Styx: Blades of Greed Platinum Trophy Guide (PS5)

PS5

In Styx: Blades of Greed, sneaking past guards is only part of the platinum. Collect emblems and runes on quartz routes, prepare mission-specific trophy actions and finish upgrades before setting out for the finale. Updated builds can offer more recovery options than the launch version, so check the available saves before replaying the campaign.

Act-by-act approach with collectibles, mission actions and pre-finale cleanup.

Difficulty: No trophy requires a specific difficulty setting
Missables: Yes: actions tied to individual missions and encounters
Cleanup: Before Akenash; check for the save added in the update
Online: No multiplayer trophies

Map emblems, runes and wharves on quartz routes

Track The Wall and Turquoise Dawn emblems separately; each region contains 50. Use amber vision in vertical rooms and come back to high spots after you get the grapple or glider. Track runes, relics and blueprints too, since the sets serve different purposes. Open wharves along the way to shorten return trips and check those in Akenash Ruins as well.

Track 50 emblems in each of the first two regions.
Check the Akenash wharves as well.

Avoid the elevator and check mission objectives

In The Garrison Job, skip the elevator. Facing it, take the stairs on the right, move through the rooms and use outside ledges to reach the quartz. In The Reunion Rubble, find Lyssril’s altar near her meeting with the soldiers and contaminate it before leaving. In Turquoise Dawn, check the hut by Annexed Sequoia Canopy and tamper with the Inquisition blueprints for Doodler.

Take the Garrison quartz without the elevator.
Contaminate the altar and sabotage the plans at their encounters.

Do crew quests and finish upgrades

Between main objectives, return to the Zeppelin for crew quests. Djarak’s Echoes of Amber gives the amber needed to expand the ability wheels. Spend experience from quartz and emblems on skills, and look for blueprints for upgrades that experience alone cannot buy. Before the finale, check each upgrade page and go back for any plans you still need.

Complete Echoes of Amber.
Spend experience and blueprints toward Overqualified.

Set up poison, clones and queen tentacles

For Fade to black, poison food or drink, stay hidden and wait for a guard to consume it, then use mind control while the guard is succumbing. For Party pooper, group five enemies before using one clone with the upgraded cloud. At the queen encounter in The Forgotten Crown Gem, wait for the tentacle cue and dodge to make it stick in the floor. Do it four times before absorbing the quartz and ending the encounter.

Use mind control while the poison takes effect.
Trap tentacles four times before taking the quartz.

Check the Zeppelin before setting out for the finale

Before the final departure, review wharves, collections and mission actions. For Let them eat brioche, check Styx’s Zeppelin wardrobe on Friday around the afternoon break. When you see the brioche on the shelf, interact with an outfit or blade. Cyanide later announced a pre-finale save and New Game+. If your updated menu offers them, use the former for collections and consider the latter for encounters you already closed.

Look for the brioche in Styx’s room.
Do a full check before the final journey.

Trophies to watch

I’ll take the stairs

Get the Garrison Quartz without using the elevator.

During The Garrison Job, use stairs, rooms and exterior ledges. Do not use the elevator before taking the quartz.

Sacrilege

Vomit in Lyssril’s altar.

In The Reunion Rubble, find Lyssril’s altar by the meeting with the soldiers and poison it before moving on.

Overqualified

Acquire every upgrade in the game.

Spend experience on upgrades and collect the plans for the other pages; check every upgrade before the finale.

Matador

Stuck the queen roach’s tentacles at least 4 times in the ground.

Dodge on the tentacle cue and trap it four times before absorbing the queen’s quartz.

Emblem Collector

Collect every thief emblems.

Split the search into two sets of 50, one for The Wall and one for Turquoise Dawn. Use amber vision in vertical sections.

Frequently asked questions

Is there post-credits cleanup?

In its June notes, Cyanide announced a pre-Akenash save and New Game+. Update the game and check the menu: if you do not have the right save, load an earlier manual point. Do not count on unrestricted mission select.

Can I ignore crew quests?

Not for platinum. Echoes of Amber expands the wheels, and side objectives give you opportunities for upgrades and cleanup before the finale.

Can I get Matador after beating the queen?

Trap the tentacles four times while the encounter is active. If you already took the quartz, use a save from before the encounter if available.

Sources

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