Platinum roadmap: 36 trophies, one playthrough

✚ Checked 2026-11-15 · PS5 1.005.000 / PS4 launch build · 3 sources

The numbers first

A 4/10 with zero missables and no difficulty requirement is about as forgiving as a platinum gets. The only thing that can genuinely cost you is the save system.

Step 1 — play the story, 15+ hours

Play it straight. Nothing is missable, so there is no reason to consult a checklist while the story is running, and stopping to hunt things you cannot reach yet is wasted motion.

Four things to do during this phase, and only four:

1. Pick your mode deliberately. Standard or Hermes if you might speedrun later; Erebus only if you have finished the game before. The choice is locked to the file.
2. Save at every campfire you pass. One slot, manual saves only. This is the actual risk in the run.
3. Grab collectibles you literally walk into. No detours.
4. Reach 7500 red orbs and buy the Jewel of Ziteo in The Gallery. Once you have it equipped, the clean-up phase stops being a search. It pings every secret and collectible around you.

That fourth point is the one roadmap step people skip, and it is the one that pays.

Step 2 — clean up, 5+ hours

After the credits you have the traversal abilities, so the map opens up properly. Sweep by region density rather than by story order.

Full region counts and the type breakdown are on the collectibles page; this table is just the ordering.

The trophies that need a specific action

Most of the list arrives automatically while you clear regions. A handful need you to do a named thing:

The story bosses each carry a trophy too — Cyclops in the prologue, then Ioke, Alastor, Ponea, The Fylaki, Skolopendra, Apate, Metallon Calf and Metallon Bull, and Ipotane. You cannot miss them by finishing the story.

The one thing that can go wrong

The save system. One slot, manual saves at campfires only. If you quit without saving at a campfire, you lose everything since your last save. In a 20-hour platinum that is the only mechanic with real downside risk, and it is entirely avoidable with a habit.

The second-order risk is the mode lock. If you start on Erebus to see what it is like and discover you cannot finish the game that way, you cannot switch that file to standard. You start again.

Trophies you should not worry about

• Difficulty: nothing is gated. The easiest setting earns the same platinum.
• Collectible types: apart from Campsites, everything is trophy-relevant, but you do not have to track them individually — 100% per region covers all of them.
• Patches: the two trophies that used to be unreliable — Battle Tested and Like a Charm — have been stable since patch 1.005.000. If you are on a current build, the tracking works.
• Multiplayer: there are no online trophies, so the Pit of Agonies challenge mode is not on the platinum path.

What this page is not

It is not a collectible location guide. The region pages carry the item-by-item directions, and this roadmap deliberately stops at the planning layer so it stays useful when the location data changes.