Ghost of Yotei: Every Easter Egg and Hidden Reference You Missed
Ghost of Yotei is dominating the internet, and Sucker Punch Productions has crammed it with hidden surprises. We’ve unearthed five unmissable secrets—starting with a sly Infamous nod—that every player should hunt down.
Ghost of Yotei has been out long enough for the internet to pick it clean, and surprise: Sucker Punch packed it with secrets. It is also very Sucker Punch to lace a samurai game with nods to lightning-wielding bike messengers and a certain thieving raccoon. One quick note before we dive in: some listings still peg the release year as 2025, which is… odd, considering people are already playing it. Either way, the easter eggs are real, and they are everywhere.
If you like developer in-jokes and little love letters to past franchises, here are the standouts you should actually go find.
- The Infamous lightning pillar (2009 throwback)
Head to Ohara Beach in Ishikari Plain, down in the southwestern corner of the map. You will find something called the Pillar of the Fallen, and it is been blasted by lightning. That is not random weather; it is a wink at Cole MacGrath from Sucker Punch's 2009 game Infamous, where controlling electricity was kind of his whole thing.
- A very dapper frog: Sir Raleigh from Sly Cooper
While climbing the Faithful Leap Shrine, you will hit a big open area about halfway up. Instead of taking the obvious ramp, drop down, climb back up to a narrow squeeze-through, and follow it to the end. Spin the camera and you will spot a frog in a tall black hat, holding a cup of water. That is Sir Raleigh the bullfrog, the main villain of 'Tide of Terror,' the first episode of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. Deep cut, goofy hat, 10/10.
- Infamous 2 mural, complete with The Beast
There is another Infamous nod near Faithful Leap Shrine. After you reach the shrine, take two gravel slopes down to a lake, hang a left through the orange-tinged wooded pass, and walk out to the cliff. Turn the camera and you should see a mural straight out of Infamous 2, depicting Cole throwing down with The Beast over the Ray Sphere. It is basically concept art tucked into a mountainside.
- Ghost of Tsushima comes home: Jin Sakai's blade
Travel south of the Otsuki River to the Forgotten Shrine. You will meet Ugetsu, a storyteller on the hunt for a legendary katana. Do his short quest and you are rewarded with the Storm Blade katana — the same sword Jin Sakai wielded in Ghost of Tsushima. Ugetsu's tale even name-drops Jin, because of course it does.
- Dress like a raccoon: the Sly Cooper outfit
Finish every bounty hunt in Ishikari Plain and Kojiro will hand you one last job: take down Shiro the Swindler. Complete that bounty and you get the Sly Thief Mask. To finish the look, grab the Sly Bandit armor dye from a chest near the entrance to Oshima Coast. Yes, you can basically cosplay as Sly in Ghost of Yotei. Yes, it rules.
- Bowing spots that summon wildlife (Tsushima callback)
Across Ezo, keep an eye out for special signs marked with a bow icon. In Ghost of Tsushima, bowing at secret spots was tied to the 'Honor the Unseen' trophy; here, it is a similar idea with a new twist. Bow at these marked locations and different animals will appear. Hit ten of them and you will unlock the 'Speaking with the Land' achievement.
Sucker Punch loves a good inside joke, and Ghost of Yotei is basically a scavenger hunt through their greatest hits. If you stumble across anything wilder than a top-hatted frog, tell me everything.