Inspector Waffles Trophy Guide

Game: Inspector Waffles
Peripherals: –
Time to Platinum: 1 hour
Difficulty: 1/10
Missable trophies: 9 trophies for collecting Woolball Cards
Trophies: 1, 10 , 5 , 0


Author: The Trophy Platypus
Welcome to the trophy guide for Inspector Waffles. This can also be considered a walkthrough and may be used for PlayStation 4, 5, Xbox One, Series X and Steam. Achievements for Steam and Xbox are in almost all cases the same as the PlayStation 4/5 Trophies. A roadmap is provided in the stages below.

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Stage 1 – Play through all 5 chapters collecting all 8 Woolball Cards.


Welcome to the Inspector Waffles guide, a great point and click game. Before we start, know that the Woolball cards are very missable and you will need to collect all 8 in a single playthrough. It is therefore advised that at the beginning of each chapter you make a save, which you will be able to come back to should you miss one of the cards. Cards 1 and 2 are found in Chapter 2, card 3 in Chapter 3, cards 4, 5, 6 and 7 are found in Chapter 4, and card 8 is found in Chapter 5.

Chapter 1

Go in the house, head up-stairs and inside the room.
Click on the cup, receive Love Letter.
Click on Picture, receive new clue: “Fluffy was alone”.
Click on Painting and then on the hidden book behind it.
Click on Skateboard, receive Skateboard Wheel.
Leave the room and head left to the bathroom.
Click on Perfume, receive new clue: “Lady’s perfume in Fluffy’s Bathroom”.
Click on the black tile to reveal another hideout and then click on the hidden book.
Go downstairs and then outside.
Click on Fluffy’s Body to receive A Polaroid picture.
Click on the trash can to receive Broken Screwdriver.
Head back inside and upstairs.
In the inventory, combine the skate wheel and the screwdriver and use it as a door handle.
Enter the room on the right.
Place the two books onto the bookshelf to reveal a secret door.
Go into the door to a secret office; receive a new clue.
Click on the hair in the plant.
Click on the drawers of the desk to receive Insult Letter.
Click on the board to get a Grocery List.
Head back outside and speak to Patches.
Select dialogue option “Top floor?“, then Secret Office in Fluffy’s House.
Select the dialogue option “Something salty?“, then Shopping List.
You are now in a new area outside Millie’s House.
Click on the Chimney, receive new clue, Chimney Smoke.
Speak to Millie, select the dialogue option “Ask a neighbour?“, then pick up the Love Letter.
Select Fluffy Admirer, then Lady’s Perfume in Fluffy’s Bathroom.
Select Warm Night, then Chimney Smoke.
Select Fluffy’s Killer, then the hair.
Select Fluffy’s Enemies, then insults. Get new clue.

