My Gaming Tutorials

Complete Guide to the Historian Achievement in Bioshock Remastered: All 122 Audio Diaries

To achieve 100% completion in Bioshock Remastered and earn the “Historian” achievement, players must find all 122 audio diaries throughout the game. This guide offers a systematic walkthrough by chapter and location, detailing where each diary can be located as players progress through the story, ensuring an organized collection effort.

PlaySmart
4–6 minutes

If you’re aiming for 100% completion in Bioshock Remastered, earning the “Historian” achievement is a major step. This achievement requires you to find all 122 audio diaries scattered across the game’s many environments. While the task may seem daunting, it becomes much more manageable if you approach it methodically—chapter by chapter, room by room. This guide is your one-stop walkthrough to collect every single diary in order of appearance, allowing you to follow along as you naturally progress through the story.

Let’s get started.

Welcome to Rapture (1–2)

  1. Cashmere Restaurant: Down the stairs near the “Dancing Downstairs” sign; on a table to the right.
  2. Dames Restroom: In the damaged restroom area, directly in front of you as you enter.

Medical Pavilion (3–19)

  1. Reception Lobby: On the reception desk.
  2. Emergency Access: On the desk with the typewriter.
  3. Hospital Area: Right of the bloody bed near the “Do No Harm” quote.
  4. Same Area: On the desk across from a turret.
  5. Near Funeral Services: Left side of the hall.
  6. Plasmid Promotion Area: Underneath the poster.
  7. Water-filled Room: Next to the Circus of Values machine.
  8. Same Area: Near the ice blocks across from the stairs.
  9. Eternal Flame: Inside on the left, attached to a picture stand.
  10. Curol’s Restroom: Near a cabinet on the floor.
  11. Dandy Dental Entrance: On the ground by the door.
  12. Inside Dandy Dental: Through reception, turn left.
  13. Painless Dental: On the right-hand table.
  14. Post-Rubble Area: Near the wheelchair corpse.
  15. Operating Room: In a cabinet next to the chair.
  16. After Killing Steinman: On the body he was operating on.
  17. Gatherer’s Garden: On the floor in front of the station.

Shop now and enjoy up to 50% off your favorite gaming gear at Amazon!

Gaming Headset
Gaming Mice
Mechanical Keyboards
Game Controllers
Gaming Chair

Neptune’s Bounty (20–38)

  1. Lower Wharf: Under the dock, behind the turret.
  2. Fontaine Fisheries (Flooded Section): Behind locked door (hack or code).
  3. Fontaine Fisheries Main: Through a grate and tunnel.
  4. Upper Wharf: On a table across from the entrance.
  5. Near Waterfall: On the floor beside a hole in the wall.
  6. Same Area: Search the corpse.
  7. Circus of Values: Near vending station.
  8. Beyond Padlocked Door: Crouch and vent crawl.
  9. After Jumping Out Window: On awning, look right.
  10. Fighting McDonagh’s Tavern Entrance: Inside, by lock box.
  11. Jet Postal Path: On a bench.
  12. Inside Jet Postal: On left-hand table.
  13. Water-Filled Area Near Tavern: Inside a side tunnel.
  14. Fighting McDonagh’s: On a center table.
  15. Nearby Table: By windows.
  16. Behind Bar: Electro Bolt to open door, on right table.
  17. Upstairs, Room 6: Electro Bolt door.
  18. Upstairs, Room 7: Code is 7533.
  19. Freezer Area: Table by safe near upgrade station.

Smuggler’s Hideout (39–41)

  1. Storage Cage: Opposite the downward ramp.
  2. Walkway Exit: Break padlock to enter.
  3. Base of Walkway: Near the Gatherer’s Garden path.

Arcadia (42–57)

  1. Tea Garden: Left path near the table and chairs.
  2. Near #42: Through door on right, next to bench.
  3. Continue Path: Another chair-side diary.
  4. Two-story Building: By gene swap station.
  5. Waterfall Grotto: On center bench.
  6. Waterfall Grotto: Near water wheel.
  7. Storage Crate: Nearby the last one.
  8. Upstairs by Water Wheel: Electro Bolt required.
  9. Rolling Hills: On a bench past the RPG turret.
  10. Near Langford Lab: Close to cave mouth.
  11. Lab Reception: Right of front desk.
  12. Langford’s Lab Room: Table left of entrance.
  13. On Julie Langford’s corpse.
  14. Wall Safe in Langford’s lab.
  15. Tree Farm: On a crate ahead.
  16. Tree Farm: Atop stairs near Farmer’s Market.

