Resident Evil 4 Remake Unlockables and CP Costs

Resident Evil 4 Remake's unlockables fall into four groups: modes (New Game Plus and Professional, both opened by your first clear), four bonus weapons, a set of costumes and accessories bought with Completion Points in the Extra Content Shop, and add-on modes such as The Mercenaries. The most valuable rewards are the Handcannon and Chicago Sweeper at 1,000 CP each and the Cat Ears accessory at 3,000 CP, which comes from an S+ rank on Professional. Here is every unlock condition and CP price, plus how to earn the CP to pay for them.

This list was checked against Game8's unlockables, Extra Content Shop and bonus weapon pages, PowerPyx's challenges guide and trophy roadmap, and Capcom's add-on announcements as reported by VGC, in November 2026.

What Opens Up After Your First Clear

The credits are the big unlock moment. Finishing the main story once, on any difficulty, opens two modes and a batch of shop items at the same time.

• New Game Plus. Load the save marked as a new playthrough to start again with your weapons, upgrades, pesetas and Spinels, and pick any difficulty.
• Professional difficulty. Hardcore level enemies, no autosaves and perfect parries only. Game8 recommends clearing your first run on the easiest setting if you just want Professional open quickly.
• Costumes. Leon's Jacket and Shirt (500 CP each) and Pinstripe (2,000 CP), plus Ashley's Jacket and Jacketless outfits (500 CP each).
• Basic accessories. Glasses (Lexington), Sunglasses (Frameless), Face Guard, Skull Mask and Eye Patch for Leon and Sunglasses (Cat Eye) for Ashley, each 1,000 CP.

Everything you buy in the Extra Content Shop is reached from the title screen under Bonuses. Weapons go into the storage of any typewriter, while costumes and accessories are changed from the story menu and apply to all your save files. PowerPyx confirms that wearing them does not void any challenge.

Bonus Weapons and How Each One Unlocks

There are four bonus weapons. Three come from the Extra Content Shop and one from the Merchant.

• Handcannon (1,000 CP). Get an S rank on all three stages in The Mercenaries, or finish a New Game on Professional without bonus weapons. Its exclusive upgrade gives unlimited ammo.
• Chicago Sweeper (1,000 CP). Finish Professional with an A rank, which means under 7 hours. New Game Plus is allowed for this one. Its exclusive upgrade also gives unlimited ammo.
• Primal Knife (1,000 CP). Destroy all 16 Clockwork Castellans. Game8 notes these can be spread across different save files. Its exclusive upgrade makes it indestructible.
• Infinite Rocket Launcher. Not in the shop. The Merchant sells it in New Game Plus for 2,000,000 pesetas, or 1,600,000 with the Leon w/ Rocket Launcher charm.

Our infinite ammo guide explains the fastest order to collect them, since the Handcannon from The Mercenaries makes every later unlock easier.

The Missable One: Clockwork Castellans and the Primal Knife

Of all the unlock conditions, the Primal Knife's is the only one you can quietly miss during a normal run. PowerPyx explains how the Clockwork Castellans work: there are 16 of them, one per chapter, they are small wind up dolls that make a distinct sound when you are close, and you destroy them by shooting them. Each one is saved the instant you hit it, so dying afterward does not undo it.

Because the Remake has no chapter select, a missed Castellan normally means waiting for another playthrough. Two rules soften that. First, Castellans count across saves, so if you keep a manual save from the start of each chapter you can load an old one and pick up the doll you skipped. Second, Castellan progress carries into New Game Plus, so a second run only needs the missing ones. The chapter results screen shows a silver doll icon next to each chapter where you found it, which makes checking easy.

A few examples show how varied the hiding spots are: the first sits on the broken roof of a house in the Lakeside Settlement, the fifth needs Ashley's help to reach the manor attic, and the ninth is in the northwest corner of the courtyard maze. Once all 16 are down, the knife costs 1,000 CP, and Game8's table lists its 1.5x power exclusive upgrade at just 10,000 pesetas alongside the indestructible perk.

