Baldurs Gate Trophy Guide

Getting All the Trophies in Baldur's Gate 3 Takes More Than Just Finishing the Story

A lot of people finish the game and realize they missed a couple of achievements they can't redo. I ran into this myself on my first playthrough. I was so focused on the main quest I didn't bother with certain side objectives, and then when I went back to complete them I hit a wall. The game locks you out of certain story branches once you progress too far. Let me walk through what actually works for getting 100% without wasting your time. The base game alone has 53 trophies, split across Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Most of them are straightforward. Some are absolute pain. The most common trap people fall into is completing the companion quests. You have to finish Karlach, Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Astarion, Gale, Wyll, and Minthara's personal arcs. But here's the thing nobody tells you clearly: completing a companion quest and having them romance you are two separate achievements. Roof Raiser, for example, requires you to romanced Astarion and bring him to his ball, and if you mess up the timeline it won't trigger properly.

I learned this the hard way during my second playthrough. I finished Astarion's quest but never pursued the romance because I thought the achievement would still pop. It didn't. I had to reload a save from Act 2 and restart that whole arc. Took me about 90 minutes to set up the proper romance route correctly.

The Locked Content Problem

This is the biggest issue with any Baldurs Gate Trophy Guide worth its salt. Certain trophies require actions that are mutually exclusive. Starting with the Gortash ending means you cannot get the companion-related trophies on the same run. If you want all of them, you need at least two full playthroughs or multiple saves from early in Act 1. The specific problem I ran into was To Bleed a Tree. This trophy requires you to side with the Absolute and destroy the tadpole in your head. That ends the game differently and locks you out of several companion resolution options. I didn't realize this until after I'd already triggered the bad ending. Had to go back to a checkpoint before the final act decision point.

Time Estimates That Actually Matter

A trophy run where you've played before takes roughly 80 to 100 hours. If you're doing it blind on a new save, budget closer to 120. The game has no built-in trophy tracking, so you need to check your platform dashboard periodically. I recommend checking every time you finish an Act because it's easy to forget which ones you've already earned. One counter-intuitive thing about the game: difficulty doesn't affect trophy eligibility. You can grind on Easy mode or try Honorable Mode for the challenge trophies. Ritual of Tolerance requires you to save four specific NPCs in Act 2, and doing this on higher difficulties just means more reloading. Most people don't bother optimizing for difficulty and just run through on Normal.

Specific Edge Cases Worth Knowing

The Panzerfaust trophy requires you to kill a boss with a specific weapon type, and if you deal enough damage to a boss without getting the killing blow it won't count. I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out why my trophy hadn't popped after a fight. Turned out my mage had done 80 percent of the damage but the barbarian got the final hit. You need direct kill credit. Another thing people overlook: Delve Deeper requires entering every single area in the game. That includes the Underdark, the Emerald Grove, the last act's zones, and some hidden areas behind secret doors. I missed the area behind the secret door in the Gauntlet of Shar because it wasn't marked on my map. Found it three days later when someone mentioned it online.

What This Guide Won't Do

There is no shortcut. You cannot earn the Platinum trophy without at minimum completing the main story once and finishing enough companion content. There are no cheat codes or trainer tools that unlock achievements. Sony and Xbox both detect modified saves, and it will ban your account. Save scumming within the game is fine since it's built in, but external tools are a different story entirely. If you're looking to minimize effort, the best approach is a dedicated trophy run where you follow a checklist before making irreversible story choices. Pick a New Game+ if you want faster completion since you carry over abilities. The game starts you at a reasonable level, so combat won't slow you down as much as the first run. One honest limitation: certain trophies require multiplayer co-op completion. If you don't have friends who can play, you'll need to find random session partners. The in-game matchmaking for co-op is functional but unreliable. I had to search Reddit and Discord to find someone who could run through the final act with me. That session took about three hours of waiting before someone showed up.

The trophies themselves range from trivial to genuinely difficult. Most are story completion related. The hard ones are the combat-specific achievements that require particular conditions. The Enemy of My Enemy needs you to defeat certain enemies using specific mechanics that aren't obvious from the trophy description alone. You need the right party composition and the right moment in the fight to trigger it. Check your progress mid-run. Don't wait until the end of the game to discover you missed something that requires a save from three Act's ago. I made that mistake. It cost me roughly six hours of additional playtime that I could have avoided with a simple checklist.