Trophies and Achievements

Additional Trophy Information

Let’s go into greater detail for some of the trickier Trophies.

Acrobat

Use Blink/Far Reach to get above people as often as possible until you get your notification for this Trophy. Bend Time + Blink is a super powerful combo to snag Acrobat quickly.

Alternative Approach

Use Sleep Darts, stealth, and routes that take you above most of the action to complete missions without having to kill anyone. If you are attacked by someone, parry their strikes, grab them, and choke the person out to avoid killing them.

Dilapidation

During “A Crack in the Slab” you need to track down a hidden balcony passage. This is explained in our walkthroughs. You go toward the rear of the building in the modern time. Climb a hill of debris to get to the upper floor, and switch to the past. Take out or knock out a workman so that a window doesn’t get repaired. Return to the present and go through the open window. Go around the ledges on the other side, and stop on a balcony to the left. In the past, you find an art gallery there! You also get credit for the Trophy.

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Go into the Galvani building during A Long Day in Dunwall. It’s the place on the left when you first reach the streets. Loot the Painting and the safe inside that area. Then, in the final mission of the game, go back there. Break through the door or find the Key from the housemaid to unlock the building. Loot it again so that you get your achievement.

Fearless Fall

During The Good Doctor, you can Blink or Far Reach onto the rooftops once you climb upstairs and go outside onto the terrace. There is a tower with some good items inside. If you Blink or Far Reach onto the top of that building, you find a bird’s nest. This is now the location you need for getting the Trophy. Jump off of here and go a massive drop attack onto one of the Guard’s below.

Flesh and Steel

To survive without using supernatural abilities, you have to rely on superior skill and equipment. Practice both stealth and swordplay so that you don’t get into as many fights, and can defeat everyone safely when things go wrong. Search thoroughly so that you get tons of money, and use that to upgrade your gear as early as possible.

Take more time to set traps before fights that you can’t avoid, and lure people into them so that you’re often thinning groups of enemies before attacking them directly.

Flooded Basement

Search for the steps to the basement during A Crack in the Slab. Watch out for rat swarms, and look for a submerged room. There is a Rune inside of it, but it takes some work to acquire it. You have to go into the past and ambush two Elites that are working nearby. When they’re down, get a wheel off of shelves in the corner. Throw it into the room that gets submerged in the present. Jump forward in time, attach the wheel to a pipe in the watery area, and then jump up to get the Rune.

Freedom of Speech

During A Long Day in Dunwall, you can save the editor of the Courier. Go into the paper’s building; it’s on the left side of the main road. Climb to the top of the building and crouch while you enter the main room up there. Listen while a Guard threatens the editor. Knock out the Guard before he murders the editor, and then you’re good to go.

Gazebo

This one is unlocked during Death to the Empress. Search around before you enter Dunwall Tower. There are many Witches patrolling the outside, but you run into a gazebo on the left portion of that map. That’s the spot where the former empress was killed. Enter the Gazebo to pay your respects.

Ghostly

Use abilities like Blink or Far Reach to find the alternative routes through each area. When you’re up high, you can observe your enemies carefully and figure out the best time to proceed. Unless you’re trying for Merciful play as well, you can assassinate targets to keep your path safe and clear. Shadow Kill is a very useful addition to this style of play.

Heartbeat Reaper

Find an area that already has a decent number of people. The streets in the early portion of The Grand Palace works decently. To further enhance the quantity of Guards, disable defenses in the area (like the Watchtower that overlooks the streets during that part of The Grand Palace). Then, make enough noise to disturb the Guards. Let them use the Alarm there to summon everyone nearby.

Equip area of effect weapons. Throw a Grenade down toward this group of enemies, and switch to a Pistol with Explosive Bullets while it’s in the air. Fire immediately as the Grenade lands so that you have the best chance to clear everyone out within the tight time limit. If you fail, immediately reload so that you can set up the attack again without taking much time.

Morbid Theft

As explained in the walkthrough, you have to steal a body for Mindy during Edge of the World. Sneak into the Overseer’s building, by the canal. Go up a few floors and deal with the two Overseers that are close to a locked room. One of them has the Key to the room. Unlock it and get the body. Carry it to the window and use Far Reach or Blink to go toward the waypoint that appears. Drop the body where you meet Mindy to get credit.

Royal Spymaster

The Journals and Audiographs that you find aboard the Dreadful Wale are picked up on multiple occasions. Make sure to search the ship religiously each time you’re aboard; otherwise it’s easy to miss one and be unable to collect it until the next time you play through.

Songs of Serkonos

This Trophy can be tough if you are used to causing too many panic. The three duos that you need to find are in Edge of the World, the Dust District, and the streets of the Grand Palace. They’re always playing their sets if you approach safely and quietly. Avoid trouble and get close to them so that you get credit for finding them. If you start any fights, they’ll run off.

Edge of the World: Before you reach the carriage station, stay down in the main street and don’t cause any chaos. Look for two musicians who are playing on the right side of the path. If you see the Winslow safe company, you’ve gone too far.

During the Dust District, you find the duo again in the Howlers’ area. Go to the Crone’s Hand Saloon. They’ll be playing on the ground floor, near the entrance.

Finally, you spot them during the Grand Palace mission, when you’re still in the streets. They’ll be very close to the black market, by the front entrance of that building.

Souvenirs

There are several collectible items that aren’t worth anything to your character directly. These are just fun things to collect while you go through the game. Here is a list of the souvenirs:

An Elite’s Helmet: During Edge of the World, kill one of the Elite Guards to get their helmet.

Syringe: In The Good Doctor, you receive this for doing the non-lethal route against the Crown Killer. Our stealth walkthrough describes this at length.

Clockwork Head: Destroy one of the Clockwork Soldiers during The Clockwork Mansion, The Grand Palace, or Death to the Empress.

Witch’s Sword: Look for this during The Royal Conservatory; the Sword is inside a display case.

Silvergraph: This is in the Dust District. It’s a small picture on the wall.

Corvo’s Trophy: You also get this one in the Dust District, in a dilapidated building.

Calendar: During Crack in the Slab, look for the Calendar in the past. It’s resting on a desk, beside a set of double doors.

Gazelle: Look the vault during the Grand Palace; the Gazelle is in the circular room near the outer exit of the vault. It’s not far from the effigy that you need to interact with.

Samuel’s Boat: This is found during Death to the Empress, in the streets of the area. It’s on a small shelf above a striped bed.

Emily’s Doll: You get this last one in Death to the Empress, in the actual tower. It’s inside a trashed old bathroom.

Stay of Execution

There is a Trophy you get at the Wall of Light in Edge of the World. Two Guards are going to shove a civilian through the Wall of Light. Knock them out or kill them before they’re able to do this so that the civilian survives.

Three Deaths

Find the black market in The Clockwork Mansion street area. Paolo arrives soon after. Ambush and kill him with his group. Then, find him at the saloon in the Dust District. Kill him again. Look upstairs for a shrine. He’ll appear there a final time. Kill him to get your Trophy.

Under the Table

During Crack in the Slab, crouch in the dining hall when you’re in the present and shift back into the past. You appear underneath the dining room table. Steal the Master Key from an Elite, and then go back into the present to avoid conflict.