Accessories That Change How You Play

Most accessories are cosmetic, but six items carry real effects. All of them, apart from Ashley's Armor, are tied to a specific rank on a specific difficulty, so they double as a record of what you have beaten. Game8 lists them as follows:

• Cat Ears (3,000 CP). S+ on Professional. Every weapon can reload without using the ammo in your case.
• Chicken Hat (2,500 CP). S+ on Hardcore. Greatly decreases the damage you take.
• Deer Antlers (2,000 CP). S+ on Standard. Greatly increases knife damage.
• Wolf Tail (2,000 CP). S+ on Assisted. Greatly increases the power of melee attacks.
• Gas Mask (2,000 CP). Finish Professional. Lets you use aim assist on any difficulty.
• Armor for Ashley (2,000 CP). Finish Hardcore or higher with an A rank. Ashley becomes invulnerable and cannot be carried off.

S+ ranks need a fresh New Game finished inside the time limit: 4 hours on Assisted, 5 on Standard, 5 hours 30 minutes on Hardcore and Professional, with a 15 save cap on Professional. The Chicken Hat and Armor are the two that make the hardest unlock, the Cat Ears, realistic. Our Professional S+ guide shows how to chain them.

Cosmetic Costumes and Accessories

The rest of the shop is pure style. Game8's list breaks down the conditions by difficulty:

• Finish on Standard or higher (1,000 CP each): Foam Mask, Sunglasses (Round), Flight Cap.
• Finish on Standard or higher with an A rank (1,500 CP each): Glasses (Square), Iron Helmet, Knitted Hat.
• Finish on Hardcore or higher (1,500 CP each): Glasses (Round), Flight Helmet, Surgical Mask.

Some cosmetics never appear in the shop. Leon's Casual, Romantic, Hero and Villain outfits and the Sunglasses (Sporty) are paid add-ons, all bundled into the Gold Edition. The Treasure Map: Expansion add-on hides Ashley's Red Hair, Blue Hair and Glasses (Wellington) plus Leon's Stylish Mask as treasures in the world. Game8 also notes that the shop offers character models, which mostly unlock as you meet characters, and concept art to buy with CP.

Gamer Guides lists a few accessory conditions differently from Game8 (for example the Face Guard, which it ties to Hardcore). We have followed Game8, which updated its list in July 2026, but if an item is not showing in your shop, the in game unlock text is the final word.

How to Earn Completion Points Faster

CP comes mainly from challenges. PowerPyx counts 101 challenges, viewable any time from the Challenges menu and split into five categories: Main Story, Basics, Weapons, Combat and Feats. Each story chapter you finish ticks off a Main Story challenge, and most counter based challenges accumulate across playthroughs and even checkpoint reloads, so kill counts with a given weapon type can be built up by replaying a section.

The large payouts come from difficulty clears. Game8 lists the Professional challenges at 2,000 CP for any clear, 2,500 CP for a clear without bonus weapons, 2,500 CP for an A rank and 3,000 CP for S+. Some challenges also make new shop items available, which is how the Chicago Sweeper, Handcannon, Primal Knife and most rank based accessories enter the shop in the first place.

Practical tips:

1. Check the Challenges menu between chapters to see which counters are close to done.
2. Do your A rank runs in New Game Plus, where your gear makes them easy, and your S+ runs fresh.
3. Buy the items that help future runs first (Handcannon, Chicago Sweeper, Armor, Chicken Hat) and leave cosmetics for later.

The New Game Plus guide covers what carries over between those runs.

Modes and Add-ons Outside the Shop

A few unlockables sit outside the Extra Content Shop entirely:

• The Mercenaries. A free add-on released on 7 April 2023 that you download separately. A free update on 21 September 2023 added Ada Wong and Albert Wesker as playable characters.
• VR Mode. A free PlayStation VR2 update for the PS5 version, released on 8 December 2023.
• Separate Ways. The paid Ada Wong campaign has its own unlockables, including the Elite Knife for completing all seven of its Merchant requests, new costumes after Chapter 7, and a Cat Set for an S+ clear on its Professional mode. Our Separate Ways guide lists them.
• Charms. Won from the token machine at the shooting range, with perks such as 20 percent off the rocket launcher (Leon w/ Rocket Launcher) and 8 percent faster running (Striker).

Skipping Straight to the Shop

Earning enough CP for everything takes several playthroughs. If you would rather have the points ready, the store's Resident Evil 4 Remake modded save sets Completion Points to 10,000,000 in the main game, alongside 999,999,999 Ptas. Keep in mind that, according to Game8, the shop only sells items you have already unlocked through their conditions, so points cover the price, not the requirement.

The save works with PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 only and with the Remake only, needs active PlayStation Plus on the same account, and does not include the game. All listings for the game are on the Resident Evil 4 Remake hub.

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