PS5
A Plague Tale: Requiem’s platinum depends chiefly on organised collecting and skill growth. Chapter selection helps cleanup but does not remove the importance of Amicia’s development: three branches grow according to encounter behaviour and need planning into New Game+. This guide concerns the native PS5 version without assigning the game a PS4 list. Use the first journey to secure collectibles and upgrades, and the second to develop skills left behind.
Roadmap for the PS5 base list. Additional trophy groups must be distinguished from platinum requirements.
- Required difficulty: Trophies allow Narrative difficulty; a hard-mode campaign is not required.
- Missable trophies: The three skill branches need coordinated campaign and New Game+ progression; collectibles can be recovered through chapters.
- Online: The route can be completed offline and has no multiplayer trophies.
Explore during the first journey
Choose Narrative if you want less combat pressure and easier knife management. Track souvenirs, flowers and feathers separately; herbarium items and memory scenes do not share one counter. Explore side routes before crossing irreversible doors or jumps and let souvenir interactions finish. Seeing an object from a distance does not necessarily register it. When using chapter selection, check the save overview to identify the missing section instead of unnecessarily repeating the whole campaign.
- Finish optional interactions before following the main exit.
Reserve knives for secret chests
Explorer requires opening secret chests, not merely discovering them. Save a knife for locked chests and avoid using it for a quick guard kill. Automatic defence can consume one too; check inventory immediately and consider restarting the checkpoint before moving on. If you reach a chest without a knife, replay a sequence that also includes the preceding blade pickup. Finish this collection before New Game+, where knife availability is less favourable.
- Check that a blade remains after close combat.
Develop skills through encounter behaviour
Prudence rewards very few kills, Aggressive eliminating most enemies, and Opportunism a middle course. Merely using many alchemical ammunition types does not automatically develop Opportunism: encounter outcomes and the proportion of enemies killed matter. Check the skill screen after major sequences. Deliberately adopt the style you still need instead of habitually killing every guard. Repeatedly reloading one checkpoint is not an unlimited source of permanent progress.
- Record which branch grew and change approach when it reaches maximum.
Upgrade first, then finish skills in New Game+
Collect tools and pieces on side routes and use workbenches instead of postponing upgrades until the finale. Consider upgrades that simplify resource management before spending without a plan. Start New Game+ from the completed save to retain useful progression. There is no further New Game++ guaranteeing a third cumulative growth cycle: check the least-developed branch early and continue until it is complete. Chapter selection restores the state at the chosen point, so do not treat it as an automatic sum of separate attempts.
- Before progressing through New Game+, check which skill genuinely remains.
Clean up scene-specific trophies
Perfect shot concerns Chapter 1’s pine cones; Perfect throw concerns Chapter 8’s Crowns game. For Old protector, inspect and interact with sanctuary objects in Chapter 9 before leaving. Mercy requires sparing the dock guard in Chapter 4; clearing the area after killing him does not qualify. Use the corresponding chapter for these objectives and allow the trophy to register before returning to the menu. Keep them separate from the longer skill-development route.
- Match the missing trophy to its chapter instead of restarting the story.
Trophies to watch
Explorer
Open all the secret chests
Collect knives and use them to open chests, checking immediately for accidental defensive consumption.
Immortal memories
Recall all souvenirs
Finish souvenir scenes and check chapter-specific collection progress, not just the herbarium.
Malignant
Fully improve the Opportunism skills
Leave some enemies alive while killing a portion of each encounter; alchemy use alone is insufficient.
Frequently asked questions
Why does alchemy not increase Opportunism?
Growth chiefly depends on the proportion of enemies killed during an encounter. For Opportunism, take a middle course and leave some opponents alive.
Must I keep every knife until the ending?
Preserve the blades needed by upcoming secret chests. A knife used against a guard breaks and may prevent opening the nearby chest.
Does the game have a native PS4 list?
This guide covers the PS5 edition. Do not confuse any streaming access with a native PS4 release.
Sources
- PlayStation – A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Focus Entertainment – abilità e alchimia
- PowerPyx – Requiem roadmap
Trophy lists
Buying the game
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