Farmer’s Market (58–66)

  1. Entrance: Next to the Pneumo Tube.
  2. Outdoor Counter: Behind counter near dead Rosie.
  3. Table With Lamp: Nearby.
  4. Crawl Space: Top of stairs, past outside area.
  5. Market Steps: Top of stairs near winery sign.
  6. Silverwing Apiary: On front counter.
  7. Worley’s Winery: Right side table.
  8. Employees Only Area: Far table before winery sign.
  9. Back in Arcadia: At Bathysphere entrance.

Fort Frolic (67–81)

  1. Atrium Top: Before Fleet Hall Theater.
  2. Fleet Hall Storage Room: Next to a guitar.
  3. Frozen Tunnel: In the ice.
  4. Rapture Records: Under counter.
  5. Eve’s Garden: Under the bed in back room.
  6. Eve’s Garden Bar: On first floor counter.
  7. Cohen’s Collection: Small table near art.
  8. Southern Mall Entrance: On a stool.
  9. Sofia Salon Closet: Ground next to piano.
  10. Cocktail Lounge: Bar counter.
  11. Les Marquis: Under walkway near corpse.
  12. Fleet Hall Projection Room: After Cohen’s masterpiece.
  13. Surprise: Box left of stairs.
  14. Robertson’s Tabacoria: On front table.
  15. Pharaoh’s Fortune: Second floor pool table.

Hephaestus (82–98)

  1. Ryan Industries: Crate near vending machine.
  2. Next Room: Floor beside vending machine.
  3. Near Ryan’s Office: First corpse on right.
  4. Same Hall: Fourth corpse on right.
  5. Stairs near Ryan Bust: Desk in adjacent room.
  6. Hephaestus Core: Walkway near Vita-Chamber.
  7. Heat Monitoring: Pablo’s workspace.
  8. Near Gatherer’s Garden.
  9. Heat Loss Room: Right corner.
  10. Heat Loss Room: Desk near flooded area (disable electricity).
  11. Stairs Down: Desk at bottom.
  12. Outside Workshop: Overturned cabinet.
  13. Workshop Office: Bottom of stairs near Ammo Bandito.
  14. Workshop: Corpse near healing station.
  15. Qyburn’s Office: Desk in rear (code: 0126).
  16. Crawlspace Room: Table near EMP bomb casing.
  17. Under Stairs: Crawlspace near Qyburn’s stairs.

Rapture Central Control (99–101)

  1. Desk beside Vita-Chamber.
  2. Long Table: Below articles and photos.
  3. Same Table: Right next to previous one.

Olympus Heights (102–107)

  1. Bistro Square: On entrance counter.
  2. Culpepper’s Apartment: Coffee table in foyer.
  3. Suchong’s Apartment: Behind rubble.
  4. Same Apartment: Desk in flooded area.
  5. Mercury Suites: Box near vent machine.
  6. Fontaine’s Apartment: Coffee table right of foyer.

Apollo Square (108–113)

  1. Initial Area: Rubble near vending machine.
  2. End of Street: Near Gatherer’s Garden.
  3. Artemis Suites: Suchong’s Office.
  4. Fontaine’s Home for the Poor: In trunk.
  5. Fifth Level: Atlas’s HQ desk.
  6. Same Room: On broken desk with corpse.

Point Prometheus (114–122)

  1. Ice-Covered Room: Across from vending machine.
  2. Plasmid Prototyping: Bottom of stairs.
  3. Test Subject Storage: Machine along wall.
  4. Candidate Conversion: Back room table.
  5. Suit Assembly: Second floor file cabinet.
  6. Suit Assembly: Second floor machine.
  7. Suit Assembly West Room: Second floor.
  8. Suit Assembly: Melt ice for storage room, on right table.
  9. Little Wonders Facility: On last desk to the left.

With that, you’ve officially found every audio diary in Bioshock Remastered. Congratulations on unlocking the Historian achievement. Whether you’re pursuing trophies or soaking in every bit of Rapture’s haunting lore, this guide should keep you firmly on track. Now, go enjoy that satisfying 100%—you’ve earned it.

Discover more from My Gaming Tutorials

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Leave a comment

Trending