PS4 / PS5
Mirage’s platinum rewards an organised hunt rather than maximum difficulty. Basim must finish his story, explore Baghdad and actually use his equipment: merely unlocking tools leaves several trophies unfinished. Your first priority is the unusual pickpocket requirement in You Snooze, You Lose, before eliminating useful targets. Afterwards, alternate contracts, collections and stealth objectives. This roadmap separates the actions that deserve attention during missions from tasks that can be finished in the open city, while treating the PS4 and PS5 trophy lists separately.
Base-game trophy roadmap. Expansions and additional trophy groups are separate from the platinum.
- Required difficulty: A high difficulty is not required; Easy is valid.
- Missable trophies: Protect You Snooze, You Lose; keep saves before important targets.
- Online: No base-game multiplayer trophies.
Secure the blowdart pickpocket
Once the blowdart is available, find a pickpocketable guard carrying a key or mysterious shard. Put the guard to sleep and take the item while the dart’s effect is active. A civilian carrying a key is not a reliable substitute. Save before the attempt and check the trophy immediately: killing all such targets first removes the clearest opportunities.
- Earn You Snooze, You Lose before exhausting key or shard carriers.
Progress the story and viewpoints
Follow investigations to unlock the areas and tools you need, synchronising viewpoints along the way. Do not spend a session forcing a door that is clearly tied to a mission. Record the location and return when the story grants access. A prepared fast-travel network makes the final circuit of books, artifacts and chests much more manageable.
- Synchronise viewpoints and record still-locked items for a return visit.
Spread tool trophies across normal play
Assign different groups of guards to knives, darts, traps, smoke bombs and noisemakers. Repeating one method leaves empty counters for an unnecessary later circuit. Read one requirement before a small infiltration and choose a target, such as knife headshots or noisemaker distractions. Distinguish tools that must kill from those that only need to affect an enemy.
- Check which tools have not affected the required number of guards.
Complete Baghdad territory by territory
For Explorer, use the map’s territory summary rather than a feeling that everything has been visited. Finish one territory at a time and compare remaining books, artifacts and other categories. Scholar requires all seven books; Curio Collector also requires handing artifacts to Dervis, not merely stealing them. Riddle Me This is a separate task: solve an enigma and obtain its treasure.
- Deliver collected books and artifacts; do not stop at the map counter.
Use contracts for skills and upgrades
After the story, revisit contract boards for Self-Improvement and Defender of the People. Tools of the Trade concerns tool upgrades, while Cutting Edge and Thick Skin concern a weapon and outfit. Before spending every resource on alternative equipment, check which category remains unfinished. Investing in the required upgrade is more effective than scattering materials without a clear objective.
- Finish contracts and plan resources around the upgrades you actually lack.
Finish stealth counters separately
Blade in the Crowd requires kills while Basim blends with a crowd; Surprise! concerns hiding spots. A True Hidden One requires a sequence without open conflict: if detected, begin a fresh controlled sequence rather than combining scattered kills. Remember Hoarder before major spending, and hold its required amount in your wallet before buying your final materials.
- Check crowd, hiding-spot and stealth-streak conditions separately; bank Hoarder’s dirhams first.
Trophies to watch
You Snooze, You Lose
Pickpocket a guard affected by a blowdart
Use a dart on a guard who actually carries a pickpocketable item; check the icon before firing.
Tools of the Trade
Fully upgrade all tools
Compare each tool’s upgrade menu and direct resources towards missing upgrades.
Explorer
Fully explore all territories
A territory-by-territory check avoids searching all of Baghdad for one final item.
Blade in the Crowd
Assassinate 10 guards while blending with the crowd
Choose a target reachable while actually blended into the group; simply standing near pedestrians is not the condition.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a high difficulty?
No. Difficulty does not add a platinum requirement: focus on the actions described by the trophies.
Can I finish everything after the story?
You can return to the city, but do not postpone the blowdart pickpocket: suitable guards are limited. Secure it during your playthrough.
Does a PS4–PS5 transfer automatically award the platinum?
Do not treat it as guaranteed. Save transfer and trophy unlocking are different processes: check the list for the version you launch.
Sources
Trophy lists
Buying the game
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