Guardians of the Galaxy Chapter 1 Collectibles Locations

Guardians of the Galaxy Chapter 1 contains 11 Collectible Locations. This walkthrough will guide you to all collectibles in Chapter 1 in chronological order. Everything that’s needed for trophies and 100% completion is included: Outfits, Guardian Collectibles, Compendium Items, Archives.

All of the Collectibles are missable, the reason being that your progress reverts in Chapter Select to the progress you had when you played the Chapter for the first time (except Outfits which do stay). Finding missing items in Chapter Select doesn’t add them to your save later in the game. In other words, whatever you find through Chapter Select doesn’t get saved and doesn’t count towards trophies & achievements. Because of this it’s recommended to save in a different Manual Slot at the start of every Chapter. If you miss something you can reload the save to replay the Chapter right away. Make sure you save in a different slot each time, because the autosave automatically keeps overwriting the active Save Slot.

Chapter 1 – A Risky Gamble

Archive: Team Costumes
After leaving Peter’s room, turn right and enter the room (Rocket’s room) on your right to find this Collectible on the ground.

Archive: Nano-Resin Incident Report
Immediately after reaching the Quarantine Zone (big planet with pink goo), look to your left to find this on a yellow crate.

Outfit – Rocket: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
About 3 minutes later, you will slide down some metal and then reach a split in the path with Rocket saying “pretty sure that way’s a dead-end”. Follow the dead end to the right, but instead of going all the way to its end, turn right to walk on some blue metal and drop down in the hole to find a purple container with this Costume collectible.

Archive: Pride and Fall
Now follow Rocket to the left path, and after crouching down, turn left to find this on the ground.

Archive: QZ Disposal
After you shoot the parasites and Rocket activates the shooting challenge, continue inside the ship and look to the right on the ground. This is before vaulting over the small obstacle.
Note: Destroying more parasite nests than Rocket throughout the rest of the chapter also unlocks the trophy / achievement “Eat It, Rodent”.

Guardian Collectible: Ravager Comm Bracelet
From the last Collectible, drop down to the next area and crouch under the containers, then in the next section shoot the “Brittle Material” (grey goo). This reveals the Guardian Collectible underneath the Goo.

Archive: Failed to Send Message
After fighting the first group of enemies (green round enemies), climb up the only path forward and you’ll find this opposite the Brittle Material (grey goo).

Archive: Unthinkable
After entering the eye of the big robot face, you’ll be in an area with lots of targets you can shoot as part of Peter’s shooting bet with Rocket. After destroying as many as possible, enter the cage on the upper floor, at the center of the area to find this on the ground.

Outfit – Groot: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
About 10 minutes later, you will run on the roof of your spaceship and then enter a room with a cutscene where Rocket & Groot reunite. After the cutscene, look to your right to find a hole in the goo you can crouch under. There you will find a purple container with this Costume collectible.

Guardian Collectible: Spinal Control Unit
Shortly after finding the first weapon upgrade workbench, you’ll drop down to an area with new enemy types attacking you. After defeating them, jump up on the only path forward, then turn around and destroy the gray Brittle Goo behind you (marked yellow in your visor vision). Underneath that goo is the Collectible.

Archive: A Miracle!
After reuniting with Drax and Gamora and using their abilities to place a pillar you can climb, you will enter a room where the three discuss what the monster will look like. Look by the steel pipes in the center of the room.

For all other Chapters, refer to Guardians of the Galaxy Collectibles Guide.