PS4 / PS5
The Silksong platinum combines thorough exploration, condition-dependent endings and two time limits. Learn Pharloom before racing: blind exploration can exceed Speed Completion’s limit, while entering Act 3 closes earlier ending options. This route separates discovery from timed goals and identifies decisions to settle before confronting Grand Mother Silk.
Base-game roadmap for PS4/PS5. Individual stack requirements remain available on the game page.
- Required difficulty: The list requires its endings and both timed challenges, not merely a main-story clear.
- Missable trophies: Snared Silk advances to Act 3 and locks the other Grand Mother Silk endings on that file.
- Online: The trophy requirements can be pursued offline.
Explore before committing to a speedrun
Collect maps, open Bellways and Ventrica stations, and learn shortcuts on the discovery file. Tools, Crests, Silk Skills, mask shards and spool fragments have separate sets; a high percentage does not prove each is complete. Record ability-gated entrances rather than repeatedly attempting jumps your current equipment cannot support.
- Open transport routes and track each collection separately.
Handle endings before the Act 3 transition
Weaver Queen requires defeating and binding Grand Mother Silk, while the cursed ending needs the Cursed Crest. Earn Twisted Child before upgrading that Crest through Infestation Operation. Do not activate Soul Snare until earlier ending conditions are resolved: Snared Silk changes the story state and does not permit freely repeating that final encounter.
- Resolve Weaver Queen and Twisted Child before Snared Silk.
Separate wishes, fleas and journal completion
The list separately tracks Nuu’s and the Herald’s wishes, the final flea gift and the Hunter’s Memento. Rescuing many fleas is not Fleafriend without its final reward; check the journal before considering True Hunter complete. Return to a quest giver after relevant bosses, since performing a task and actually receiving its reward are not always equivalent.
- Verify the final reward rather than only the encounter count.
Prepare routes for both time thresholds
Speedrunner requires a clear within five hours; Speed Completion requires one hundred percent and a finish within thirty. These are different objectives, so do not turn a discovery file into an improvised race. Prepare a sequence of travel, essential upgrades and bosses, leaving margin for difficult encounters. Monitor the time on the actual challenge file.
- Plan the short clear separately from the full-completion run.
Finish Act 3 and verify actual completion
After the story transition, pursue Lost Lace and her ending while continuing collection checks. Do not import the first Hollow Knight’s trophy rules: Silksong has its own list and explicit time thresholds. Before the final Completion attempt, compare missing sets with trophy requirements and ensure the ending is reached after attaining one hundred percent.
- Check percentage and ending on the same qualifying save.
Trophies to watch
Twisted Child
Defeat Grand Mother Silk while cursed
Do not complete the operation that removes the Cursed Crest before this ending.
Speedrunner
Complete the game in under 5 hours
Use a learned route: this threshold is five hours, not thirty.
Speed Completion
Achieve 100% game completion and finish the game in under 30 hours
Reach one hundred percent before the qualifying finish within thirty hours.
Frequently asked questions
Does the first ending award the platinum?
No. Different endings, completion, collections and timed runs are required. Plan the Act 3 transition before closing earlier ending options.
Can I recover Weaver Queen after Snared Silk?
The file that entered Act 3 cannot refight Grand Mother Silk for that ending. Earn it before transitioning or plan another save.
Are all PC achievements required on PlayStation?
Follow the console list. Do not add conditions from other platforms; check Speedrunner and Speed Completion in the PlayStation trophy list.
Sources
Trophy lists
Buying the game
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