Get trophy The Dead and Alive Cat

Chapter 2

Chapter 2, you will start in your office.
Click on the Desk Drawers to get Flask of Milk.
Click left to go to the hallway, then go inside Patches’ office.
You will talk with Patches and the Mayer to receive a Croissant.
You will be outside Patches’ office, head left two screens.
Speak with Pixel.
Choose the dialogue “Any clues“.
Select Polaroid picture; receive a copy of the Polaroid.
Choose dialogue “Any clues“, then the hair.
Choose dialogue “Any clues“, then Insult Letter.
Head right two screens and then downstairs.
Interact with the door and speak with Moka.
Choose dialogue “Building trust“, then the Croissant.
Exit to the left, you will meet Morty who will take you to the morgue.
Leave the Morgue.
Interact with the Coffee Machine to receive a Disgusting Coffee.
Combine Coffee with Love Letter.
Head one screen left, you will meet Spotty and Howard.
After some dialogue you will leave in the car and end up at a hot dog shop.
Speak with Frank, the hotdog vendor.
Select “Hotdog menus“.
Select Erwin.
Receive two new clues; “Erwin has been away for 4 days” and “He has a limp“.
Leave conversation.
Head into the building hall.
Speak with Duke.
Select dialogue “Erwin’s best friend“, then “Erwin has a limp“.
Select dialogue “Erwin’s best friend“, then “Erwin is a black cat“.
Leave conversation.
Click on the umbrella; get a new clue, Forgotten Umbrella.
Go upstairs and speak to Bella.
Select dialogue “Erwin?“.
Select dialogues “Erwin disappearance“, then “Erwin has been away for 4 days“.
Select the Unknown Cat, then “Erwin has a limp“.
Select A Little Help, then Coffee Stained Letter. Receive Fake Old Love Letter.
Head right, get new clue: Abandoned Grocery Bag.
Pick up the pickle.
Click on the Woolball collectible card album under the doormat.
Head left two screens and talk to Duke again
Select Erwin’s best friend then Woolball collectible card album, receive Spare Keys.
Combine Disgusting Coffee with Spare Keys.
Use Erwin’s keys on Erwin’s mailbox to receive Small Package
Hold X on Small Package in your inventory to receive Woolball card 1
Get trophy Should we call the bomb dog?
Head to Erwin’s Apartment.
Use Erwin’s Keys on his door.
Take Almonds from the Cupboard.
Combine Almonds with Croissant.
Head outside.
Speak to the hotdog vendor.
Select the Visitors, then the Forgotten Umbrella.
Select the Cinnamon.
Select the Secret Ingredient, then pickle to receive cinnamon.
Go into the antique shop and speak to Margaret.
Select dialogue “Erwin?“.
Select dialogue “Art everywhere“.
Select dialogue “Weird customer“.
Select Business is business, then the Fake Old Love Letter.
Select dialogue “Cinnamon coffee?“, then Cinnamon and Flask of Milk. Receive Tasty Coffee.
Head back to the station and speak with Peanut.
Select A favor receive key
Leave conversation
Head right three screens and enjoy a cut scene
Head inside Patches’ office
Take the purple coupon from the notice board (VERY IMPORTANT)
Take croissant from croissant box
Head left one screen and go in the empty office
Click on pinned article to receive clue more than one way to skin a cat
Talk with spotty to get clue A sweet smell in the empty office
Head back to Peanut and talk to him
Select croissant’s left? then Croissant
Go right two screens and talk to Moka
Select Building trust then tasty coffee and almond croissant
Receive Erwin’s apartment warrant then exit conversation
Head all the way back to Erwin’s apartment and talk with Spotty
Click on wall on the right of the screen receive new clue Erwin grows illegal catnip
Click on hidden catnip receive Erwin’s grocery list
Combine the two grocery lists
Head to your car and select the new location Maple market
Head inside and speak with George
Select Groceries then coupon (very important or you will miss the trophy) Receive Woolball card 2
TROPHY Free food
Select grocery lists then head through the new door
TROPHY More than one way to skin a cat

Chapter 3

Head right two screens and pick up common woolball card above the grill
Pick up the magnet
Go back one screen and use police key on the door
Use the magnet on the bottom of the door to receive sewer key
Use sewer key on the door
Go down the ladder and interact with the costume then head left
After some dialogue receive new clue Secret cult in Cat town’s underground
Click on toilets receive new clue Meatballs is part of the secret cult
Talk with meatballs select costume?
Erwin? Receive new clue Erwin has been kidnapped
A favor?
Exit conversation
Pick up lighter and CPU from the table
Talk to meatball again
Select A light and the lighter
Head to the toilets to exit
Outside caves pick up stick
Combine stick with magnet
Use stick with magnet on magpie receive coin
Head right towards Cat town
Use coin on phone booth, A taxi will pick you up
Go back to Maple Market and after talking to Spotty you’ll be back at the Police station
Head up the stairs and speak to Patches
Select Cat Town’s underground and then Secret cult in Cat town’s underground
Select Getting into Erwin’s apartment then Erwin’s apartment warrant
Select Maple market lead then grocery lists
Select An oldest friend then Meatballs is part of the cult
Select the missing cat then Erwin has been kidnapped
In Patches’ office speak with Erwin
Select The real Erwin? Then Erwin has a limp
Select The real Erwin? Erwin is a black cat
Select The real Erwin? Erwin has been away for four days
Select coming back home then abandoned grocery bag
Select Something illegal then Erwin grows illegal catnip
Select Fluffy’s death then insult letter
After some dialogue you will be at a bar
Speak with Bobby the orange cat about Woollball cards
Select card trade then common woolball card receive Woolball card 3
TROPHY What could possible go wrong
Head outside the bar and you will hear gunshots
Outside Barkbuster head left one screen and interact with the body
Head right one screen and interact with the bin to receive cloth
Head back to the dead cat and use the cloth on him
TROPHY Into the lions’ den

