in this game also does not help in making things easier.

Number of secret areas in each story chapter and City:

Prologue: 0
Chapter 1: 0
Chapter 2: 7
Chapter 3: 5
Chapter 4: 4
Chapter 5: 5
Chapter 6: 5
Chapter 7: 4
Chapter 8: 2
The City: 41 Total: 73

Please refer to these maps in your trek for finding all of the game's secret areas, compiled and created by the wonderful people of TrueAchievements (also thanks to Swotam for going through the trouble of providing us a cached and downloadable copy of these maps): THIEF Maps

Note that in the process of finding all of the secret areas in this game, you will most likely find most if not all the loot and collectibles throughout the City. However, if you don't, it does not necessary mean you're missing an area within the City. When I unlocked this trophy, I was still missing around 10 loot in the City, a few documents, and one or two loot in each story chapter. If you're making sure to follow the maps linked above and made sure you've been into each listed secret area, you should be able to unlock this infuriating trophy.

For those of you who prefer a video guide, see this great video by PowerPyx:

 

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There are a total of 73 secret areas to be found throughout the story missions and The City. Unfortunately there is no in-game way to track how many you have visited and the only indication that you have found one is a 'chime' that will play when you enter a secret area. Thanks to PowerPyx we now have a complete video guide to all 73 secret areas. Follow along with this video and you should have no problem unlocking both "Hidden Agenda" and "Finders Keepers".

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There are a total of 73 secret areas to be found throughout the story missions and The City. Unfortunately there is no in-game way to track how many you have visited and the only indication that you have found one is a 'chime' that will play when you enter a secret area. Thanks to PowerPyx we now have a complete video guide to all 73 secret areas. Follow along with this video and you should have no problem unlocking both "Hidden Agenda" and "Finders Keepers".

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This is the most frustrating and bugged achivement in the game. Secret areas are hidden places that play a chime sound effect when entered. Best way to do it is to create a new save and go through them all, because you cannot tell wich ones you entered already and wich not. There also is no statistic or way of checking your progress on the achievement.

Here is video of all secret areas in order:


Keep in mind that this achievement is bugged. Every time you enter secret location and there is no chime in the backgorund it is not considered as being found. From my expierience loading saves causes this so try to avoid it as much as you can. There are some fixes for when you don't hear the chime:

- If it's during any chapter try loading last save, if it doesn't help you got to restart the entire chapter (Press esc and choose "return to the city").

- If it's in the city you got to load last save and do any chapter and finish it to "reset the city" then try again.
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30 Apr 2023 00:00

This video walkthrough has it all in one video.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...H_RSlEEfCzEkiX
ps I don’t recommend the above-mentioned application for smartphones/tablets, thief companion, not only is it not worth the money (169 rubles), but it also shows some kind of flaw in the statistics that does not correspond to the actual data.
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12 Apr 2015 11:29

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRRsyXv9Vbg

Make yourself comfortable, it’s a pity that the guide came out late, I had to replay it for the sake of the trophy
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By DEOSS77 on 22 Mar 2014 20:24
The most heinous trophy in this already boring game, in general, THIS application will help you. The appendix indicates the number of caches found.
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By MADDEN on 20 May 2014 13:39
Do not be alarmed if you do not hear the corresponding sounds when visiting the cache. Whether it's a bug or something else, I don't know. But the trophy fell anyway.
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By misakin on 30 Sep 2014 13:51
Just won a trophy without collecting a single newspaper
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By Joel815 on 17 Jun 2020 21:56
The fact that you need to collect newspapers seemed very important to me. Let me explain how it works: there are some newspapers that only appear between certain chapters. So the trick is that it is these newspapers that go for hiding places, i.e. if you came to a place where there was a newspaper and you did not read it, and now it is not there (in this place), then the game may not count this cache for you. Next I write a list of newspapers that appear between certain chapters:

Between 2 and 3:
Don't let your imagination run wild!
The Great Disappearance!
The Carnival Ship is aground!

Between 3 and 4:
Quack poultices!
Thieves of Riverside!

Between 4 and 5:
Fires of revolution!
Riots in Dayport!
Manhunt!
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By AssassinNCOD on 12 Jun 2020 22:30
In all caches you need to take some kind of item, except for 2. In the video in the hint from DEOSS77, this is No. 9 in chapter 3 and No. 22 in 6. If you (like me, purely for yourself) collected 100% of the loot in all missions and in the city and did not receive the trophy, then it is necessary:
1. Find the starting point for Chapter 3 in the city and replay it, passing through cache No. 9, as well as all the caches in this chapter;
2. After completing chapter 3 and returning to the tower, you need to start chapter 6 and turn off the water in the garden and jump into the sewer
This will be the last cache without loot and trophy
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By Andrew1 on 16 Mar 2021 07:43
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The problem is that the number of caches (secret zones) found is not displayed in the statistics.

Save the game manually after each zone found, the game does not do this automatically and if you reboot earlier, you will have to search for the caches again.

Here is a video, in the description there is a timeline for each zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRRsyXv9Vbg
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22 Mar 2014 20:10