Phantom Blade Zero Trophy Guide: All 36 & Platinum Route

Phantom Blade Zero’s platinum is one of the friendlier in the genre: 36 trophies, no difficulty requirement, no New Game+ or 66 Days requirement, one playthrough. Verified against keengamer’s trophy roadmap and PowerPyx’s launch guide, the list splits into 17 boss kills, 9 side-quest completions, 4 story and ending beats, and 6 upgrade and collectible tasks — plus the Platinum itself. Nineteen trophies are hidden on the PS5 list (mostly boss names, all reproduced below). This page is the full index; for the exact fail triggers behind the seven missables, the missable quests checklist goes deeper.

Story and Ending Trophies

Boss Trophies (17)

All seventeen are hidden on the PS5 list, and none are missable — every named boss is on the critical path or in an area that stays open post-game.

Side Quest Trophies (9)

Six of the nine are missable; the last three stay open after the credits.

Upgrade and Collectible Trophies (6)

The four upgrade trophies are Dust-hungry: twenty tempers alone cost 100,000 Remnant Dust, and enemies never respawn. Bank early and sweep efficiently with the Remnant Dust farming routes.

Platinum Route: The Efficient Order

1. Pick any difficulty. Wayfarer counts for everything — the difficulty settings trade-offs are pure preference.
2. Sweep Weeping Creek Valley before leaving. Bank A Severed Mindseal and both Healer’s Legacy legs before you move on.
3. Clear Crimson Forest’s board before Bai Chilian. Five quests fail on her death — the single biggest fail point in the game.
4. Respect the Pangzhen cutoff. Finish The Journey Home and Young Master Lan’s village conversation before crossing into the city.
5. Temper as you go. Twenty tempers across weapons and Edges is not a grind if you temper every new find once; pick one blade and one Edge for the Level 30 pushes.
6. Before the Mirage Estate, finish every purple-icon quest. Secrets at the Heart of the Lake, the Puppet Eyes, the masks, the pillars — this banks With Heart and Blood and the true ending.
7. Post-game cleanup. Quick Hand Zhang, Heart of the Banyan, leftover collectibles, and any upgrade trophies. Everything except the seven missables stays open.

What the Platinum Does NOT Require

• No difficulty trophy — nothing is tied to Wayfarer, Pathbreaker, or Hellwalker.
• No New Game+ or 66 Days trophies — both modes exist, neither awards anything.
• No second ending run — the game has two endings, but only the True Ending carries a trophy; the Normal Ending’s Gold (All Dreams Must End) pops on the way there.
• No online anything — the game is single-player only, so no server-shutdown risk on this platinum.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does the platinum take? Thirty to forty hours per keengamer and PowerPyx — the main story runs 25-30, and the cleanup is light if you swept regions as you went.

Are any boss trophies missable? No. Only quest-completion trophies can fail; every boss either sits on the critical path or remains reachable after the credits.

Do I need to back up saves? It helps. The game offers 20 manual save slots plus 3 rotating autosaves — save at each region’s start and before every region-ending boss so a failed quest costs a reload, not a replay.

Sources: keengamer trophy list and platinum roadmap, PowerPyx trophy guide and roadmap, TrueTrophies listing (October 29-31, 2026). One fan wiki lists the split as 13 Silver / 19 Bronze — keengamer, PowerPyx, and TrueTrophies all agree on 14 Silver / 18 Bronze, which is used here.