Chapter 4

At the start of chapter 4 you will be playing as Patches and have in your inventory – Chocolate bar, Croissant, Donut, Gumdrops, Lollipop, Popcorn and access card.
Talk to Pixel
Select Examining clues and then access card
Go right one screen and talk to the Winklebotom chicken police
Select T.A.I.L. application
Select On the wrong paw then popcorn
Select On the wrong paw then gumdrops
Select help with investigation then Wollball MVP Receive new clue Dogs don’t care about Woolball
Select help with investigation then Hippo > Elephant?
Go left one screen and Talk to Pixel
Select Anti-feline protection then Dogs don’t care about Woolball receive new clue Marmalade (victim’s name, not for toast)
Exit conversation
Click on the sewer pipe, receive new clue the grate blocks the entrance to the pipe
Speak to Pixel
Select help then the grate blocks the entrance to the pipe receive screwdriver
Use screwdriver on the grate receive new clue cant enter the sewer pipe
Speak to Lumo
Select small talk then can’t enter the sewer pipe
Select help isn’t free then Marmalade (victim’s name, not for toast) receive Polaroid
Use Polaroid on the campaign posters

Now as Waffles in the police station
Exit your office and head left two screens
Click on the DNA machine receive clue snowball’s DNA confirmation
Head right one screens and enter the empty office
Click on pinned article to receive clue more than one way to skin a cat (This was done earlier in the guide but in case you missed it)
Talk with spotty to get clue A sweet smell in the empty office (as was this)
Exit the Police station and head to the Prison
Pick up the coin on the floor
Use Piece of cloth on the fake coin
Speak with Lenny
Select Approval then Snowball’s DNA confirmation
Then head to the jail cells
Speak with Snowball
Select the night before last then Snowball’s DNA confirmation
Select Fluffy’s house
Select Fake cult
Select Partners in crime then Meatballs is part of the secret cult
Select a question from Snowball?
Select Memories then More than one way to skin a cat

Back as Patches Speak with Maple
Select Life in Danger then Polaroid
Select And now?
Select A snack then lollipop
Select Maple success story

Back as Waffles enter the building
Use the shiny coin on the vending machine to receive Kibbles
Speak with Smokey and select The rest home’s stealer
The thief’s name then insult letter
Take plastic fish
Go right one screen
Speak with Pancakes
Select Snowball’s investigation then Snowball’s DNA confirmation
Select Snowball and his past then More than one way to skin a cat
Who is he? To receive new clue Mallow, Snowball’s Brother
Mallow then a sweet smell in the empty office
Exit the building and use the car to go to Fluffy’s house

Speak with Rex/Rox to receive new clue Millie’s house is under surveillance
Head to the Police station
Head right two screens
Talk to Moka
Select Other warrant then Millie’s house is under surveillance, receive Warrant Millie’s house

