PS5
South of Midnight arrived on PS5 in 2026. Platinum asks you to complete Hazel’s journey, finish its collections and defeat three bosses without taking damage. Chapter selection lets you separate exploration from technical challenges instead of filling the first playthrough with restarts. This roadmap concentrates on the PlayStation version and distinguishes specific requirements from narrative milestones earned simply by progressing through the story.
Base-game platinum roadmap covering priority objectives, cleanup and verified requirements.
- Difficulty: Difficulty can be adjusted; the three no-damage challenges still apply.
- Missable trophies: Chapter replay supports objective cleanup.
- Online: The list is for the single-player game.
Complete Hazel’s journey
Play through the story while learning dodges, weaving and Haint management. Choose a comfortable difficulty because increasing it does not add a platinum requirement. Explore detours before leaving an arena and inspect places where Crouton can take you away from the direct route. Record the chapter when leaving a collection incomplete. This first phase teaches encounters and provides a clear reference before attempting no-damage challenges.
- Note chapters with skipped detours and learn enemy attack signals.
Separate Floofs, documents and health
Floof Seeker, Lore Master and Fit as a Fiddle check different systems. Finding every document does not prove you found every Floof or Health Filament. Keep a per-chapter checklist with those three categories and a fourth for tin flips. When a side route contains an interaction, confirm completion before returning to the main path; seeing an object during a camera view is not equivalent to collecting it.
- Keep Floofs, Readables, Health Filaments and tin flips separate.
Finish every upgrade branch
Inspect General, Strand Pull, Strand Push, Weave and Crouton independently. The first-upgrade trophy is only an introduction; the full list requires finishing the specified branches. Choose an order supporting your style, but check rarely used abilities before final cleanup as well. A powerful combat setup can leave a less obvious branch unfinished, so confirm completion in the upgrade screen rather than judging by Hazel’s effectiveness.
- Confirm all five branches before treating upgrades as finished.
Attempt the three no-damage bosses
Prepare dedicated attempts for Two-Toed Tom, Rougarou and Huggin’ Molly in chapters five, seven and nine respectively. Lower the difficulty if helpful and use practice attempts to learn transitions throughout each encounter. Winning after losing little health is not sufficient: the condition is taking no damage. After a mistake, use the available restart options rather than treating one perfect phase as a substitute for the whole required fight.
- Check all three no-damage unlocks separately from ordinary victories.
Finish combat techniques through chapter cleanup
For Haint trophies, pay attention to action order: some require defeating enemies with a technique and then performing Unravel. Clean Hands is not an instruction to skip combat; defeat the targets without attacks using allowed tools, then complete the requested action. Where the trophy text is vague about a count, do not assign an invented threshold. Repeat suitable encounters, confirm the unlock and use your chapter notes for remaining documents and collections.
- Check technique, defeat and Unravel in the required order.
Trophies to watch
Gator Master
Defeat the Two-Toed Tom encounter without taking damage
Replay Two-Toed Tom’s chapter-five encounter aiming for zero damage throughout the fight.
An Owl for an Owl
Defeat the Rougarou encounter without taking damage
Learn Rougarou’s phases in chapter seven and confirm a no-damage result.
Arachnophilia
Defeat the Huggin' Molly encounter without taking damage
Make a dedicated no-damage attempt against Huggin’ Molly in chapter nine.
Lore Master
Find all Readables
Use a per-chapter record of documents actually collected and revisit missing entries.
Frequently asked questions
Does platinum require the highest difficulty?
No. You may choose an easier difficulty, while still completing no-damage bosses and the other list requirements.
Can I recover documents and Floofs after the ending?
Yes. Use chapter select and separate category checklists rather than confusing documents with filaments or tin flips.
Does every Store edition show the original PS5 release date?
Not necessarily: a later edition can show a newer date. The original PS5 launch verified for this roadmap is 31 March 2026.
Sources
- South of Midnight — PlayStation Store
- PlayStation Podcast March27 — Sony
- South of Midnight trophy guide — 4News
Trophy lists
Buying the game
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