Back to Fluffy’s house speak to Rex/Rox
Select warrant then Warrant Millie’s house
Head inside Millie’s house
Interact with the mail on the floor receive clue Dictator pig book
Take Morse code book from the bookshelf
Exit and head to Erwin’s apartment
Head inside, and outside Erwin’s apartment door pick the small key up
Head to the mailboxes and use the small key on Someone’s mailbox to receive Wollball card no 6
Trophy Almost an ally cat
Exit the building an go into the antique shop
Speak with Lucius
Select Is someone here? The plastic fish
Know-it-all then dictator pig book, receive Lucius note
Exit the shop and head to Millie’s house
Use Lucius note on the Classical books
Receive Woolball card no 5
Trophy Creature Farm
Head to the Police station
Head to Pixel’s office
Use the morse code book on the board to get code 2102
Use the code on the drawers under the DNA machine
Receive Wollball card no 4
Trophy No remorse with Pixel
Go to the empty office
Click on Sugar-scented piece of paper receive cotton candy shop flyer
Exit Police station
Head to Cotton Candy shop
Use kibble on the Woolball card that’s in the blue shop window
Receive Woolball card no 7
Trophy I’m too old for kibbles
Pick up the key on the bottom left of the cotton candy shop window
Use the key on the door and enter
Head left one screen
Interact with the bell receive new clue Pavlov stopped when bell rang
Interact with the table receive new clue Pavlov is incredibly strong
Speak to Pavlov
Select Fight ended abruptly then Pavlov stopped when bell rang
Current investigations then Pavlov is incredibly strong
Exit conversation
Head right a screen speak to Spotty
Click on the trapdoor under the plant
Go down the trapdoor
Use the photo on the poster to receive new clue Polaroid was a fake
Take the blueprint from the wall
Interact with the bed to receive new clue someone lives hidden in the shop
Head back upstairs and talk to Pavlov again
Select Someone to protect then someone lives hidden in the shop
Something planned? Then the blueprint
A flash of light? Then Polaroid was fake
Now at Maple tower talk to Patches
Select fluffy case suspect then Pavlov is incredibly strong
Unbelievable clue then Snowball DNA
Patches Polaroid then Polaroid was fake
Another Menace then blueprint
TROPHY Curiosity killed the cat

Chapter 5

Exit your office and you’ll speak with Pixel, He’ll give you a jamming device
Head downstairs and speak with Patches he’ll give you a screwdriver
When you are outside with Meatball call your mom
She’ll call Meatball’s mom who will come and take Meatball away
Use your flask on the glass of milk on the ground receive flask of milk
Head inside and go right
Go right a screen again
Use scanner device on the laser
Use screwdriver on the scanner receive cables
Use the magnet on the key by your feet receive cabinet key
Head back downstairs and use the cabinet key on the medicine cabinet
Take the bandages and syringe
Head into the maintenance room use the cables on the electrical sparks
Pick up broken broom
Combine the broom with bandages and screwdriver
Use Screwdriver with long handle on the woolball card in the ceiling
Receive woolball card 8
Trophy Too bad I’m not a giraffe (the trophy for collecting all 8 cards will unlock at the end of the game)
Head back to the laser and use the Screwdriver with long handle on the hatch
Combine the flask with the syringe
Use the flask syringe on the hatch
Head left a screen and then speak to snowball
Select First guinea pig then Mallow, Snowball’s brother
Mallow’s old shop then someone lives hidden in the shop
Plan’s weakness then more than one one way to skin a cat
Snowball’s hypnotized sidekick then Pavlov is incredibly strong
False leads then Polaroid was fake
False leads then secret cult in cat town’s underground
Meeting snowball in prison then Snowball’s DNA confirmation
Finding the safe house then a sweet smell in the empty office
After a cut scene you’ll be back at the Police station
Head left a screen for more dialogue
Head left a screen to meet Spotty
Trophy Like cats and dogs
After the credits if you got all cards you will get the secret ending
Erwin will give you a wood key
Use the wood key on the bust which will open a door under the stairs
Go down the stairs
Trophy Who really was Fluffy?
Trophy Platinum Trophy


Platinum Trophy
Cat’s nine lives.

There’s more than one way to skin a cat.


Like cats and dogs
Finish the game.

Complete all five chapters of the game to unlock this trophy. Please refer to the text or video walkthough above for how to do so.


Who really was Fluffy?
Complete the Woolball card album.

In total their are 8 Woolball cards you will need to pick up to complete the card album. This will unlock a secret ending that will play out after the credits which is when the trophy will pop. The Woollball cards are very missable as some areas you will not be able to return to, for specific details on each card, refer to the trophy description for that card.

Card 1 in chapter 2 Trophy Should we call the bomb dog?
Card 2 in chapter 2 Trophy Free food
Card 3 in chapter 3 Trophy What could possible go wrong
Card 4 in chapter 4 Trophy No remorse with Pixel
Card 5 in chapter 4 Trophy Creature Farm
Card 6 in chapter 4 Trophy Almost an ally cat
Card 7 in chapter 4 Trophy I’m too old for kibbles
Card 8 in chapter 5 Trophy Too bad I’m not a giraffe


Should we call the bomb dog?
Find the first Woolball card.

MISSABLE. In chapter 2 take a coffee from the coffee machine in the Police station, after getting Erwin’s apartments keys from the janitor combine the coffee with the keys and then use the keys on Erwin’s mail box in the entrance of his apartment. Finally in your inventory hold X down on the parcel you picked up from the mail box to unlock this trophy.


Free food?
Find the second Woolball card.

MISSABLE. Unlocked in Chapter 2. After returning to the police station and speaking with Peanut he will give you a master key that will unlock almost all of the doors in the Police station. Head to Patches’ office and take the coupon from board. Later near the end of the chapter you will go to Maple Market, head inside and speak with George, select Groceries and then the coupon. It’s very important to select coupon before the groceries list or you will not be able to exchange the coupon for the second Woolball card.


What could possibly go wrong?
Find the third Woolball card.

MISSABLE. Unlocked in chapter 3. At the beginning of the chapter you will find yourself in the sewer head right two screens (Same screen as you find the magnet) and take the common woolball card from the sewer grate. Later on in the chapter you will go to a bar. Speak with Bobby the orange cat about Woolball cards and then trade the common card for a rarer one to unlock this trophy.


No reMorse with Pixel
Find the fourth Woolball card.

MISSABLE. Unlocked in Chapter 4. After gaining access to Millie’s house, pick up the Blue Morse code book from the bookshelf. Head to Pixel’s office at the Police station and use the Morse code book on the white board. You will get a code, use the code on the drawers under the DNA machine to receive the fourth Woolball card.


Creature farm
Find the fifth Woolball card.

MISSABLE. Unlocked in Chapter 4. At Casa Chinchilla go through the dialogue with Smokey eventually giving him the Insult letter from Chapter 1. Now distracted pick up the plastic fish on the table in front of him. Later after gaining access to Millie’s house, examine the mail in front of the door to get Dictator Pig Book clue. Head to Erwin’s apartment location and enter the Antique shop on the right. Speak with Lucius select ‘Is someone here?’ and use the plastic fish from your inventory, followed by Know-it-all then dictator pig book to receive Lucius note. Head back to Millie’s house and use Lucius note on the classical books on the bookshelf to find the correct book and get the fifth Woolball card.


Almost an alley cat
Find the sixth Woolball card.

MISSABLE. Unlocked in Chapter 4

Head back to Erwin’s apartment door and where the discarded shopping was will now be a small key, pick it up and head back to the entrance. Use the small key on Someone’s mailbox to receive the sixth Woolball card.


I’m too old for kibbles
Find the seventh Woolball card.

MISSABLE. Unlocked in Chapter 4

In the Prison pick up the fake coin on the floor and use the cloth you have from the previous chapter on it. Then when in Casa Chinchilla, use the coin on the vending machine to get Kibbles. Later on in the chapter you will head to Cotton Candy shop as part of the investigation. The Woolball card is in the blue shop window, use the kibbles on the card itself to get it and unlock the trophy.


Too bad I’m not a giraffe
Find the eighth Woolball card.

MISSABLE. Unlocked in Chapter 5. As part of the story you will need to combine a broken broom, bandages and a screwdriver to take out a laser. In the maintenence room cupboard where you find the broken broom the final Woolball card will be high above where Waffle’s is standing. Use your broken broom/bandages/screwdriver combination to bring it down. Please note the trophy for collecting all cards will not unlock until the secret ending after the credits.


Why am I not drinking a piña colada?
Start investigating the crime scene.

After starting a new game you will be driving your car and some dialogue explaining the backstory. When you arrive at the murder scene the trophy will unlock.


The dead and alive cat
Finish Chapter 1.

Complete Chapter 1, please refer to the walkthough above for a step by step guide.


More than one way to skin a cat
Finish Chapter 2.

Complete Chapter 2, please refer to the walkthough above for a step by step guide.


Into the lion’s den
Finish Chapter 3.

Complete Chapter 3, please refer to the walkthough above for a step by step guide.


Curiosity killed the cat
Finish Chapter 4.

Complete Chapter 4, please refer to the walkthough above for a step by step guide.


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